When it comes to biology we are nothing but a bunch of clueless hackers who think our education and fancy titles endow us with the ability to understand or predict the consequences of our actions when no such thing is currently within our reach.
"We can do better than chance"... Except nobody knows how to design and build anything resembling the capabilities of a human. Until this changes it seems exceedingly foolish to assume we are smarter than evolution.
I agree with one sentiment we are already playing god be it from medical interventions to save those who would have normally died, relative lack of scarcity or detecting serious defects in the unborn.
I can think of no credible way to falisify the in for a penny in for a pound argument mr Pickens makes... we're doing it anyway so why stop now?
Rather than accusing others of making irrational arguments some self reflection might first be in order.
I never understood the appeal given many games must really suck to play with all the control latency and video buffering.
How much more can a used xbox/titles really cost over time vs subscription cost of onlive service?
No secret I've always had a negative opinion mostly due to the egregious waste of bandwidth and resources but also for failing to see the market value.
My bet at the time they would be done in three months and they lasted quite a bit longer so excellent job on execution.
I've read it a few times now that the point of forcing Metro on everyone is so that the developers know there will be a market for their work. What is the alternative, wait for Windows Phone to fail and die a slow death as Apple and Google take over?
The real problem with windows phone and attracting developers willing and able produce useful apps was.NET. Nobody writes anything non-trivial in.NET so we are left with a windows appstore filled almost entirely with trivial garbage.
Opening up native code, getting rid of CE and a completed SDK will do more for the windows phone platform by itself than pissing off desktop users ever could.
Once you have a common language you can write all yer shit once and have it work everywhere..porting costs a whole lot less and the operating system goes back to being an unimportant commodity as it should have been from day one.
The IDEA of REST is a laudable goal. Most implementations of it using HTTP as the vechicle for REST with a limited supply of verbs spits in the idea of RESTs face.
You don't get to reuse crap or do anything cross domain with a "restful" API. I've implemented dozens of vendors restful APIs and each one is its own country.
The multi-inheritance issues with the URL path alone are never ending and annoying. Everyone makes up paths adhoc which are not reusable, rarely consistant or coherent.
Then we have a severly limited supply of verbs (HTTP) which are not particularly useful for anything non-trivial. This limitation ususally accompanies an "action" field hidden in the path or as a separate parameter to make up for the limited vocabulary.
There are no templating, transactions, registries of fields or data to promote any reuse of any horizontally useful information or concepts.
Next up is retardulous idea it is a good thing to collapse response layer so http response codes mean something to the API. I've lost track of the number of times this has ended in disaster. Systems that report a 500 error due to some issue way down in the stack get interpreted to mean the API command failed when no such thing has occured. The same results have occured due to fat-fingered URLs or middle boxes providing invalid responses while API only examines the fucking HTTP response codes.
Viral propogation of nonsensical memes without comensurate technical merit are harmful to the industry.
Police cars are usually broadcasting radio signals as well. Is it OK if I create an app that shows the real-time position of any police vehicles that are identified? Should be. Fairly easy to overlay on a google map. It is no different than seeing one drive down the street and then telling someone. We could make a web version that serves from another country to protect it from a take down. I'm gonna put this up over on kickstarter.
This is where the police break out their favorite set of overly broad catch all laws and sentance you for interfering with an officer or some such nonsense. The same shit used to harass those who would flash their lights to warn of an oncoming speed trap.
There have already been apps like this pulled from the Apple appstore and they were just crowd sourced by eyeballs in the visible spectrum.
It's a radio transmitter, dammit! When you walk around with an operating radio transmitter spraying rf in all directions the people it is bouncing off of have a right to absorb some of it and do with it as they wish. That includes the cops. If you want no one to know where you are don't broadcast your location.
Since when is it legal for anyone to do with it as they wish with private communications between individuals? If I decode the signal from your phone I can do whatever I want with it? Really?
This is not even true for unlicensed and ameature frequencies. You do not even have the right to do whatever the hell you want with the contents of conversation between two parties you overhear even if that conversation is "in the clear".
I don't understand it is not like we can't produce neutrinos in large quantities on demand.
Wouldn't we notice changes in decay rates by placing the same objects next to a reactor and observing a change? There must be a million different ways to investigate these claims.
For something seemingly this extraordinary the silence and general lack of interest is deafening.
If I were running my own kingdom I would object to every new tld added not directly related to the partitioning of a new country.
I would seek all technical measures and pressures possible to ensure those who would use such TLDs would find them to be inaccessable to huge swaths of public thus significantly degrading their value.
ICANN deserves to rot in.hell for hurting the network for profit.
I never understood the no personally identifiable information meme. Broadcasting a unique ID becomes quite personal when the data is aggregated and mined. Even if the IDs are themselves encrypted in a way that prevents unique discrimination without a key that same key or group thereof would need to be hidden in hardware in all other vechicles making compromise of all or parts of the system assured. Further since this system is being guarded by secrecy and NDAs, not subject to public scruitny of professionals its security properties will undoubtably suck.
Two observations:
Since these devices will be mandatory and everyone will have one and know about the system why would anyone assume a criminal would not immediatly destroy or disable the device upon taking a joyride in your vechicle or otherwise escaping authorities due to prior criminal activity? The standard you would be surprised at how stupid people are defense only goes soo far.
The second and more serious issue is that some people..unfortunatly way too many live in constant fear of injury or death from crazed x's and assorted stalker psychos. This system puts everyone in this category at unecessary increased risk.
Further what happens when someone decides to start attaching the receipt of an ID to an explosive trigger?
Have you ever lived/worked in N.Y.C.? You've got some seriously dangerous animals who have no human compassion at all in them.
Yes I have, welcome to earth.
Take my photo! Recognize my face and track my damn phone! I don't do illegal things, and don't care if I get stop & frisked for weapons. You can't be against public surveillance then complain later when you or your loved ones get mugged/raped/killed. Welcome to the modern life.
Laws and limits on power and expectation of privacy are not just to protect citzens it is to protect the system from itself. The more power aggregated into the hands of the few controlling everything the more society and everyones freedom and well being is at risk. Absolute power corrupts absolutely... It is a systemic truth embedded in human nature. Everyone is human INCLUDING the watchers.
What happens when a perp in the system spots ur gf cause he thinks shes hot and uses all of that electronic stalker intelligence to get in her pants?
How often do we *hear* about people working for TLAs *cought* abusing their power to get privledged information on the rich and famous?
You have nothing to hide..blah blah blah.. then why do you suppose the very first thing every lawyer in the country tells their client is to shut up whether they have anything to hide or not?
Your logic itself is a bit twisted in the lack of ability to be falsified. I could use the same argument but instead say if your not willing to submit to having to walk around naked in public with a minder observing your every move then you can't bitch about being robbed/stabbed/killed/whatever. If an argument can't be falsified it conveys no useful information.
Rather than waste all of that money on finding criminals I would rather see the money wasted on preventing people from being criminals and addressing underlying systemic social issues.
Resources are finite. Turning NYC into a police state is likely not the most effective use of limited resources even if your goal to the deteriment of all other considerations is protection from criminals.
Hybrid drives have been on the market for years. It seems to me your risk exposure is only increased by combining the two. You now have to worry about the perils of spinning platters, oxide eating flash write operations and new management technology gluing the systems together not widely deployed.
The last I checked about a year ago there were overwhelming negative comments related to reliability of hybrid drives. Even assuming all the bugs have since been worked out seems like such a fleeting and pointless stop-gap measure as to not be worthwhile.
I have enough memory that most applications load instantly from the operating system cache. 32GB of ddr is readily available for less than $200... nothing involving a SATA bus can be faster than the operating systems main memory disk cache.
Hopefully memristers or other technologies will pan out soon and we can be done with slow, power hungry access and inherently unreliable storage mediums once and for all.
I stopped reading shortly after "I am aggressive when it comes to coding conventions"
The mention of Agile as a positive strategy and the volumes dedicated to "format" of code are only useful to scratch an itch. They are only valuable in the mind of the author and those who think like him and rarely have any effect on outcomes.
Ridigity * is not a strategy in and of itself. It is the preference of someone who is anally retentive and change adverse.
The wins from his scheme are like the wins from modern language features. They can only go soo far to reinforce or mitigate actual outcomes in a project lifecycle.
What makes or breaks large scale projects is not a vigorous environment but a creative one.
One that encourages creative solutions to effectivly understand and manage global complexity. Everything else is as TFA says "noise".
I would much rather pay someone to write code that "looks" like shit if means they are spending more time on the big picture than pay someone who is obsessive compulsive with no time or capacity left to reason about WTF is over the horizon.
There is no substitute for thought. If procedure and process were that important machines would be writing all of our software for us by now.
If on the other hand, you are pissing those same people off with a bit of theater, you're not telling anyone something they don't already know, but now you are just making them mad at you. It
The point of the protest is not really about other people in line. What they think is irrelevent. I doubt even folks at head of line would know or care as random people are handled more by TSA longer than usual. Its the aggregate effect on the entire system that makes it a worthwhile form of protest.
Makes it easy for the TSA to paint people with legitimate grievances as troublemakers. Not to mention that they can state that their rules are fine, and the only delays happen because protesters are purposely causing the efficiency of the process to be degraded.
The problem with this argument is there is no limit to its application. The same concept is the hallmark of state messaging from repressive regimes. Whatever the TSA says it is irrelevent.
If you really want the TSA to go away, you do it by having everyone consider them a waste of time and not giving them scapegoats to pin their failures on.
Waste of time?!? People being felt up to the point of breaking out in tears and scanned by machines which pose unknown risks and you are talking about wasting time? Its what happens to you while in line that I care about not how long you must wait in it.
I'm not sure that slowing down airport lines for a protest is the best way to make people mad at the TSA. They're more likely to get mad at you for fucking up their travel plans. Write your damn congresscritter or protest OUTSIDE the security zone, please.
What about going through the security line stating you don't want to be groped or scanned and then turn around and leave?
You didn't break any laws but have the same effect. If enough people did it with insured/refundable tickets a point would be made at several levels. The airlines have bigger lobbying pockets than rape-scan.
What the TSA is allowed to do is sick and discusting. If people are only annoyed by being inconvienced it is really rather difficult for me to to find enough sympathy to care.
What does that have to do with the fact that Android and iOS are vastly more popular than current generation Windows Phone for both users and developers? By breaking backwards compatibility with WP7 apps MS makes it easier to switch to a more popular OS.
Where are people getting this idea? Microsoft is automatically recompiling all WP7 apps to work with WP8 devices. No developer changes, submissions or work of any kind required. ALL WP7 apps will be fully compatible with WP8 on day 1.
We use adwords from time to time and had similar experiences a few years back with the "content network".
We analyzed our stats and even went as far as manually browse access logs. The hits we got were crap just like the sites most of the referrals came from.
There is a huge sesspool of scum on the Internet funded by leeching off ad revenue wherever it exists.
If companies are not on top of it and not careful about how they are spending their advertising dollars this kind of fraud could easily eat into a sizable chunk of their budgets and they might not even know it.
Do your homework before you throw your money away.
We already know Apple pulls apps that compete with their bottom line so why should anyone expect different behavior from ebooks?
The problem in my mind is not really Apple or what apple does or does not do...It is the aggregation of power into the hands of the few with all the financial incentive in the world to leverage to the fullest.
Expecting them not to (ab)use it seems foolishly naive.
I vote with my purchases and encourage others to do the same.
Having sat thru a number of talks at defcon they can be a lot of fun and interesting but rarely educational.
One example few years back a presenter demonstrated MITM attack against windows SMB.
My thought was if there is no machine authentication or data encryption on wire just WTF did anyone expect? The guy didn't discover anything he just implemented what everyone else already knew could be done.
When title says "Research Finds Security Hole"... it is actually researcher rediscovered what everyone else with domain knowledge already knew.
I suspect a great number of tools can be abused by denying GPS, jamming VHF party line, ranging signals, radars..etc. The point of this system seems to be a safety tool to add situational awareness. It does not "replace" anything it just adds capabilities.
I'm not sure what the point would be of encrypting if half the value of this system is allowing other pilots to see WTF is going on around them.
I would much prefer the system to be insecure and everyone know it then have it be "secure" and people relying on the data without thinking or checking.
Seems to me to just be the avaiation industries equivalent of maritimes AIS with exactly the same issues raised.. AIS never excused anyone from watchkeeping or radar.
You do realize that the less time the CPU or GPU has to spend doing something the more time it can spend idling, thereby consuming less power and producing less heat, so even if the end-result is not visible to the eye it is still a beneficial effect nevertheless. Especially on mobile devices any improvements to battery-life directly translate to end-user satisfaction and better useability.
I'm not convinced. The Nvidia GPU in my computer is constantly consuming dozens of watts by itself while it sits idle doing nothing. The ATI GPU I had before that was actually worse.
Mobile GPUs have much different characteristics yet still keeping more silicon than necessary lit even if reasonably gated does not seem to me to be worth reduced cost vs any insignificant additional CPU offload during the *small* amount of time actual work is being performed contrasted to cost of normal 2d acceleration with less area lit up.
An analogy is building a power budget or power usage spreadsheet for your home. You count what is always on or what is on for a good amount of time. The microwave uses a kw or more while on but only for a few minutes per day. For most people it is not worth your time to include the Microwave as an item in your budget.
To be honest I stopped putting much faith in reviews, blogs and assorted opinions long ago and now test drive software myself
The UI is different, not bad. I have found ways to do everything I did in Win 7 with very little effort. Please... if you're going to rant endlessly about the UI, one extra click or having something located in a different menu... get over it and learn to adapt. Software evolves, so should we.
Interesting and somewhat amusing that someone who puts such little faith in the opinions of others should feel the need to offer up their own including going as far as telling people to stop whining and embrace change for changes sake.
I know for sure one thing I will not be getting over is loss of any of my cash due to purchasing "upgrade" to Windows 8.
If the new UI was a better way which improved my life in some way and in return required some time and effort to realize that would be a different matter. This is not true with metro. It was designed for a consumption oriented market and only makes sense for small form factor devices or larger devices without mice and keyboards. Microsoft chose to go with the jarring user experience, they chose to reject user choice for strategic reasons to salvage their mobile market share. They did not do it to make MY life any better. They did it to make their bottom line better.
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When it comes to biology we are nothing but a bunch of clueless hackers who think our education and fancy titles endow us with the ability to understand or predict the consequences of our actions when no such thing is currently within our reach.
"We can do better than chance" ... Except nobody knows how to design and build anything resembling the capabilities of a human. Until this changes it seems exceedingly foolish to assume we are smarter than evolution.
I agree with one sentiment we are already playing god be it from medical interventions to save those who would have normally died, relative lack of scarcity or detecting serious defects in the unborn.
I can think of no credible way to falisify the in for a penny in for a pound argument mr Pickens makes... we're doing it anyway so why stop now?
Rather than accusing others of making irrational arguments some self reflection might first be in order.
I never understood the appeal given many games must really suck to play with all the control latency and video buffering.
How much more can a used xbox/titles really cost over time vs subscription cost of onlive service?
No secret I've always had a negative opinion mostly due to the egregious waste of bandwidth and resources but also for failing to see the market value.
My bet at the time they would be done in three months and they lasted quite a bit longer so excellent job on execution.
I've read it a few times now that the point of forcing Metro on everyone is so that the developers know there will be a market for their work. What is the alternative, wait for Windows Phone to fail and die a slow death as Apple and Google take over?
The real problem with windows phone and attracting developers willing and able produce useful apps was .NET. Nobody writes anything non-trivial in .NET so we are left with a windows appstore filled almost entirely with trivial garbage.
Opening up native code, getting rid of CE and a completed SDK will do more for the windows phone platform by itself than pissing off desktop users ever could.
Once you have a common language you can write all yer shit once and have it work everywhere..porting costs a whole lot less and the operating system goes back to being an unimportant commodity as it should have been from day one.
Better do your shipping labels with Sharpies, risk not their ire by employing a Magic Marker.
Is a trace element certified (TEC) sharpie any better than a normal sharpie or is the difference just a bunch of superstitious voodoo?
There is something wrong upstairs when you make the conscious choice to store important data you want to survive on a RAID 5 array.
The IDEA of REST is a laudable goal. Most implementations of it using HTTP as the vechicle for REST with a limited supply of verbs spits in the idea of RESTs face.
You don't get to reuse crap or do anything cross domain with a "restful" API. I've implemented dozens of vendors restful APIs and each one is its own country.
The multi-inheritance issues with the URL path alone are never ending and annoying. Everyone makes up paths adhoc which are not reusable, rarely consistant or coherent.
Then we have a severly limited supply of verbs (HTTP) which are not particularly useful for anything non-trivial. This limitation ususally accompanies an "action" field hidden in the path or as a separate parameter to make up for the limited vocabulary.
There are no templating, transactions, registries of fields or data to promote any reuse of any horizontally useful information or concepts.
Next up is retardulous idea it is a good thing to collapse response layer so http response codes mean something to the API. I've lost track of the number of times this has ended in disaster. Systems that report a 500 error due to some issue way down in the stack get interpreted to mean the API command failed when no such thing has occured. The same results have occured due to fat-fingered URLs or middle boxes providing invalid responses while API only examines the fucking HTTP response codes.
Viral propogation of nonsensical memes without comensurate technical merit are harmful to the industry.
Police cars are usually broadcasting radio signals as well. Is it OK if I create an app that shows the real-time position of any police vehicles that are identified? Should be. Fairly easy to overlay on a google map. It is no different than seeing one drive down the street and then telling someone. We could make a web version that serves from another country to protect it from a take down. I'm gonna put this up over on kickstarter.
This is where the police break out their favorite set of overly broad catch all laws and sentance you for interfering with an officer or some such nonsense. The same shit used to harass those who would flash their lights to warn of an oncoming speed trap.
There have already been apps like this pulled from the Apple appstore and they were just crowd sourced by eyeballs in the visible spectrum.
It's a radio transmitter, dammit! When you walk around with an operating radio transmitter spraying rf in all directions the people it is bouncing off of have a right to absorb some of it and do with it as they wish. That includes the cops. If you want no one to know where you are don't broadcast your location.
Since when is it legal for anyone to do with it as they wish with private communications between individuals? If I decode the signal from your phone I can do whatever I want with it? Really?
This is not even true for unlicensed and ameature frequencies. You do not even have the right to do whatever the hell you want with the contents of conversation between two parties you overhear even if that conversation is "in the clear".
I don't understand it is not like we can't produce neutrinos in large quantities on demand.
Wouldn't we notice changes in decay rates by placing the same objects next to a reactor and observing a change? There must be a million different ways to investigate these claims.
For something seemingly this extraordinary the silence and general lack of interest is deafening.
If I were running my own kingdom I would object to every new tld added not directly related to the partitioning of a new country.
I would seek all technical measures and pressures possible to ensure those who would use such TLDs would find them to be inaccessable to huge swaths of public thus significantly degrading their value.
ICANN deserves to rot in .hell for hurting the network for profit.
I never understood the no personally identifiable information meme. Broadcasting a unique ID becomes quite personal when the data is aggregated and mined. Even if the IDs are themselves encrypted in a way that prevents unique discrimination without a key that same key or group thereof would need to be hidden in hardware in all other vechicles making compromise of all or parts of the system assured. Further since this system is being guarded by secrecy and NDAs, not subject to public scruitny of professionals its security properties will undoubtably suck.
Two observations:
Since these devices will be mandatory and everyone will have one and know about the system why would anyone assume a criminal would not immediatly destroy or disable the device upon taking a joyride in your vechicle or otherwise escaping authorities due to prior criminal activity? The standard you would be surprised at how stupid people are defense only goes soo far.
The second and more serious issue is that some people..unfortunatly way too many live in constant fear of injury or death from crazed x's and assorted stalker psychos. This system puts everyone in this category at unecessary increased risk.
Further what happens when someone decides to start attaching the receipt of an ID to an explosive trigger?
Have you ever lived/worked in N.Y.C.? You've got some seriously dangerous animals who have no human compassion at all in them.
Yes I have, welcome to earth.
Take my photo! Recognize my face and track my damn phone! I don't do illegal things, and don't care if I get stop & frisked for weapons. You can't be against public surveillance then complain later when you or your loved ones get mugged/raped/killed. Welcome to the modern life.
Laws and limits on power and expectation of privacy are not just to protect citzens it is to protect the system from itself. The more power aggregated into the hands of the few controlling everything the more society and everyones freedom and well being is at risk. Absolute power corrupts absolutely... It is a systemic truth embedded in human nature. Everyone is human INCLUDING the watchers.
What happens when a perp in the system spots ur gf cause he thinks shes hot and uses all of that electronic stalker intelligence to get in her pants?
How often do we *hear* about people working for TLAs *cought* abusing their power to get privledged information on the rich and famous?
You have nothing to hide..blah blah blah.. then why do you suppose the very first thing every lawyer in the country tells their client is to shut up whether they have anything to hide or not?
Your logic itself is a bit twisted in the lack of ability to be falsified. I could use the same argument but instead say if your not willing to submit to having to walk around naked in public with a minder observing your every move then you can't bitch about being robbed/stabbed/killed/whatever. If an argument can't be falsified it conveys no useful information.
Rather than waste all of that money on finding criminals I would rather see the money wasted on preventing people from being criminals and addressing underlying systemic social issues.
Resources are finite. Turning NYC into a police state is likely not the most effective use of limited resources even if your goal to the deteriment of all other considerations is protection from criminals.
Hybrid drives have been on the market for years. It seems to me your risk exposure is only increased by combining the two. You now have to worry about the perils of spinning platters, oxide eating flash write operations and new management technology gluing the systems together not widely deployed.
The last I checked about a year ago there were overwhelming negative comments related to reliability of hybrid drives. Even assuming all the bugs have since been worked out seems like such a fleeting and pointless stop-gap measure as to not be worthwhile.
I have enough memory that most applications load instantly from the operating system cache. 32GB of ddr is readily available for less than $200 ... nothing involving a SATA bus can be faster than the operating systems main memory disk cache.
Hopefully memristers or other technologies will pan out soon and we can be done with slow, power hungry access and inherently unreliable storage mediums once and for all.
I stopped reading shortly after "I am aggressive when it comes to coding conventions"
The mention of Agile as a positive strategy and the volumes dedicated to "format" of code are only useful to scratch an itch. They are only valuable in the mind of the author and those who think like him and rarely have any effect on outcomes.
Ridigity * is not a strategy in and of itself. It is the preference of someone who is anally retentive and change adverse.
The wins from his scheme are like the wins from modern language features. They can only go soo far to reinforce or mitigate actual outcomes in a project lifecycle.
What makes or breaks large scale projects is not a vigorous environment but a creative one.
One that encourages creative solutions to effectivly understand and manage global complexity. Everything else is as TFA says "noise".
I would much rather pay someone to write code that "looks" like shit if means they are spending more time on the big picture than pay someone who is obsessive compulsive with no time or capacity left to reason about WTF is over the horizon.
There is no substitute for thought. If procedure and process were that important machines would be writing all of our software for us by now.
If on the other hand, you are pissing those same people off with a bit of theater, you're not telling anyone something they don't already know, but now you are just making them mad at you. It
The point of the protest is not really about other people in line. What they think is irrelevent. I doubt even folks at head of line would know or care as random people are handled more by TSA longer than usual. Its the aggregate effect on the entire system that makes it a worthwhile form of protest.
Makes it easy for the TSA to paint people with legitimate grievances as troublemakers. Not to mention that they can state that their rules are fine, and the only delays happen because protesters are purposely causing the efficiency of the process to be degraded.
The problem with this argument is there is no limit to its application. The same concept is the hallmark of state messaging from repressive regimes. Whatever the TSA says it is irrelevent.
If you really want the TSA to go away, you do it by having everyone consider them a waste of time and not giving them scapegoats to pin their failures on.
Waste of time?!? People being felt up to the point of breaking out in tears and scanned by machines which pose unknown risks and you are talking about wasting time? Its what happens to you while in line that I care about not how long you must wait in it.
Sure you did. Once you enter the line you must complete the security scan. You can not say no thank you and turn around. It's a $10,000 fine, too.
LOL the 10k threat and civil suite... Who has actually been sued successfully? Who has paid? (Crickets..)
They're trying to cut down on interference, with the large volume of people at these things, is this not reasonable?
WiFi operates in the "godforsaken" anything goes ISM band. You know that same one used by your Microwave oven?
Any licensed use of bandwidth sure as heck is not going to be effected by WiFi.
If the olympics really is using unlicensed WiFi frequencies to operate the games then the idiots deserve everything they get.
I'm not sure that slowing down airport lines for a protest is the best way to make people mad at the TSA. They're more likely to get mad at you for fucking up their travel plans. Write your damn congresscritter or protest OUTSIDE the security zone, please.
What about going through the security line stating you don't want to be groped or scanned and then turn around and leave?
You didn't break any laws but have the same effect. If enough people did it with insured/refundable tickets a point would be made at several levels. The airlines have bigger lobbying pockets than rape-scan.
What the TSA is allowed to do is sick and discusting. If people are only annoyed by being inconvienced it is really rather difficult for me to to find enough sympathy to care.
What does that have to do with the fact that Android and iOS are vastly more popular than current generation Windows Phone for both users and developers? By breaking backwards compatibility with WP7 apps MS makes it easier to switch to a more popular OS.
Where are people getting this idea? Microsoft is automatically recompiling all WP7 apps to work with WP8 devices. No developer changes, submissions or work of any kind required. ALL WP7 apps will be fully compatible with WP8 on day 1.
We use adwords from time to time and had similar experiences a few years back with the "content network".
We analyzed our stats and even went as far as manually browse access logs. The hits we got were crap just like the sites most of the referrals came from.
There is a huge sesspool of scum on the Internet funded by leeching off ad revenue wherever it exists.
If companies are not on top of it and not careful about how they are spending their advertising dollars this kind of fraud could easily eat into a sizable chunk of their budgets and they might not even know it.
Do your homework before you throw your money away.
We already know Apple pulls apps that compete with their bottom line so why should anyone expect different behavior from ebooks?
The problem in my mind is not really Apple or what apple does or does not do...It is the aggregation of power into the hands of the few with all the financial incentive in the world to leverage to the fullest.
Expecting them not to (ab)use it seems foolishly naive.
I vote with my purchases and encourage others to do the same.
I wish slashdot would exert some editorial control over the attention whoring idiots with nothing substantive to say.
Having sat thru a number of talks at defcon they can be a lot of fun and interesting but rarely educational.
One example few years back a presenter demonstrated MITM attack against windows SMB.
My thought was if there is no machine authentication or data encryption on wire just WTF did anyone expect? The guy didn't discover anything he just implemented what everyone else already knew could be done.
When title says "Research Finds Security Hole" ... it is actually researcher rediscovered what everyone else with domain knowledge already knew.
I suspect a great number of tools can be abused by denying GPS, jamming VHF party line, ranging signals, radars..etc. The point of this system seems to be a safety tool to add situational awareness. It does not "replace" anything it just adds capabilities.
I'm not sure what the point would be of encrypting if half the value of this system is allowing other pilots to see WTF is going on around them.
I would much prefer the system to be insecure and everyone know it then have it be "secure" and people relying on the data without thinking or checking.
Seems to me to just be the avaiation industries equivalent of maritimes AIS with exactly the same issues raised.. AIS never excused anyone from watchkeeping or radar.
You do realize that the less time the CPU or GPU has to spend doing something the more time it can spend idling, thereby consuming less power and producing less heat, so even if the end-result is not visible to the eye it is still a beneficial effect nevertheless. Especially on mobile devices any improvements to battery-life directly translate to end-user satisfaction and better useability.
I'm not convinced. The Nvidia GPU in my computer is constantly consuming dozens of watts by itself while it sits idle doing nothing. The ATI GPU I had before that was actually worse.
Mobile GPUs have much different characteristics yet still keeping more silicon than necessary lit even if reasonably gated does not seem to me to be worth reduced cost vs any insignificant additional CPU offload during the *small* amount of time actual work is being performed contrasted to cost of normal 2d acceleration with less area lit up.
An analogy is building a power budget or power usage spreadsheet for your home. You count what is always on or what is on for a good amount of time. The microwave uses a kw or more while on but only for a few minutes per day. For most people it is not worth your time to include the Microwave as an item in your budget.
To be honest I stopped putting much faith in reviews, blogs and assorted opinions long ago and now test drive software myself
The UI is different, not bad. I have found ways to do everything I did in Win 7 with very little effort. Please ... if you're going to rant endlessly about the UI, one extra click or having something located in a different menu ... get over it and learn to adapt. Software evolves, so should we.
Interesting and somewhat amusing that someone who puts such little faith in the opinions of others should feel the need to offer up their own including going as far as telling people to stop whining and embrace change for changes sake.
I know for sure one thing I will not be getting over is loss of any of my cash due to purchasing "upgrade" to Windows 8.
If the new UI was a better way which improved my life in some way and in return required some time and effort to realize that would be a different matter. This is not true with metro. It was designed for a consumption oriented market and only makes sense for small form factor devices or larger devices without mice and keyboards. Microsoft chose to go with the jarring user experience, they chose to reject user choice for strategic reasons to salvage their mobile market share. They did not do it to make MY life any better. They did it to make their bottom line better.