Posts by Peter Graham
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Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Do you exercise your rights similarly with off-line content? Do you have someone blank out the ads in magazines, or hold up screens in front of bus-shelter advertising?
I fast forward through ads when I watch recorded TV, and I mute the TV otherwise.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to SteveH,
Are you arguing that the second amendment means people have a constitutionally protected right on own cruise missiles?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the second amendment: "Obviously the Amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried — it’s to keep and “bear,” so it doesn’t apply to cannons — but I suppose here are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, that will have to be decided." Source
So yes. It's your right to own any cruise missile you can carry.
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Bomber has published Stephen McIntyre's description of what happened.
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Speaking of health, there's the latest from the Dunedin longitudinal study. The finding that consistent use of cannabis by young teenagers is likely to result in lower IQ scores later in life shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has followed this important body study. It's very clear now that the use of cannabis by young adolescents -- the younger, the worse it is -- is unacceptably risky.
Although it's not too late to have your say at the Herald.
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Why not prosecute the campaign volunteer?
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
We should really have similar rules for the computer industry.
In what way is that not true of the computer industry? There is plenty of 3rd-party iPhone servicing, for example.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Let me put this into a slightly different context. Nobel laureates Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Florey were drawing academic salaries and research budgets during the Great Depression.
if you're one of the uncountable millions whose lives have been improved - or even saved - by Penicillium-derived antibiotics, you tell me if that was a good investment.
And PAS relies on a technology invented at CERN.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Paul Campbell,
And don't insist on taking a cut on everything that I do - sell your hardware for enough that you make a profit and be done with it
Apple claim to make very little money from the app store.
Assuming you don't mind your laptop being slow, having the design values of a Christchurch 19-year-old's Subaru, more stickers than my record box and spooling the fan up to 737 levels every time you give it any work to do, then yes, there are competitors.
I've never bought a laptop or really used one, but Windows laptops do seem to be mostly terrible.
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Russell Brown,
You’re right, but access to the address book isn’t the same thing as malware.
I think an app copying my contacts without my knowledge is malware. Similiarly, I don't want an OS to send location information to its creator without at least telling me first.
computer programming will have become a privilege, to be exercised within the limits set by corporate society.
That's my problem with Apple.
I have the same problem with Apple so I don't use Apple products. There are plenty of competitors so I don't see this being a problem.
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I am not at risk of downloading malware via the iTunes Store
It is possible to get malware from the iTunes Store, although there might be much less than in Play or whatever Google is calling it today. It's simply not possible for Apple or Google to guarantee that an app isn't malware.
Also, I believe iOS allows any app access to your address book without requiring any privileges. I think that's most likely a genuine mistake, and it's going to be fixed in the next iOS, but the idea that iOS protects you from malicious apps in a way that Android doesn't is simply false.