Things like this make me so very glad I run my own server with some friends of mine for less than the combined cost of our personal web-hosting, file hosting and voice comm bills per month. Don't have to deal with this crap and can run my server my way. Granted, I get that it isn't an option for everyone. That all said, Megaupload was really asking for it when you look at the indictment, so I'm not too worried about them all going away, but it is frustrating to not know which ones might be following similar practices.
Though in the US I would argue if something is moral, it should be legal, the converse (something being immoral, yet still legal) however is frequently not the case, nor should it be in many cases where it does no legal harm. Also, minor grammar nazi point, it is right, not rite. A rite is like a ritual.
Yeah, but even if accidental, shouldn't someone who might accidentally take explosive compounds on an airplane possibly be screened more closely to avoid a repeat performance? Just because it was a stupid mistake doesn't mean that it doesn't show a lack of responsibility or a gross amount of stupidity that might deserve further scrutiny in the future?
Those who were smart enough to get themselves grandfathered in with unlimited data before shit hit the fan. I say this as I happily hold my Verizon 4G Galaxy Nexus with unlimited 4G data (no throttling either) in my hand.
Verizon still gives grandfathered unlimited data. Since I had a smartphone prior to the limits and throttling, I still get unlimited, unthrottled bandwidth on my Galaxy Nexus.
Or it means that I get 5mbps down and 2mbps up on my phone anywhere that I have 4G service. I was getting something sub-500kbps on my Galaxy S. As a real world speed test, I could barely stream sub-SD quality Netflix to it over cellular, and that was with lag and periodically having to buffer. Running on 4G, it can actually run a 1080p stream from Netflix, on the fly, without issue. If that isn't a difference, I'm not sure what you are looking for. (For reference, I was using a Galaxy S Fascinate with Verizon's 3G service versus a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon's LTE.
You are confusing native and local. Javascript is not and will never be native. HTML is not a programing language and can never be native. Local means that the assets reside on the device, all the platforms support having a local interpreted app. Native means that it is using system APIs directly to render to the screen and runs much closer to iron. Native and local js/html apps are not the same at all. Native benefits from better runtime optimizations, better compiler optimizations and runs closer to the processor in any decently designed system. Bypassing the (rather ugly) layer of overhead that Javascript and HTML imposes allows for a more pleasant and responsive user experience and this is exactly why the above mention trends show that users drastically prefer native apps even though they don't understand what the technical differences are.
Or better yet, simply use the inertial guidance to steer to a pre-programmed safe landing area and look for communication to link back up. High precision navigation systems aren't the only navigation system most of these things have. I don't know about the drone in question, but most of them have automatic RTB (return to base) functionality even if they lose all communication and GPS navigation. Simply jamming shouldn't do much other than prevent it being operated quite as reliably. I believe some of them use highly directional satellite links as well which would be difficult to jam, though I don't know if this model would have been using that or not (given that it was stealth, I would expect it would to avoid detection from emissions though.)
Yeah, I realize there is a criminal case against the founders and some employees. I was just trying to point out that there are many situations in which it is perfectly normal for an action to be stopped prior to criminal culpability is proven.
The servers can be seized as evidence and the service shut down to prevent additional harm being done while the case is decided. It's effectively very similar to a restraining order. It's a civil thing, so innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply, but rather until the issue is determined, the justice department moves to ensure more harm is not done. The idea is that to do so it should be pretty damn clear that policies are not being followed and the indictment does a pretty good job of documenting how they were not.
My experience has been you are far better off to split the difference using MonoTouch and Mono for Android to do a common backend and then using native UI. Phonegap is an interesting idea, but it tries to map a little too directly to be able to optimize well and it sacrifices too much UI control.
Except that, as the article said, users drastically prefer native apps to web apps. If your idea of a mobile ui is to make a site and use that in a hidden browser, you are setting up a path for user disappointment. That said, implementing and managing a couple of different object view front ends on top of a solid object modeled back end is not a big deal. Are there some frustrations, sure, but I haven't really found it to be a significant issue. The bigger issue is that in general, a lot of the current tools for implementing the UIs suck hugely. (XCode, I'm looking at you.) Systems like MonoTouch and Mono for Android work wonders for making the backend go across platform smoothly though, leaving only the UI to be a nuisance.
Or... Perhaps knowing that they won't have the warning, burglars get the hell out of dodge faster and are less likely to go burglarizing. There is a far cry difference from taking somebodies stuff and holding hostages. There is also a lot of comfort in being able to know that someone is coming. But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your painting a good thing as a bad one.
As for the press, I don't think it would cripple them as much as you think, but if it was going to be an issue, then some type of notification requirement would work or simply give them a radio with access to the dispatch channel.
This is more a statement of the apparent ineffectiveness of advertising. The fact is that the majority of advertising is largely ignored, but they are simply looking for brief impressions that yield small returns, but are also very cheap per impression. If you are skipping it with your DVR, you'll probably still catch the beginning and end of each commercial break and at least have a small impression. For marketers, even that small impression being mixed in is still worth paying for. Maybe you aren't seeing as much as other viewers are, but it also would drive up the value of the first and last commercial spot in a break.
You can debate the effectiveness all you want, but the fact is still that there are marketers willing to compensate the content creator for you to DVR the program and skip their adds. If you could get someone to compensate them for torrenting it, without giving you meaningful ads, then you would have a similarly good deal. Something like Hulu is really kind of similar to this idea, but they stream it so as to be able to charge advertisers by impression.
I never understood why they don't implement more secure wireless keyfobs, or maybe some do. It is easy to make it so wireless isn't heaven to sniff and spoof. Simply make a time driven rotating key based on a shared AES key. Make the lock and unlock code different and you effectively have a secure, spoof proof system. When I get out of my car, I only transmit lock so you can't unlock even during the available window that the code is good for. Similarly, when I return to my car, I'm in it for the period of time that the unlock is good for so it does you no good. You could even use the insertion of the key in the car to allow for the clock to be kept in very close sync with a growing tolerance if it has been a while since the car was used.
Ironically, to try and keep your stereo from being stolen. Good stereos used to be stolen a lot so they started tieing them to the VIN which is supplied by the ECM. Unfortunately, they have now started figuring out ways to use that connection to hack in to the ECM. Oops..!
There are really two kinds of sales and marketing. Some are genuinely trying to make an artificial need so that they can fill it by using psychology. This is along the lines of the "sex sells" mantra and is arguably ethically dubious. There is also a lot of sales that is interested in genuinely trying to identify a need and see if you can fill it. A truly great salesman will tell someone "good luck, I don't know that we can help you, but if you ever need x, y or z, here's my number" and walk away from the sale knowing that they may have just guaranteed a sale that will have much higher satisfaction in the future.
It's easy to lose sight of the real goal when commissions are aggressively pursued rather than trying to find the sales that will result in a true level of satisfaction for the consumer and generate trust in the company for a long standing relationship. In the long run, sex may sell and mass marketing has done a good job of programing the populace to respond to it, but real brand loyalty normally comes from establishing trust and nothing establishes trust better than demonstrating, at your own cost, that you are looking out for the customer more than yourself and seeking to give them a fair deal.
It's not really all that confusing to the people he was speaking to. Their scriptures that they had at the time already spoke that way. I am not sure off the top of my head if there are other cases that use similar timescale, but for that matter I can't think of many situations in general where a timescale is given.
Either way, it's a bit off topic to the original discussion which was that the term day as used in Genesis doesn't give any strong reason to suspect that it was 24 hours. If Jesus in fact had intended that his second coming was soon in a literal sense, then it didn't happen and the entire argument is meaningless. If he meant a larger time scale, then the argument that a day or age in Hebrew isn't neccessarily 24 hours is valid and the assumption that the Bible says the world was created in 6, 24 hour days is still not strongly supported.
It states a word that is frequently translated as age. It isn't clearly 24 hour day at all. You can't even argue that having it be 7 days makes it obvious as our week isn't based on any type of natural cycle. It's simply chosen because it matches up with the number of ages in creation. I wouldn't bet money that it isn't literal days, but I wouldn't bet money that it was either since the terms are anything but concrete.
As for the shape of the planet, there are several accounts in the Bible that only make sense given a round Earth. Also, if the planet was relatively flat (prior to plate tectonics driving up mountains, flooding the entire thing would not be unreasonably possible. The problem is that the time scale would seem to have to be much longer for that much movement of continental plates to occur.
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What if they say "I'm not a slut, I'm a legitimate business woman"?
Things like this make me so very glad I run my own server with some friends of mine for less than the combined cost of our personal web-hosting, file hosting and voice comm bills per month. Don't have to deal with this crap and can run my server my way. Granted, I get that it isn't an option for everyone. That all said, Megaupload was really asking for it when you look at the indictment, so I'm not too worried about them all going away, but it is frustrating to not know which ones might be following similar practices.
Though in the US I would argue if something is moral, it should be legal, the converse (something being immoral, yet still legal) however is frequently not the case, nor should it be in many cases where it does no legal harm. Also, minor grammar nazi point, it is right, not rite. A rite is like a ritual.
Yeah, but even if accidental, shouldn't someone who might accidentally take explosive compounds on an airplane possibly be screened more closely to avoid a repeat performance? Just because it was a stupid mistake doesn't mean that it doesn't show a lack of responsibility or a gross amount of stupidity that might deserve further scrutiny in the future?
Those who were smart enough to get themselves grandfathered in with unlimited data before shit hit the fan. I say this as I happily hold my Verizon 4G Galaxy Nexus with unlimited 4G data (no throttling either) in my hand.
Verizon still gives grandfathered unlimited data. Since I had a smartphone prior to the limits and throttling, I still get unlimited, unthrottled bandwidth on my Galaxy Nexus.
Or it means that I get 5mbps down and 2mbps up on my phone anywhere that I have 4G service. I was getting something sub-500kbps on my Galaxy S. As a real world speed test, I could barely stream sub-SD quality Netflix to it over cellular, and that was with lag and periodically having to buffer. Running on 4G, it can actually run a 1080p stream from Netflix, on the fly, without issue. If that isn't a difference, I'm not sure what you are looking for. (For reference, I was using a Galaxy S Fascinate with Verizon's 3G service versus a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon's LTE.
You are confusing native and local. Javascript is not and will never be native. HTML is not a programing language and can never be native. Local means that the assets reside on the device, all the platforms support having a local interpreted app. Native means that it is using system APIs directly to render to the screen and runs much closer to iron. Native and local js/html apps are not the same at all. Native benefits from better runtime optimizations, better compiler optimizations and runs closer to the processor in any decently designed system. Bypassing the (rather ugly) layer of overhead that Javascript and HTML imposes allows for a more pleasant and responsive user experience and this is exactly why the above mention trends show that users drastically prefer native apps even though they don't understand what the technical differences are.
Or better yet, simply use the inertial guidance to steer to a pre-programmed safe landing area and look for communication to link back up. High precision navigation systems aren't the only navigation system most of these things have. I don't know about the drone in question, but most of them have automatic RTB (return to base) functionality even if they lose all communication and GPS navigation. Simply jamming shouldn't do much other than prevent it being operated quite as reliably. I believe some of them use highly directional satellite links as well which would be difficult to jam, though I don't know if this model would have been using that or not (given that it was stealth, I would expect it would to avoid detection from emissions though.)
Depends if they knew it was criminal. Since the business appears legit to the casual observer, i'm not sure there would be much of a case.
Yeah, I realize there is a criminal case against the founders and some employees. I was just trying to point out that there are many situations in which it is perfectly normal for an action to be stopped prior to criminal culpability is proven.
The servers can be seized as evidence and the service shut down to prevent additional harm being done while the case is decided. It's effectively very similar to a restraining order. It's a civil thing, so innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply, but rather until the issue is determined, the justice department moves to ensure more harm is not done. The idea is that to do so it should be pretty damn clear that policies are not being followed and the indictment does a pretty good job of documenting how they were not.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment - around page 30 is the most damning part.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment - Full indictment with the evidence you claim hasn't been presented.
My experience has been you are far better off to split the difference using MonoTouch and Mono for Android to do a common backend and then using native UI. Phonegap is an interesting idea, but it tries to map a little too directly to be able to optimize well and it sacrifices too much UI control.
Except that, as the article said, users drastically prefer native apps to web apps. If your idea of a mobile ui is to make a site and use that in a hidden browser, you are setting up a path for user disappointment. That said, implementing and managing a couple of different object view front ends on top of a solid object modeled back end is not a big deal. Are there some frustrations, sure, but I haven't really found it to be a significant issue. The bigger issue is that in general, a lot of the current tools for implementing the UIs suck hugely. (XCode, I'm looking at you.) Systems like MonoTouch and Mono for Android work wonders for making the backend go across platform smoothly though, leaving only the UI to be a nuisance.
Or... Perhaps knowing that they won't have the warning, burglars get the hell out of dodge faster and are less likely to go burglarizing. There is a far cry difference from taking somebodies stuff and holding hostages. There is also a lot of comfort in being able to know that someone is coming. But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your painting a good thing as a bad one.
As for the press, I don't think it would cripple them as much as you think, but if it was going to be an issue, then some type of notification requirement would work or simply give them a radio with access to the dispatch channel.
This is more a statement of the apparent ineffectiveness of advertising. The fact is that the majority of advertising is largely ignored, but they are simply looking for brief impressions that yield small returns, but are also very cheap per impression. If you are skipping it with your DVR, you'll probably still catch the beginning and end of each commercial break and at least have a small impression. For marketers, even that small impression being mixed in is still worth paying for. Maybe you aren't seeing as much as other viewers are, but it also would drive up the value of the first and last commercial spot in a break.
You can debate the effectiveness all you want, but the fact is still that there are marketers willing to compensate the content creator for you to DVR the program and skip their adds. If you could get someone to compensate them for torrenting it, without giving you meaningful ads, then you would have a similarly good deal. Something like Hulu is really kind of similar to this idea, but they stream it so as to be able to charge advertisers by impression.
I never understood why they don't implement more secure wireless keyfobs, or maybe some do. It is easy to make it so wireless isn't heaven to sniff and spoof. Simply make a time driven rotating key based on a shared AES key. Make the lock and unlock code different and you effectively have a secure, spoof proof system. When I get out of my car, I only transmit lock so you can't unlock even during the available window that the code is good for. Similarly, when I return to my car, I'm in it for the period of time that the unlock is good for so it does you no good. You could even use the insertion of the key in the car to allow for the clock to be kept in very close sync with a growing tolerance if it has been a while since the car was used.
Ironically, to try and keep your stereo from being stolen. Good stereos used to be stolen a lot so they started tieing them to the VIN which is supplied by the ECM. Unfortunately, they have now started figuring out ways to use that connection to hack in to the ECM. Oops..!
There are really two kinds of sales and marketing. Some are genuinely trying to make an artificial need so that they can fill it by using psychology. This is along the lines of the "sex sells" mantra and is arguably ethically dubious. There is also a lot of sales that is interested in genuinely trying to identify a need and see if you can fill it. A truly great salesman will tell someone "good luck, I don't know that we can help you, but if you ever need x, y or z, here's my number" and walk away from the sale knowing that they may have just guaranteed a sale that will have much higher satisfaction in the future.
It's easy to lose sight of the real goal when commissions are aggressively pursued rather than trying to find the sales that will result in a true level of satisfaction for the consumer and generate trust in the company for a long standing relationship. In the long run, sex may sell and mass marketing has done a good job of programing the populace to respond to it, but real brand loyalty normally comes from establishing trust and nothing establishes trust better than demonstrating, at your own cost, that you are looking out for the customer more than yourself and seeking to give them a fair deal.
It's not really all that confusing to the people he was speaking to. Their scriptures that they had at the time already spoke that way. I am not sure off the top of my head if there are other cases that use similar timescale, but for that matter I can't think of many situations in general where a timescale is given.
Either way, it's a bit off topic to the original discussion which was that the term day as used in Genesis doesn't give any strong reason to suspect that it was 24 hours. If Jesus in fact had intended that his second coming was soon in a literal sense, then it didn't happen and the entire argument is meaningless. If he meant a larger time scale, then the argument that a day or age in Hebrew isn't neccessarily 24 hours is valid and the assumption that the Bible says the world was created in 6, 24 hour days is still not strongly supported.
It states a word that is frequently translated as age. It isn't clearly 24 hour day at all. You can't even argue that having it be 7 days makes it obvious as our week isn't based on any type of natural cycle. It's simply chosen because it matches up with the number of ages in creation. I wouldn't bet money that it isn't literal days, but I wouldn't bet money that it was either since the terms are anything but concrete.
As for the shape of the planet, there are several accounts in the Bible that only make sense given a round Earth. Also, if the planet was relatively flat (prior to plate tectonics driving up mountains, flooding the entire thing would not be unreasonably possible. The problem is that the time scale would seem to have to be much longer for that much movement of continental plates to occur.
Yeah, my bad, thanks for the correction. I wasn't thinking straight when I was looking at that today.
And one of them was even dead (Judas Iscariot).
Err, correction, my current monitor is an HP LP2475W.