Heck, people have done that with Objective-C remote proxies have basically been doing that as a form of RPC since NeXT days. Not to mention any other usages of it.
My point is more, who expects a response on a email address that specifically says "Do not expect a response" I don't care what company it is, if the company says upfront that you likely won't get a response then no professional courtesy entitles you to expect one. It'd be far different if they said that they will get back to people right away and then never do.
They got no response? It says right on that page that unless Apple desires more information from them that there will be no response.
So if you send them an email that says "If you do this and this in Java it infects the machine" Well then Apple probably won't write you back. It does not mean it was ignored. It says right there they won't make you feel special by responding to you unless they need more information.
On that same note, if you send an email that says "I found a security flaw, email me"... they will likely ignore you, as a troll.
If they legitimately desire more information from someone they will contact them. Not every report needs your personal help though once you've made the report.
Actually if they really looked at things, which they don't, I don't think it's good for the %1 at all to suppress freedom. By all rights the ultra wealthy that have arisen from within the "free" world are more wealthy and powerful than any dictator or tyrant of history. Freedom of the masses has only actually raised ALL classes up further. This newfound desire to push the middle classes and poor down will most likely only result in the %1 losing massive amounts of their own wealth and power as well.
That's odd. Having been married for plenty of years my wife and I have had some great conversations about porn and had a lot of fun watching it together. Though we live an open honest relationship with each other, and neither of us expect the other to magically turn into a porn star. Hell, neither of us would want the of the other one. If a marriage can be broken up by one parter or the other simply watching something designed for entertainment, then that marriage has much deeper problems than whatever whatever they were watching.
Oh, I realize it'd be imperceptible. I'm just saying that if their reasoning had something to do with.. you know, wind, that at least they might seem like they're making sense.
Wait, what? I might get a complaint about wind turbines affecting the weather or something, but health issues for being near what are effectively... windmills? Really?
The thing is, the differences between "getting into someone's head" when appropriate and when not is basically down to if both people are willing and in most modern societies match certain age requirements in regards to one another. Now those chat logs might be really useful as evidence in a court trial when that relationship was inappropriate. On the other hand, used as an automated service at an ISP will just flag a whole lot of people for perfectly acceptable chatter between consenting adults. The problem with any kind of active monitoring of the internet, deep packet inspection, chat room bots, etc.. is they WILL at some point be abused. Rather than doing this, it is far more important that we simply teach our children what is and isn't appropriate and how to spot people who mean to do them harm. Whether that harm is of a sexual nature or just stealing their change.
Of course, I forget, we aren't supposed to do our jobs as parents anymore, we've got technology for that... *rolls eyes*
Back when I was flying a lot still, the airline food tasted like crap. The fruit or snacks that I'd bring in my bag? Tasted just fine. If it was some weird thing with the tastebuds wouldn't my own food taste weird?
I realize the world doesn't work like this. But in my opinion if they're going to tax the purchase it should then fall under all the rules of buying from a Brick and Mortar store too, such as the First-sale doctrine. After all, if I buy a book from a brick and mortar I'm legally allowed to sell that book to someone else. On the other hand, when I download from iTunes I have no way to sell that item, because I didn't purchase it, I "licensed" it. Which the businesses love to remind us. If I'm then being taxed as if I'd purchased it, then the states should require the companies by law to treat it like any physical purchase and allow me to transfer the ownership of it.
After all, right off the bat. Comcast and Time Warner -are- two of the big media companies and copyright holders now. Of course they're more than willing to police their ISP networks looking for copies of their content.
It may surprise people, but larger market share of the target platform doesn't always make for better sales. It's not just a marketing thing either. Much like Windows vs Mac vs Linux. While all three are simply operating systems. The reality is that the users behind them made their choice of OS for various different reasons. Just because Windows has a larger market share on the desktop doesn't mean it's a good target for every product. Same of course goes the other way as well.
A great example of this is movies. Where sometimes a movie will do horribly here and great in Europe, or a movie might be a blockbuster here but no one in Asian would bother to see it if you paid them. Larger population doesn't always provide any correlation to sales.
The subsidies are a contractual agreement. They're not really the issue. The bigger issue is that the majority of carriers no longer provide any real discount for bringing a already paid for device to their network. The iPhone being the perfect example, I can buy it unlocked for full price. AT&T doesn't lower the bill one bit for this. T-Mobile will (from what I've heard) but can't support the device in most cases as a actual 3G device (This is changing slowly in some areas).
What we need isn't about the subsidies, it's that this country needs to require phones being sold now to support all the frequencies (the chips certainly can now) and to go -unlocked- at the end of the subsidy period, or to be unlocked if full price was paid. No exceptions. If people could take their phone and move to another provider, we might actually have some competition.
While I agree that whenever possible something like Wine is preferable to running Windows in a VM. I would like to point out that this stuff about VM's not being useable for gaming is pretty out-of-date. I've run many recent releases, including SW:TOR in a VM on my year old laptop just fine. At playable frame rates. WoW I don't bother with since it has a native Mac client, but there is really nothing stopping someone these days.
How is this different from like Libya exercising control over the sites being hosted under.ly domains?
"International law Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the.ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[19]"
Not to say any kind of censorship is right, but at the moment, us treating the US based TLDs as, well, US based, is just the way jurisdiction has been being handled when it comes to domain names.
I see a lot of complaints about books, but I want to see the studies about:
Reading books while driving. Reading maps while driving. Shaving while driving. Eating while driving.
And, surprisingly enough, I'd love to see a study about Reading a map while taking notes on a notebook while driving a delivery truck. (Yes, I've seen this happen)
The thing is, yes using your phone actively while driving is dangerous, so are a million other things. What we need is rather than one at a time passing laws to limit each dangerous thing, is to start again requiring actual TESTING of people before we license them to drive. I mean when I got my first license I had to prove I could drive on actual roads with actual lights and traffic. I found out a few years ago, that where I live now does the driving test on a -closed- course. It made it very clear why no one out here knows how to act at a four way stop. We also need actual enforcement of traffic laws besides speeding. I mean my god, I've watched cops ignore cars in front of them making illegal u-turns on a RED light right in front of them. Not to mention law enforcement who apparently no longer obeys any traffic laws, so much for setting examples.
I've long thought that perhaps there are actually two distinct "human" species alive today. Sexually compatible, very closely related, but separate in that one is genetically pre-disposed to basically follow anyone around and do what they're told. While the other actually has whatever genetics lead to the logic to step back and think things through. The majority simply do not have that ability. Now that's not to say the "higher" order of humans always ends up in leadership roles. In fact I'd guess that it's more rare, being able to step back, think things through and realize that in a lot of situations there is no "good" outcome. They're more likely to try and just not get involved. They're also far more likely to be pushed down by the follower majority, as those people are instinctually terrified of not simply following whoever they've determined to be alpha.
Then it's clear you don't understand modern nuclear power plant designs. There is far less danger from the radioactive waste coming from a modern nuclear power plant, then from any of the coal plants that have ever been built.
This may shock people, but dropping "Made in US" salaries on a percentage of a population that makes far less than that, won't actually raise the quality of life across the board in most cases. All it's really likely to do is cause massive inflation as people try to make money off these select people earning far more than everyone else. While at the same time all the people who -didn't- get an obscene raise suddenly can't even afford the cost of living.
If we want to inflate a foreign nations salaries to match ours, it must be done with care and slowly, not just saying "Hey look, you hundred thousand people, here ya go, 10x more money for you!".
No see, prove how stupid you think this idea is by NOT PLAYING THEIR GAMES. Seriously, once Ubisoft announced always on DRM I -stopped buying or playing their games-.
I don't buy the PC ones. I don't pirate them. I don't buy the console games.
Suggesting that DRM creates pirates is feeding right into their own feedback loop that they might be able to convince you to pay if they make it impossible to pirate. Instead you need to prove that treating their customers, and potential customers, like this is simply not acceptable. Do not use their products in any fashion.
I still think the obvious solution for Google, is to take some money out of their piggybank and just perform a hostile takeover of one of the larger media outlets. Maybe Viacom. Then they -are- one of the major media companies and could then tell the MPAA, and Congress exactly what they think about SOPA and maybe finally get listened to.
Hell, I've been saying for years that the tech industry, which is absolutely massive compared to the media industry, should just divvy up the media companies and each buy out one. The obvious thing would be say, Apple buy Disney, Google Viacom, Microsoft can buy Comcast since they already have a relationship through NBC. Then just fire the entire executive teams and lawyers who've been pushing for these horrible copyright bills in the first place.
My answer to the "5 years" question, was always "Retired, rich, sitting on my private beach reading a book."
The question is a horrible interview question and no matter what you answer it's a setup tfor the wrong information. If you want to know where people intend to go within -your- company if you hire them, then ask that. If you want to know if they're intending to stick around in your company, ask "If you get this job would you be willing to sign a contract saying you'll stay five years?" Whatever you want to know, ask -that-. Not vague questions that have no useful answer.
I run my own company now and don't have to answer stupid questions like this and you can bet I don't ask them either.
Actually, assuming from your statement you're not in the USA you might be surprised to find out that a whole lot of people who live here also think we're a big bully and should stop. The catch is, like most countries the majority is basically apathetic at best. Which makes it difficult for those of us who -don't- like the way our government is acting to change things. Now I happily look forward to Spain hopefully having the balls to continue to stand up and -not- enact a SOPA style law. Good for them. I also challenge anyone to find -any- country in the world where the people of the country don't have to deal with any corruption in the politics of the country. If you find one let us know, because I'm sure a whole lot of people would love to move there.
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Heck, people have done that with Objective-C remote proxies have basically been doing that as a form of RPC since NeXT days. Not to mention any other usages of it.
My point is more, who expects a response on a email address that specifically says "Do not expect a response"
I don't care what company it is, if the company says upfront that you likely won't get a response then no professional courtesy entitles you to expect one. It'd be far different if they said that they will get back to people right away and then never do.
They got no response? It says right on that page that unless Apple desires more information from them that there will be no response.
So if you send them an email that says "If you do this and this in Java it infects the machine" Well then Apple probably won't write you back. It does not mean it was ignored. It says right there they won't make you feel special by responding to you unless they need more information.
On that same note, if you send an email that says "I found a security flaw, email me"... they will likely ignore you, as a troll.
If they legitimately desire more information from someone they will contact them. Not every report needs your personal help though once you've made the report.
Actually if they really looked at things, which they don't, I don't think it's good for the %1 at all to suppress freedom. By all rights the ultra wealthy that have arisen from within the "free" world are more wealthy and powerful than any dictator or tyrant of history. Freedom of the masses has only actually raised ALL classes up further. This newfound desire to push the middle classes and poor down will most likely only result in the %1 losing massive amounts of their own wealth and power as well.
That's odd. Having been married for plenty of years my wife and I have had some great conversations about porn and had a lot of fun watching it together. Though we live an open honest relationship with each other, and neither of us expect the other to magically turn into a porn star. Hell, neither of us would want the of the other one. If a marriage can be broken up by one parter or the other simply watching something designed for entertainment, then that marriage has much deeper problems than whatever whatever they were watching.
Oh, I realize it'd be imperceptible. I'm just saying that if their reasoning had something to do with.. you know, wind, that at least they might seem like they're making sense.
But health?
Wait, what? I might get a complaint about wind turbines affecting the weather or something, but health issues for being near what are effectively... windmills? Really?
Okay. Sigh.
So... it's just like dating then?
The thing is, the differences between "getting into someone's head" when appropriate and when not is basically down to if both people are willing and in most modern societies match certain age requirements in regards to one another. Now those chat logs might be really useful as evidence in a court trial when that relationship was inappropriate. On the other hand, used as an automated service at an ISP will just flag a whole lot of people for perfectly acceptable chatter between consenting adults. The problem with any kind of active monitoring of the internet, deep packet inspection, chat room bots, etc.. is they WILL at some point be abused. Rather than doing this, it is far more important that we simply teach our children what is and isn't appropriate and how to spot people who mean to do them harm. Whether that harm is of a sexual nature or just stealing their change.
Of course, I forget, we aren't supposed to do our jobs as parents anymore, we've got technology for that... *rolls eyes*
Back when I was flying a lot still, the airline food tasted like crap. The fruit or snacks that I'd bring in my bag? Tasted just fine.
If it was some weird thing with the tastebuds wouldn't my own food taste weird?
I realize the world doesn't work like this. But in my opinion if they're going to tax the purchase it should then fall under all the rules of buying from a Brick and Mortar store too, such as the First-sale doctrine. After all, if I buy a book from a brick and mortar I'm legally allowed to sell that book to someone else. On the other hand, when I download from iTunes I have no way to sell that item, because I didn't purchase it, I "licensed" it. Which the businesses love to remind us. If I'm then being taxed as if I'd purchased it, then the states should require the companies by law to treat it like any physical purchase and allow me to transfer the ownership of it.
After all, right off the bat. Comcast and Time Warner -are- two of the big media companies and copyright holders now. Of course they're more than willing to police their ISP networks looking for copies of their content.
Does that include the crimes committed on Capital Hill? As I'm pretty sure the crime rate in Washington D.C. is still soaring.
It may surprise people, but larger market share of the target platform doesn't always make for better sales. It's not just a marketing thing either. Much like Windows vs Mac vs Linux. While all three are simply operating systems. The reality is that the users behind them made their choice of OS for various different reasons. Just because Windows has a larger market share on the desktop doesn't mean it's a good target for every product. Same of course goes the other way as well.
A great example of this is movies. Where sometimes a movie will do horribly here and great in Europe, or a movie might be a blockbuster here but no one in Asian would bother to see it if you paid them. Larger population doesn't always provide any correlation to sales.
The subsidies are a contractual agreement. They're not really the issue. The bigger issue is that the majority of carriers no longer provide any real discount for bringing a already paid for device to their network. The iPhone being the perfect example, I can buy it unlocked for full price. AT&T doesn't lower the bill one bit for this. T-Mobile will (from what I've heard) but can't support the device in most cases as a actual 3G device (This is changing slowly in some areas).
What we need isn't about the subsidies, it's that this country needs to require phones being sold now to support all the frequencies (the chips certainly can now) and to go -unlocked- at the end of the subsidy period, or to be unlocked if full price was paid. No exceptions. If people could take their phone and move to another provider, we might actually have some competition.
While I agree that whenever possible something like Wine is preferable to running Windows in a VM. I would like to point out that this stuff about VM's not being useable for gaming is pretty out-of-date. I've run many recent releases, including SW:TOR in a VM on my year old laptop just fine. At playable frame rates. WoW I don't bother with since it has a native Mac client, but there is really nothing stopping someone these days.
How is this different from like Libya exercising control over the sites being hosted under .ly domains?
"International law .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[19]"
Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the
Not to say any kind of censorship is right, but at the moment, us treating the US based TLDs as, well, US based, is just the way jurisdiction has been being handled when it comes to domain names.
I see a lot of complaints about books, but I want to see the studies about:
Reading books while driving.
Reading maps while driving.
Shaving while driving.
Eating while driving.
And, surprisingly enough, I'd love to see a study about Reading a map while taking notes on a notebook while driving a delivery truck. (Yes, I've seen this happen)
The thing is, yes using your phone actively while driving is dangerous, so are a million other things. What we need is rather than one at a time passing laws to limit each dangerous thing, is to start again requiring actual TESTING of people before we license them to drive. I mean when I got my first license I had to prove I could drive on actual roads with actual lights and traffic. I found out a few years ago, that where I live now does the driving test on a -closed- course. It made it very clear why no one out here knows how to act at a four way stop. We also need actual enforcement of traffic laws besides speeding. I mean my god, I've watched cops ignore cars in front of them making illegal u-turns on a RED light right in front of them. Not to mention law enforcement who apparently no longer obeys any traffic laws, so much for setting examples.
I've long thought that perhaps there are actually two distinct "human" species alive today. Sexually compatible, very closely related, but separate in that one is genetically pre-disposed to basically follow anyone around and do what they're told. While the other actually has whatever genetics lead to the logic to step back and think things through. The majority simply do not have that ability. Now that's not to say the "higher" order of humans always ends up in leadership roles. In fact I'd guess that it's more rare, being able to step back, think things through and realize that in a lot of situations there is no "good" outcome. They're more likely to try and just not get involved. They're also far more likely to be pushed down by the follower majority, as those people are instinctually terrified of not simply following whoever they've determined to be alpha.
Though admittedly, it's really a sad show of society that they prohibit sexual content, but not "Extreme depictions of graphic violence".
Then it's clear you don't understand modern nuclear power plant designs. There is far less danger from the radioactive waste coming from a modern nuclear power plant, then from any of the coal plants that have ever been built.
This may shock people, but dropping "Made in US" salaries on a percentage of a population that makes far less than that, won't actually raise the quality of life across the board in most cases. All it's really likely to do is cause massive inflation as people try to make money off these select people earning far more than everyone else. While at the same time all the people who -didn't- get an obscene raise suddenly can't even afford the cost of living.
If we want to inflate a foreign nations salaries to match ours, it must be done with care and slowly, not just saying "Hey look, you hundred thousand people, here ya go, 10x more money for you!".
No see, prove how stupid you think this idea is by NOT PLAYING THEIR GAMES.
Seriously, once Ubisoft announced always on DRM I -stopped buying or playing their games-.
I don't buy the PC ones. I don't pirate them. I don't buy the console games.
Suggesting that DRM creates pirates is feeding right into their own feedback loop that they might be able to convince you to pay if they make it impossible to pirate. Instead you need to prove that treating their customers, and potential customers, like this is simply not acceptable. Do not use their products in any fashion.
I still think the obvious solution for Google, is to take some money out of their piggybank and just perform a hostile takeover of one of the larger media outlets. Maybe Viacom. Then they -are- one of the major media companies and could then tell the MPAA, and Congress exactly what they think about SOPA and maybe finally get listened to.
Hell, I've been saying for years that the tech industry, which is absolutely massive compared to the media industry, should just divvy up the media companies and each buy out one. The obvious thing would be say, Apple buy Disney, Google Viacom, Microsoft can buy Comcast since they already have a relationship through NBC. Then just fire the entire executive teams and lawyers who've been pushing for these horrible copyright bills in the first place.
My answer to the "5 years" question, was always "Retired, rich, sitting on my private beach reading a book."
The question is a horrible interview question and no matter what you answer it's a setup tfor the wrong information. If you want to know where people intend to go within -your- company if you hire them, then ask that. If you want to know if they're intending to stick around in your company, ask "If you get this job would you be willing to sign a contract saying you'll stay five years?" Whatever you want to know, ask -that-. Not vague questions that have no useful answer.
I run my own company now and don't have to answer stupid questions like this and you can bet I don't ask them either.
Actually, assuming from your statement you're not in the USA you might be surprised to find out that a whole lot of people who live here also think we're a big bully and should stop. The catch is, like most countries the majority is basically apathetic at best. Which makes it difficult for those of us who -don't- like the way our government is acting to change things. Now I happily look forward to Spain hopefully having the balls to continue to stand up and -not- enact a SOPA style law. Good for them. I also challenge anyone to find -any- country in the world where the people of the country don't have to deal with any corruption in the politics of the country. If you find one let us know, because I'm sure a whole lot of people would love to move there.