Seriously.
Why is it news that a product in a new market segment shows more growth than a product in an old crowded market segment.
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I'd never say nature is fragile, but I'm not happy with the opinion that humans can't twist nature to serve them without unintended consequences. It's a very complicated and poorly understood system, and changing it often results in unforeseen consequences which often have a direct, negative impact on man:
Salination of crop land in Egypt.
Salination of crop land in California.
Dust bowl in the US and Canada in the 30s.
Soil erosion in the amazon rain forest due to deforestation.
Soil erosion in southwest China due to human activities.
I'd agree that nature will balance itself out in the end, but lets not forget that humans are a part of nature and we might be subject to balancing out.
If there's anything that's going to invoke national pride and piss off a lot of people it's something directed against the service men and women of the country on a personal level, who are getting paid pretty badly to do a fairly crappy job*. It's a pretty stupid thing for LuLSec or people claiming to carry on their work to do from a publicity point of view.
However labeling it "terrorism" is silly, I think childish and stupid is more appropriate.
Regards the security risk - I suspect this sort of website counts as 'low hanging fruit' in the cyber espionage game, and they either already have the data, are incompetent or most likely don't care.
"The other is whether or not Mozilla's work will easily transfer to Windows on ARM, about which Microsoft has said very little and for which a Windows 8 Consumer Preview is not available."
They'd have to do something pretty screwed up for it not to, remember there's lots of 3rd party Firefox packages for obscure processors, these guys should have more experience with multiple targets than Microsoft (Anyone remember the failure that was NT for Alpha?).
'course that's assuming that Microsoft haven't screwed up Windows on ARM and made it horribly incompatible...
Given a TV or DLP that can hit 100 or 120Hz, active 3D is virtually free with the addition of an infrared led (and the opportunity to sell 100 quid accessories ad infinitum, only compatible with your product), nearly all TVs are HDMI 1.4 (has option for 3D support, which is just a handful of simple video encodings the TV must understand) compatible now anyway.
Of course when choosing between two TVs which are exactly the same in specs, punters typically by the one with the big "3D ready" logo.
I don't think the industry is pumping prices, just using it as an opportunity to sell brand locked accessories (which isn't much better, but anyway).
Common practice for severe security bugs to 'vanish' to a developer only section of the bug tracker, though not notifying the poster privately is stupid and far too common. Happened to me before.
Unlikely they just deleted the ticket, more likely to languish at the bottom of the bug queue for years if they didn't see it, so both versions of events are perfectly plausible.
Banning the account was over the top when he did something innocuous for a bug which could be used for many nefarious purposes, irrespective of EULA crap.
By the same logic, because I refuse to use windows because it's a broken operating system, and LIbre Office does everything I need, everyone will switch to Linux and Windows and Office are both going to die.
Unfortunately not everyone chooses their operating system on the same criteria as me, nor Matt, and making that assumption, even in an opinion piece on the register is ridiculous.
Oh dear, someone made a specification whereby websites are trusted to communicate their privacy policy correctly to the user agent? What sort of idiots would come up with such an idea, it's no wonder it never got any traction.
http://www.w3.org/2002/p3p-ws/registrants.html
Were I a shareholder in Google I would be calling them idiots for not making use of this to enable 3rd party cookies in IE and Safari with default settings (every other browser allows them).
Probably also worth a mention - how to disable third party cookies in most browsers:
http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/third-party-cookies.html
Personally I think Microsoft are the fools in this for including half baked browser privacy protections and then blaming other people for bypassing them.
Given a touch screen pocket device, how is making some obscure gesture on the screen with visual feedback patentable?
Surely it's obvious, you have to use a gesture as otherwise the screen could be unlocked accidentally, and you have to use visual feedback otherwise the user is never going to figure it out.
The only part you could argue was even vaguely non obvious is not just using an obscure button elsewhere on the device, on the grounds you can power down the touch screen completely thereby reducing battery usage.
I thought patents were supposed to help innovators, not protect market leaders and stifle innovators by making it impossible to produce anything which doesn't violate a dozen trivial patents.
You're right, it's still funny though.
I could have called it just another example of lawyers making laws more complicated to ensure their future fruitful employment. Any attempt to simplify laws by making new ones (without repealing older, more complex legislature) is a joke. But that'd be boring, depressing and right.
I'm finding Google's single sign on, and ability to switch between accounts a time saving feature. I actually don't really care how much they know about me, since I block the vast majority of their ads anyway. However I'm not very happy that by extension the DHS knows all about me.
Storm in a teacup, not newsworthy.
Most people don't care what someone uses for source control as long as it works for them. The only really major bonus of git over subversion is working offline, git is significantly more difficult to use.
As far as ASF forcing people to use subversion, maybe it's their source revision control of choice, but I'm fairly sure they don't force all their projects to use it, couchdb being an example. Sure they'll always be resistance from people familiar with one technology to using a new one, but I don't think it's some organized top down policy.
Lewis, if you want anyone to listen to you you'll have to stop quoting the most conservative estimates of deaths, even the WHO quotes (an eventual) 4000 deaths from Chernobyl as a result of cancer related deaths.
It would also have helped if your articles about "Don't panic there hasn't been a meltdown, and even if there was the containment wouldn't fail" regards Fukushima had turned out to be correct at any of the running reactors.
I think I'd rather be more than 100km away from the impact point if there was a snowballs chance in hell of it actually hitting the earth.
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=100&diam=400&pdens=3000&pdens_select=0&vel=13.7&theta=90&tdens=&tdens_select=3000
Even if it's made of ice and impacts at only 30 degrees, it'll still make a substantial crater according to that site. Meteroids < 10m in diameter sometimes survive the atmosphere, so you can be pretty sure one which is 400m in diameter (that's 1600 times as massive) is gonna make a pretty big dent.
This is the first thing for a long time I've heard about Nokia that hasn't made me think 'omg wtf are they doing'.
Maybe the positive reception for the N9 in the few places it has shipped has helped some people see the light.
It will take me more than a few Microsoft sponsored gartner studies to make me believe windows phone will ever be anything but a flop.