Re: My first Matt Bryant upvote ... almost
You are "silly posturing" there yourself, Matty.
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Selective reading is the main underpinning making up the tin foil hat brigade. Try reading the final paragraph of the article you linked.
How far do you think the Goldman Sachs conspiracy extends? Choosing brands of toilet paper and soap? If you are right, we should have lots of empirical evidence right here, IT professionals wanting to buy Microsoft or Sun being told by top management to go with Linux instead.
I stopped reading at "GUI". Which one is that? Media Crossbar on my Sony TV? Android? One of the web interfaces used by Linux based Appliances? And who uses a GUI on a *nix server?
Someone who measures Linux by the desktop (same ones shared by the BSDs BTW) is just being an idiot.
Is it deterministic that dinosaurs must evolve first before mammals? Disperse some amino acids to 100 suitable planets, and dinosaurs spring forth in all of them. Kill all dinosaurs, and mammals will take their place?
What if the planets are suitable for life, but provide different stimuli for evolution? One might favours flying creatures, another could be 95% covered by water. Can't the same amino acids seed totally different kinds of life forms with different appearances, organs and reproductive systems?
"And anyone in breach of the Facebook regulations can have their account deleted.
We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges"
Application = FB application, not user account
"It's not the first time that scientists have noticed that mammals seem to be smaller in hotter climates, and have speculated that evolution takes care of this, because smaller animals will thrive in high temperatures because their bodies are easier to cool."
What? Have these people ever been to Africa and Asia? Tigers, lions and leopards vs. lynx? Eland are bigger than moose. African buffalo aren't smaller than bison or wisent. Not to mention elephants, giraffes, etc.
Temperature might have an effect on size, but surely other things like availability of food and other evolutionary quirks like elephants' ears.
Andrew, you just keep repeating "synthetics". I'd like to read about the viability of growing our fuel. Let's forget about the economics for a moment, just focus on the projected availability of land and the demand for food and fuel.
So, on the one hand you have scientists who just want more money. On the other hand, you have Big Industry and Big Banking, who are totally objective on the matter.
Right.
Those money-grabbing scientists, always flouting their wealth with their flashy cars, hookers and blow. Glad I've got industry lobbyists and their "reports" looking out for my best interest.
Crap from China, Brazil, Russia, the Middle East and East Europe hits every Internet host out there. ISPs are dumb pipes, they shouldn't go firewalling your Internet facing hosts on their own, it's your job to secure them. If they are supposed to offer you a firewall or intrusion detection service, that's another thing.
@Dr. Mouse:
That would be the right thing to do. But do the officials have any incentive to double check and take the "risk" of letting them in? Or do they need to cover their asses so they don't get blamed in (diminishingly unlikely) case that these guys do something stupid/illegal while in the country?
Got to fill the quotas and cover ones ass, when a bureaucrat.
Someone explain to our American cousins the difference between figurative and literal. Fundamentalist muslims with explosives on one side, then these guys with killer robot drones and nuclear weapons on the other. I see a bright future ahead.
Also an excellent demonstration of Internet and surveillance. The older I become the more luddite tendencies I'm beginning to have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_%28software%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasploit_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWASP_Mantra_Security_Framework
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Please, you've already shown your colours. You realize we can see your message history, right?
It was so predictable you'd be trolling this thread, as you have every other Nokia / Win Mobile news item, with your probably-paid-for "views". As such we know exactly how much value to assign to your spewage.
Where's the squelch option?
"The 35 foot long Hummingbird can operate at a ceiling of 30,000 feet, has 2,250 miles of range and can fly at a maximum of 165mph, with Boeing claiming an endurance record in its class with an 18.7 hour flight time."
What's that in midget spans, furlongs and Standard Spaghettilengths per Venutian mooncycle?
Check the posting records of accounts posting actively in this thread:
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Bob Vistakin
For the record I have an Android phone, would have got an N9 if it weren't so expensive. Could have been an Apple or WinPho just as well. It's just a phone.
Two questions: can it be done, and is there a market for it. If you answer yes to both, you know it's being done.
Regarding OS bashing, the fact that the software was found so easily on Android goes to show that open is better. Much harder to see what is running on other more closed platforms. BTW, "dumb" phones aren't any safer. Just because it requires a more esoteric and less common environment to make software for them, does not mean they are less capable of this kind of applications. Oh, never mind esoteric, Java runs on "dumb" S40 phones: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Develop/Series_40/Platform/ though tbh I'm not familiar with what APIs it exposes.
I don't blame just the loose governments in the Mediterranean countries. Germany and France, along with almost every Euro member, broke the Maastricht Treaty by taking more debt than they were supposed to, without any penalties. This was a direct license for the PIGS to do the same.
Flawed treaty with no penalties for breaking the agreement, bad example by those who could afford to break it, bad judgement in the countries that could not.
People of those countries that did abide by the treaty now have to foot the bill.
There are people (including a friend) driving 199x 5-series BMWs. They do it for the love of technology, and get their vehicles dirt cheap because those perfectly good cars are worthless to the people who buy them new.
Imagine BMW bringing out the next 5-series looking exactly the same as the last, with all the improvements under the bonnet. Like Volvo does with the "classic" just before an update, but not actually doing an update at all. The got-to-be-hip crowd would have to resort to buying another brand.
Oops, I made a car analogy. Sorry.