By throttling certain services, turning off certain capabilities, and allowing remote provisioning management, Apple is making sure that the device they are providing to the users who aren't cut off will work and continue to work on the network.
ECOLOGICAL THREAT
Cogon grass can invade and overtake disturbed ecosystems, forming a dense mat of thatch and leaves that makes it nearly impossible for other plants to coexist. Large infestations of cogon grass can alter the normal fire regime of a fire-driven ecosystem by causing more frequent and intense fires that injure or destroy native plants. Cogon grass displaces a large variety of native plant species used by native animals (e.g., insects, mammals, and birds) as forage, host plants and shelter. Some ground-nesting species have also been known to be displaced due to the dense cover that cogon grass creates.
Also, it won't just stay together in a patch but it reaches out. WP dixit:
It spreads both through small seeds, which are easily carried by the wind, and rhizomes which can be transported by tilling equipment and in soil transport.
Then they'd be more concerned about staying in office and getting their peers elected by the populace than about efficiency (or, as you call it, governance) and forward thinking. In a word, they become politicians and we're back at The Proverbial Square One.
One day out of the year taken out to say you're sorry for things you didn't to, apologizing to people who didn't have it done to them, but some generations ago. What the hell is the point of that?
Well, several people around the globe are apparently fond of going through old stuff, like guys dead long ago fighting to relieve themselves and a bunch of other people we never met of some nasty rulers that did nothing to us. It's mostly a sentimental thing, agreed.
As for a practical point, is this good enough?
it establishes a serious precedent that such things are wrong and should not happen again
I also thought it's nice of the guv't to say "what the previous administrations did to your great-grandaddies was just wrong - let's make nice" to the living descendants; beats "hell yeah we won, we're #1" in my book.
Someone mod parent up. Of course an apology is an acknowledgement of wrongdoing by an organization, plus it establishes a serious precedent that such things are wrong and should not happen again.
You may also read about the Sorry Day in Australia.
Plus all these phones have GPS in them these days.It won't be long before they know you were doing 60 mph when you sent that message.
Assuming that the phone logged your position/speed, which it normally doesn't. Also, what do you mean by "all these phones"? GPS is (still) far from ubiquitous.
The other proposition (records of a message sent shortly before the crash) may be useful for a lot of cases. All you need to do is time the crash decently, and telco records are good enough.
Yup, that seems to be the sensible, prevailing line of thought. I wonder what about driving when knowing you've not slept enough, or crashing because you were checking your makeup in the rear view mirror (and were spotted somehow). There are plenty of irresponsible choices that constitute gross negligence.
Come to think of it, when hard drives became widespread, binary units had been in use for a long time for RAM and the custom stuck. Plus, space is allocated in 256/512 byte blocks to make loading/unloading into RAM so much easier.
Don't think I'm getting political if I point out that a Black Hawk helicopter costs 6 M$ just to build, and a missed/practice shot with a Tomahawk means 500 grands thrown into a mountain somewhere. So, if the DoT bets 100 grands or a million or two to a bold idea that might yield some new techniques even if it doesn't fully deliver, I'd say go for it!
Glass is not necessarily smooth and slippery as we have it in window panes, y'know. In fact, I guess a gritty or grooved texture would be even grabbier than asphalt, due to it's hardness. As for shards, I'm guessing tempering and/or scoring would control the size and shape of fragments, much like in windshields. Hey, why not add a layer of plastic to keep the little pieces together?
Glass as in your window or tabletop is slippery when wet only because it's smooth. It's not hard to imagine a texture grabby enough for tires: gritty like sandpaper, or a micro version of the "diamond" plate used in industrial catwalks.
Further, since it would be on the bottom of a mold at the factory, the pattern could be made quite deep so it'd take longer for it to wear down (plus glass is harder than asphalt or even concrete). Add the right grooves for drainage, and you're set. The only remaining problem is resiliency so it won't shatter when a semi truck eventually loses control and rolls on it.
The OP means several other, later demonstrations that have been quelled rather nastily. First listen to him publicly ordering his defense and interior ministers to "gas them with the good stuff", take a look at this. Allegedly a few demonstrators started by throwing rocks and bottles at the cops, but there's not a single video of what happened before the gas canisters and rubber bullets flew (sadly, the camera from the official TV station looked away from the frontline just when it's supposed to have happened).
This may make you reconsider (you may need a translator). Bet you don't know this one: after his party lost the mayorship of Caracas, he "asked" the parliament (roughly 90% unquestioningly loyal, 10% ocassionally critical sympathizers) to pass a law transferring most of the attributions of that office to a new "Head of Government" appointed by the president without need for confirmation. Here's the nice part: he didn't wait for the legal term of the mayor to end - he named one right away, regardless of the people's will as expressed when they voted.
Please take some time to look beyond the "he's leftist, anti-US, pro-worker" oversimplification that prevails outside the country - it's more of a persona that fulfills a well-liked stereotype. Back in '98 he flatly denied being a socialist or nationalizing anything, later he starting denouncing "neoliberalism", then "savage capitalism", now he won't stop talking about socialism and expropriating factories, farms and even a major bank. All the while, all the unfulfilled promises have been blamed on either the CIA, local and foreign oligarchies, and the 40 years under a two-party system before him (never mind it's been 10 years of that).
But don't believe me, look it up on any news outlets that don't lean too heavily to any side. Listening to him on YouTube is a very good start if you want to get a feel for what he really is up to.
Venezuela's defense spending is just over $2B/year. Their oft-foe, Colombia, spends about $6B/year. And the US spends over $400B/year.
It's more than spending - this is the guy who yells in nationwide TV that "this revolution is peaceful, but armed", calls to "crush and pulverize the offensive by the coup-monging opposition", and rolls tanks to the border when Colombia takes their squabbles with the guerrilla less than 200 km from the border.
And, FYI, your "peaceful marches" involved a freaking coup.
Maybe he means this, which is hardly a coup. After opposition demonstrators asked for permission to march down to the congress, pro-govt groups filed their own request to also go there; guess who got the green light and who were told to stop 25 blocks away. It's unclear whether the demonstrators tried to tear down the barrier before or after the gas and rubber bullets flew (he also yelled orders on TV to "gas them with the good stuff").
Didn't bother to mention that New Orleans came in right after Caracas, with only one less murder per 100,000 people, did you? Or that Caracas's murder rate fell dramatically since their last survey. Skew much?
Given that the most-used features of cellphones are things other than talking on the phone (presumably included in the "Other 9%")
Even if this were serious, it only seems odd because we use the misnomer "cellphone" instead of something more accurate like, I dunno, personal digital assistant. Imagine if people insisted on thinking of PCs as typewriters (since word processing was an early killer app) and they were still called typewriters, and people started whinging that PCs shouldn't be able to run web browsers because "that's not typing," and "when will we all return to typewriters that just type!" It's nonsense.
Oh, it's not intellectual as in "analytic thought" but rather "cognition": "gee, now I know this little tidbit [even if it's that Alice's looking for a dog] - WANT MOAR". It's a built-in driver for all we're supposed to seek - not only information and intellectual exercise, but food, wealth, etc. The news here is that it's not about satiating some real/perceived need, but that the act of seeking has its own reward - and often you get hooked on it.
Slashdot Mirror
We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd
Given that The Simpsons first aired 19 years ago and peaked not too long after that, try again with "30-something crowd".
By throttling certain services, turning off certain capabilities, and allowing remote provisioning management, Apple is making sure that the device they are providing to the users who aren't cut off will work and continue to work on the network.
There, that's better
Thing is, it does a lot more damage than the dreaded corn plantations:
ECOLOGICAL THREAT Cogon grass can invade and overtake disturbed ecosystems, forming a dense mat of thatch and leaves that makes it nearly impossible for other plants to coexist. Large infestations of cogon grass can alter the normal fire regime of a fire-driven ecosystem by causing more frequent and intense fires that injure or destroy native plants. Cogon grass displaces a large variety of native plant species used by native animals (e.g., insects, mammals, and birds) as forage, host plants and shelter. Some ground-nesting species have also been known to be displaced due to the dense cover that cogon grass creates.
Also, it won't just stay together in a patch but it reaches out. WP dixit:
It spreads both through small seeds, which are easily carried by the wind, and rhizomes which can be transported by tilling equipment and in soil transport.
Nasty thing.
I'll be first in line to pay for the #TWAT CHannel!
It's been available since 1997, free of charge ;)
Then they'd be more concerned about staying in office and getting their peers elected by the populace than about efficiency (or, as you call it, governance) and forward thinking. In a word, they become politicians and we're back at The Proverbial Square One.
Interestingly, a search on "emma thompson" online comments death OR murder" only leads to the Houston Chronicle story, either directly or through some spam-portal. Any other sources?
Oblig, the first thing that came to my non-MPAA-approved mind
Y = 1/300th total chromosome 3600 mutations total 8 generations in 200 years 450 per generation 5 in protein coding section of genome
And no superpowers yet... :(
One day out of the year taken out to say you're sorry for things you didn't to, apologizing to people who didn't have it done to them, but some generations ago. What the hell is the point of that?
Well, several people around the globe are apparently fond of going through old stuff, like guys dead long ago fighting to relieve themselves and a bunch of other people we never met of some nasty rulers that did nothing to us. It's mostly a sentimental thing, agreed.
As for a practical point, is this good enough?
it establishes a serious precedent that such things are wrong and should not happen again
I also thought it's nice of the guv't to say "what the previous administrations did to your great-grandaddies was just wrong - let's make nice" to the living descendants; beats "hell yeah we won, we're #1" in my book.
Someone mod parent up. Of course an apology is an acknowledgement of wrongdoing by an organization, plus it establishes a serious precedent that such things are wrong and should not happen again.
You may also read about the Sorry Day in Australia.
Plus all these phones have GPS in them these days.It won't be long before they know you were doing 60 mph when you sent that message.
Assuming that the phone logged your position/speed, which it normally doesn't. Also, what do you mean by "all these phones"? GPS is (still) far from ubiquitous.
The other proposition (records of a message sent shortly before the crash) may be useful for a lot of cases. All you need to do is time the crash decently, and telco records are good enough.
Yup, that seems to be the sensible, prevailing line of thought. I wonder what about driving when knowing you've not slept enough, or crashing because you were checking your makeup in the rear view mirror (and were spotted somehow). There are plenty of irresponsible choices that constitute gross negligence.
Come to think of it, when hard drives became widespread, binary units had been in use for a long time for RAM and the custom stuck. Plus, space is allocated in 256/512 byte blocks to make loading/unloading into RAM so much easier.
Erm.... perhaps it's because the relationship between KB, MB and GB is... nonlinear?
Don't think I'm getting political if I point out that a Black Hawk helicopter costs 6 M$ just to build, and a missed/practice shot with a Tomahawk means 500 grands thrown into a mountain somewhere. So, if the DoT bets 100 grands or a million or two to a bold idea that might yield some new techniques even if it doesn't fully deliver, I'd say go for it!
Glass is not necessarily smooth and slippery as we have it in window panes, y'know. In fact, I guess a gritty or grooved texture would be even grabbier than asphalt, due to it's hardness. As for shards, I'm guessing tempering and/or scoring would control the size and shape of fragments, much like in windshields. Hey, why not add a layer of plastic to keep the little pieces together?
Glass as in your window or tabletop is slippery when wet only because it's smooth. It's not hard to imagine a texture grabby enough for tires: gritty like sandpaper, or a micro version of the "diamond" plate used in industrial catwalks.
Further, since it would be on the bottom of a mold at the factory, the pattern could be made quite deep so it'd take longer for it to wear down (plus glass is harder than asphalt or even concrete). Add the right grooves for drainage, and you're set. The only remaining problem is resiliency so it won't shatter when a semi truck eventually loses control and rolls on it.
The OP means several other, later demonstrations that have been quelled rather nastily. First listen to him publicly ordering his defense and interior ministers to "gas them with the good stuff", take a look at this. Allegedly a few demonstrators started by throwing rocks and bottles at the cops, but there's not a single video of what happened before the gas canisters and rubber bullets flew (sadly, the camera from the official TV station looked away from the frontline just when it's supposed to have happened).
This may make you reconsider (you may need a translator). Bet you don't know this one: after his party lost the mayorship of Caracas, he "asked" the parliament (roughly 90% unquestioningly loyal, 10% ocassionally critical sympathizers) to pass a law transferring most of the attributions of that office to a new "Head of Government" appointed by the president without need for confirmation. Here's the nice part: he didn't wait for the legal term of the mayor to end - he named one right away, regardless of the people's will as expressed when they voted.
Please take some time to look beyond the "he's leftist, anti-US, pro-worker" oversimplification that prevails outside the country - it's more of a persona that fulfills a well-liked stereotype. Back in '98 he flatly denied being a socialist or nationalizing anything, later he starting denouncing "neoliberalism", then "savage capitalism", now he won't stop talking about socialism and expropriating factories, farms and even a major bank. All the while, all the unfulfilled promises have been blamed on either the CIA, local and foreign oligarchies, and the 40 years under a two-party system before him (never mind it's been 10 years of that).
But don't believe me, look it up on any news outlets that don't lean too heavily to any side. Listening to him on YouTube is a very good start if you want to get a feel for what he really is up to.
Venezuela's defense spending is just over $2B/year. Their oft-foe, Colombia, spends about $6B/year. And the US spends over $400B/year.
It's more than spending - this is the guy who yells in nationwide TV that "this revolution is peaceful, but armed", calls to "crush and pulverize the offensive by the coup-monging opposition", and rolls tanks to the border when Colombia takes their squabbles with the guerrilla less than 200 km from the border.
And, FYI, your "peaceful marches" involved a freaking coup.
Maybe he means this, which is hardly a coup. After opposition demonstrators asked for permission to march down to the congress, pro-govt groups filed their own request to also go there; guess who got the green light and who were told to stop 25 blocks away. It's unclear whether the demonstrators tried to tear down the barrier before or after the gas and rubber bullets flew (he also yelled orders on TV to "gas them with the good stuff").
Didn't bother to mention that New Orleans came in right after Caracas, with only one less murder per 100,000 people, did you? Or that Caracas's murder rate fell dramatically since their last survey. Skew much?
Care to source that? Caracas is currently clocking in at 130 murders per 100k.
Why can't we leave others alone and worry about problems in our own country?
In the name of other /.-ers who are not US citizens or residents and my own, can you please define what you mean by "we"?
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not a fan or follower, but he got this one right
Given that the most-used features of cellphones are things other than talking on the phone (presumably included in the "Other 9%")
Even if this were serious, it only seems odd because we use the misnomer "cellphone" instead of something more accurate like, I dunno, personal digital assistant. Imagine if people insisted on thinking of PCs as typewriters (since word processing was an early killer app) and they were still called typewriters, and people started whinging that PCs shouldn't be able to run web browsers because "that's not typing," and "when will we all return to typewriters that just type!" It's nonsense.
Check out the tab explosion at xkcd. It's straight to the point.
Oh, it's not intellectual as in "analytic thought" but rather "cognition": "gee, now I know this little tidbit [even if it's that Alice's looking for a dog] - WANT MOAR". It's a built-in driver for all we're supposed to seek - not only information and intellectual exercise, but food, wealth, etc. The news here is that it's not about satiating some real/perceived need, but that the act of seeking has its own reward - and often you get hooked on it.