Can Microsoft do that as well? It's their platform right? Oh, wait, it's Apple so it's fine now.
I don't know who should win in this one. Perhaps I'll wait till the docs are actually filed and can read the actual arguments and get actual law instead of some journalists opinion on what is.
Yeah, I fully agree. Apple should not be allowed to leverage their monopoly in mobile phones to lock out content development standards such as Flash.
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Yup. I had an iPod touch before, and location based applications (for example showing the closest restaurants) worked almost as well as they do on my iPhone. I don't quite understand how it's done, as my internet connection is from one of the largest ISP's in Finland and I did not expect the gateway to identify my location...
If the drive is secure, you don't give attackers 2 hours to break it, you publish the implementation details and give a prize to the first person to demonstrate a feasible attack with this knowledge.
I'm not sure how well that would go through with marketing.
If the camera was a networked device always running on the background Canon might react differently too. Maybe if Canon sold software packages to enhance the camera and this ate their sales they might also work against it. As is, I think this is really not very popular (all the people I know have a canon camera, none have installed CHDK vs. 25% of them have an iPhone and quite a few jailbroke them), so they have no reason to waste resources in fighting it.
Recent polls show that most people regard Internet access as a fundamental right and considering how important Internet access has become that is very understandable.
Which is not surprising. We recently had a strike where bus drivers left a lot of shifts out. In an interview the guy responsible for all of the capitals buss traffic mentioned one way to find out which shifts are run and which are not - checking their web page. If public services are moving everything to the web like this, the internet can really be seen as a fundamental right.
No, now they are trying to convince Scandinavian countries that we should allow them to pull a fat pipe along the baltic sea. There is a lot of resistance from all the green parties, and if this was combined with a large "look how they use this to control everyone" group it would not go through.
Agreed. The biggest threat to national security is probably windows XP. Here's an idea: let's start teaching high school students something other than Word and Excel, hmm?
I think Adobe has lately proven they will happily take the "key attack vector" crown from Microsoft and carry it with pride and negligence. If they did not, somebody else would probably take their place.
Add to this that we have plenty of nitrates and phosphorous in the baltic sea anyway dispite trying to regulate how close to the coast the farmers are aloud to grow plants (actually they get financial benefits for leaving a gap close to the shore). The problem in the baltic sea is not that the plants don't have enough fertilizer to grow, its that they have too much.
Tom's Hardware got a tour of WD? I expect good reviews for WD gear on TH in the near future..
I would not be surprised, they really had the ability to twist their tests some years ago when I last went there. I can't believe they where testing Nuendo performance by seeing how long it took to render the final project, when what really matters for anyone using the product was how many fx / synthesizers and audio tracks you can run in real time while working on the product. The final rendering took a very short time and is only done once (theoretically) when you are finished with the project. Of course the catch is that at the time Intel did very well in the final render, but very badly in the real work... I even sent them feedback regarding it, I was working in the field at the time and it really annoyed me...
We have used a lot of WD internal drives in our workstations for the last year (few hundred machines) and the reliability has been outstanding (especially compared to the Maxtors before that, but it was Maxtors worse period). However we have had very bad experiences with their external Mybook series. I spoke with a support dude for the biggest computer store in my home country and he said the same, the external drives are dying a lot. Probably it's the power supplies or heat as the drives in side them are the same.
Not just the ISP's. My employers main product has over 1 1/2 billion page impressions a month, needless to say we don't store (most) logs related to them for very long...
I've had a similar problem with Fujitsu on my previous job. I had two long (maybe two hours altogether) phone calls before they found our SAN (Fibrecat)from their system. They said they are unable to send a replacement disk before finding it.
"You can make any part of the phone not work. You definitely don't get to run code, but there's lots of nasty things you can do. You can make applications not work, make it so that you can't remove this config file. At the very least, you can make someone's day miserable."
Sounds terrible:)
Seriously though, I've been wondering why there have been so few vulnerabilities on the iphone.
I was just having a cigarette today and a bunch of our graphic designers where talking about how they would immediately buy an ipad if it had a screen like this, but as is they where skipping.
I take it you missed yesterday where Apple disclosed in their financials that they don't make a profit from the app store directly, only through increased hardware sales?
I have to say that sounds surprising given the cut they take and the amount of work the app store must take to keep running. I have to assume they are counting some other expenses in that direction. I do understand that checking each submission will cause a lot of work, but the successful apps gross so much that it should more then make up for the difference. They probably want to reduce negative press on the app store (they are doing it for the money) until they build it large enough.
My thoughts too. Apple is earning too much from the App Store to make this a traditional "osx device". I would not be surprised for multitasking, but apps will come through the store.
From years of maintaining fairly large environments I have calculated the amount of manual work maintaining Windows servers to be around 5-10x higher then Linux / Solaris. So I don't think it's just a question of how much the license / support fee's add up to, but rather how much everything (including personal to keep things running) add up to.
Please note I have not really touched Windows servers for 3-4 years so I don't know if things have improved significantly.
Sorry, stores need crypto signatures or you get browser warnings. Does anybody turn over their banking info without seeing the SSL indications from their browser?
I don't think most people understand what SSL stands for, or the little lock they see now and then. The store will only warn about signatures if there is an encrypted connection and a problem with the certificate. If the connection is not encrypted you can be sure there is no warning.
And as mentioned, anyone can purchase a certificate. The Cert is really only useful as a trust mechanism if you really check what it contains, and most people rarely bother (especially if they don't get a warning). If you have the a shop on https://amazon.web-stores.com/ it will look like https://web-stores.amazon.com/ to 95% of users.
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Can Microsoft do that as well? It's their platform right? Oh, wait, it's Apple so it's fine now.
I don't know who should win in this one. Perhaps I'll wait till the docs are actually filed and can read the actual arguments and get actual law instead of some journalists opinion on what is.
Yeah, I fully agree. Apple should not be allowed to leverage their monopoly in mobile phones to lock out content development standards such as Flash.
Yup. I had an iPod touch before, and location based applications (for example showing the closest restaurants) worked almost as well as they do on my iPhone. I don't quite understand how it's done, as my internet connection is from one of the largest ISP's in Finland and I did not expect the gateway to identify my location...
If the drive is secure, you don't give attackers 2 hours to break it, you publish the implementation details and give a prize to the first person to demonstrate a feasible attack with this knowledge.
I'm not sure how well that would go through with marketing.
The power cables are so easily accessible on the roof?
All you need is an add from some trusted site and you are screwed. It could even be a banner on a major car manufacturers home page.
If the camera was a networked device always running on the background Canon might react differently too. Maybe if Canon sold software packages to enhance the camera and this ate their sales they might also work against it. As is, I think this is really not very popular (all the people I know have a canon camera, none have installed CHDK vs. 25% of them have an iPhone and quite a few jailbroke them), so they have no reason to waste resources in fighting it.
Sounds like a great idea. If China, North Korea and Russia have already showed a good example I think the US should definitely follow their example.
Unless you have a Prius...
Recent polls show that most people regard Internet access as a fundamental right and considering how important Internet access has become that is very understandable.
Which is not surprising. We recently had a strike where bus drivers left a lot of shifts out. In an interview the guy responsible for all of the capitals buss traffic mentioned one way to find out which shifts are run and which are not - checking their web page. If public services are moving everything to the web like this, the internet can really be seen as a fundamental right.
No, now they are trying to convince Scandinavian countries that we should allow them to pull a fat pipe along the baltic sea. There is a lot of resistance from all the green parties, and if this was combined with a large "look how they use this to control everyone" group it would not go through.
Agreed. The biggest threat to national security is probably windows XP. Here's an idea: let's start teaching high school students something other than Word and Excel, hmm?
I think Adobe has lately proven they will happily take the "key attack vector" crown from Microsoft and carry it with pride and negligence. If they did not, somebody else would probably take their place.
Add to this that we have plenty of nitrates and phosphorous in the baltic sea anyway dispite trying to regulate how close to the coast the farmers are aloud to grow plants (actually they get financial benefits for leaving a gap close to the shore). The problem in the baltic sea is not that the plants don't have enough fertilizer to grow, its that they have too much.
This was supposed to be the last 3 years, not last year.
Tom's Hardware got a tour of WD? I expect good reviews for WD gear on TH in the near future. .
I would not be surprised, they really had the ability to twist their tests some years ago when I last went there. I can't believe they where testing Nuendo performance by seeing how long it took to render the final project, when what really matters for anyone using the product was how many fx / synthesizers and audio tracks you can run in real time while working on the product. The final rendering took a very short time and is only done once (theoretically) when you are finished with the project. Of course the catch is that at the time Intel did very well in the final render, but very badly in the real work... I even sent them feedback regarding it, I was working in the field at the time and it really annoyed me...
We have used a lot of WD internal drives in our workstations for the last year (few hundred machines) and the reliability has been outstanding (especially compared to the Maxtors before that, but it was Maxtors worse period). However we have had very bad experiences with their external Mybook series. I spoke with a support dude for the biggest computer store in my home country and he said the same, the external drives are dying a lot. Probably it's the power supplies or heat as the drives in side them are the same.
Not just the ISP's. My employers main product has over 1 1/2 billion page impressions a month, needless to say we don't store (most) logs related to them for very long...
I've had a similar problem with Fujitsu on my previous job. I had two long (maybe two hours altogether) phone calls before they found our SAN (Fibrecat)from their system. They said they are unable to send a replacement disk before finding it.
"You can make any part of the phone not work. You definitely don't get to run code, but there's lots of nasty things you can do. You can make applications not work, make it so that you can't remove this config file. At the very least, you can make someone's day miserable."
Sounds terrible :)
Seriously though, I've been wondering why there have been so few vulnerabilities on the iphone.
Do you want me to hook you up with them to ask?
I was just having a cigarette today and a bunch of our graphic designers where talking about how they would immediately buy an ipad if it had a screen like this, but as is they where skipping.
I take it you missed yesterday where Apple disclosed in their financials that they don't make a profit from the app store directly, only through increased hardware sales?
I have to say that sounds surprising given the cut they take and the amount of work the app store must take to keep running. I have to assume they are counting some other expenses in that direction. I do understand that checking each submission will cause a lot of work, but the successful apps gross so much that it should more then make up for the difference. They probably want to reduce negative press on the app store (they are doing it for the money) until they build it large enough.
My thoughts too. Apple is earning too much from the App Store to make this a traditional "osx device". I would not be surprised for multitasking, but apps will come through the store.
From years of maintaining fairly large environments I have calculated the amount of manual work maintaining Windows servers to be around 5-10x higher then Linux / Solaris. So I don't think it's just a question of how much the license / support fee's add up to, but rather how much everything (including personal to keep things running) add up to.
Please note I have not really touched Windows servers for 3-4 years so I don't know if things have improved significantly.
Sorry, stores need crypto signatures or you get browser warnings. Does anybody turn over their banking info without seeing the SSL indications from their browser?
I don't think most people understand what SSL stands for, or the little lock they see now and then. The store will only warn about signatures if there is an encrypted connection and a problem with the certificate. If the connection is not encrypted you can be sure there is no warning.
And as mentioned, anyone can purchase a certificate. The Cert is really only useful as a trust mechanism if you really check what it contains, and most people rarely bother (especially if they don't get a warning). If you have the a shop on https://amazon.web-stores.com/ it will look like https://web-stores.amazon.com/ to 95% of users.
No problem, don't read my comment; you might understand it's wondering why the summary is talking about the least interesting part of the article.