Good grief you are paranoid. People spread misinformation and lies about my department on a daily basis. No one cares. You really think some information of questionable validity about some local agency is going to result in a super-secret national alliance of corrupt local agency hit squad coming to find you and search your mom's basement only to have any evidence obtained thrown out for a 4th amendment violation? You watch too many movies, dude.
This is why it's almost pointless to ask a question on Slashdot. You get 100s of replies in a 50/50 distribution of random tech-word ramblings and flat out useless contempt, leaving you feeling stupid and your question unanswered.
Considering they all have, no. However, a brand new OS that can take advantage of all the latest hardware acceleration and other goodies plus scale back and run (still with a full GUI and graphic effects) on a slow 1.0 Ghz processor with 1GB of memory is indeed impressive.
That's completely wrong btw. It is based on the Vista kernel but make no mistake. It is a new OS. There are a number of early tests on the beta and it is clearly much faster than Vista. They even demoed it on an Eee PC with 1 gig of RAM and it ran like a champ.
Haha I am not going to spell it out for you but I will say one thing: Your idea of *proof* being based on your own warped views is truly frightening. You should also really make an effort to formulate coherent posts. You're all over the place. Upon reviewing your other comments, I see this is a trend with you. Your flamebait rated ramblings confirmed my early suspicions of you simply being a cantankerous curmudgeon not worthy of any effort or intelligent debate. Don't bother risking building up an calluses on those fingertips by replying. I won't be reading it.
Remove foil hat. I think you are overheating.
Actually, I do protect and defend America right here on her streets, staving off its fall into lawlessness and anarchy for as long as possible but I have no doubt latte liberals like you would consider me the enemy or, at the very least, a mere tool for the "American Taliban" as you so succinctly put it. Someone like you calling me delusional or cowardly as you likely sit comfortably in your plush chair in a quiet American suburb is the purest form of irony.
Have a fantastic day.
"You can bet that they're going to kill any app that enables tethering, or VoIP calls; the phone is totally open, as long as you don't compete with T-Mobile's other (profitable) services. Sounds more and more like the iPhone store."
The beginning of your statement started out as a guess and then ended as a statement of fact. It happens to be completely wrong.
When asked about this specifically, T-Mobile big wigs already said they would not pull anything (including tethering apps) from the market place just because they don't endorse it. This isn't Apple we are talking about here. This "kill switch" is being blown out of proportion. It's needed in order to remove blatant malware. They have also been completely clear that even if something is not available on the market, there is no restriction in place to prevent you from obtaining any app directly from the developer or elsewhere and installing it via your computer.
You are on the right track here but you have to remember that NDAs are civil. If you violate one, you get sued, not arrested. The amendments deal with the government prosecuting you (criminal). Those two court systems are isolated and your amendment rights dont carry over. If the government tried to sue you into forcing you to be silent about something, that would raise some really interesting questions.
This is all your opinion. I never said I disagreed with this view (and I don't) but believing it simply doesn't make it so. The amendments are very specific as to the fact they are designed to protect your rights from the government. Period. That has nothing at all to do with AT&T doing whatever they want with their service to use your example. If you don't like them, you go to someone else. That is your right.
Just because it is NOT enumerated in the bill of rights does NOT mean the right does not exist.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much exactly what it means. Also, dont confuse civil court (contracts, litigation) with criminal court (being arrested for civil dissidence).
Ugh... This has nothing to do with free speech. The 1st amendment ONLY applies to the government infringing on your rights. That goes for the rest of the bill of rights as well. I am so sick of this "free speech!" catch all everyone uses anytime they aren't allowed to do something. Unless you are being charged with a crime, it's irrelevant.
"This must be editorial bias, no other explanation is possible."
Considering the editor is forming an opinion on a topic in which no one except can really know the truth about, yes.
Considering the writer is a clear Apple fanboy who has never seen or tested the Android OS or the new device, it cant be called a review. It's simply the author hoping it doesnt burst his iPhone bubble.
International lines may be federally subsidized (I will take your word) because there is an interest in international communications but that has nothing to do with how fast our national infrastructure and your home connection are. The transient effect of the war > economy > private industry > network providers is also debatable. We were far behind Japan and others long before the war started.
Thats fantastic and all but one has zero to do with the other. Federal defense spending has jack squat to do with private corporations upgrading the service they provide. Thats like saying "If all the money spent on Iraq had been spent on funding Samsung R&D, we'd have 10000080P TVs zOMG Obama ftw!!1!"
Honestly, there is no reasonable means for everyone from the board of directors down to the janitors and shareholders (especially those that are only indirectly invested through various funds) to ensure something like this. Joe employee isn't even privy to any shady moves the suits upstairs may be performing until it is too late. Expecting this kind of internal self-regulation checksum to work is pretty ridiculous.
Perhaps we should institute full-blown racial profiling as an official national policy and tell all the innocents to just deal with it. If they don't like constant raids and shakedowns, they can root out the small percentage of troublemakers themselves to ensure everyone stays in line. How's that sound?
Brilliant idea! Let's have all the other innocent employees lose their jobs, pension, and benefits and put loads of extra stress on social services like unemployment! We also get to take the economic hit when all the sharehoders lose their investments - Woo hoo! What is your name? I would like to write you on the ballot when I vote for president.
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Good grief you are paranoid. People spread misinformation and lies about my department on a daily basis. No one cares. You really think some information of questionable validity about some local agency is going to result in a super-secret national alliance of corrupt local agency hit squad coming to find you and search your mom's basement only to have any evidence obtained thrown out for a 4th amendment violation? You watch too many movies, dude.
This is why it's almost pointless to ask a question on Slashdot. You get 100s of replies in a 50/50 distribution of random tech-word ramblings and flat out useless contempt, leaving you feeling stupid and your question unanswered.
Considering they all have, no. However, a brand new OS that can take advantage of all the latest hardware acceleration and other goodies plus scale back and run (still with a full GUI and graphic effects) on a slow 1.0 Ghz processor with 1GB of memory is indeed impressive.
That's completely wrong btw. It is based on the Vista kernel but make no mistake. It is a new OS. There are a number of early tests on the beta and it is clearly much faster than Vista. They even demoed it on an Eee PC with 1 gig of RAM and it ran like a champ.
Vmotion ftw!
Haha I am not going to spell it out for you but I will say one thing: Your idea of *proof* being based on your own warped views is truly frightening. You should also really make an effort to formulate coherent posts. You're all over the place. Upon reviewing your other comments, I see this is a trend with you. Your flamebait rated ramblings confirmed my early suspicions of you simply being a cantankerous curmudgeon not worthy of any effort or intelligent debate. Don't bother risking building up an calluses on those fingertips by replying. I won't be reading it.
Remove foil hat. I think you are overheating. Actually, I do protect and defend America right here on her streets, staving off its fall into lawlessness and anarchy for as long as possible but I have no doubt latte liberals like you would consider me the enemy or, at the very least, a mere tool for the "American Taliban" as you so succinctly put it. Someone like you calling me delusional or cowardly as you likely sit comfortably in your plush chair in a quiet American suburb is the purest form of irony. Have a fantastic day.
For all the hipsters here in the states that whine about this being a police state anytime some real criminal gets tased, please see above article.
"You can bet that they're going to kill any app that enables tethering, or VoIP calls; the phone is totally open, as long as you don't compete with T-Mobile's other (profitable) services. Sounds more and more like the iPhone store." The beginning of your statement started out as a guess and then ended as a statement of fact. It happens to be completely wrong. When asked about this specifically, T-Mobile big wigs already said they would not pull anything (including tethering apps) from the market place just because they don't endorse it. This isn't Apple we are talking about here. This "kill switch" is being blown out of proportion. It's needed in order to remove blatant malware. They have also been completely clear that even if something is not available on the market, there is no restriction in place to prevent you from obtaining any app directly from the developer or elsewhere and installing it via your computer.
You are on the right track here but you have to remember that NDAs are civil. If you violate one, you get sued, not arrested. The amendments deal with the government prosecuting you (criminal). Those two court systems are isolated and your amendment rights dont carry over. If the government tried to sue you into forcing you to be silent about something, that would raise some really interesting questions.
This is all your opinion. I never said I disagreed with this view (and I don't) but believing it simply doesn't make it so. The amendments are very specific as to the fact they are designed to protect your rights from the government. Period. That has nothing at all to do with AT&T doing whatever they want with their service to use your example. If you don't like them, you go to someone else. That is your right.
Just because it is NOT enumerated in the bill of rights does NOT mean the right does not exist. Unfortunately, that's pretty much exactly what it means. Also, dont confuse civil court (contracts, litigation) with criminal court (being arrested for civil dissidence).
Ugh... This has nothing to do with free speech. The 1st amendment ONLY applies to the government infringing on your rights. That goes for the rest of the bill of rights as well. I am so sick of this "free speech!" catch all everyone uses anytime they aren't allowed to do something. Unless you are being charged with a crime, it's irrelevant.
Are we sure this is from Australia and not "Borecelona"?
I guess they turned up their LHC to 11.
When your optics are focused at 11tybillion miles, lens artifacts are not visible/in focus. Even if they were, they do not self-illuminate.
"This must be editorial bias, no other explanation is possible." Considering the editor is forming an opinion on a topic in which no one except can really know the truth about, yes.
Considering the writer is a clear Apple fanboy who has never seen or tested the Android OS or the new device, it cant be called a review. It's simply the author hoping it doesnt burst his iPhone bubble.
As do I. Full of shit about what exactly?
"...until the economy gets better I doubt we will see much expansion of the existing infrastructure." Sad but true =\
International lines may be federally subsidized (I will take your word) because there is an interest in international communications but that has nothing to do with how fast our national infrastructure and your home connection are. The transient effect of the war > economy > private industry > network providers is also debatable. We were far behind Japan and others long before the war started.
Eventually? Spend much time in Southern California?
Thats fantastic and all but one has zero to do with the other. Federal defense spending has jack squat to do with private corporations upgrading the service they provide. Thats like saying "If all the money spent on Iraq had been spent on funding Samsung R&D, we'd have 10000080P TVs zOMG Obama ftw!!1!"
Honestly, there is no reasonable means for everyone from the board of directors down to the janitors and shareholders (especially those that are only indirectly invested through various funds) to ensure something like this. Joe employee isn't even privy to any shady moves the suits upstairs may be performing until it is too late. Expecting this kind of internal self-regulation checksum to work is pretty ridiculous. Perhaps we should institute full-blown racial profiling as an official national policy and tell all the innocents to just deal with it. If they don't like constant raids and shakedowns, they can root out the small percentage of troublemakers themselves to ensure everyone stays in line. How's that sound?
Brilliant idea! Let's have all the other innocent employees lose their jobs, pension, and benefits and put loads of extra stress on social services like unemployment! We also get to take the economic hit when all the sharehoders lose their investments - Woo hoo! What is your name? I would like to write you on the ballot when I vote for president.