Comment Re:Still not quite correct. (Score 3, Interesting) 94
I can see where you're coming from, but I read it as comparing the early universe to molasses, not the effect of the Higgs field as such. Soupy and homogeneous (mostly).
I can see where you're coming from, but I read it as comparing the early universe to molasses, not the effect of the Higgs field as such. Soupy and homogeneous (mostly).
Yeah if it were this cheap I'd buy it instead of acquiring it through *ahem* other means.
It will be close to free soon.
This means Microsoft has joined a race to the bottom, and while they have done that before with Vista and W8.n etc, this time they're doing it on price instead of quality.
Them pulling stuff out of their ass to make their product look better.
They're not trying to make their products look better. They're trying to make competitor's products look worse.
It's an important distinction, because it means they don't have to compete on quality or price.
Then we get some of the silliness from Ubuntu trying to shove a new way down everyones' throat
Oh yeah, they're REALLY forcing it down our throats...
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The Internet is humanity's last chance, boys and girls.
Yep, Skype's gone, and now WhatsApp will be ruined.
Are there any open and demonstrably secure voice/video chat/IM etc applications in the pipeline that anyone's aware of?
which is why Glass will never take off.
Consumer products are only successful if they're marketed to cool, sociable people, not loser nerds with no lives.
I'm their target market.
I'm not a creepy nerd either. I'm a middle-aged business man with a nice wife, a nice house, a reasonable car, and a reasonable job that requires me to inspect and manage engineering works in progress.
I have always obtained and used the best mobile recording tools for the job: Digital cameras as soon as they were available. Those Olympus electronic voice recorders/transcribers. I still have a Compaq Concerto tablet PC from the early '90s, The first Palm Pilot, and several later iterations of the marque. Win CE PDAs and phones. Nokia N800s. Several varieties of Android phones and tablets. If a tool saves me time, it makes me money.
If I could get a Glass, I'd be using it now. It's a tool, not a toy and will succeed or fail based on how good a tool it is.
You can call me a Glasshole if you like. I don't care, as long as it's making my job easier and better.
To do so whilst reserving the ability of the limo owners cameras to work is unreasonable, and doesn't deserve any suggestions.
You could arrange several directional high-intensity gamma ray emitters into a pattern that would ruin hand-held photographs while allowing any fixed cameras outside the beams to work normally.
Fortunately, OP didn't specify that the passengers needed to survive, so this easily meets his criteria.
AOSP is not Android.
' Stop this FUD.
AOSP s Android. AOSP devices can be sold as Android devices.
In fact, AOSP Android is the second biggest mobile OS on the market,comfortably outselling iOS (Android has 77% of the market, 25% is AOSP).
I would like to know what is meant by "affecting...Linux".
You're right to question the FUD.
SecureList has a MUCH better story that makes it clear "Careto" is closer to a precision-targeting crackers' toolkit rather than typical Windows malware (they have identified a total of 380 unique targets so far). It didn't just use the Flash vulnerability, but had multiple vectors, including Chrome plugins and social engineering techniques.
From their FAQ:
Is this a Windows-only threat? Which versions of Windows are targeted? Are there Mac OS X or Linux variants?
So far, we observed Trojans for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect Linux computers, but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor. Additionally, some of the C&C artifacts (logs) indicate that backdoors for Android and Apple iOS may also exist.
Have you seen any evidence of a mobile component - iOS, Android or BlackBerry?
We suspect an iOS backdoor exists but we haven't been able to locate it yet. The suspicion is based on a debug log from one of the C&C servers where a victim in Argentina is identified and logged as having a user agent of "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/10B329". This appears to indicate it is an iPad, although without a sample, it's hard to be sure.
In addition to this, we also suspect the existence of an Android implant. This is based on a unique version identifier sent to the C&C which is "AND1.0.0.0". Communications with this unique identifier have been observed over 3G links, indicating a possible mobile device.
I think OP erred in saying everyone is "watched". That's simply not so. Their data may be collected, and it may be looked at later,
You're being watched, but you haven't attracted their attention yet.
If you or anyone associated with you does anything that they feel the need to respond to, they will have your entire online life and a good proportion of your offline activities available to "encourage" you to work with them to solve their problem.
Even knowing this is happening will change how many people behave. Warnings like this are part of the problem, real security experts will be working to block the watching, not adding to the chilling effects.
I base this on section "3. Grant of Patent License" in the license of Android [apache.org].
So what you're saying is that if Nokia release their Normandy Android phone next month, it'll indemnify Android from both Nokia and Microsoft's patent extortion?
Does that include the FAT patents that they've been getting so much cash from?
If so, you've uncovered a far bigger story than Woz's opinion piece...
This is a good article:
From the online chatter, it seems to be a celebration of TV adverts and (junk?) food, so I assume the super bowl being referred to is an oversized container for fried chicken wings etc. Is that correct?
I understand why the majority of Americans would be so wholeheartedly involved in such an event, but it seems a bit irresponsible to an outside observer. With all your obesity, diabetes and heart issues, I think it'd be better for your nation's health to steer these sort of events towards less sedentary pursuits.
Why not include a healthy sporting event in the day's activities, for example?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
