You know what? One of those African kids can take his or her OLPC unit and use to set up a donations website, with some interesting interesting pictures about his/her life, them (also with the same OLPC laptop) the very same kid could set up a paypal account to get the donations, and after all of this, this kid can come to this thread and put a link to this website. All of that in less than a day! I bet this kid will get a lot more donation money with this than if he/she would rely on Dvorak-like donations.
I know this little story is silly and has a lot of drawbacks, but I just showed it to point out that technology (Internet/computers in special) has infinitely many ways to help people change their lives. Giving food is only a way of (barely) keeping life going. If I were this kid I was talking about, I sure would rather having the laptop and so I could set up my paypal donations site pronto.
* Step 1) The system classifies a message as SPAM because SPAM messages are more likely to be sent to people that receive a lot of spam. So, if a certain email message is sent to X people (where X is a threshold) that get a lot of spam (bad reputation, step 2), the message will be classified as SPAM.
* Step 2) To calculate the reputation of someone, the system needs to know the ratio of "SPAM Mail" to "Good Mail" (step 3) for this particular person.
* Step 3) To calculate this ratio, the system has to know BEFOREHAND whether messages to this particular person are SPAM or not (step 4).
* Step 4) To know if a message is SPAM (or not) goto step 1.
Conclusion: IMHO, this system will always depend on older techniques to pre-classify SPAM messages. This classification might even be less strict, but it has to be done.
Just to complement my previous post, IPSF isn't maintaining anything. They don't even talk to you directly. Every contact you have with them is through their resellers, an the resellers are far from being able to solve the major technical issues regarding firmware updates.
Also, the IPSF software is totally dependent on the DevTeam jailbreak. You can only install the unlock software in the phone after you jailbreak it! That means that if the dev team stops working, bye bye IPSF!
How can anyone possibly thing going IPSF is even reasonable, let alone good????
iPhoneSimFree relies on hack too. It modifies the baseband's seczone so it reflects a known seczone, and then proceed with the unlock. Since the seczone is unique to each phone, it's never modified nor erased by firmware updates. And that's why the unlock keeps working, not because it was developed by "responsible" people. Also, this hack is dependent in a bug in the firmware (because the code isn't signed), so If any new firmware update solves this bug the phone will go back to the locked state in a heart beat. Also, unlocking the phone this way is only reversible if you backup your seczone, a feature that's is not even offered by IPSF's software. So much for "resposible developer", huh?
The real motive for opening the source for AnySIM is that the iPhone Dev Team doesn't have the time to work on the project by themselves anymore.
The other dev team (iPhone Elite Team) was able to patch the binary so it works with the new firmware (sort of) before any update form the iPhone Dev Team.
They are so out of time that they still didn't reverse engineered the basic functions from iTunes that are necessary for the jailbreak process of newer firmwares. These are the functions iTunes uses for restoring the phone's firmware and stuff like that. Every thing was figured out for firmwares 1.0.2 and under, but ever since the Firmware 1.1.1 was out the process no longer used these funcitions directly. Instead, it relies on minor flaws in the update process like leaving some symbolic links that are no erased afeter the update or device files. Although these techniques work, you always have to downgrade the firmware, create the symbolic link or the device file, then update the firmware (the update process doesn't erase the links nor the device file). Ok, one might say they came up with a neat solution with the jailbreakme.com site, that uses a buffer overflow in Safari, but still, the old way was a lot better (since it used iTunes native calls) and faster. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or anything, these guys are awesome. They simply don't have the time anymore. They have their families and their jobs. It's a cool project if you crack the phone just once and that's it, but when you're faced with the need to maintain the jacks, now that's not so cool.
That's why they are opening anySIM, even though this will give apple much more information regarding the bugs that are being exploited. And I agree with them. After all, "Better off alone" just makes sense when you're actually doing something.
It seems the Industry is finally realizing that "Open Platforms" are better than closed ones, and that is worthless fighting against this trend. One might thing this move is due to Google's Android, but it's not. It's more like Android is an older sibling.
Any excuse is being used these days to label people as terrorists, imagine if you are in a 'do not track' list for online activities!
I believe people in this "do not track" list would most certainly make their way into some other NSA terrorist tracking list as well. People would protest against that, they would say that this violates their privacy,their civil liberties, but The US government would simply cite the Patriot Act and some other national security excuse like "not all people on the 'do not track' list are terrorists, but terrorists are using this list against the US people, so we must take action and monitor the people that wish not to be tracked!". The initial fuzz would cease and everybody would passively accept this 'violation', mostly thinking they have nothing to hide. After a couple of years we would find out that some major telecommunications company is helping the US government tracking people in the 'do not track' list and a federal suit would be placed against this company. The suit would last only a few month, because the government would issue some new legislation (with the cooperation of all the legislative from both parties) that would protect the telecom company (and all others like it) against such charges (after all they are helping national security!). Again, after a few months, some other non-governmental institution would propose a new list (much in the same sense as the do not call list) that would protect people against social networking stalking. The government would consider the people on this list as potential terrorists, then.... etc... etc... etc... and everybody would accept that passively as they have nothing to hide... etc... etc...and the telecom company would be charged... etc...etc... and charges would be dropped... etc... etc... national security... etc... etc...
BS! Technology just boast your inner self. You can always be more efficient when you have access to better technology, even if you're a criminal. If the world is breeding criminals, that's for a different reason.
you discover Springboard always had some support for additional applications... and going forward, more was added. In 1.1.1, Springboard even added code added that supported multiple pages of applications... a pretty clear indication that either Apple was planning to add a LOT more apps, or were thinking of third-party dev. Well, since Apple has added multiple pages to springboard just recently, It's safe to assume they changed their strategy towards 3d party apps. The first version of springboard had support for only one page in a clear indication Apple hadn't planned to have lots of more apps (as you said) form the beginning. It's more like they've changed their minds.
It seems apple has updated the iPhone to use the same interface used by iPod Touch.
Basically, there's no means to jailbreak (enable direct right access) the phone yet. This is because iTunes requests now need to be authenticated through a PKI scheme.
In order to bypass iTunes activation, you either patch the lockdownd bunary (that is responsible for checking activation status) or replace Apple's Public Key in the phone (so you can sign your activation with a custom private key). Since there's no right access to change these files, only ATT can activate iPhones with this firmware (1.1.1) for now.
Aparently, the 1.1.1 update has an intermediate "preparation" update before the main thing goes on. It is believed that this first change is responsible for the introduction of the iPOD touch protections. Some folks believe if this first update can be bypassed, there won't be any problems.
Also, there is a change to the firmware image. The image is encrypted, and the decryption process happens inside the phone. That's true for all versions. The iPhone loads a ramdisk image into its RAM. This ramdisk contains all the info needed to decrypt the image files. The difference between 1.0.2 and 1.1.1 is that in 1.0.2 this ramdisk wasn't encrypted at all, and now, in 1.1.1, it is encrypted with AES256 and signed with DSA1024. So, before it was ease to decrypt the image file. One only needs to mount the ramdisk and extract the keys. Now the ramdisk needs to be decrypted first. Of course, the key for decrypting the ramdisk is somewhere, and some folks believe this key can be found in the first "preparation" update that comes with 1.1.1
DISCLAIMER: Everything here might be a misinterpretation, disregard any accuracies, please, after all, this is not intended to be a guide of any sort.
Latest reports tell us about a malfunction in the stealthy mode functionality (nicknamed Invisibility Cloak). In some cases, it renders the soldier naked.
Where does money come from? It depends on your currency. In the case of Dollar, it comes from the FED, the one and olnly source for dollar bills.
How does money get distributed among the nation? Through the Baning infrastructure which lends money to people and companies and gets interest in return.
How banks get money? From the FED! And not the magic happens:
Summing up:
1) FED prints money (the paper itself is legal tender, no need for gold to back it up)
2) FED lends this paper to the Banks
3) FED gets the interest from the paper loan from the Banks
How do the Banks pay the interests to the FED? Getting new loans! From who? From the FED!
So, the FED prints worthless money that is turned into debt that is only payable through new debt!
And the thing goes on and on!
Basically, THE FED is MAGICAL MONEY MACHINE!
Awesome!
If you want to play as a woman now in game you have to prove you are a women via web cam. Do they get to see the vagina? It won't work otherwise.
It's not too hard for a men to disguise as a women, specially under a webcam feed. Really motivated (and weird) dudes will certainly keep playing as women if they want to.
We'll get our calls eavesdropped anyway. With them, at least we get free calls in return. And as a bonus, we stop the endless wondering about being watched.
I've seen these submission stories before but in the book industry. I'm sorry, but the book industry has a totally different reality as apposed to academic publications. Academic publishers usually have little or nothing to do with paper acceptation. This is handled almost exclusively by who organizes the conference/journal. Conference and Journal organizers are not interested in selling better simply because they are not the ones to profit from sales (publishes are). Your example is inappropriate at least.
If the review process is more likely to select the same paper for publication with a masculine name on it than with a feminine name, it looks like bias is slipping into their procedures somehow regardless of supposed double-blindness. And you say that's because women have just the same education opportunities as men, right? NOT!
I think there's a problem , yes, there's. But you're seeing it in the wrong place. Better research results are more prone to be credited to men, not because journal referees will most likely choose a man names over a good research work. THe predominance of "men names", if it happens, is probably because women haven't been given the same education opportunities. It's not about who is more clever, but if you're trying to compete with a guy that has twice or even three time the budget you have, and access to better facilities, better everything, you'll most likely produce an inferior result. I don't think a good research work will be dumped because it has a woman's name on it. I seriously don't think referees will go through the trouble of defrauding the double blind process just so they can accept more papers from the dudes.
Conferences and journals that use a review process that keep submitters' identities anonymous from reviewers accept significantly more submissions from women and ethnic minorities than those that don't. And those are the only ones that are serious, IMHO. I just can't think of any respectful non-blind journal or conference.
One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor. This bias is unaccountable, but adds to institutional bias, he said.
That sounds an awful lot like bias to me. That's why serious journals and conferences usually go through a double blind reviewing process. How is bias against women going on these? Any sex changes?
Engineering research facilities that interview candidates based only on how many papers they have had published also risk adding to the problem, according to Berners-Lee, because of an apparent in-built bias against women. I can't see how requiring a good publication record is in any way a bias against women. That requirement applies to anyone, regardless sex or gender, and it's gonna be an unfair burden to anybody who is starting her/his career (or a fair one for people who are just plain mediocre).
I may agree that this requirement alone might not be enough to select the best professional, but everybody suffers with that, not just women.
Puerto Rico has its own TLD (.PR) since 1989. The funny thing is that Puerto Rico was never a country, it used to be a Spanish Colony way back in history and it's been a US territory for the last half century.
Why do they bother so much about other non-country's TLDs?
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You know what? One of those African kids can take his or her OLPC unit and use to set up a donations website, with some interesting interesting pictures about his/her life, them (also with the same OLPC laptop) the very same kid could set up a paypal account to get the donations, and after all of this, this kid can come to this thread and put a link to this website. All of that in less than a day! I bet this kid will get a lot more donation money with this than if he/she would rely on Dvorak-like donations. I know this little story is silly and has a lot of drawbacks, but I just showed it to point out that technology (Internet/computers in special) has infinitely many ways to help people change their lives. Giving food is only a way of (barely) keeping life going. If I were this kid I was talking about, I sure would rather having the laptop and so I could set up my paypal donations site pronto.
Let's see the Pseudo-code:
* Step 1) The system classifies a message as SPAM because SPAM messages are more likely to be sent to people that receive a lot of spam. So, if a certain email message is sent to X people (where X is a threshold) that get a lot of spam (bad reputation, step 2), the message will be classified as SPAM.
* Step 2) To calculate the reputation of someone, the system needs to know the ratio of "SPAM Mail" to "Good Mail" (step 3) for this particular person.
* Step 3) To calculate this ratio, the system has to know BEFOREHAND whether messages to this particular person are SPAM or not (step 4).
* Step 4) To know if a message is SPAM (or not) goto step 1.
Conclusion: IMHO, this system will always depend on older techniques to pre-classify SPAM messages. This classification might even be less strict, but it has to be done.
Just to complement my previous post, IPSF isn't maintaining anything. They don't even talk to you directly. Every contact you have with them is through their resellers, an the resellers are far from being able to solve the major technical issues regarding firmware updates. Also, the IPSF software is totally dependent on the DevTeam jailbreak. You can only install the unlock software in the phone after you jailbreak it! That means that if the dev team stops working, bye bye IPSF! How can anyone possibly thing going IPSF is even reasonable, let alone good????
iPhoneSimFree relies on hack too. It modifies the baseband's seczone so it reflects a known seczone, and then proceed with the unlock. Since the seczone is unique to each phone, it's never modified nor erased by firmware updates. And that's why the unlock keeps working, not because it was developed by "responsible" people. Also, this hack is dependent in a bug in the firmware (because the code isn't signed), so If any new firmware update solves this bug the phone will go back to the locked state in a heart beat. Also, unlocking the phone this way is only reversible if you backup your seczone, a feature that's is not even offered by IPSF's software. So much for "resposible developer", huh?
The real motive for opening the source for AnySIM is that the iPhone Dev Team doesn't have the time to work on the project by themselves anymore. The other dev team (iPhone Elite Team) was able to patch the binary so it works with the new firmware (sort of) before any update form the iPhone Dev Team. They are so out of time that they still didn't reverse engineered the basic functions from iTunes that are necessary for the jailbreak process of newer firmwares. These are the functions iTunes uses for restoring the phone's firmware and stuff like that. Every thing was figured out for firmwares 1.0.2 and under, but ever since the Firmware 1.1.1 was out the process no longer used these funcitions directly. Instead, it relies on minor flaws in the update process like leaving some symbolic links that are no erased afeter the update or device files. Although these techniques work, you always have to downgrade the firmware, create the symbolic link or the device file, then update the firmware (the update process doesn't erase the links nor the device file). Ok, one might say they came up with a neat solution with the jailbreakme.com site, that uses a buffer overflow in Safari, but still, the old way was a lot better (since it used iTunes native calls) and faster. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or anything, these guys are awesome. They simply don't have the time anymore. They have their families and their jobs. It's a cool project if you crack the phone just once and that's it, but when you're faced with the need to maintain the jacks, now that's not so cool. That's why they are opening anySIM, even though this will give apple much more information regarding the bugs that are being exploited. And I agree with them. After all, "Better off alone" just makes sense when you're actually doing something.
Dude! I swear I thought this article was about the actual "Area 51". I guess I'm not enough of a geek...
It seems the Industry is finally realizing that "Open Platforms" are better than closed ones, and that is worthless fighting against this trend. One might thing this move is due to Google's Android, but it's not. It's more like Android is an older sibling.
Any excuse is being used these days to label people as terrorists, imagine if you are in a 'do not track' list for online activities!
I believe people in this "do not track" list would most certainly make their way into some other NSA terrorist tracking list as well. People would protest against that, they would say that this violates their privacy,their civil liberties, but The US government would simply cite the Patriot Act and some other national security excuse like "not all people on the 'do not track' list are terrorists, but terrorists are using this list against the US people, so we must take action and monitor the people that wish not to be tracked!". The initial fuzz would cease and everybody would passively accept this 'violation', mostly thinking they have nothing to hide. After a couple of years we would find out that some major telecommunications company is helping the US government tracking people in the 'do not track' list and a federal suit would be placed against this company. The suit would last only a few month, because the government would issue some new legislation (with the cooperation of all the legislative from both parties) that would protect the telecom company (and all others like it) against such charges (after all they are helping national security!). Again, after a few months, some other non-governmental institution would propose a new list (much in the same sense as the do not call list) that would protect people against social networking stalking. The government would consider the people on this list as potential terrorists, then.... etc... etc... etc... and everybody would accept that passively as they have nothing to hide... etc... etc...and the telecom company would be charged... etc...etc... and charges would be dropped... etc... etc... national security... etc... etc...
BS! Technology just boast your inner self. You can always be more efficient when you have access to better technology, even if you're a criminal. If the world is breeding criminals, that's for a different reason.
Damn, Hollywood! I blame you!
It seems apple has updated the iPhone to use the same interface used by iPod Touch. Basically, there's no means to jailbreak (enable direct right access) the phone yet. This is because iTunes requests now need to be authenticated through a PKI scheme. In order to bypass iTunes activation, you either patch the lockdownd bunary (that is responsible for checking activation status) or replace Apple's Public Key in the phone (so you can sign your activation with a custom private key). Since there's no right access to change these files, only ATT can activate iPhones with this firmware (1.1.1) for now. Aparently, the 1.1.1 update has an intermediate "preparation" update before the main thing goes on. It is believed that this first change is responsible for the introduction of the iPOD touch protections. Some folks believe if this first update can be bypassed, there won't be any problems. Also, there is a change to the firmware image. The image is encrypted, and the decryption process happens inside the phone. That's true for all versions. The iPhone loads a ramdisk image into its RAM. This ramdisk contains all the info needed to decrypt the image files. The difference between 1.0.2 and 1.1.1 is that in 1.0.2 this ramdisk wasn't encrypted at all, and now, in 1.1.1, it is encrypted with AES256 and signed with DSA1024. So, before it was ease to decrypt the image file. One only needs to mount the ramdisk and extract the keys. Now the ramdisk needs to be decrypted first. Of course, the key for decrypting the ramdisk is somewhere, and some folks believe this key can be found in the first "preparation" update that comes with 1.1.1 DISCLAIMER: Everything here might be a misinterpretation, disregard any accuracies, please, after all, this is not intended to be a guide of any sort.
Where does money come from? It depends on your currency. In the case of Dollar, it comes from the FED, the one and olnly source for dollar bills. How does money get distributed among the nation? Through the Baning infrastructure which lends money to people and companies and gets interest in return. How banks get money? From the FED! And not the magic happens: Summing up: 1) FED prints money (the paper itself is legal tender, no need for gold to back it up) 2) FED lends this paper to the Banks 3) FED gets the interest from the paper loan from the Banks How do the Banks pay the interests to the FED? Getting new loans! From who? From the FED! So, the FED prints worthless money that is turned into debt that is only payable through new debt! And the thing goes on and on! Basically, THE FED is MAGICAL MONEY MACHINE! Awesome!
It's not too hard for a men to disguise as a women, specially under a webcam feed. Really motivated (and weird) dudes will certainly keep playing as women if they want to.
We'll get our calls eavesdropped anyway. With them, at least we get free calls in return. And as a bonus, we stop the endless wondering about being watched.
1. embedded Light Saber
2. replicator chip
3. Anti-gravity chip
4. isolinear optical chip
The rest, iPhone already does it all.
One academic went through a sex change, submitted the same papers under both identities, and found that papers were accepted from a man but were rejected when they came from a woman, said the web inventor. This bias is unaccountable, but adds to institutional bias, he said.
That sounds an awful lot like bias to me. That's why serious journals and conferences usually go through a double blind reviewing process. How is bias against women going on these? Any sex changes?
I may agree that this requirement alone might not be enough to select the best professional, but everybody suffers with that, not just women.
Come on, let's not bias the bias!
So let's have .UT for UTAH as well, what do you think?
Puerto Rico has its own TLD (.PR) since 1989. The funny thing is that Puerto Rico was never a country, it used to be a Spanish Colony way back in history and it's been a US territory for the last half century. Why do they bother so much about other non-country's TLDs?
I guess that depends on that GPLv3 thingy...