Comment Re:Infrared Anyone? (Score 1) 75
It just parses the data into Morse code and decodes it on the other end.
A front-end for "cloud" and web based hosted SAAS applications? I don't see it as a win for Linus/x, but a revenue stream for Microsoft.
This. Especially seeing as it only works with a monthly subscription paid to Microsoft.
Uhhh...I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy? Not that it would have really mattered since we now know about the wiretap they have on the AT&T trunks which everything goes through at one time or another.
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
So once again we have the government wasting huge piles of money and infringing the rights and privacy of everyone for a program that won't work...must be Thursday.
This. Mod parent up.
I find it personally amusing when before congress the NSA says that it stopped over 30+ terrorist attacks due to their snooping efforts. Then it was reclarified to "about a dozen." How many attacks prevented (or so they say) is worth using the 4th amendment as toilet paper and violating the rights of millions? I would say "zero".
"Those who wish to give up liberty for security deserve neither, and will lose both."
This needs to stop. When they come to your house you tell them to fuck off and come back with a warrant. Cooperating only encourages them.
Mod parent up: "Informative"
TFA says they only Googled backpacks and pressure cookers, nary a purchase was made; They only searched for information on it.
Imagine the dialogue if the person answering the door was wearing a hijab?
Police: "Do you have any pressure cooker bombs?"
Homeowner: "No."
Police: "Fuck you buddy! You just earned a one way ticket to Gitmo!"
This typo-filled summary is nothing more than a lame "nerd-baiting" attempt to rile up the Linux supporters because Microsoft released software dedicated to run on Linux. This is supposed to be chalked up at a "win" for Linus? Yeah I'm sure he really doesn't give two shits. Woo-hoo, I guess we are all supposed to run in the street with penguin costumes now and burn Surface tablets.
The fact is that the world rarely cares what makes the hardware run...the majority of end users just care they can use XYZ app on their device and it works. This entire summary should be modded "-1 flamebait" for trying to rile up the Linux community over nothing.
If the goal is stopping support of morally abhorrent behavior in the Middle East, I suggest we take the quick and practical path there.
Like a medium yield nuclear device?
MAP is nothing more than collusion. I think they should be flatly illegal. In a totally free market no one would ever obey them.
You don't want a free market you want a market that is ruled the way you like.
The correct solution to amazon paying this little is just to raise the minimum wage for this job. If you don't want to do that, then you think this wage is fine.
MAP is not collusion, it is the currently best (and affirmatively deemed legal by courts) way to create a fair playing field for all the resellers of a particular product. I know most people feel MAP is a bad thing because as end users we all pay the same MAP price, just like trying to buy an Apple product - price is same everywhere. With this being said, when a company as large as Amazon or Wal-Mart does not abide by MAP, it is simply a race to the bottom with who has the lowest price. Because these large companies get a huge quantity discount, without MAP they could afford to sell for pennies on the dollar for an extended period of time. This action has the very real potential put all the other resellers out of business. When the other competition is gone, Amazon (et. al.) are free to raise the prices as high as they want as they retain complete market control. The manufacturer of the good is forced to sell to Amazon at whatever price Amazon determines. Amazon is so large that they can make or break a company simply by not choosing to sell a product...and you can bet your ass it is on Amazon's terms because they know the power they hold.
A marketplace without MAP, as you suggest, is simply a setup for monopolistic control by companies who can afford to do it. Look what happened to all the Mom and Pop shops in the US with the introduction of Wal-Mart: gone. Without some kind of level price structure, the reseller with the deepest pockets will prevail.
Couldn't even RTFS?
This is Slashdot, nobody RTFA. You must be new here.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
