Sounds like a bunch of BS in the article. I don't live down under, but I would bet it would be a tough task to find speeds as fast as they say for the price they said. It sounds like a "poor me" tail. If a ISP finds doing business is sooooo hard, maybe they should close up shop?
I think the more important thing that covers part of what you wrote is that people need to either realize the consequences of using such devices or not cry foul when these things come to light. They can turn it off in most cases. My iphone asks with every app if it's alright to use location services. I select allow or don't allow. If that is really that hard for a person to get, then maybe they shouldn't have a smart phone?
This is kind of like the ex-mayor of Detroit. He sends text messages on a city owned pager that shows he purger-ed himself on the stand in a suit that cost the city 8 million dollars. The texts were obtained under the freedom of information act and when that happened the paper posted the texts. It ended in him doing jail time (which he is back in prison again for parole violations) and him trying to sue for those texts getting out. It's a case of "becuase I was ignorant of the ramifications, they shouldn't have been able to get those texts" bull crap!
It's crying foul after getting caught, and it means very little then.
It's a broadcast signal for crying out loud!! What really is the big deal? It's broadcast for the whole world to see! If a person drives down my street and has their laptop looking for WiFi they will see mine and 20+ others on my street, most secured. So what is the big deal? Sounds like the congress has found a thin opportunity to stick it's nose in to google's business and is taking full advantage of doing so, even if they are over stepping their boundaries and trying to obtain info that they did little leg work on. Info that they have very little to no legitimate reasons to have or need.
Powerstone is one that I can not believe hasn't made it over to another console for sure. Even though it characters were not as polished as other games (and didn't have sweet bouncing fun bags on lady characters like others!), it had the best game play of any fighter I think ever. The second edition was a little bit of a let down, but still the series had great potential that I don't think any other fighters has tapped in to. Capcom dropped the ball on it I think......
Thank goodness Obama has done so much to fix all that.
How the hell does that even get marked "insightful"?????? If anything I would think the writer was going for humor. I mean really, what does Obama have to do with this? Considering it's a running joke on how little Obama has really done, the mods must be smoking crank to not pick up on the sarcasm.
Haven't we seen this all before? Didn't the same happen with Clinton? 2013, so if Obama doesn't get reelected then we get what happened the last time, the next administration blocks it from ever happening. If he does get reelected then the documents will be so blacked out that the only visible words we be less then informative or even relate-able to any context. In other words it's a red herring of red herrings.
I don't know, the screen looks like Guitar Hero and frets on fire doesn't. It does look like it's running on a PC though, so it must be a mod perhaps or maybe you can't create your own songs on the PC version? I have only played the console version, so I'm not sure.
So they will be able to tell what soldiers handle the action better judged on if they shit themselves or not? And all remotely? Is there anything technology can't do?
Seriously, I think my 12 year old nephew has a greater handle of the computer software industry the DICK Clarke. For that matter I think Dick Clark has a better grasp of the computer industry then some trumpeting idiot who has no computer background other then what positions he was "appointed" to.
Will this be just like the air marshall program that spends billions and results in like 4 arrests in 8+ years?
With everyone up in arms about waste in government these days, I find it amazing that they still institute programs that are unproven and massively wasteful. Bet we will hear in a couple years that this program has cost 2 billion and resulted in no arrests of convictions.
Now mothers across the US not only have the "Starving kids in China" analogy in their arsenal, but now they have "Kids are escaping detention centers in China for internet 1/10 as fast as yours!!!"
Yeah it would have been nice if that's the way it worked. I tried to apply the service packs thinking it would skip all updates before, but no, it still did updates from dates before the release of the service packs. Believe me I was shocked. Like win 2000, download the first 4 service packs, then do all the ones after. Not Vista.
I did a reinstall on a Vista machine recently for a friend. 100+ windows critical updates later and it was done! Really, the install itself took a fraction of the time that all the updates took. I guess if security is measured in security updates, you win Microsoft. Now claim your paper hat that says "We Won!"
Man someone needs to stick it to big caffeine and the man!! People we need to get off our dependence on foreign imports of caffeine and make our own renewable sustainable stimulants. Where's Al Gore when you need him! Oh right, never mind!
His buddy comes around from time to time too. He pops in the asks "How about a Hawaiian Punch?" Don't worry, it a drink and not physical confrontation.
He's a crazy little straw hatted son of the bitch though!
From sprints commercials you would think 4g phones had been out for at least 6 months now form them. I think the whole "4G" ads started at least back at the beginning of the football season. Guess the ads were just for mifi and mobile broadband then?
Add to that SBC saying "Yes, just pay us 80 to 150 dollars and we can get a new modem/wireless router combo out to you" when yours fries out, which is like every 2 to 3 years
If my cable modem goes down, they come out and replace it free of charge.
Really is this that shocking? It's Australia!!! They impose some of the dumbest laws and love to impose on the privacy of their own citizens and visitors as often as they can. Hey I am all for stopping the use of or existence of child porn, but it's just another case of making everyone criminals till proven innocent. The RIAA model to justice.
I know this isn't the US, but similar things happen here, not quite as stupid or overbearing but, when is it that the people will be listened to or at least innocent till proven guilty?
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Well hey I feel a lot safer now, doesn't every one else?
Was it like Anti virus 2006,2007,2008,2009, 2010 etc. etc.? Nothing like a fake flash scan to make a layperson worry and fork over the cash.
Sounds like a bunch of BS in the article. I don't live down under, but I would bet it would be a tough task to find speeds as fast as they say for the price they said. It sounds like a "poor me" tail. If a ISP finds doing business is sooooo hard, maybe they should close up shop?
I think the more important thing that covers part of what you wrote is that people need to either realize the consequences of using such devices or not cry foul when these things come to light. They can turn it off in most cases. My iphone asks with every app if it's alright to use location services. I select allow or don't allow. If that is really that hard for a person to get, then maybe they shouldn't have a smart phone?
This is kind of like the ex-mayor of Detroit. He sends text messages on a city owned pager that shows he purger-ed himself on the stand in a suit that cost the city 8 million dollars. The texts were obtained under the freedom of information act and when that happened the paper posted the texts. It ended in him doing jail time (which he is back in prison again for parole violations) and him trying to sue for those texts getting out. It's a case of "becuase I was ignorant of the ramifications, they shouldn't have been able to get those texts" bull crap!
It's crying foul after getting caught, and it means very little then.
It's a broadcast signal for crying out loud!! What really is the big deal? It's broadcast for the whole world to see! If a person drives down my street and has their laptop looking for WiFi they will see mine and 20+ others on my street, most secured. So what is the big deal? Sounds like the congress has found a thin opportunity to stick it's nose in to google's business and is taking full advantage of doing so, even if they are over stepping their boundaries and trying to obtain info that they did little leg work on. Info that they have very little to no legitimate reasons to have or need.
Powerstone is one that I can not believe hasn't made it over to another console for sure. Even though it characters were not as polished as other games (and didn't have sweet bouncing fun bags on lady characters like others!), it had the best game play of any fighter I think ever. The second edition was a little bit of a let down, but still the series had great potential that I don't think any other fighters has tapped in to. Capcom dropped the ball on it I think......
Thank goodness Obama has done so much to fix all that.
How the hell does that even get marked "insightful"?????? If anything I would think the writer was going for humor. I mean really, what does Obama have to do with this? Considering it's a running joke on how little Obama has really done, the mods must be smoking crank to not pick up on the sarcasm.
Haven't we seen this all before? Didn't the same happen with Clinton? 2013, so if Obama doesn't get reelected then we get what happened the last time, the next administration blocks it from ever happening. If he does get reelected then the documents will be so blacked out that the only visible words we be less then informative or even relate-able to any context. In other words it's a red herring of red herrings.
I don't know, the screen looks like Guitar Hero and frets on fire doesn't. It does look like it's running on a PC though, so it must be a mod perhaps or maybe you can't create your own songs on the PC version? I have only played the console version, so I'm not sure.
So they will be able to tell what soldiers handle the action better judged on if they shit themselves or not? And all remotely? Is there anything technology can't do?
Seriously, I think my 12 year old nephew has a greater handle of the computer software industry the DICK Clarke. For that matter I think Dick Clark has a better grasp of the computer industry then some trumpeting idiot who has no computer background other then what positions he was "appointed" to.
What Guitar Hero has the Zelda theme in it????
As a side note, it looks like it either makes the game too easy or it's impossible to master. Would have to see more to fully judge though.
I hear that the studios are working on a Duke Nukem Forever movie and have already started taking pre-orders on tickets.
whooooops didn't RTFA!! never mind, move along, nothing to see here!!!
Will this be just like the air marshall program that spends billions and results in like 4 arrests in 8+ years?
With everyone up in arms about waste in government these days, I find it amazing that they still institute programs that are unproven and massively wasteful. Bet we will hear in a couple years that this program has cost 2 billion and resulted in no arrests of convictions.
Now mothers across the US not only have the "Starving kids in China" analogy in their arsenal, but now they have "Kids are escaping detention centers in China for internet 1/10 as fast as yours!!!"
Yeah it would have been nice if that's the way it worked. I tried to apply the service packs thinking it would skip all updates before, but no, it still did updates from dates before the release of the service packs. Believe me I was shocked. Like win 2000, download the first 4 service packs, then do all the ones after. Not Vista.
I did a reinstall on a Vista machine recently for a friend. 100+ windows critical updates later and it was done! Really, the install itself took a fraction of the time that all the updates took. I guess if security is measured in security updates, you win Microsoft. Now claim your paper hat that says "We Won!"
Man someone needs to stick it to big caffeine and the man!! People we need to get off our dependence on foreign imports of caffeine and make our own renewable sustainable stimulants. Where's Al Gore when you need him! Oh right, never mind!
His buddy comes around from time to time too. He pops in the asks "How about a Hawaiian Punch?" Don't worry, it a drink and not physical confrontation.
He's a crazy little straw hatted son of the bitch though!
From sprints commercials you would think 4g phones had been out for at least 6 months now form them. I think the whole "4G" ads started at least back at the beginning of the football season. Guess the ads were just for mifi and mobile broadband then?
Add to that SBC saying "Yes, just pay us 80 to 150 dollars and we can get a new modem/wireless router combo out to you" when yours fries out, which is like every 2 to 3 years
If my cable modem goes down, they come out and replace it free of charge.
Really is this that shocking? It's Australia!!! They impose some of the dumbest laws and love to impose on the privacy of their own citizens and visitors as often as they can. Hey I am all for stopping the use of or existence of child porn, but it's just another case of making everyone criminals till proven innocent. The RIAA model to justice.
I know this isn't the US, but similar things happen here, not quite as stupid or overbearing but, when is it that the people will be listened to or at least innocent till proven guilty?
Gee I am glad that the federal stimulus money isn't being spent on ridicules systems that have no use and are easily defeated. Oh wait what?