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Comment Hugo's Kalashnikov Assault Rifle Factory AK 103 (Score 1) 828

LOL! I Lived in Venezuela for a year and I don't believe that this is to prevent street crime. When I lived there, it was dangerous to ride a nice bike in certain areas because street criminals would stab you and take your bike. They wouldn't ask, they would just take it before you had the chance to do anything. Was that common? No. But it happened. I think this has more to do with keeping Hugo in command, especially with his failing health. Most people there can't afford guns, or ammo. They have armed security guards at Wendy's. They give them a shotgun with a couple of shells, or an old beat-up revolver with just a couple of bullets. Why? Because they don't want the guards selling the guns/ammo for cash.

I was there for the infamous 11 de Abril, in 2002 when Hugo was temporarily replaced in a military coup. I don't think he has forgotten that day, and never will.

Ol Hugo has plans to do away with the shotguns. He built the first plant in South America in 2008 to produce the AK47 model 103.

The AK-103 is the most recent model of the original AK-47.

Unfortunately there was a horrible accident in 2011. Hugo's AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela mysteriously blew up and burned down, can you believe Hugo's bad luck?

He is a link to three minutes of a video of that fire and massive explosions,
http://youtu.be/tjg2uyWEfT8

Hugo's rebuilt Kalashnikov Assault Rifle AK 103 factory should be operational now or in the near future.

Then there will be plenty of the improved AK 103 to export for use in Mexico and the USA.

Naturally Hugo would not want these rugged high powered and efficient assault weapons in the hands of his own people unless they were military or police.

Comment Re:I would be more worried... (Score 5, Informative) 277

I think it illustrates limitations in the technology more than human incompetence. The service can't find your phone. It can tell you that your phone is near 55th and San Pedro, but it's not going to tell you which house and room the thing is sitting in, or whose pocket it has been put in. I bet I can stash a phone "near" any intersection in the country and you wouldn't be able to find it with only that information.

Notice that I'm not suggesting a solution... the service does what it does, but it's not a panacea for finding lost things.

I bet I can find the stolen iPhone. I would do what every other LE officer would do. He would walk up to the location and then call the lost iPhone's cell number. Then with probable cause he could seize any phone that rang and was answered matching the audio he heard with his observation of the suspects lips.

This happens nearly every day in the USA. I think it is hilarious when the cops seize guns and a large drug stash at the same time from the perp and his urban buddies. My favorite form of instant justice is hearing there were panicked perps who jumped out of a second floor or higher window injuring themselves only to be caught by more backup cops waiting below.

Comment iPad plus Notability (Score 2, Interesting) 300

Apple has been equipping their own employees with Notability.

That simple fact caught my attention so I bought a copy for myself.

This app is on a roll with impressive updates.

It features just about everything you can think of for a note taking app. It includes a recorder with time stamps linked to your notes so tap on part of your note and hear what was being said when you created that part. It has support for drawing, neat handwriting, and typed input.

You can add photos on the fly along with web pages, PDFs and other resources.

Export/Import is to BOX or Dropbox among various cloud storage options.

I use it for one to three day conferences and it works like a champ lasting all day long if you turn down the brightness somewhat.

Often the iPad is all I bother to carry while everyone else is totting regular notebooks or paper solutions.

Notability has new support for retina graphics on the 2012 iPad. The ink used for handwriting is very attractive on the new iPad.

I can also let Notability record while I use four fingers to swipe to other apps to look up private data which I can insert after a screen shot or in most cases via a simple copy and paste.

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I have tried many other iOS apps to see it they were better but I just keep coming back to Notability.

It just works.

Comment Re:Boggles mind to think about how they squandered (Score 1) 440

They had the money, but could they have enticed the brilliant graduates of top American schools to move to Ontario? And I don't mean to say that Canadian engineers aren't good, but that Apple and Google have access to a global talent pool - did/does RIM? (Fascinating question: How much does snow and ice have to do with the fortunes of a mobile phone developer?)

Doesn't Finland, home of Nokia's world class mobile technology, have snow and ice too?

Comment Mining Jello on The Moon (Score 0) 408

There is no such thing as wasting money on research.

Google should join with there new friends at the NSA to investigate how we can mine jello on the moon.

With the unlimited resources of the US government and Google great strides can be made in our discovery of the steps needed for industrializing the moon and a profitable new market can be established that the West can dominate.

Comment Re:What a surprise (Score 3, Interesting) 308

It basically sounds like Perfect Dark, but with manual initial per-finding and weaker security (if you always have the same web of friends, you can likely be tracked by this web).

Now all of a sudden Google's new March first privacy policies make a lot of sense. If they can connect all the dots to reveal the connections things like DarkNet, Google would be of great value to the government and no one else need be any wiser.

Comment Rumor: iPad 2 to be discontinued next Wed (Score 3, Interesting) 67

THe best rumor I've heard so far is that the ipad2 will see a price drop to make it more cost competitive with kindle fire. We'll see in a few days.

It is rumored today Monday Feb 27 that...

Apple is dropping all models of the iPad 2 next Wednesday except for a single 16 GB iPad 2 WiFi model. That will be the low ball to bring people into Best Buys, Target, Wal-Mart, Sams etc. It may even be for sale in educational channels as part of Apple's new iTextBook agenda.

Think of this as the 16GB iPad with a huge ten inch iron spike in it to prevent too many from walking out the door. The retail sales people are supposed to 'step' the customer up to a real iPad, the iPad3 in HD, which by the way is going to be significantly more expensive then previous iPad models.

I think the price jump is seventy or eighty dollars on the low end in todays iPad 3 rumors.

I think the new price increase will go a long way to give Android tablets some breathing room in the 2012 market. The only problem I have seen is that most of the Android Tablets are still undesirable compared to the iPad ecosystem. Even Amazon is seeing returns of between 25% to 33%.

Realistically competing tablets still have to sell for less, sometimes a lot less, to move the product in 2012.

That is simply Google's fault and they appear to be trying to remedy the situation the best they can.

Comment Is Google taking over Linux with Android/Chrome? (Score 0) 404

Google seems to be quietly trying to subvert Linux by locking developer interest into Android and Chrome only. This move by Adobe to support only Google seems to be a continuation of a disturbing pattern of unfairness incited by that advertising giant as it moves to cement its dominance of the Internet.

Crime

Submission + - Boston police laugh in face of Anonymous hackers (networkworld.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Boston Police Department, whose news site was hit recently by the Anonymous hacking group in retaliation for the police force's treatment of Occupy Boston protesters, has issued a video that essentially has the department laughing in the hackers' faces. The hack, which involved replacing the news site with an Anonymous message and a KRS-One rap video about police brutality, took down the police site for a week.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to become paperless? 3

THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes: I've had numerous ADF scanners over the years, and all of them jam or grab multiple pages at a time (thereby missing pages). Like you, I've got years of tax returns and legal documents to scan, but with these kinds of barriers, it would take months to scan everything. Enterprise-grade machines cost 5 figures. How do Slashdotters become paper-free?

Comment Re:Which was always obvious. (Score 1) 144

Apple doesn't want to provide a free tool to be used for producing ebooks on competing platforms. I fail to see how that's being a "jerk". It's called running a business.

"Jerk" doesn't quite cover it. I believe terms such as "evil" and "monopolistic" should also be applied.

Now can you begin to have insight on how the European union views Google's change to their 'user agreement' for all Google products. The EU flatly told Google that it isn't going to happen with out a review by all the governments in Europe who may completely reject Google's new terms as evil and monopolistic.

It is easy to say but can they prove it?

If they can, Android and Google are in a world of trouble, far more than the simple problem just solved by Apple over the Apple freeware iBooks Author. It is one thing to have a handful of Geeks mad at you but to have the all the governments turn on you in mass is another issue that is very serious.

Even the USA is getting involved since US laws have serious issues like the HIPPA violations that will occur on and after March 1 from a simple Google medical search tied to a user's ID
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/02/rep-bono-mack-reports-on-closed-door-google-briefing-/1

Google stepped into some very deep dung without thinking through that announcement of new mandatory user agreements beginning March 1.

Comment Re:Thermonuclear War... (Score 1) 184

"I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong" - Steve Jobs

$100 million down, $39.9 billion to go.

Wrong, $100 million down over $99.9 billion to go.

Apple just picked up a lot more cash in the last quarter. They have almost a hundred billion in cash right now.
Awesome sales and profits!

Comment Re:True Evil - Apple (Score 1) 184

This article caught me at a good (or bad depending on how you look at it) time. I am so sick of Apple fanatics and how they are willing destroying the personal computer industry. They hold their limp wrists high (no intent to offend gays, but it is such a fitting description) in celebration of their superior operating system, with no clue as to how they are being brainwashed into supporting abandonment of all personal rights

F--- Apple, please let them burn in hell.

I wonder if you have the courage to feel as strongly about Google's move today limiting all your online privacy rights if you use any Google product including Android?

You as well as the rest of us have only until March 1, 2012 to think it through.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/25/google-merge-user-data-privacy?newsfeed=true

Comment Re:Bubble? (Score 1) 761

And the number of "fanboys" appear to grow exponentially each quarter, judging by the financial results. How exactly do you imagine that Apple manages to keep on getting all these new fans?

WARNING: This question actually requires you to think.

Be careful.

Do some warm ups first.

You definitely have a future in writing for the best of the comedians if your tech job fails.

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