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What about cyclists buzzing pedestrians?
I see cyclists constantly breaking traffic rules, speeding through red lights, mounting onto the pavement, and they never get punished.
If cyclists want to be treated as a road vehicle, perhaps they should be registered like one with a license plate?
Apparently Apple has their own metallurgists now... nauseating...
"crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold."
The marketing hype is ridiculous and the fanboys are going to be unbearable:
Ion strengthened glass.
18K Gold developed to be twice as hard as standard gold.
The damage has been done, surely?
Headlines around the world are "iCloud hacked", "Apple hacking scandal", "Are your photos safe on iCloud?" etc.
Meanwhile celebrities like Kirsten Dunst have described iCloud as a "piece of shit" (a tweet with emoticons).
Timing is not great for Apple since they are supposed to be launching health and payment related features for iOS in the next few days.
Question is, would Apple have responded so quickly if celebrities weren't involved?
I'm sorry, all of this material would be thrown out of court. We really need hard evidence that would stand up in a war crimes trial in the Hague. One guy blogging about pictures he found on the internet is not good enough!
Here's an air-strike on a civilian area, and a probable war crime committed by the Ukrainian government. It's gory, it's sickening. How many reporters from the Free Press covered this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I91...
All sides must be held to account for any crimes committed. However, it's hard to have any kind of rational discussion when so many people have a Pavlovian reaction to the word "Russia" (and "China").
I have no dog in this fight, but it seems like even normally rational and logic-minded programmers and hackers are not immune to conditioning over a period of time.
It's annoying to lose karma and history, but never get a reply from them.
HKD is pegged to the USD so it works well as a proxy, and if you hold for the long-term, you have the potential upside of exchanging to RMB (stronger than the HKD and trend is up versus the USD) if or when the peg is removed.
That was debunked, it was a media reporting error, a '7' used instead of '5'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_referendum,_2014
In the evening of 16 March 2014, Mikhail Malyshev, the Crimean election Spokesman, reported that as of 20:00, 1,250,427 people or 81.36% voted in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and 274,136 or 89.50% voted in Sevastopol for a total of 1,524,563 or 82.71% of the electorate.[129] ITAR-TASS initially reported this as 1,724,563 voters in total,[130] but corrected it later.[131] The discrepancy led to some reports of a 123% turnout in Sevastopol.
Sorry, was hell banned, so switched to new handle. Timing was coincidental.
This map site was only recently registered. Does that mean anything?
http://who.godaddy.com/whoisstd.aspx?domain=liveuamap.com
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=liveuamap
Btw, wasn't blaming Ukraine for MH17, just saying we must keep an open mind, and wait for a full independent investigation before jumping to conclusions.
OMG.
Are you blind? There's literally tons of evidence.
Where? No satellite images, no black box recordings, no air traffic control recordings, etc. have been released to the public or to journalists. Please provide a link to evidence that has been reviewed and agreed on by independent bodies involved in the investigation.
The path of the BUK has been tracked down to meters thanks to satellite imagery
Where is the satellite imagery? Please post a link.
The preliminary report will be released in September confirming what everyone already knows.
If the report hasn't even been published yet, how do you or anyone else know what's in it?!
Why don't you let the investigation do it's job before jumping to conclusions?
Looks like propaganda.
Didn't Ukrainian president Poroshenko say he had hard evidence that the rebels and Russia shot down fligth MH17? Where is it? All gone a bit quiet hasn't it? Every few days he makes new claims but never backs them up with evidence.
Any Russian programmers want to comment? How does it feel for Russia to be constantly demonized? Even here on HackerNews, when was the last time there was any positive story involving Russia and technology? Maybe it was Tetris.
Yesterday Gazprom announced they are selling oil in Rubles and Yuan, no USD involved in the transaction, a story that might not make HackerNews but worthy of reporting in mainstream news, yet the headlines were that Russian hackers had targeted JP Morgan, and a few days before it was Chinese hackers.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la même chose.
Can Apple can stop the research team releasing the source code?
The research project was partly funded by NSF grants, so does that mean the public have the right to see all work related to the project?
I ask because the lead researcher, Jeremy Andrus, is now employed by Apple and wrote this on the YouTube video:
"I have started a job with Apple, and will not be continuing work on this project. The team at Columbia will probably be doing some follow up work, but I won't be involved from here on out."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg
http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/files/wpid-asplos2014-cider.p...
but it's against Apple's EULA
This is Hacker News, right?
Your way requires the developer to use Apportable to port an iOS app to Android. If the developer has agreed with Apple to not port the app to Android, it will never be available.
Their way gives the power to the user. The user copies across iOS app binary and system libraries and it's done.
Basically, your way empowers the developer, their way empowers the user.
You need to be commercially viable because your investors demand it. The price you charge developers may prevent some developers from porting their app.
They don't need to be commercially viable because they're a research project. If they release their source code, the community of hackers will develop a free and easy to install system to allow users to run any iOS app on Android.
It's a failure in Google's hiring practices that they allowed this guy to be hired.
If the right questions had been asked, surely they would have figured out he wanted to do his own thing, and thus there was no point hiring him?
Or maybe he's a very good liar?
It's a sad indictment of society and education standards that the comments in the post include this gem:
"Probable the best article I've read as a recent graduate."
TLDR:
What I’ve been told by one source, who has provided accurate information on similar matters in the past, is that U.S. intelligence agencies do have detailed satellite images of the likely missile battery that launched the fateful missile, but the battery appears to have been under the control of Ukrainian government troops dressed in what look like Ukrainian uniforms. ... There also was the suggestion that the soldiers involved were undisciplined and possibly drunk, since the imagery showed what looked like beer bottles scattered around the site, the source said.
Who is Robert Parry?
http://consortiumnews.com/about/
"Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 as the Internet’s first investigative magazine. He saw it as a way to combine modern technology and old-fashioned journalism to counter the increasing triviality of the mainstream U.S. news media."
To be fair, every accusation thrown at RT can be thrown at other broadcasters. It's all a matter of perspective.
In this specific case, who else is reporting the ten questions? I haven't seen any other coverage. Are the answers not important enough for the BBC, CNN, FOX, SKY to cover?
I didn't include MSNBC because it appears they're too busy making fools of themselves...
One could argue that if any side had firm evidence of the other side's culpability they would produce it.
The political damage to the opponent would be of far more real-world value than any possible impact from revealing one's technical ability, which the other side had probably already guessed or been made aware of.
I agree and disagree.
Tabloids are having a field day with claims of looting and corpses left to rot as a "final insult to the dead". Yet there has been no video of looters stuffing Euros into their pockets, despite the presence of 24/7 camera crews. Meanwhile others reporters are confirming that bodies are being recovered and sent to the morgue. So who is right?
Another contradiction are claims that "We have compelling evidence that THEY did it" yet at the same time there are headlines saying "THEY'RE destroying the evidence". So which is it? You either have the evidence or you don't, right?
What is reported as "fact" is so often just conjecture, opinion or simply made up, either to support a political narrative or boost ratings. Media reporting should have no bearing on an official investigation, but of course, they will have a huge influence in the court of public opinion.
The media are so desperate to get their ratings up, they'll literally let anybody have their say. Look how MSNBC got punked on the day of the crash:
People thought TWA 800 was hit by a missile but after months of investigative work it was determined not to be the case. So let's keep an open mind. The Ukrainians are not infallible.
After 9 Days, Ukraine Says Its Missile Hit A Russian Jet
Earlier today, Ukraine's military had taken responsibility after nine days of increasingly vaporous denials.
Seventy-eight people, most of them Russian émigrés to Israel, died when the Siberian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk exploded and plunged 35,000 feet into the sea off the Russian coast. Four minutes earlier, a Ukrainian air defense exercise fired two long-range antiaircraft missiles at a drone off the Black Sea's Crimean coast.
Russian investigators concluded on Friday that one of the missiles, an S-300, struck the drone, but that the second, an S-200, flew 150 more miles and unleashed a warhead of shrapnel balls at the airliner. /
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/world/after-9-days-ukraine...
For the sake of the victims, let's hope the investigation team get complete access to relevant data so we know what happened. Despite the rush to judgement and political posturing, all possible avenues must be explored.
Ukraine finally admitted yesterday that its military shot down a Russian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last week, killing all 78 passengers and crew.
Evhen Marchuk, the chairman of Ukraine's security council, conceded that the plane had probably been brought down by "an accidental hit from an S-200 rocket fired during exercises".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/135...