I'm not saying you'd win, as obviously the intent is to prevent running the software on non-apple machines, but the language is sufficiently vague that you'd have a case. To me, and to the "average" person, "labelling" something involves putting a label on it. "Apple Labelled", to me, means something labeled as "Apple". Not *by* Apple, but *as* Apple. Indeed, only Apple or an authorized agent could label something "by Apple". But anyone can label something "as Apple". If I put the Apple sticker on my car is in fact, under any reasonable English definition, "Apple Labeled". This is the distinction that the changed wording avoids.
Its hardly been tested in court, but it'd seem that my Dell Mini 9 with an apple sticker on the back qualifies as an "Apple Labeled Computer", especially since the apple sticker came from apple and shipped with my macbook pro.
This would satisfy the EULA agreement for OS X versions 10.5 and lower. They changed the wording in the 10.6 agreement to be "Apple Branded," which makes it a bit more difficult for a non-apple machine to qualify. That said, it all comes down to how you define "labeled" and "branded";-)
Last I checked sim cards just had embedded "smart cards" which are just fancy contacts to a relatively "dumb" small thin embedded security chip and some flash memory.
Admittedly, I have no idea if it works, nor do I have any idea how it decides to load balance between the connections.. But I ran across the feature the other day and it looked pretty cool.
In Mac OS X you can create a new "Aggregate" network device from any other devices and, in theory, do exactly what your describing. Again, I just ran across this the other day in Network Preferences and have no idea if/how it works, but it might be worth a shot (especially since it seems a lot easier to configure than a roll your own router with dd-wrt or tomato, though those likely offer more fine-tuned configuration).
Correct... which is not the way it should be. Apple is now signing the APN settings for tethering in the carrier bundles; without the signing key you can't modify the tethering settings. If they *must* pull some BS like this to appease the carriers, they should do it on a "whitelist" basis; IE *if* your carrier is AT&T (Just about the only carrier that gives a shit how their customers use the data they rightfully paid for... Ugh...), *then* you enforce the signed APN policy. Otherwise, the user can set whatever carrier settings they desire, based on what their carrier *actually supports*. Gee, what a novel idea! This whole "blacklisting" way of enforcing carrier tethering settings is moronic and the byproduct of AT&T being a bunch of greedy asshats at the detriment of... everyone else.
That said, the dev team will hopefully eventually release a workaround... IE, modify the software to ignore the signatures and work as it did before.
Precomputed hashes are useless unless they are *sorted* then they become useful. If you have a sorted precomputed hash table for, say, all 10 character passwords and you have a hash then you can *instantly* locate the matching hash from your table and retrieve the password provided it is 10 or fewer characters. Brute forcing would take *much* longer, even on modern CPUS. With hard drive space as cheap as it is these days, huge presorted precomputed hash tables are very feasible.. this is largely the reason why salts are used, as they effectively increase the password length to the point where using a table is infeasible.
You are indeed correct.. A good modern beta deck that supports all the new beta formats will run you ~$20,000... Move into the HD world and Betacam HD, and you'll be pushing $40k for a deck. "Pro" tax indeed.
This is honestly pretty pathetic, but I just check our router at home to see what my parents have been using with me not there...
We have a 20Mbps down/5mbps up FIOS connection.. and according to the router, we've used just about 3.8GB downloading in the last 37 days, and just over 2.1GB uploading.
When I'm home Im sure that number jumps exponentially, but that's honestly pretty sad. I guess they really only use it for casual browsing, email/gmail and occasionally uploading pictures to flickr. Plus they both work, and obviously have connections at work too.
I feel bad though; I need to set up a VPN and start using some of my home bandwidth:P
"The geographic locations of the datacenters were chosen to give protection against catastrophic events"
Geographically disperse full redundancy is also a major key factor.
None of that, of course, helps protect infrastructure in hurricane prone areas. To do that you need to bury power and data lines deep underground, shield them from vibration and moisture, and protect them from faults from failing hardware above ground. Keeping the mobile phone infrastructure up and running may require severely ruggedizing towers... but even then, antennas on top of buildings, etc, are still vulnerable... If a hurricane rips up the building your cell antennas are on.. there's not much you can do (Other then roll in your disaster recovery unit (Like AT&Ts http://www.corp.att.com/ndr/ )
(Prize money comes from a special donation provided by an individual EFF supporter, earmarked specifically for this project. Prize money does NOT come from EFF membership dues, corporate or foundation grants, or other general EFF funds.)
Start by learning about logic circuits and building some yourself using a software simulator like Logisim. Once you get the basics down, you can build some really complex circuits (logisim lets you "package" entire circuits in ICs, just like you would if you built a real chip.
Try and build an LCD controller;-) Once you get circuit logic down you'll really have a good understanding of how electronics work on a fundamental level. Then you can start to move to hardware, perhaps by getting a reprogrammable FPGA setup and building projects with that.
You're missing the point... flash and silverlight require plugins to work in a web browser. Not only is this an extra install for the end user, it also means not all platforms and browsers will be supported (A great example being no flash/silverlight on the iPhone...)
The nice thing about "SproutCore" is that is 100% based on web standards (HTML, XML, JavaScript, etc) and will work on any platform and in any browser that follows those standards out of the box, no plugins needed!
Works fine here.. you might not have had execute permissions set on your server for the cgi file... Here's an active test of the sample code ("Only" downloads 4 harmless files)
Maybe I just have a sick mind, or maybe it's because I know nothing about the subject.. But I could have sworn the article was talking about "large hardons..":-)
And here are download links and details on each of them:)
No format tag (standard): 320x240 @ 29.97 fps Flash video (Sorenson h.263) MP3 Audio (22.05KHz, mono) FLV container 3.28MB http://g.appleguru.org/nofmt.flv
Format 6 tag: 448x298 @ 29.98fps Flash video (Sorenson h.263) MP3 Audio (44.1KHz, mono) FLV Conatiner 9.44MB http://g.appleguru.org/fmt6.flv
Format 17 tag: 176x144 @ 12fps MPEG-4 Video (simple profile) MPEG-4 (AAC) audio (22.05KHz, mono) 3gp container 832KB http://g.appleguru.org/fmt17.3gp
Format 18 tag: 480x320 @ 29.97fps MPEG-4 Video (H.264) MPEG-4 (AAC) audio (44.1KHz, STEREO!) mp4 container 6.28MB http://g.appleguru.org/fmt18.mp4
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I'm not saying you'd win, as obviously the intent is to prevent running the software on non-apple machines, but the language is sufficiently vague that you'd have a case. To me, and to the "average" person, "labelling" something involves putting a label on it. "Apple Labelled", to me, means something labeled as "Apple". Not *by* Apple, but *as* Apple. Indeed, only Apple or an authorized agent could label something "by Apple". But anyone can label something "as Apple". If I put the Apple sticker on my car is in fact, under any reasonable English definition, "Apple Labeled". This is the distinction that the changed wording avoids.
Its hardly been tested in court, but it'd seem that my Dell Mini 9 with an apple sticker on the back qualifies as an "Apple Labeled Computer", especially since the apple sticker came from apple and shipped with my macbook pro.
This would satisfy the EULA agreement for OS X versions 10.5 and lower. They changed the wording in the 10.6 agreement to be "Apple Branded," which makes it a bit more difficult for a non-apple machine to qualify. That said, it all comes down to how you define "labeled" and "branded" ;-)
[citation needed]
Last I checked sim cards just had embedded "smart cards" which are just fancy contacts to a relatively "dumb" small thin embedded security chip and some flash memory.
Admittedly, I have no idea if it works, nor do I have any idea how it decides to load balance between the connections.. But I ran across the feature the other day and it looked pretty cool.
In Mac OS X you can create a new "Aggregate" network device from any other devices and, in theory, do exactly what your describing. Again, I just ran across this the other day in Network Preferences and have no idea if/how it works, but it might be worth a shot (especially since it seems a lot easier to configure than a roll your own router with dd-wrt or tomato, though those likely offer more fine-tuned configuration).
Correct... which is not the way it should be. Apple is now signing the APN settings for tethering in the carrier bundles; without the signing key you can't modify the tethering settings. If they *must* pull some BS like this to appease the carriers, they should do it on a "whitelist" basis; IE *if* your carrier is AT&T (Just about the only carrier that gives a shit how their customers use the data they rightfully paid for... Ugh...), *then* you enforce the signed APN policy. Otherwise, the user can set whatever carrier settings they desire, based on what their carrier *actually supports*. Gee, what a novel idea! This whole "blacklisting" way of enforcing carrier tethering settings is moronic and the byproduct of AT&T being a bunch of greedy asshats at the detriment of... everyone else.
That said, the dev team will hopefully eventually release a workaround... IE, modify the software to ignore the signatures and work as it did before.
Precomputed hashes are useless unless they are *sorted* then they become useful. If you have a sorted precomputed hash table for, say, all 10 character passwords and you have a hash then you can *instantly* locate the matching hash from your table and retrieve the password provided it is 10 or fewer characters. Brute forcing would take *much* longer, even on modern CPUS. With hard drive space as cheap as it is these days, huge presorted precomputed hash tables are very feasible.. this is largely the reason why salts are used, as they effectively increase the password length to the point where using a table is infeasible.
You are indeed correct.. A good modern beta deck that supports all the new beta formats will run you ~$20,000... Move into the HD world and Betacam HD, and you'll be pushing $40k for a deck. "Pro" tax indeed.
This is honestly pretty pathetic, but I just check our router at home to see what my parents have been using with me not there...
We have a 20Mbps down/5mbps up FIOS connection.. and according to the router, we've used just about 3.8GB downloading in the last 37 days, and just over 2.1GB uploading.
When I'm home Im sure that number jumps exponentially, but that's honestly pretty sad. I guess they really only use it for casual browsing, email/gmail and occasionally uploading pictures to flickr. Plus they both work, and obviously have connections at work too.
I feel bad though; I need to set up a VPN and start using some of my home bandwidth :P
That's Google's strategy.. seems to work pretty good for them ;)
From http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/pdf/ds_gsa_apps_whitepaper_0207.pdf :
"The geographic locations of the datacenters were chosen to give protection against catastrophic events"
Geographically disperse full redundancy is also a major key factor.
None of that, of course, helps protect infrastructure in hurricane prone areas. To do that you need to bury power and data lines deep underground, shield them from vibration and moisture, and protect them from faults from failing hardware above ground. Keeping the mobile phone infrastructure up and running may require severely ruggedizing towers... but even then, antennas on top of buildings, etc, are still vulnerable... If a hurricane rips up the building your cell antennas are on.. there's not much you can do (Other then roll in your disaster recovery unit (Like AT&Ts http://www.corp.att.com/ndr/ )
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Most notably:
Start by learning about logic circuits and building some yourself using a software simulator like Logisim. Once you get the basics down, you can build some really complex circuits (logisim lets you "package" entire circuits in ICs, just like you would if you built a real chip.
http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/
Crossplatform too ;)
Try and build an LCD controller ;-) Once you get circuit logic down you'll really have a good understanding of how electronics work on a fundamental level. Then you can start to move to hardware, perhaps by getting a reprogrammable FPGA setup and building projects with that.
You're missing the point... flash and silverlight require plugins to work in a web browser. Not only is this an extra install for the end user, it also means not all platforms and browsers will be supported (A great example being no flash/silverlight on the iPhone...) The nice thing about "SproutCore" is that is 100% based on web standards (HTML, XML, JavaScript, etc) and will work on any platform and in any browser that follows those standards out of the box, no plugins needed!
Works fine here.. you might not have had execute permissions set on your server for the cgi file... Here's an active test of the sample code ("Only" downloads 4 harmless files)
http://appleguru.org/webkit_test/
Easily circumvented; on os x...
sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr 00:1B:63:00:00:00
Or using one of the other iphone prefixes:
00:1B:63
00:1D:4F
00:1E:C2
Maybe I just have a sick mind, or maybe it's because I know nothing about the subject.. But I could have sworn the article was talking about "large hardons.." :-)
WTF are you talking about? He's showing half rez pngs, and when you click on them you get the full rez versions...
99/100 now ;-) Not that I really care all that much, but I actually use webkit (and test the nightly builds daily)...
http://webkit.org/blog/172/enabling-svg-animation-acid3-99100/
I'm scoring 90 with the latest webkit build (30790) (in leopard). I was getting 87 with 30726.
There's also a fmt13 tag, that gives the following!
Format 13 tag:
176x144 @ 15fps
H.263 Video
AMR Narrowband Audio (8KHz, mono)
3gp container
700KB
http://g.appleguru.org/fmt13.3gp
Cheers! Verified.. I downloaded the video files for each format from youtube.. they are as follows:
;)
:)
:-)
Presumably anything that's available on the iphone will be available in fmt 18 and/or fmt 17. 18 looks good
Here's a screenshot that compares the formats: http://g.appleguru.org/youtubeformats.png
And here are download links and details on each of them
No format tag (standard):
320x240 @ 29.97 fps
Flash video (Sorenson h.263)
MP3 Audio (22.05KHz, mono)
FLV container
3.28MB
http://g.appleguru.org/nofmt.flv
Format 6 tag:
448x298 @ 29.98fps
Flash video (Sorenson h.263)
MP3 Audio (44.1KHz, mono)
FLV Conatiner
9.44MB
http://g.appleguru.org/fmt6.flv
Format 17 tag:
176x144 @ 12fps
MPEG-4 Video (simple profile)
MPEG-4 (AAC) audio (22.05KHz, mono)
3gp container
832KB
http://g.appleguru.org/fmt17.3gp
Format 18 tag:
480x320 @ 29.97fps
MPEG-4 Video (H.264)
MPEG-4 (AAC) audio (44.1KHz, STEREO!)
mp4 container
6.28MB
http://g.appleguru.org/fmt18.mp4
Coolness
Here ya go :) (Might take a few minutes to come online)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBAnCsmf2A4
You have two options... (Though only the first will help you with backing up to an airdisk)
;-)
1) defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
2) Buy leopard server
He just enjoys playing with his carrier tag ;) Present in the video are: ET 3G, WiMax, 700 MHz, and DoCoMo
Grab the coral cache mirror of the page here: http://www.edwardtufte.com.nyud.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00036T&topic_id=1
Also, I've mirrored the video, as that was the slowest loading element of the page, here:
http://g.appleguru.org/iPhone_Resolution-desktop.m4v (58MB)
Check again... they're two entirely different summaries of the exact same Wired article.