You pay your phone service provider $X per month for the use of their network. Your telco has little reason to inspect your data, they're already making money from everyone's monthly bills (that being said, don't give them any ideas).
You pay Facebook with your privacy and, at this point, no one would be willing to pay for it with actual money. Such a law would surely be Facebook's doom, and that's all anyone would take away from it. Would you want to be the congressman who killed Facebook?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I detest the way Facebook operates; it's underhanded, dishonest and creepy.
There needs to be a new model, but you're not paying with money or privacy, what else is there?
I've gotten a few of these calls. Some idiot with a foreign accent claiming to be "from Windows" (seriously, those were their words).
My mom gotten them too; she immediately hangs up the phone. One of the scammers actually the gall to call her not two seconds later to scold her that hanging up the phone was rude!
I have a similar idea to this guy, except I'd make a little more fun, though I wasn't sure it would work until now. I'm delighted to see that they use a remote control program. My plan is to let them into a sandboxed VM where I'll have prepared a webpage that launches 500 goatse popups or something. I'll record my session, too, but, uh... just the phone call;)
From trying to take pictures of things I've built, its an unholy PITA and depth of field and reflections and lighting are agonizing.
No, it's not. You just don't have the right equipment and/or knowledge to create a good, detailed macro photograph. It's really not that difficult, and certainly easier than painstakingly etching out every detail in 3d modelling software.
If you want to see how bad "real pictures" of electronic devices/ components look, try trashy photos of that stuff on ebay. Some of those guys are obviously not even wiping the human grease off the cellphone camera lens first.
Cell phone camera lens. Right. There's part of the problem. The other problem is, of course, that almost nobody knows how to use even a good camera properly, including yourself, evidently.
If it has a 4G-capable radio, then they have every right to call it "iWhatever 4G". Anyone too stupid not to know that the right service provider is required is just too stupid. It doesn't take hours of research, it takes five minutes on Google.
The other obvious one is camera apps making a shutter sound.
Wrong. A shutter sound is not merely nostalgic. Digital SLRs still have a physical shutter and mirror box so you can look right through the lens. Using the LCD for a live image, when a real viewfinder is an option, is stupid, cumbersome, slow and power-consuming. This is why all those new "mirrorless" cameras are annoying to use.
True, a phone or pocket camera doesn't technically need to make a sound when capturing an image, but it really is the best way of indicating capture (your eyes are busy looking the screen). Alternatively, for a phone, it could give a little vibration jolt (a la haptic feedback).
Also, I'd love to see how a bike wheel would work without spokes.
I bought a smart phone privately second-hand and put it on a prepaid plan for a while. I had to get a bit sarcastic with the guy at the service desk before he agreed to spend the two minutes to activate it (He says, "we can't do that"... I'm not stupid, I know that smart phones are just phones with extra hardware and software).
I have my smart phone on a voice/text contract now, but only because I need to roam every once in a while (I'm in Canada, our service providers SUCK, there are no prepaid options that allow you to roam internationally).
I don't know what I'm going to when this phone dies, though. It's a CDMA phone and the providers here (again, they suck) refuse to activate a 3G/4G phone without a rape-my-wallet data plan.
It's my understanding that noise-cancelling headphones are only useful against predictable, continuous noises (jet turbines, yes, loud blithering idiot, not so much).
Noise-isolation headphones (in or over ear) are what you should be looking at. As you hear practically nothing of outside noise, they carry the added bonus of never requiring you to blast your eardrums in order to hear what you're playing.
I have a $25 pair of Klipsch isolation earbuds that work excellently in this manner. They're perfectly comfortable (and I've always hated in-ear 'phones) and you can always spend upwards from that price-point to get the sound quality you want.
Look, I try really hard to apply this principal and assume that politicians just aren't intelligent or versed enough to be thinking of far-reaching consequences, but can anyone really be that stupid?
Y'know, at some point, we're just going to have to say forget copyright altogether and go back to the simplicity of: you bought it and can do whatever the heck you want with it.
This same old story (or something like it) gets rehashed on Slashdot every once a while. In fact, I remember a discussion on exactly the problem with thinking that business cards are no longer necessary.
A business card only requires you to reach into your pocket and hand it over without disturbing the flow of a conversation or even breaking eye contact. Some "app" requires you to grab your phone, look down, switch it on, find the icon, open it, then finally receive the contact info and... er, what were we talking about again? There's just way too much dicking around. Sure, it's nifty and all, but that's about all it is.
Just because some rich hipster thinks that business cards are so passe doesn't mean they're going the way of the dodo.
...but it's worth mentioning again: businesses should operate and be structured similarly to sports teams, where the people directly doing the actual core work are the highest-paid and the deciders of the coaching staff. They may not direct all of the decisions, but have considerably more influence than some dispensable employee in a typical business atmosphere.
Management and executive positions are just cogs (old, dirty, worn-down ones as it seems most of the time) in the machine, no more important or less replacable than any other, and should be treated that way.
We developed an approach using a bioengineered mobilized cellular product enriched for hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and tolerogenic graft facilitating cells
IMNAD, but I don't think blood stem cells for transplant are normally engineered before infusion, so that's what's new about this particular procedure.
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You pay your phone service provider $X per month for the use of their network. Your telco has little reason to inspect your data, they're already making money from everyone's monthly bills (that being said, don't give them any ideas).
You pay Facebook with your privacy and, at this point, no one would be willing to pay for it with actual money. Such a law would surely be Facebook's doom, and that's all anyone would take away from it. Would you want to be the congressman who killed Facebook?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I detest the way Facebook operates; it's underhanded, dishonest and creepy.
There needs to be a new model, but you're not paying with money or privacy, what else is there?
I've gotten a few of these calls. Some idiot with a foreign accent claiming to be "from Windows" (seriously, those were their words).
... just the phone call ;)
My mom gotten them too; she immediately hangs up the phone. One of the scammers actually the gall to call her not two seconds later to scold her that hanging up the phone was rude!
I have a similar idea to this guy, except I'd make a little more fun, though I wasn't sure it would work until now. I'm delighted to see that they use a remote control program. My plan is to let them into a sandboxed VM where I'll have prepared a webpage that launches 500 goatse popups or something. I'll record my session, too, but, uh
I can't wait to get another one of these calls.
*rubs hands together with an evil grin*
No, it's not. You just don't have the right equipment and/or knowledge to create a good, detailed macro photograph. It's really not that difficult, and certainly easier than painstakingly etching out every detail in 3d modelling software.
Cell phone camera lens. Right. There's part of the problem. The other problem is, of course, that almost nobody knows how to use even a good camera properly, including yourself, evidently.
If it has a 4G-capable radio, then they have every right to call it "iWhatever 4G". Anyone too stupid not to know that the right service provider is required is just too stupid. It doesn't take hours of research, it takes five minutes on Google.
Wrong. A shutter sound is not merely nostalgic. Digital SLRs still have a physical shutter and mirror box so you can look right through the lens. Using the LCD for a live image, when a real viewfinder is an option, is stupid, cumbersome, slow and power-consuming. This is why all those new "mirrorless" cameras are annoying to use.
True, a phone or pocket camera doesn't technically need to make a sound when capturing an image, but it really is the best way of indicating capture (your eyes are busy looking the screen). Alternatively, for a phone, it could give a little vibration jolt (a la haptic feedback).
Also, I'd love to see how a bike wheel would work without spokes.
It's called "neutral".
Nothing of value was lost.
I bought a smart phone privately second-hand and put it on a prepaid plan for a while. I had to get a bit sarcastic with the guy at the service desk before he agreed to spend the two minutes to activate it (He says, "we can't do that" ... I'm not stupid, I know that smart phones are just phones with extra hardware and software).
I have my smart phone on a voice/text contract now, but only because I need to roam every once in a while (I'm in Canada, our service providers SUCK, there are no prepaid options that allow you to roam internationally).
I don't know what I'm going to when this phone dies, though. It's a CDMA phone and the providers here (again, they suck) refuse to activate a 3G/4G phone without a rape-my-wallet data plan.
It's my understanding that noise-cancelling headphones are only useful against predictable, continuous noises (jet turbines, yes, loud blithering idiot, not so much).
Noise-isolation headphones (in or over ear) are what you should be looking at. As you hear practically nothing of outside noise, they carry the added bonus of never requiring you to blast your eardrums in order to hear what you're playing.
I have a $25 pair of Klipsch isolation earbuds that work excellently in this manner. They're perfectly comfortable (and I've always hated in-ear 'phones) and you can always spend upwards from that price-point to get the sound quality you want.
Or that one would still be using imperial units in 2012.
What's not to like: it's an iPad.
Look, I try really hard to apply this principal and assume that politicians just aren't intelligent or versed enough to be thinking of far-reaching consequences, but can anyone really be that stupid?
...all I need to do is reboot?
Not if it's from a papperazzi.
Y'know, at some point, we're just going to have to say forget copyright altogether and go back to the simplicity of: you bought it and can do whatever the heck you want with it.
So, they want to invade privacy in what should be an illegal manner and they want me to pay them to do it?
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... er, what were we talking about again? There's just way too much dicking around. Sure, it's nifty and all, but that's about all it is.
Hogwash.
This same old story (or something like it) gets rehashed on Slashdot every once a while. In fact, I remember a discussion on exactly the problem with thinking that business cards are no longer necessary.
A business card only requires you to reach into your pocket and hand it over without disturbing the flow of a conversation or even breaking eye contact. Some "app" requires you to grab your phone, look down, switch it on, find the icon, open it, then finally receive the contact info and
Just because some rich hipster thinks that business cards are so passe doesn't mean they're going the way of the dodo.
Only 61 years late! ;)
...but it's worth mentioning again: businesses should operate and be structured similarly to sports teams, where the people directly doing the actual core work are the highest-paid and the deciders of the coaching staff. They may not direct all of the decisions, but have considerably more influence than some dispensable employee in a typical business atmosphere.
Management and executive positions are just cogs (old, dirty, worn-down ones as it seems most of the time) in the machine, no more important or less replacable than any other, and should be treated that way.
IMNAD, but I don't think blood stem cells for transplant are normally engineered before infusion, so that's what's new about this particular procedure.
Taking into consideration the exchange rate, with our current price of $1.10/L, we're already paying over $5.00 per US gallon.
Also, it's spelled "spectre".
How do you think they got rich?
So, now, it won't work *and* it'll sound like a female's prison warden.
and I hope somebody calls it.
Ah, yes, the Canadian Reform Alliance Party