I think the point he's trying to make is the fact that if no third party apps, it's significantly harder to hack the network. If you can't run any malicious code on a device that connects to the network, you can't connect to the network, and you can't bring down the network. Plus, it stops a malicious 'i-phone virus' from pissing off a large number of consumers. Of course, the actual reason behind this is vendor lock-in and the destruction of VoIP to our evil phony masters, but whatever.
What 'hereditary health problem that is harmful to humans'. I defy you to name a single hereditary, undetectable health problem in cattle that is the slightest bit dangerous. Wait! Wouldn't a defect that hurts humans also hurt/kill the cow? Because we have very similar biologies?
You've obviously never played Phoenix Wright. It's about gathering evidence and defending the innocent, not making general, baseless claims of piracy and bullying single parents into settling out of court for a couple K because there's a good chance that if it goes to court, they'll be a couple hundred thousand in debt after they sell their house. Slight distinction.
The funny thing is, 'Beta' gmail has never crashed on me, and Google Earth is always stable. I can't say that for Windows. I mean, what is that by now? Zeta? Omega? PHI?
Nobody. Women aren't allowed to vote in arkansas! Please. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me they have electricity, running water, civil rights, and high schools down there!
Ah, ah, ah. I see your problem. You seem to think
A: That you can buy it for 350$. You cannot. 600 is almost twice 350! isn't that nice?
B: That you can buy games (as in multiple, meaning two or more) for 100$, when in reality, you could buy one, and maybe like 2/3rds of a second title. Oh, and you'd have to spend that money, because as far as I know, the PS3 doesn't come with a bundled title.
So, 660$ for a system and a single game that you can only play single player because another controller would cost 40$? Hot damn, sign me up!
You know what else is disgusting? Traffic reports! HOW DARE THEY! They care more about people not being inconvenienced than by traffic jams than THE HUMAN LIVES lost in the car accidents. I think they should spend all of their time sending out condolensces to people who died in traffic accidents and spend less time benefiting from this carnage. it's disgusting.
No, wait. The reason traffic accidents make the daily traffic reports and the reason this case made it on slashdot is because it personally effects people. Yes, people dieing sucks, but people die all the time. This particular death is newsworthy because it effects peoples lives.
Oh, and by the way. What's more important? A piece of software that less than.005% of the population has heard of (roughly 30,000 people) or a person that only.0001% of the population have heard of (Assuming she knew about 600 people).
I'm amazed at how little I think of Phantom. I seriously doubt they have the technical and business prowess to make a mousepad, a keyboard, and a hinge... Anyway, it does look kind of cool. I hope they didn't patent anything, so a reputable company can still make a knock-off. Which they could sell for 20$.
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They figured out that something that's expensive, dangerous, incredibly loud, only provides 30 seconds of thrust at best, and weighs about 100 pounds isn't a very good military tool. Go figure, right?
Pacman is popular for exactly the same reason that countless people pay money to see the Mona Lisa. Firstly, it's simplistic, and not filled with greater meaning. Secondly, it's popular/famous, and present in 'popular culture'. If you asked somebody who wasn't into games/art about Gradius/Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, they'd greet you with a blank stare, but mention EVERYONE knows Pacman/Mona Lisa to one extent or another. Thirdly, it's deeply layered. Despite simplistic gameplay/subject matter, there is a rich possibility under the surface. Okay, i'm now officially a giant nerd.
Really? Does password strength on a myspace account actually matter? Do we even know how Myspace stores passwords, and if it uses a hash?
What i'm trying to say is, there are 4 ways to get somebody's password. 1: Physically (wether they wrote it down or torture), 2: guessing, 3: phishing, or 4: cracking. 1 and 3 don't matter how complex your password is, and 2 is impossible if your password is even reletivly complex. So let's examine 4, cracking the hash. Of course, they would need to obtain the hash, so they would have to crack/break into the Myspace servers. Of course, when they're there, they would be idiots if they only stole one password, as it would be a waste of time/money/psuedo criminal behavior. So, crackers steal say, 8 billion myspace accounts (roughly 1/2 of the myspace community). What happens? We get a digg/slashdot story telling us of this, you go change your password, and everyone's happy. Oh, and cracking thousands of 6 character lower case/numeric passwords would still take a fucking eternity.
Because the fat would have to have two big holes in it, through which massive amounts of blood is pumped every minute. It'd be like getting really good insulation on your house, then opening all the windows. It wouldn't stay warm very long.
So what happens when a corrupt CIA/NSA programmer decides that he needs some extra money, spends a couple seconds to write an app to feed data from the CIA fingerprint database, and proceeds to embezzle millions of dollars? It'd be laughably easy to do, as the CIA database probably contains more datapoints/fingerprint than a system a commercial endevour is going to use.
Biometrics are a bad idea if they are the only form of confirmation, the same way the PIN numbers or signatures are laughably weak on their own. However, as an added layer of protection, it seems like a good idea, as long as it isn't mandatory.
No, that's only half-circle. Full circle would be getting back to the good way, where people are paid for their time.
Although, to be fair, going full circle is a good way to describe windows. 10: Programs are slow, because only slow processors exist, and buggy, because there isn't adequate testing time for the OS. while(microsoftHasNoCompetition()){ 20: Bugs get fixed, processors speed up, and everyone is happy. 30: Microsoft releases new OS. OS uses more cpu, slowing down the system, and despite having a monopoly and no competitors, rushes the system out the door (although it's 9 months late), and 9 zero-day (literally) exploits come out. } Personally, I would rather have the next windows be like Duke Nukem Forever, and spend 10 years in development but not be rushed, but that isn't going to happen, because MS really needs the extra untold billions that releasing a new OS (even though it isn't better than the old os) will bring.
The reason everyone hates microsoft is precisely because they're giving away a product that normally costs 500$.
They've built a business model out of charging ridiculous amounts of money for products that aren't worth the installation media they're printed on, and forcing better products to take the back seat.
To put it another way: I wouldn't buy office at full price. I wouldn't buy office for 1.50$. Hell, I wouldn't even download office for free, because better programs exist.
A bag full of shit that's discounted 500$ isn't a deal. On a side note, my Captcha word is ironically 'retail'
So wait. 3 imperial people = 3 metric people? That's awesome! Of course, knowing the metric system, it's probably like 3 imperial humans = 3.2 metric, just enough to screw up things. Stupid Metric system.
Hahaha. This is completely unrelated, but when I first read that, I thought you wrote "they could split off and form The Communist Party of America" In all seriousness, a third party will never succeed in america until a paradigm shift occurs. 90% of conservatives won't vote for them, because George Bush/Ronald Reagan/Generic Republican Figurehead says they are 'bad, and love the gay'. 90% of liberals won't vote for them because 'It's like voting for the lesser of two evils'. 99% of independents won't vote for them because 'it would be throwing my vote away' (which is ironic, because if all the independents voted for 1 person, they would win in a landslide). On a side note, 'cutting taxes and spending, isolationism, no corruption'? All you need is some 'increase personal responsibility/increase personal rights for actions that don't infringe on the rights of others' and you've got Libertarians!
Actually, if you're in the UK, you'd be wondering how this is going to affect the price of "petrol" in "quids" or "euros" or whatever. Wait, wait. Actually, if you're in the UK, you'd probably be using a developed public transit system and fuel efficient car (Oh, Smart, how I love thee). Fuel prices are more expensive over there because the brits aren't so obsessed with outdated personal-transport and SUVs to justify a war to lower the gas prices. but that's just my 2 cents... Or pence, or whatever the hell a 1/100th euro is times 2.
Oh, so now the freedom of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness allows me to fly a plane? So I can just grab a cesna and fly around without a license or a flight plan? Awesome! No, wait, you don't have 'the right to do whatever you want as long as you don't infringe on the rights of others', at least not in the U.S.
Seriously, this isn't that bad.
Everyone is complaining about how 'big brother' this is, or how 'oppressive' this will be. Guess what? The government does this already, and will continue to do it, even if it is made 'illegal' for private use. So which is better, the government spying on you and you being banned from using those spying technologies, or being spied on but being able to spy on the government to make sure they aren't corrupt?
Secondly, Public places are privacy-free. It's just the case that up until this point technology has not been advanced enough to cheaply take away everyone's anonimity. If public places WERE NOT privacy-free, it would be illegal to follow someone (such as a private investigator), take someone's picture (even if they aren't the subject of the picture, just someone in the background), or gossip (You wouldn't believe who I saw walking into CostSaversMart!).
Oh, and by the by, there isn't a right to privacy in the united states constitution. There's a right to privacy while in one's own private property (barring probably cause) in the fourth amendment, but no magical 'right to privacy regardless of what you're doing or where you are, unless you're breaking the law' that you seem to invoke.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have recently created a cure for cancer, diabetes, the common cold, unwanted pregnancy, and why the hell not, alzheimers. And you know what? It's MY decision wether or not i'm 'right'. You people have no right second-guessing my claims! Despite the fact that I have no Scientific evidence, I have anecdotal evidence. And that means anyone who say's i'm a 'crackpot' or a 'whacko' or a 'liar' is just a narrowminded asshole trying to hate on me.
Who is the scientific community to say i'm wrong? Just because my specially patented combination of sucrose and aqua has failed to have any effect (Except for agravating diabetes) in thousands of medical trials that cost billions of dollars doesn't mean it doesn't work! I have evidence from deranged housewives in nebraska that says it does! and the minute, the very minute, that people stop pumping money into my wonderous creation, medicine as we know it will die.
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To use technology to make Kindergartens better would be to make stronger bars for the cages.
I think the point he's trying to make is the fact that if no third party apps, it's significantly harder to hack the network. If you can't run any malicious code on a device that connects to the network, you can't connect to the network, and you can't bring down the network. Plus, it stops a malicious 'i-phone virus' from pissing off a large number of consumers. Of course, the actual reason behind this is vendor lock-in and the destruction of VoIP to our evil phony masters, but whatever.
What 'hereditary health problem that is harmful to humans'. I defy you to name a single hereditary, undetectable health problem in cattle that is the slightest bit dangerous. Wait! Wouldn't a defect that hurts humans also hurt/kill the cow? Because we have very similar biologies?
You've obviously never played Phoenix Wright. It's about gathering evidence and defending the innocent, not making general, baseless claims of piracy and bullying single parents into settling out of court for a couple K because there's a good chance that if it goes to court, they'll be a couple hundred thousand in debt after they sell their house.
Slight distinction.
The funny thing is, 'Beta' gmail has never crashed on me, and Google Earth is always stable. I can't say that for Windows. I mean, what is that by now? Zeta? Omega? PHI?
Nobody. Women aren't allowed to vote in arkansas! Please. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me they have electricity, running water, civil rights, and high schools down there!
Ah, ah, ah. I see your problem. You seem to think A: That you can buy it for 350$. You cannot. 600 is almost twice 350! isn't that nice? B: That you can buy games (as in multiple, meaning two or more) for 100$, when in reality, you could buy one, and maybe like 2/3rds of a second title. Oh, and you'd have to spend that money, because as far as I know, the PS3 doesn't come with a bundled title. So, 660$ for a system and a single game that you can only play single player because another controller would cost 40$? Hot damn, sign me up!
I wouldn't call myself a 'major third-party', however, I would like to make something perfectly clear.
I would like to see Sony fail.
If you want to cite me, it's 'Fullhazard', two Ls, one D.
You know what else is disgusting? Traffic reports! HOW DARE THEY! They care more about people not being inconvenienced than by traffic jams than THE HUMAN LIVES lost in the car accidents. I think they should spend all of their time sending out condolensces to people who died in traffic accidents and spend less time benefiting from this carnage. it's disgusting.
.005% of the population has heard of (roughly 30,000 people) or a person that only .0001% of the population have heard of (Assuming she knew about 600 people).
No, wait. The reason traffic accidents make the daily traffic reports and the reason this case made it on slashdot is because it personally effects people. Yes, people dieing sucks, but people die all the time. This particular death is newsworthy because it effects peoples lives.
Oh, and by the way. What's more important? A piece of software that less than
I'm amazed at how little I think of Phantom. I seriously doubt they have the technical and business prowess to make a mousepad, a keyboard, and a hinge...
Anyway, it does look kind of cool. I hope they didn't patent anything, so a reputable company can still make a knock-off. Which they could sell for 20$.
They figured out that something that's expensive, dangerous, incredibly loud, only provides 30 seconds of thrust at best, and weighs about 100 pounds isn't a very good military tool. Go figure, right?
Pacman is popular for exactly the same reason that countless people pay money to see the Mona Lisa.
Firstly, it's simplistic, and not filled with greater meaning. Secondly, it's popular/famous, and present in 'popular culture'. If you asked somebody who wasn't into games/art about Gradius/Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, they'd greet you with a blank stare, but mention EVERYONE knows Pacman/Mona Lisa to one extent or another. Thirdly, it's deeply layered. Despite simplistic gameplay/subject matter, there is a rich possibility under the surface.
Okay, i'm now officially a giant nerd.
Really? Does password strength on a myspace account actually matter? Do we even know how Myspace stores passwords, and if it uses a hash?
What i'm trying to say is, there are 4 ways to get somebody's password. 1: Physically (wether they wrote it down or torture), 2: guessing, 3: phishing, or 4: cracking. 1 and 3 don't matter how complex your password is, and 2 is impossible if your password is even reletivly complex. So let's examine 4, cracking the hash. Of course, they would need to obtain the hash, so they would have to crack/break into the Myspace servers. Of course, when they're there, they would be idiots if they only stole one password, as it would be a waste of time/money/psuedo criminal behavior. So, crackers steal say, 8 billion myspace accounts (roughly 1/2 of the myspace community). What happens? We get a digg/slashdot story telling us of this, you go change your password, and everyone's happy. Oh, and cracking thousands of 6 character lower case/numeric passwords would still take a fucking eternity.
Except flash memory.
Nah.
They just need to adult it up.
"Saving Private Nemo".
I'm sure they'd win an oscar.
Because the fat would have to have two big holes in it, through which massive amounts of blood is pumped every minute.
It'd be like getting really good insulation on your house, then opening all the windows. It wouldn't stay warm very long.
So what happens when a corrupt CIA/NSA programmer decides that he needs some extra money, spends a couple seconds to write an app to feed data from the CIA fingerprint database, and proceeds to embezzle millions of dollars? It'd be laughably easy to do, as the CIA database probably contains more datapoints/fingerprint than a system a commercial endevour is going to use.
Biometrics are a bad idea if they are the only form of confirmation, the same way the PIN numbers or signatures are laughably weak on their own. However, as an added layer of protection, it seems like a good idea, as long as it isn't mandatory.
No, that's only half-circle. Full circle would be getting back to the good way, where people are paid for their time.
Although, to be fair, going full circle is a good way to describe windows.
10: Programs are slow, because only slow processors exist, and buggy, because there isn't adequate testing time for the OS.
while(microsoftHasNoCompetition()){
20: Bugs get fixed, processors speed up, and everyone is happy.
30: Microsoft releases new OS. OS uses more cpu, slowing down the system, and despite having a monopoly and no competitors, rushes the system out the door (although it's 9 months late), and 9 zero-day (literally) exploits come out.
}
Personally, I would rather have the next windows be like Duke Nukem Forever, and spend 10 years in development but not be rushed, but that isn't going to happen, because MS really needs the extra untold billions that releasing a new OS (even though it isn't better than the old os) will bring.
The reason everyone hates microsoft is precisely because they're giving away a product that normally costs 500$.
They've built a business model out of charging ridiculous amounts of money for products that aren't worth the installation media they're printed on, and forcing better products to take the back seat.
To put it another way: I wouldn't buy office at full price. I wouldn't buy office for 1.50$. Hell, I wouldn't even download office for free, because better programs exist.
A bag full of shit that's discounted 500$ isn't a deal.
On a side note, my Captcha word is ironically 'retail'
So wait. 3 imperial people = 3 metric people? That's awesome! Of course, knowing the metric system, it's probably like 3 imperial humans = 3.2 metric, just enough to screw up things. Stupid Metric system.
Hahaha. This is completely unrelated, but when I first read that, I thought you wrote "they could split off and form The Communist Party of America"
In all seriousness, a third party will never succeed in america until a paradigm shift occurs.
90% of conservatives won't vote for them, because George Bush/Ronald Reagan/Generic Republican Figurehead says they are 'bad, and love the gay'.
90% of liberals won't vote for them because 'It's like voting for the lesser of two evils'.
99% of independents won't vote for them because 'it would be throwing my vote away' (which is ironic, because if all the independents voted for 1 person, they would win in a landslide).
On a side note, 'cutting taxes and spending, isolationism, no corruption'? All you need is some 'increase personal responsibility/increase personal rights for actions that don't infringe on the rights of others' and you've got Libertarians!
Actually, if you're in the UK, you'd be wondering how this is going to affect the price of "petrol" in "quids" or "euros" or whatever.
Wait, wait. Actually, if you're in the UK, you'd probably be using a developed public transit system and fuel efficient car (Oh, Smart, how I love thee).
Fuel prices are more expensive over there because the brits aren't so obsessed with outdated personal-transport and SUVs to justify a war to lower the gas prices. but that's just my 2 cents... Or pence, or whatever the hell a 1/100th euro is times 2.
Oh no! Our children won't have inherent skill at folding money! Their lives as cashiers and tellers are already over! OH THE HUMANITY!
Seriously, physical currency is archaic and useless. 'nuff said.
Oh, so now the freedom of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness allows me to fly a plane? So I can just grab a cesna and fly around without a license or a flight plan? Awesome! No, wait, you don't have 'the right to do whatever you want as long as you don't infringe on the rights of others', at least not in the U.S.
Seriously, this isn't that bad.
Everyone is complaining about how 'big brother' this is, or how 'oppressive' this will be. Guess what? The government does this already, and will continue to do it, even if it is made 'illegal' for private use. So which is better, the government spying on you and you being banned from using those spying technologies, or being spied on but being able to spy on the government to make sure they aren't corrupt?
Secondly, Public places are privacy-free. It's just the case that up until this point technology has not been advanced enough to cheaply take away everyone's anonimity. If public places WERE NOT privacy-free, it would be illegal to follow someone (such as a private investigator), take someone's picture (even if they aren't the subject of the picture, just someone in the background), or gossip (You wouldn't believe who I saw walking into CostSaversMart!).
Oh, and by the by, there isn't a right to privacy in the united states constitution. There's a right to privacy while in one's own private property (barring probably cause) in the fourth amendment, but no magical 'right to privacy regardless of what you're doing or where you are, unless you're breaking the law' that you seem to invoke.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have recently created a cure for cancer, diabetes, the common cold, unwanted pregnancy, and why the hell not, alzheimers. And you know what? It's MY decision wether or not i'm 'right'. You people have no right second-guessing my claims! Despite the fact that I have no Scientific evidence, I have anecdotal evidence. And that means anyone who say's i'm a 'crackpot' or a 'whacko' or a 'liar' is just a narrowminded asshole trying to hate on me.
Who is the scientific community to say i'm wrong? Just because my specially patented combination of sucrose and aqua has failed to have any effect (Except for agravating diabetes) in thousands of medical trials that cost billions of dollars doesn't mean it doesn't work! I have evidence from deranged housewives in nebraska that says it does! and the minute, the very minute, that people stop pumping money into my wonderous creation, medicine as we know it will die.
Just paraphrasing your post.