If you need a locksmith to open your safe, you can't expect him to overlook the dead body inside.
Assuming a locksmith does find a dead body, he will have to report it to the police who will then need a warrant to search private property. IANAL, but you can't just call the police over and have them inspect the evidence. I don't see anything in the article about the police obtaining a warrant before seizing the computer.
Also, I agree with everyone who said that both privacy and freedom are a human rights, and as such are granted (as in 'endowed by his creator with certain unalienable rights')
For it to work, OpenSocial has to find its focus--it needs something to separate it from the other social networking sites beyond merely being a Google project. If it doesn't, it's just going to go the way of Friendster--it'll be out there, but nobody will really be using it.
I think you're really missing the point. Google wants all these different networks, that have different niches, to have access to each other. So now I'll still have a facebook for friends at school, a myspace for my band, and a flickr for photos, but I won't need to upload all my photos to EVERY website using they're own implementation of photos.
There will still be different niches, but I'll be able to manage each of my different "personalities" (if you will) from one place.
Take a look at words like hypocrite, conundrum, quixotic; none of these words is current. It would appear that voters didn't care if a word was actually USED in 2007, just that they liked the word and thought it deserved mention. Pecksniffian dates as far back as 1894.
... or because they already won 'word of the year' last year.
I think they based the criterion on the most popular word, that is, the one with the most votes. From TFA:
Thousands of you took part in the search for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007, and the vast majority of you chose a small word that packs a pretty big punch.
Why they all chose this word (presumably the word should be current), no one knows. Maybe the gaming community thought it was time they got their due.
The movement changes in detache are a bit rough. No legato. No vibrato. Relatively slow piece. No changes in position (left hand).
Actually, the robot did have vibrato, though not in the typical way. The strings are probably higher than on a typical violin, and the robot will press up and down on the string to "simulate" vibrato. It has the same effect, and I was wondering how it got the sound until I saw in the closeup of the left hand.
People here praise Verizon for "opening" up their handsets, but lambast ATT for operating with any GSM device that works in their spectrum. It's reminds me of when Red Hat moved to RHEL, they got all this bad press, but when Sun releases OpenSolaris, along with the paid version they've always had, they're heralded as a leader in FOSS.
Personally (I hate to say this) I agree with ATT. I've stayed with them, refusing to buy a device that was under complete control of the carrier. I've always had the ability to use buy a guaranteed non crippled device direct from a handset vendor outside my contract, or use another member of my family's phone if mine went bust (with all my contacts right there on SIM). Meanwhile Verizon has the audacity to charge my friend $15 to transfer his numbers after he buys a phone FROM THEM (because there is no other choice). I could never give up GSM flexibility.
I realize that it's just human nature to compare things to the past history, but the GSM providers, TMobile, ATT, Sprit (I think) have always been a better choice.
You must have done it wrong. I said that my phone got "stolen" (read lost), and they gave me a sim card for $30. Also if you beg, you can sometimes get it for free (I've lost my phone on many occasion).
1 - Open handsets means no more lock-in (revenue loss for carriers) and handsets become cheaper.
No it doesn't. Open handsets means I can take my device to another carrier, but in order to get service with that carrier, I need to sign a contract for TWO YEARS! I fail to see how there is no lock-in.
A few years ago, the phone service died at my house. They said it would take a week to repair it, so I had to buy a cell phone to get buy. To this day I wonder if the phone company had ulterior motives...
Have you guys heard of the term Natural Monopoly? The telcom infrastructure is a classic example. I know everyone here on slashdot likes to think less regulation solves everything, but some cases require it. There is NO free market solution to this problem because there will never be enough competition, so we need the government to step in and protect the consumer. Otherwise, the monopolies (telcos) are free to go on limiting capacity, price gouging, and (just now) implementing packet filtering if they don't start getting kickbacks.
I think you are missing the point. You are using the caps lock key, sure, but you aren't using the key in the way that it was intended. What you are really calling for is a replacement of the caps lock key to a new change language key, effectivly calling for a removal of the caps lock key anyway. So when you think about it, we're all on the same side here.
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There will still be different niches, but I'll be able to manage each of my different "personalities" (if you will) from one place.
Take a look at words like hypocrite, conundrum, quixotic; none of these words is current. It would appear that voters didn't care if a word was actually USED in 2007, just that they liked the word and thought it deserved mention. Pecksniffian dates as far back as 1894.
I think they based the criterion on the most popular word, that is, the one with the most votes. From TFA: Why they all chose this word (presumably the word should be current), no one knows. Maybe the gaming community thought it was time they got their due.
People here praise Verizon for "opening" up their handsets, but lambast ATT for operating with any GSM device that works in their spectrum. It's reminds me of when Red Hat moved to RHEL, they got all this bad press, but when Sun releases OpenSolaris, along with the paid version they've always had, they're heralded as a leader in FOSS. Personally (I hate to say this) I agree with ATT. I've stayed with them, refusing to buy a device that was under complete control of the carrier. I've always had the ability to use buy a guaranteed non crippled device direct from a handset vendor outside my contract, or use another member of my family's phone if mine went bust (with all my contacts right there on SIM). Meanwhile Verizon has the audacity to charge my friend $15 to transfer his numbers after he buys a phone FROM THEM (because there is no other choice). I could never give up GSM flexibility. I realize that it's just human nature to compare things to the past history, but the GSM providers, TMobile, ATT, Sprit (I think) have always been a better choice.
You must have done it wrong. I said that my phone got "stolen" (read lost), and they gave me a sim card for $30. Also if you beg, you can sometimes get it for free (I've lost my phone on many occasion).
A few years ago, the phone service died at my house. They said it would take a week to repair it, so I had to buy a cell phone to get buy. To this day I wonder if the phone company had ulterior motives...
Have you guys heard of the term Natural Monopoly? The telcom infrastructure is a classic example. I know everyone here on slashdot likes to think less regulation solves everything, but some cases require it. There is NO free market solution to this problem because there will never be enough competition, so we need the government to step in and protect the consumer. Otherwise, the monopolies (telcos) are free to go on limiting capacity, price gouging, and (just now) implementing packet filtering if they don't start getting kickbacks.
I think you are missing the point. You are using the caps lock key, sure, but you aren't using the key in the way that it was intended. What you are really calling for is a replacement of the caps lock key to a new change language key, effectivly calling for a removal of the caps lock key anyway. So when you think about it, we're all on the same side here.