Was this a case of truancy? Maybe a truant officer looked through the video camera to check if Johnny or Sally was *really* sick, and found them playing xbox360 instead of going to school. Still wrong on multiple levels (privacy, 4th amendment, kid probably *was* sick), and the guilty parties still need to be punished hard, but at least it makes more sense that way.
If market forces worked, this would be unnecessary.
If market forces were allowed, they would work.
Remember the dial-up days when you would use your existing phone line to dial up any of 20-some odd ISPs in your area? Remember how they ranged in price from AOL at the top to "the guy down the street for $5 a month"? Sure, you can still get dial-up, or 3G/wimax/XYZ, but if you want decent speeds, you're stuck with your choice of monopolies: phone or cable, and there's not really any competition/market.
Ever since you started making money hands over fist with iTunes, you've started REALLY SUCKING as a company. I don't want to buy from you any longer. My next phone will NOT be an iPhone. My next laptop will NOT be another Macbook.
And they'll be okay with that, just so long as you keep using iTunes for your media and software needs. New! Order Chinese food through iTunes!
For goodness sake, who gives a crap about the stupid iphone?
I care not because I own one (I do, but it's not jailbroken), but because according to Jobs, this is the computing wave of the future. Apple is trying to prevent any usefulness for jailbreaking before they release their latest computer, the iPad. They're scared of what freedoms users can have with an iPad if jailbreaking them becomes common, so they need to make it very undesirable. The next step is an OS kill-switch, and I believe it will happen now. I thought for sure they wouldn't go _this_ far.
Jail-breaking facilitates a lot of things, like SSH daemons. If Apple wants to stop piracy of digital media, they should stop selling digital media devices, because they facilitate piracy too.
Administrative users necessary to run most things (MS software or otherwise).
To be fair to Microsoft this is no longer true. UAC asks the user if they wish to elevates privileges when an app does something unsafe. Vista took a lot of flak when UAC appeared (including from myself) but it did force user land applications to stop abusing the registry (e.g opening HKLM with read/write permissions), writing random files to random locations on disk and other unnecessary operations. The consequence is apps written / patched in the last 3 years run pretty cleanly and if they don't, you get the UAC popup. In practice it's little different from what happens in Ubuntu or OS X in similar circumstances.
Administrative users necessary to run some things (usually specialized software). There are still a lot of special-case (expensive) software packages that require admin privileges. Sure they've got a much smaller number of users, but unless the software opens up low ports or is intended to access restricted file systems, there's no need to require admin access. Some Windows devs are still living in the Win9x days when there was only one user on a system. And what's up with requiring admin privs to "install" drivers just because I changed which USB port I plugged a device into?
Waaaaah waaaaah waaaaah I hate change. Change sucks!
A lot of times it does. In this specific case, posting a URL to a specific youtube video will soon look like posting a URL to a location in googlemaps, and you apparently can't rewind and rewatch a clip you just saw as easily, or spend some time choosing a related clip; they force one on you.
How about you never use the email address provided by your ISP? Web portal email works much better, and it will always be there as long as the portal is.
ISP changes name or web portal changes name. No difference from a user perspective; their email address might change either way.
Me: The problem isn't there, its further out Actually, it's at [ip address] which is [hostname], and is probably near [address]
Comcast rep: Wow, how did you see that?
Me: Traceroute
Comcast rep: I need to learn to do that
You're lucky that didn't become "Why are you inspecting the network sir? Hold please while I transfer you to Hostile Services."
Xfinity sounds like it should be the name of a sports car company... or perhaps an adult film company.
At Comcast, we're all about bringing the content you want, but not necessarily faster. We're proud of that fact, and thus are rebranding as Xfinity; We bring the Bomp to the Chigga-wow-wow.
iPad is far from a joke. It is the VNC device I've been wanting for over 20 years.
What, now that the secure way to run VNC is through an SSH tunnel? Will the iPad allow that out of the box, or will you need to spend $50 in the app store?
You don't do your work on an iPad. You do your work on your Desktop/Laptop and when you want to kickback and read e-comics on the couch, you grab your iPad.
Oops, you fail. Apple may be trying to backtrack and say the iPad is only for e-reading, but we all know their controlled leaks over the past year have promised a laptop with Mac OS X in tablet form. Their marketing failed, because we want what they are not providing.
Yeah, they should have made their ebook reader a bloated $2,000 computer that's twice as thick as the model they're releasing, gets twice as hot, has half the battery life,
I would have bought two, one for me and one for my parents. My workplace would have bought five as a test, with chances of fifty or more. As is, I will buy none, and my workplace will buy one to fiddle with, and it will eventually sit in a closet, alone and unused.
I didn't think there was a whole lot of use for the device until I took a trip from Munich to Philly in one of US Airs brand new A330s and noticed something, every single seat had a USB power outlet and all over the US USB power outlets are increasing in number. Are there any netbooks that can run off of USB power? The fact that the iPad can, has (supposedly) a really good battery life, and the fact that you can use the thing while standing up has sold me on the device.
If it's anything like the iPhone, it won't draw power unless a "I'm looking for USB storage device" signal is present. I've tried very unsuccessfully plugging my iPhone into only-powered USB hubs before, and it failed to charge. Even just a nudge from a BIOS boot screen was enough to make it work.
It would have been interesting to here some of Gates' reasons behind his statement.
The same reasons/. has been saying the same thing, except he likes win7 "3 app" edition. Frankly, I'd take "3 apps" before 1 app + greater lock-in any day.
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FYI, someone else saw the same thing. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1555240&cid=31188824
Was this a case of truancy? Maybe a truant officer looked through the video camera to check if Johnny or Sally was *really* sick, and found them playing xbox360 instead of going to school. Still wrong on multiple levels (privacy, 4th amendment, kid probably *was* sick), and the guilty parties still need to be punished hard, but at least it makes more sense that way.
"-1 Redundant", my ass. This is a case where "Won't somebody please think of the children!?" actually applies, and it can't be said enough.
... I'll start investing in MicroSD chips... lets see border guards search me for those!
Invest in backups too. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/16/1454246
So, in reality, what you're saying is that the Constitution provides for no limits whatsoever on Federal power.
I'll take Interstate Commerce Clause for $100, Alex.
its hard to even find internet service for your home in Italy; which is the friggin seat of modern western civilization
Seat? Seed, maybe. Rome stopped being the seat of western civilization in times ancient.
If market forces worked, this would be unnecessary.
If market forces were allowed, they would work.
Remember the dial-up days when you would use your existing phone line to dial up any of 20-some odd ISPs in your area? Remember how they ranged in price from AOL at the top to "the guy down the street for $5 a month"? Sure, you can still get dial-up, or 3G/wimax/XYZ, but if you want decent speeds, you're stuck with your choice of monopolies: phone or cable, and there's not really any competition/market.
Jet fuel is expensive, and since it takes more of it to tote your big fat bag around, I'm happy for you to pay for it.
What's with the name calling? His wife is a jolly woman with a great personality.
IIRC, it's because there's a unique steel foundry in Japan which is the only place that can make a solid steel containment vessel large enough. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aaVMzCTMz3ms
Since a shortage of fresh water is our next big crisis, doesn't that mean that global warming is a good thing?
And food; increased heat, water, and CO2 will make crops grow like crazy.
Ever since you started making money hands over fist with iTunes, you've started REALLY SUCKING as a company. I don't want to buy from you any longer. My next phone will NOT be an iPhone. My next laptop will NOT be another Macbook.
And they'll be okay with that, just so long as you keep using iTunes for your media and software needs. New! Order Chinese food through iTunes!
For goodness sake, who gives a crap about the stupid iphone?
I care not because I own one (I do, but it's not jailbroken), but because according to Jobs, this is the computing wave of the future. Apple is trying to prevent any usefulness for jailbreaking before they release their latest computer, the iPad. They're scared of what freedoms users can have with an iPad if jailbreaking them becomes common, so they need to make it very undesirable. The next step is an OS kill-switch, and I believe it will happen now. I thought for sure they wouldn't go _this_ far.
Jail-breaking facilitates piracy
Jail-breaking facilitates a lot of things, like SSH daemons. If Apple wants to stop piracy of digital media, they should stop selling digital media devices, because they facilitate piracy too.
Since when does MS have the right to say "To get software truly correct..."? They KNOW how to make software secure?
Yes. They just purposefully choose not to.
Administrative users necessary to run most things (MS software or otherwise).
To be fair to Microsoft this is no longer true. UAC asks the user if they wish to elevates privileges when an app does something unsafe. Vista took a lot of flak when UAC appeared (including from myself) but it did force user land applications to stop abusing the registry (e.g opening HKLM with read/write permissions), writing random files to random locations on disk and other unnecessary operations. The consequence is apps written / patched in the last 3 years run pretty cleanly and if they don't, you get the UAC popup. In practice it's little different from what happens in Ubuntu or OS X in similar circumstances.
Administrative users necessary to run some things (usually specialized software). There are still a lot of special-case (expensive) software packages that require admin privileges. Sure they've got a much smaller number of users, but unless the software opens up low ports or is intended to access restricted file systems, there's no need to require admin access. Some Windows devs are still living in the Win9x days when there was only one user on a system. And what's up with requiring admin privs to "install" drivers just because I changed which USB port I plugged a device into?
Waaaaah waaaaah waaaaah I hate change. Change sucks!
A lot of times it does. In this specific case, posting a URL to a specific youtube video will soon look like posting a URL to a location in googlemaps, and you apparently can't rewind and rewatch a clip you just saw as easily, or spend some time choosing a related clip; they force one on you.
How about you never use the email address provided by your ISP? Web portal email works much better, and it will always be there as long as the portal is.
ISP changes name or web portal changes name. No difference from a user perspective; their email address might change either way.
Me: The problem isn't there, its further out Actually, it's at [ip address] which is [hostname], and is probably near [address]
Comcast rep: Wow, how did you see that?
Me: Traceroute
Comcast rep: I need to learn to do that
You're lucky that didn't become "Why are you inspecting the network sir? Hold please while I transfer you to Hostile Services."
Xfinity sounds like it should be the name of a sports car company... or perhaps an adult film company.
At Comcast, we're all about bringing the content you want, but not necessarily faster. We're proud of that fact, and thus are rebranding as Xfinity; We bring the Bomp to the Chigga-wow-wow.
iPad is far from a joke. It is the VNC device I've been wanting for over 20 years.
What, now that the secure way to run VNC is through an SSH tunnel? Will the iPad allow that out of the box, or will you need to spend $50 in the app store?
You don't do your work on an iPad. You do your work on your Desktop/Laptop and when you want to kickback and read e-comics on the couch, you grab your iPad.
Oops, you fail. Apple may be trying to backtrack and say the iPad is only for e-reading, but we all know their controlled leaks over the past year have promised a laptop with Mac OS X in tablet form. Their marketing failed, because we want what they are not providing.
Yeah, they should have made their ebook reader a bloated $2,000 computer that's twice as thick as the model they're releasing, gets twice as hot, has half the battery life,
I would have bought two, one for me and one for my parents. My workplace would have bought five as a test, with chances of fifty or more. As is, I will buy none, and my workplace will buy one to fiddle with, and it will eventually sit in a closet, alone and unused.
I didn't think there was a whole lot of use for the device until I took a trip from Munich to Philly in one of US Airs brand new A330s and noticed something, every single seat had a USB power outlet and all over the US USB power outlets are increasing in number. Are there any netbooks that can run off of USB power? The fact that the iPad can, has (supposedly) a really good battery life, and the fact that you can use the thing while standing up has sold me on the device.
If it's anything like the iPhone, it won't draw power unless a "I'm looking for USB storage device" signal is present. I've tried very unsuccessfully plugging my iPhone into only-powered USB hubs before, and it failed to charge. Even just a nudge from a BIOS boot screen was enough to make it work.
First we had personal websites, then we moved to blogs, then to social computing and tweeting.
Isn't that like saying first we had automobiles, then we moved to cars, then to mass transit and bicycling. I thought blogs were personal web logs.
It would have been interesting to here some of Gates' reasons behind his statement.
The same reasons /. has been saying the same thing, except he likes win7 "3 app" edition. Frankly, I'd take "3 apps" before 1 app + greater lock-in any day.