All Thinkpads have a "no webcam" option and all W and T (and X?) series come with a free hardware kill switch for your microphone.
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People were emailing each other and secure IM'ing in 1999 on BlackBerries, I think you forget there was "internet phones" before the iPhone in 2007. This wasn't some "geek machine" it was something every wallstreet, government employee and exec had.
A mish-mash of other technologies available on the market? I don't doubt that it had a an impact on technology but it wasn't some epiphany, just a good iteration.
I think you need to dedicate the next 1.40.53hrs of your day to watching The Mother of All Demo's, it truly is one of the most amazing human technological feats - to even conceive these things let alone manage to produce and develop them and then demonstrate to a large audience and record the whole thing still blows my mind. Pretty much everything you are doing today on your laptop harks back to Dougs boundless imagination and execution, he deserves total utmost respect - not comparison. There is none, let alone with a phone.
I haven't used Dropbox in a while as a local client for other reasons but I think people need to appreciate this is the payoff for having the convenience? How can one expect it to sync changes if it never scans or detects changes? People seem to want a magical product where it never uses any HD throughput or CPU to index/scan/upload megabytes of data, sure it can look for changes less often but that decreases the usefulness of the product.
As a sidenote, surely all the dropboxers use dropbox for everything (they have unlimited accounts) so they must be 100% aware of this? in which case there must be concrete reasons for this!?
I'd like to know how you would explain to shareholders that you are spending thousands upon thousands of pounds running a service which generates no revenue and doesn't encourage use of its other products ("anecdotally, I don't even know anyone who uses Google Reader directly, they all have dedicated apps." hence no ad revenue or cross selling). It's nice if companies can do this but they aren't charities, this was a piece of charity google had to let go... and now we have a beautiful ecosystem of RSS clients with innovation and variety, I can't remember the last time I saw a monopoly was crushed of the companies choice and a tonne of little grass roots were seeded.
America can't undo its weapons problem even if it introduced gun control but discouraging pulling weapons out in public without serious consequences (even for the police) might stem this trend of pulling weapons at every situation.
What possible requirement could the " Alcohol Beverage Control Division" need to be armed?! Does every Government Official get a weapon/carry/threaten permit when they join?!
"UK government puts editor in jail for one of employees spying on a few dozen people. What punishment do they get for spying on a billion?"
The Government are working within the law... the press was not. Also all to combined government computing power in the UK couldn't analyse the amount of data the government would have to work through if it "spied" and analysed everything that went across any network. Classic case of "big data" analysis - parse all the data in motion, pull off the things of interest, discard the rest.
I might just be being cynical but this sounds like an intelligence led operation to remove people who were at a high risk of commiting public disorder. It seems pretty limited that it was 20 people and they were picked up all across london - the police didn't just swoop in on a group of protesters with anti-monarchy banners, they were specifically targeted. I appreciate although the UK has no "constitution" we have to free protest but from the riots last year I think The Met have every right to be cautious about preventing demonstrations which could spark into something dangerous at one of the biggest public spectacles of the decade, when the entire crowd is made up of families trying to enjoy themselves.
If the cause is so noble, one shouldn't need to use a large public spectacle as a vehicle for it.
[1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/27/activists-arrested-...
I would be interested to know how you propose using Adobe flash updater to push out a critical security patch to 10k + enterprise users.
The offload of the x-series business is most likely due to the fact that IBM can't compete on price with the volumes which HP & Dell shift. IBM have no real USP on X86 as enterprise are now mostly putting ESX, Xen or Openstack on them, IBM have no potential license or service fees generation.
It seems a sound business decision to me.
In the UK we have Drunk Driving and Drug Driving as separate offences, so what happens when I crash my car and test positive for weed and booze (we have chemical tests for both - unlike America's strange obsession with an officers judgement), they both carry the same sentence, does the prosecutor just throw out one of them at random as they are similar but overlap?
"But psychologically, if the jury see that a person has been charged" that is a whole different discussion on the suitability of jury as a method of trial, for a case to get in front of a jury it must have some merits which can't be ignored. Also as a sidenote, you don't think people would form an opinion if they had already seen some guy "walk free" from an earlier trial, then ended up sitting on the jury for a similar but not trial, the jury would have their first case facts from the media which is even worse idea.
"Always Up-to-date: A Ninite installer always gets an app's latest version no matter when you made it."
" But the ordinary practice is to charge all the possible offenses committed in the indictment, even if they overlap, and then let the jury sort them out at trial."
There is at least a passable amount of evidence for each of the charges, so naturally the prosecution will maximise the number of possible charges. This prevents the whole case falling through if of the one of the counts fails.