Not entirely anecdotal. When my S3 died it simply turned off and never turned back on. When I searched Google I found lots of other people had the same problem with the S3. Not necessarily everybody... plenty of people love their S3s and have no problem but this particular failure mode happens to the S3 far more than is usual for other models.
Since we are talking about Samsung developing software I must say I don't know if the problem with the S3 is hardware or software related. It sure seems like a hardware problem but then again.. there is software involved in pretty much every stage of a modern smartphone turning on. Maybe there can be some sort of firmware issue causing this.. I don't know.
As for the Strat... the internet is full of negative reviews for it and the problems in this case are software related.
I don't know how these compare to actual embryonic stem cells but there are services that take stem cells from the umbilical chord at birth. We wanted to do this for my daughter when she was born a few years ago. Unfortunately the cost of storage was too high. I believe they are stored in liquid nitrogen until they are needed.. x number of decades later.
Wouldn't it be awesome if our dna could be sequenced, stored digitally and then reconstituted into new stem cells as needed by a machine? Then again... unless you wanted to grow a twin after the original body is completely gone I suppose with that kind of technology you could just use an adult cell at the time it is needed and skip that whole storage stage.
My gut reaction to this was that the government is going to a new level in criminalizing information. Very scary!
Then I read this: "The agents then posed as people connected to a drug trafficker and as a correctional officer who'd smuggled drugs into a jail and had received sexual favors from an underaged girl."
That's pretty dumb. If they told him this was why they wanted to fool a polygraph and he still went through with teaching them then I can totally see how they can prosecute. He was attempting to help people get away with crime.
If I were teaching something like this I would at least try to cover my own ass. He should have started the class with some sort of disclaimer explaining that the effectiveness of polygraph tests is debated as are the efectiveness of techiques for beating them. This class is offered only for entertainment purposes or some BS like that. Maybe he could even make them sign something saying that they will not attempt to use this knowlege for criminal activity. Even if he KNEW criminal activity was the main reason people would pay him and he didn't care he could still make them sign that. What does someone trying to get away with something care about signing a promise not to? What is going to happen, extra prison time for breaking their promise to the teacher? hardly!
Finally, he should have had an unwritten, unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" policy for how people wanted to use their new polygraph defeating ability. The moment someone opens their big fat mouth about comitting a crime... refund their money and show them the door. It isn't worth prison time, go find another student.
I figure they are just looking for a fall guy. Why shouldn't Obama let him go (with a nice severance no doubt) and just bring in his next yes-man? How hard can that be? Even if he can ignore congress, why play that card here?
This is obviously all BS anyway. These programs have been over the top since well before 2010! Either Congress has been complicit all along or they are very naive and he was hardly the first or only person to lie to them. In that case why single him out as opposed to cleaning house? My guess, Congress has been complicit with everything but they had these guys 'lying' to them for plausible deniability if the public ever became interested.
As a kid my family and school took me on many trips to the Henry Ford museum/Greenfield Village. The museum is full of old technology, some of it even operational. For example, I remember trying to use morse code on a telegraph made with real antique keys/sounders with my Grandpa once. The village is a bunch of old buildings you can walk around with exhibits of how people used to live in various times.
Today I love technology and I love to build/repair/hack things. I think my visits to the museum/village as a kid were an important part of this. That old tech was much easier to understand, you could see how things worked just by looking at them. That taught me that technology is NOT a bunch of magic black boxes, it is something I can comprehend and even alter as a normal human being.
Millions in lost revenue? Really? I don't believe that people who settle for downloading a crappy bootleg copy of a movie recorded using a cell camera in a theatre were ever going to pay for a movie ticket and/or a DVD anyway.
I don't doubt that many people will download it. Mostly that is going to be either to see it before the studio releases it in a certain area or because they are too cheap and/or unable to pay for it anyway.
The difference in quality is just too much. I don't think any level of advanced technology is going to change this either. Even with a gazillion megapxels, how do you keep a camera perfectly still without puting it on a tripod where it will be REALLY obvious to everyone what you are doing? How do you get multi-channel audio from one seat in a theatre? How do you filter out people's heads that block part of the screen, people getting up in the middle of the movie to use the bathroom, all the other noises in the room, etc.....
Actually I take it all back... You said millions lost to the industry. Yeah, the industry as a whole (not one movie) probably does lose millions to piracy. That's an industry that makes BILLIONS! Am I saying it is ok to steal from them just because they have so much? No. But things happen (good or bad) in percentages. Anything having any affect on an industry moving billions of dollars is probably going to change that amount by millions. Similarly, if you are making 10s of thousands of dollars per year yourself bad and good things totalling up to 1,000s of dollars are likely to happen to you each year. If the movie industry is loosing millions then big deal. That's probably 50 cents here, $1 there all multiplied and spread out into a whole lot of places. They probably make or lose billions every time a cricket farts or a butterfly flaps it's wings in Hollywood.
Covered losses? Have you ever actually owned a home?
You make it sound like a burglary victim is unharmed. First off, there are deductibles, usually at least 1 or 2 thousand dollars. Second, make a claim on your insurance and it will go up. If the company doesn't just drop you that is. Usually, unless your home is completely stripped you are better off in the long run just repairing the damage yourself and going without whatever the thief took until you can afford to replace it yourself.
I was complaining about 'rich guys' who can afford to make large campaign contributions and send lobyists to Washington (such as movie companes do) getting federal laws passed that apply specifically to stealing from them so that the FBI will harass some guy who didn't even do anything for hours because he 'might' have made a really crappy recording of their movie vs a regular person getting their home broken into and all the local police do is write down a little information and drop the matter.
I didn't say anything about taxes, handouts or any of that crap you just brought up.
I can't remember the last time I mistook someone on their phones as trying to start a conversation with me. Yeah, I can vaguely remember that it happened a few times back in the 90s when bluetooth earpieces first started becoming popular. For a while I remember thinking it was strange seeing all these people talking to themselves, like being in an insane asylum. Then I got used to it and over it... a long time ago!
Who do you expect social interaction from at a checkout counter? Do you expect to talk to other people waiting in line? If so where are you from? That must be a much more friendly culture then where I live for sure!! I for one don't expect or want to talk to the strangers in line with me, I just want to get my stuff and leave! Or is the cashier not talking to you because he/she is on the phone? That's another issue entirely, best solved by firing the cashier!
As for the recording thing... like I think I already explained. It's time for people to GET OVER IT.
Why am I reading the term 'Glass Hole' so many times on a site that calls itself 'news for nerds'?
Of course people are going to wear Google Glass in a movie theater, while driving, etc.... It's not a desktop computer that stays at home it's a wearable device. Isn't the whole point of a wearable device that it becomes like 'a part of you'? Google Glass is just a small stepping stone anyway. Our kids and/or grandchildren aren't going to be wearing these things they are going to have implants that CAN'T be taken off. Personally I can't wait! It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that this is our feature. We are human, that is how humans work! http://www.livescience.com/966... I'm sure I have seen this here, don't you people even read the articles linked to from this site? It's funny how so many people here came out in support of Kevin Warwick and yet Glass users get called GlassHoles. I guess everything is great until someone tries to take it mainstream?
What's to be afraid of anyway? The death of the movie industry? Please... how many people who would have paid for a movie ticket (a true theatre experience) or even bought a DVD/BluRay disc are going to settle for a crappy cell cam bootleg instead? If anything the bootleg is free advertising, that's about it. I thought at least on this site we were supposed to know this already!
Worried about privacy? Why? Nobody is suggesting we allow people to come into our homes and record our private lives without an invitation! So what if someone snaps your picture in a public place and puts it online? Big deal, people have always had eyes, brains and mouths. If you do something stupid people will see it, people will remember it and people will talk. Nothing has really changed and nothing ever will. Besides... there are cameras just about EVERYWHERE now! If they aren't in people's hands or on their faces they are mounted on the wall, on a pole, etc.... Get over it, it's 2014 and that's just how it is!
Don't like people talking/texting in your presence? First of all... get over yourself! Just because you have a pet peeve doesn't mean everyone else should have to alter their behavior and certainly doesn't mean rules/laws should be passed! Nothing is new here anyway. Have you never seen two people walking down the sidewalk/isle of a store/ etc... having a conversation that you are NOT a part of? That is the exact same thing as someone on a phone, it's NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! Just go about your lives and everyone else will go about their's. This is a great thing we will be seeing with more wearable tech and what comes after. It will be less conspicuous. Busy bodies can stuff it, maybe go pay some attention to their own pathetic lives for once.
Of course there may seem to be special cases. I can understand someone taking exception to someone holding up a line because it is their turn and they won't stop talking on the phone or something like that. Again, that is no special and unique problem, it is no different than if someone held up a line because they wouldn't stop a conversation they were having with someone else in that line. Business owners should be asking people to step aside and let the line move or maybe just asking them to leave. If that doesn't happen it is a fault of our 'customer is always right', 'gotta make every customer happy' society, It's not a fault of the technology.
And I don't even have Google Glass... Anybody want to buy/give me a pair?
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Not entirely anecdotal. When my S3 died it simply turned off and never turned back on. When I searched Google I found lots of other people had the same problem with the S3. Not necessarily everybody... plenty of people love their S3s and have no problem but this particular failure mode happens to the S3 far more than is usual for other models.
Since we are talking about Samsung developing software I must say I don't know if the problem with the S3 is hardware or software related. It sure seems like a hardware problem but then again.. there is software involved in pretty much every stage of a modern smartphone turning on. Maybe there can be some sort of firmware issue causing this.. I don't know.
As for the Strat... the internet is full of negative reviews for it and the problems in this case are software related.
I don't know how these compare to actual embryonic stem cells but there are services that take stem cells from the umbilical chord at birth. We wanted to do this for my daughter when she was born a few years ago. Unfortunately the cost of storage was too high. I believe they are stored in liquid nitrogen until they are needed.. x number of decades later.
Wouldn't it be awesome if our dna could be sequenced, stored digitally and then reconstituted into new stem cells as needed by a machine? Then again... unless you wanted to grow a twin after the original body is completely gone I suppose with that kind of technology you could just use an adult cell at the time it is needed and skip that whole storage stage.
I would certainly prefer a treatment made with my own cells, with my own DNA over one made from some embryo.
I had a Samsung Stratosphere. It ran like shit!!!!
Then I got an SIII. It worked for about a week.
Now I have a Motorola phone. Ah.... Much better!
If Samsung can't even make Android, which someone else has already done most of the coding for run well how are they going to make their own OS?!?!
AMD SkyNet!!!!
My gut reaction to this was that the government is going to a new level in criminalizing information. Very scary!
Then I read this: "The agents then posed as people connected to a drug trafficker and as a correctional officer who'd smuggled drugs into a jail and had received sexual favors from an underaged girl."
That's pretty dumb. If they told him this was why they wanted to fool a polygraph and he still went through with teaching them then I can totally see how they can prosecute. He was attempting to help people get away with crime.
If I were teaching something like this I would at least try to cover my own ass. He should have started the class with some sort of disclaimer explaining that the effectiveness of polygraph tests is debated as are the efectiveness of techiques for beating them. This class is offered only for entertainment purposes or some BS like that. Maybe he could even make them sign something saying that they will not attempt to use this knowlege for criminal activity. Even if he KNEW criminal activity was the main reason people would pay him and he didn't care he could still make them sign that. What does someone trying to get away with something care about signing a promise not to? What is going to happen, extra prison time for breaking their promise to the teacher? hardly!
Finally, he should have had an unwritten, unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" policy for how people wanted to use their new polygraph defeating ability. The moment someone opens their big fat mouth about comitting a crime... refund their money and show them the door. It isn't worth prison time, go find another student.
Dumb Ass!
That's nothing! If you use the words yack, rubber hose, lube and Deborah Fienstein in a sentence the NSA's LOVEINT department starts tracking you.
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Well Said!!
Maybe.
I figure they are just looking for a fall guy. Why shouldn't Obama let him go (with a nice severance no doubt) and just bring in his next yes-man? How hard can that be? Even if he can ignore congress, why play that card here?
This is obviously all BS anyway. These programs have been over the top since well before 2010! Either Congress has been complicit all along or they are very naive and he was hardly the first or only person to lie to them. In that case why single him out as opposed to cleaning house? My guess, Congress has been complicit with everything but they had these guys 'lying' to them for plausible deniability if the public ever became interested.
And that's an excuse to make the moves that actually ARE wrong?
As a kid my family and school took me on many trips to the Henry Ford museum/Greenfield Village. The museum is full of old technology, some of it even operational. For example, I remember trying to use morse code on a telegraph made with real antique keys/sounders with my Grandpa once. The village is a bunch of old buildings you can walk around with exhibits of how people used to live in various times.
Today I love technology and I love to build/repair/hack things. I think my visits to the museum/village as a kid were an important part of this. That old tech was much easier to understand, you could see how things worked just by looking at them. That taught me that technology is NOT a bunch of magic black boxes, it is something I can comprehend and even alter as a normal human being.
That depends on the state.
It takes money to start a business. How is someone making LESS than the current minimum wage going to do that?
I think you would be correct in a perfect world where patents were actually working as intended however reality is far different.
Respect them all. They have the power to have you killed. Like none of them. Their corruption is killing and ruining people's lives.
Maybe but that's $33,500 in the clear with no worry about getting caught and consequences.
Nah, there is more than enough hot air in the EU to push US smog back west.
Millions in lost revenue? Really? I don't believe that people who settle for downloading a crappy bootleg copy of a movie recorded using a cell camera in a theatre were ever going to pay for a movie ticket and/or a DVD anyway.
I don't doubt that many people will download it. Mostly that is going to be either to see it before the studio releases it in a certain area or because they are too cheap and/or unable to pay for it anyway.
The difference in quality is just too much. I don't think any level of advanced technology is going to change this either. Even with a gazillion megapxels, how do you keep a camera perfectly still without puting it on a tripod where it will be REALLY obvious to everyone what you are doing? How do you get multi-channel audio from one seat in a theatre? How do you filter out people's heads that block part of the screen, people getting up in the middle of the movie to use the bathroom, all the other noises in the room, etc.....
Actually I take it all back... You said millions lost to the industry. Yeah, the industry as a whole (not one movie) probably does lose millions to piracy. That's an industry that makes BILLIONS! Am I saying it is ok to steal from them just because they have so much? No. But things happen (good or bad) in percentages. Anything having any affect on an industry moving billions of dollars is probably going to change that amount by millions. Similarly, if you are making 10s of thousands of dollars per year yourself bad and good things totalling up to 1,000s of dollars are likely to happen to you each year. If the movie industry is loosing millions then big deal. That's probably 50 cents here, $1 there all multiplied and spread out into a whole lot of places. They probably make or lose billions every time a cricket farts or a butterfly flaps it's wings in Hollywood.
Covered losses? Have you ever actually owned a home?
You make it sound like a burglary victim is unharmed. First off, there are deductibles, usually at least 1 or 2 thousand dollars. Second, make a claim on your insurance and it will go up. If the company doesn't just drop you that is. Usually, unless your home is completely stripped you are better off in the long run just repairing the damage yourself and going without whatever the thief took until you can afford to replace it yourself.
Yes... I've been there. It sucks.
I was complaining about 'rich guys' who can afford to make large campaign contributions and send lobyists to Washington (such as movie companes do) getting federal laws passed that apply specifically to stealing from them so that the FBI will harass some guy who didn't even do anything for hours because he 'might' have made a really crappy recording of their movie vs a regular person getting their home broken into and all the local police do is write down a little information and drop the matter.
I didn't say anything about taxes, handouts or any of that crap you just brought up.
I can't remember the last time I mistook someone on their phones as trying to start a conversation with me. Yeah, I can vaguely remember that it happened a few times back in the 90s when bluetooth earpieces first started becoming popular. For a while I remember thinking it was strange seeing all these people talking to themselves, like being in an insane asylum. Then I got used to it and over it... a long time ago!
Who do you expect social interaction from at a checkout counter? Do you expect to talk to other people waiting in line? If so where are you from? That must be a much more friendly culture then where I live for sure!! I for one don't expect or want to talk to the strangers in line with me, I just want to get my stuff and leave! Or is the cashier not talking to you because he/she is on the phone? That's another issue entirely, best solved by firing the cashier!
As for the recording thing... like I think I already explained. It's time for people to GET OVER IT.
Why am I reading the term 'Glass Hole' so many times on a site that calls itself 'news for nerds'?
Of course people are going to wear Google Glass in a movie theater, while driving, etc.... It's not a desktop computer that stays at home it's a wearable device. Isn't the whole point of a wearable device that it becomes like 'a part of you'? Google Glass is just a small stepping stone anyway. Our kids and/or grandchildren aren't going to be wearing these things they are going to have implants that CAN'T be taken off. Personally I can't wait! It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that this is our feature. We are human, that is how humans work! http://www.livescience.com/966... I'm sure I have seen this here, don't you people even read the articles linked to from this site? It's funny how so many people here came out in support of Kevin Warwick and yet Glass users get called GlassHoles. I guess everything is great until someone tries to take it mainstream?
What's to be afraid of anyway? The death of the movie industry? Please... how many people who would have paid for a movie ticket (a true theatre experience) or even bought a DVD/BluRay disc are going to settle for a crappy cell cam bootleg instead? If anything the bootleg is free advertising, that's about it. I thought at least on this site we were supposed to know this already!
Worried about privacy? Why? Nobody is suggesting we allow people to come into our homes and record our private lives without an invitation! So what if someone snaps your picture in a public place and puts it online? Big deal, people have always had eyes, brains and mouths. If you do something stupid people will see it, people will remember it and people will talk. Nothing has really changed and nothing ever will. Besides... there are cameras just about EVERYWHERE now! If they aren't in people's hands or on their faces they are mounted on the wall, on a pole, etc.... Get over it, it's 2014 and that's just how it is!
Don't like people talking/texting in your presence? First of all... get over yourself! Just because you have a pet peeve doesn't mean everyone else should have to alter their behavior and certainly doesn't mean rules/laws should be passed! Nothing is new here anyway. Have you never seen two people walking down the sidewalk/isle of a store/ etc... having a conversation that you are NOT a part of? That is the exact same thing as someone on a phone, it's NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS! Just go about your lives and everyone else will go about their's. This is a great thing we will be seeing with more wearable tech and what comes after. It will be less conspicuous. Busy bodies can stuff it, maybe go pay some attention to their own pathetic lives for once.
Of course there may seem to be special cases. I can understand someone taking exception to someone holding up a line because it is their turn and they won't stop talking on the phone or something like that. Again, that is no special and unique problem, it is no different than if someone held up a line because they wouldn't stop a conversation they were having with someone else in that line. Business owners should be asking people to step aside and let the line move or maybe just asking them to leave. If that doesn't happen it is a fault of our 'customer is always right', 'gotta make every customer happy' society, It's not a fault of the technology.
And I don't even have Google Glass... Anybody want to buy/give me a pair?
Yeah, it does. Protect a few rich guys bonuses while allowing normal individuals to be financially broken by thieves.
True but it's likely closer to what she actually saw. If she actually saw anything at all that is...
That would be quite an improvement. Probably better than them electing a new one actually!
Or in the day. It's usually white or grey where I live.