Because despite the fact that FoxConn make stuff for all sorts of people in the consumer electronics world, all the bile and invective seems to fall on Apple's shoulders.
No doubt, Apple actually trying to help will be seen negatively too - let's see if any of the subsequent comments say so (my money's on yes...). Honestly, the anyone-but-apple brigade make the fanboys look calm, collected, and sane.
Simon
In Finland, all these Foxconn suicides have been reported as happening at a "Nokia contractor", no word of Apple in any of the news posts.
Would this be vulnerable to the man in the middle attack on quantum key distribution described in this earlier slashdot article:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/2118250/Quantum-Encryption-Implementation-Broken
They seem to be attacking the hardware rather than the software
I remember that Blizzard had this very same issue with WoW, back in either Vanilla or early The Burning Crusade times.
I believe it was a mistake by the company they had outsourced the billing to.
Seriously. Google is (believed to be) the largest single user of consumer hard drives. When they start replacing hard drives with SSDs, I will consider HDDs to be done. I wonder what price differential the power savings (don't forget the power for cooling) will cover?
They started planning that, 2 years ago?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207602745
In the literal sense, light aircraft not equiped with GPS, (Drug or people smugglers), and of course aircraft that have been hijacked and their transponders disabled.
Or some kid in a baloon (hoax or not, its probably not going to do an engine any good if it sucks it in...
And if the pilots are too busy playing with their laptops to even look out of the window...
It doesnt sound safe to me, especially in a post 911 world.
Does it matter? GPS is passive, it only figures out its current location via the satellite signals, it does not broadcast it onwards.
To replace radars on the ground for tracking aircraft, you need something in addition to the GPS (what is that, it's not mentioned in the summary?)
All that these new security measures are doing, is moving the target from the "protected" airplane, to the unprotected queues of people at the airports.
Looking from an attacker PoV, which "mission" sounds better:
A) a high risk bomb smuggling operation to blow up ~200 people in an airplane with minimal explosives.
B) fit as much explosives as you can to your luggage and queue to the airport security check line at the most active time.
Scenario B has almost no chance of you getting caught before you can blow things up.
I bet they do give a shit when they try using a hammer to fit a 1366 pin into a 1156 socket!
Average consumers don't try to build their own computer from parts.
if your employer owns a device, and allows you to use it, you are not to ever use it for personal reasons, nor should you ever expect even the slightest amount of privacy for communications using the device. Even (and probably especially) if they give you permission for personal use. That goes for cell phones, pagers, computers, slide rules, everything. That means you do not log into personal Facebook, Google, or Hotmail at work. You do not use the company phone to call home. If you do any of these, you've 1) probably violated the terms of your employment and 2) have given the company/government permission to peer into all personal communications made with your employer's equipment.
You have explicit rights (in most cases) to privacy and use of the property that you actually own. That's it, the line is drawn there. I can't believe there is any controversy over this.
After reading this, I'm damn glad that i'm living and employed in Finland and not in USA.
If you're seeing smaller numbers, then you have something wrong with your computer.
like.. using a higher resolution than you are?
(2560*1600 here)
Is it possible to trade with players from other realms via this cross-realm instances? Possibly players could even schedule a meeting in the lesser frequented instances.
only conjured items and items that drop during the dungeon can be traded via players from different realms
Months, huh? I call bullshit. Some guild with no life will beat Arthas into paste before the end of the year.
The only possible things that could put it off until the new year is (1) Blizzard hard coded it so each wing is opened on a set schedule, regardless of how fast the bosses in that wing are beaten and (2) Christmas break.
Which is exactly what Blizzard did.
The first wing opened now, the next wing will open 28 days from now. There are a total of 4 wings, and you need to complete ICC on normal mode before you can do hard modes.
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