I am being horribly pedantic here, but for the sake of providing context to this discussion on older phones supporting OS updates, I'd like to point out that the iPhone 3gs also runs iOS5.1. That device was released in 2009, btw.
I'm not disagreeing with you about whether this was immature. It very well could have been.
I'd like to put the acquisition into context, though. In 1999 the Yahoo board of directors voted to buy an unproven sports video streaming company, "Broadcast.com", for $5 billion. They didn't have a large base of users. All they had was contracts with the different athletic leagues. That asset completely dissolved in the following years and doesn't exist in any way right now. Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban
watch the attack and start blacklisting IP ranges.
In most cases, your customers are going to exist in one or a few countries. It would be valuable ahead of time to add redirect rules to your iptables for entire ranges of IP addresses located in countries that don't host your customers. Redirect these IP ranges to a sacrificial server on a different pipe to the backbone. That way, when some of your customers are abroad and need access to your services, they can still get some amount of response.
Additionally, you can proactively parse your user accounts for IP addresses and build a whitelist ruleset for your iptables to implement in a defcon 0 situation. Don't use this as a normal operations mode, just when the shit has really hit the fan and you need to block everyone except your known-good account holders.
I live near a major highway and hear all the time about major drug busts that occurred because less-than-intelligent traffickers got pulled over because of something stupid like speeding.
In truth, a lot of those coincidental pull-overs that result in big drug bust are due to the work of informants and other surveillance. The bust is executed as a routing traffic stop in order to protect the method the police used to learn about the drug operation. This is in order to continue to use that method against the same organization or to protect the life of an informant.
In the case of this iPad, it's very possible that it was planted there by an informant at the request of the police in order to cover the real tracks that led them to the drug cache.
Someone needs to edit down Robert Rodriguez's movie, Machete. The original concept was great. When he unnecessarily extended the story to fit all the Hollywood celebrities on screen, the movie goes downhill. Booth was a terrific character. When he dies, the movie should end. Fin.
Oh, but keep that scene in there where Danny Trejo is in the swimming pool with the topless women.
It's easy to criticize the TSA's policies as being circumventable, but it's not like maximizing security is the only directive (or even the primary constraint) they have to operate under. They have to keep things as secure as possible while at the same time keeping it at least minimally practical to fly, otherwise the entire airline industry would go out of business, defeating the purpose of the exercise.
What you say is true. The point I was attempting to make in my observation is that we're expending non-trivial resources in security implementations that can be defeated by the casual layperson. That fact guarantees our security is ineffective against determined attackers.
Our air traffic is no safer than it was prior to 9/11. My suggestion would be to return to that security model and update it with simple in-air systems that prevent hijackers from controlling an airplane. The TSA's $8.1 billion budget could then be reallocated to covert spying operations to disrupt and prevent future attacks of all kinds.
You've hit the nail on the head by saying maximized security is unfeasible for air travel to exist. However, a hyper-expensive, insecure system is a modern-day Maginot Line that is quite permeable to hostiles:
"The Maginot Line was impervious to most forms of attack, and had state-of-the-art living conditions for garrisoned troops, including air conditioning, comfortable eating areas and underground railways. However, it proved costly to keep, consumed a vast amount of money and subsequently led to other parts of the French Armed Forces being underfunded."
More to the point, the terrorists weren't afraid to bring box cutters onto an aircraft; the metal detectors were obviously not a deterrent.
At the time of the 9/11/2001 attacks, it was legal to bring a box cutter aboard an airplane.
Another way this security theater is easily bypassed is in the case of liquids. Currently, the TSA will only allow a passenger through the security check with 100ml containers of any given liquid. Want to bring an entire liter of liquid aboard an airplane? Just go through the security checkpoint ten times, each time carrying a single 100ml. You'll have a liter inside security. You could also have ten friends each bring in 100ml and combine it when you get past the security checkpoints. This is all fake. It's all BS masquerading as doing something for the sake of security.
Sony is pulling a clever scheme that will instantly make every participant's collectible cards even more rare than any other card ever was in the whole game.
Here's some food for thought regarding your interest in understanding why companies develop products that are destined to fail.
When these CEOs have to meet with shareholders and the board of directors, they have to face questions about what the company is doing in response to the success other companies are having with a certain product. There is intense pressure on them to have an answer.
This is why Microsoft has things like their storefronts. So Ballmer can tell the shareholders they're doing a 'me-too' in response to the Apple store success. It's also why HP bought Palm and released the TouchPad. It's why motorola released the Xoom. It's why RIM released the PlayBook.
While on this topic, I thought I should encourage you to purchase your phone off Craigslist or eBay. If you're trying to save money, do NOT buy it from your wireless provider. If you show up with your own phone, you can demand that they deduct the built-in phone subsidy from your bill. Since you're trying to skim by on a cheapie phone/plan combo, no need for them to keep charging you $5 per month as if they had given you a phone.
Healthcare doesn't have money to burn. The insurance companies have seen to that by erecting absurdly complex reimbursement obstacles. It can be so expensive to pursue these debts, that a lot just goes uncollected.
Next time you need surgery, ask how much it would cost if you paid up front with cash. They'll drop thousands to avoid dealing with insurance.
Whoever got handed the assignment to produce this garbage has got to hate their job right now. This is so clumsy. This is so ugly.
I know, there's constant pressure on the organization to somehow monetize the website. This shows an utter lack of creativity in answering that need. Best wishes in your future efforts.
These time travelling board of directors could then safeguard this capital from other potential blunders by locking it up in Apple Computer stock, which according to this inspired 1999 Motley Fool article admits Apple is "a very meaningful distance away from being a top tier Cisco, Intel, Microsoft or Yahoo!. That said, Apple is directionally on target and looking quite strong among the pack of PC makers." It would have been a much cheaper buy than Broadcast.com and left Yahoo! with pockets full of cash in 2012.
Yahoo!'s biggest problem over the years has been their leaders who have been suckers for hucksters who can deliver a good dog-and-pony-show and their organization itself has been unable to successfully deploy any new business concepts.
One of the side issues here is speculation about whether the FBI can't decrypt this hard drive. I suspect they can, and already have.
There is likely content on that hard drive that will likely incriminate this woman (who lives with her mother) and bigger players in the mortgage scam. I don't think the FBI would otherwise care so much about getting at this woman's data.
In order to use that content in court against these other players, the FBI can't so well make a case out of data THEY have decrypted. The defense could claim the evidence is invalidated by the decryption method employed by the FBI. So, it's important to lean on this person to properly decrypt the data so the FBI can use it in other cases.
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Oh, I entirely agree with your observations.
I think the irony I was commenting on was that the movie studios themselves had grown up by usurping the content provided by live performers and at the same time, taking the profits of these performers while even physically displacing them off their stages with screens. One of those 'turnabout is fair play' scenarios.
As I recall they were dragged kicking and screaming into native x86 Mac code after years of procrastinating.
Yes, and things have changed in the marketplace since those years. One of the things that has changed dramatically is the relationship between Adobe and Apple (see Flash).
If Apple was worried about Adobe abandoning the Mac OS platform, they wouldn't be selling Aperture and Final Cut Pro and giving away iBooks Author.
I find it hard to believe they would do something as stupid as introducing a third chipset (Intel, A4/A5, ARM) into the mix
I don't know if you're trolling or not, but A4/A5 are ARM chips. Moving Mac OS X to ARM would unify the OS X & iOS platforms on one hardware platform that is entirely controlled by Apple. The potential benefits to Apple making this move are enormous. Likely the only thing holding them back is the interest of having dual-boot compatibility with Windows on the Macbooks. Once Redmond's top people get Windows 8 ported over to Arm, Apple will jettison Intel.
This is just smart business; something goes wrong with Intel, they're ready.
Mr. Otellini. Thank you for meeting with us to discuss the Intel hardware performance-per-watt roadmap. It certainly looks like you have top engineers working very hard on this issue.
We have to head back to Cupertino in just a few moments, but before we conclude, I want to introduce you to young Tristan Schapp. He's an intern with us this semester and we've really enjoyed having him around the office. Now Tristan, can you show these nice gentlemen what it was you were able to cobble together in your cubicle over the summer?
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Nobody much says this, but when moving pictures came out, it literally crushed the livelihoods of thousands of live vaudeville performers. Instead of traveling their acts all over the country, one act would get filmed and then that would travel the country being projected for screens set up on stages in the same theaters that used to host the live performers.
Roger Ebert lost his jaw because of uncontrollable bleeding from a blood vessel in his jaw that was weakened due to the chemo for the thyroid cancer. It was an unexpected byproduct of the original malady.
He also says he won't undergo any more surgery, so it's unlikely he'll receive one of these jaws.
The man is a national treasure. Any filmmaker who sees their film reviewed by Roger Ebert at this point in his life should consider themselves blessed, even if his review is saying the film sucks. It's a herculean task for him to watch these movies and write reviews.
Uhhh, but then you don't get to buy a boat to do the moving. Your suggestion interferes as much with the original goal as renting a boat. Or paying a shipping company to move the servers. These are all dead-end approaches that fail to result in someone writing off a boat purchase on her taxes and then getting to sail the boat around for the purpose of 'helping' WikiLeaks move servers.
Traditional will speak more to your maturity than trying to overly-complicate the invitation. Any crap you put into the invitation process is a barrier to people actually getting the information they need to attend. QRCodes? You're going to make grandma feel alienated by your invitation and the damn event is supposed to bring people together.
If you want to go technology in your wedding aesthetic, go with capacitor napkin rings. Go with stuff people can just look at and appreciate on some level. Don't make understanding it a requirement for participation.
Somehow this reminds me of when Rick Perry was the LT. Governor of Texas and got pulled over for speeding. He did his best to intimidate the DPS officer into letting him "just get on down the road." Man, where are these guys having to always get to in such a hurry?!?
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I am being horribly pedantic here, but for the sake of providing context to this discussion on older phones supporting OS updates, I'd like to point out that the iPhone 3gs also runs iOS5.1. That device was released in 2009, btw.
seth
I'm not disagreeing with you about whether this was immature. It very well could have been.
I'd like to put the acquisition into context, though. In 1999 the Yahoo board of directors voted to buy an unproven sports video streaming company, "Broadcast.com", for $5 billion. They didn't have a large base of users. All they had was contracts with the different athletic leagues. That asset completely dissolved in the following years and doesn't exist in any way right now. Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban
Kids and Computers. Available from Amazon.
Seth
In most cases, your customers are going to exist in one or a few countries. It would be valuable ahead of time to add redirect rules to your iptables for entire ranges of IP addresses located in countries that don't host your customers. Redirect these IP ranges to a sacrificial server on a different pipe to the backbone. That way, when some of your customers are abroad and need access to your services, they can still get some amount of response.
Additionally, you can proactively parse your user accounts for IP addresses and build a whitelist ruleset for your iptables to implement in a defcon 0 situation. Don't use this as a normal operations mode, just when the shit has really hit the fan and you need to block everyone except your known-good account holders.
Seth
In truth, a lot of those coincidental pull-overs that result in big drug bust are due to the work of informants and other surveillance. The bust is executed as a routing traffic stop in order to protect the method the police used to learn about the drug operation. This is in order to continue to use that method against the same organization or to protect the life of an informant.
In the case of this iPad, it's very possible that it was planted there by an informant at the request of the police in order to cover the real tracks that led them to the drug cache.
Seth
Someone needs to edit down Robert Rodriguez's movie, Machete. The original concept was great. When he unnecessarily extended the story to fit all the Hollywood celebrities on screen, the movie goes downhill. Booth was a terrific character. When he dies, the movie should end. Fin.
Oh, but keep that scene in there where Danny Trejo is in the swimming pool with the topless women.
Seth
What you say is true. The point I was attempting to make in my observation is that we're expending non-trivial resources in security implementations that can be defeated by the casual layperson. That fact guarantees our security is ineffective against determined attackers.
Our air traffic is no safer than it was prior to 9/11. My suggestion would be to return to that security model and update it with simple in-air systems that prevent hijackers from controlling an airplane. The TSA's $8.1 billion budget could then be reallocated to covert spying operations to disrupt and prevent future attacks of all kinds.
You've hit the nail on the head by saying maximized security is unfeasible for air travel to exist. However, a hyper-expensive, insecure system is a modern-day Maginot Line that is quite permeable to hostiles:
Seth
At the time of the 9/11/2001 attacks, it was legal to bring a box cutter aboard an airplane.
Another way this security theater is easily bypassed is in the case of liquids. Currently, the TSA will only allow a passenger through the security check with 100ml containers of any given liquid. Want to bring an entire liter of liquid aboard an airplane? Just go through the security checkpoint ten times, each time carrying a single 100ml. You'll have a liter inside security. You could also have ten friends each bring in 100ml and combine it when you get past the security checkpoints. This is all fake. It's all BS masquerading as doing something for the sake of security.
Seth
Sony is pulling a clever scheme that will instantly make every participant's collectible cards even more rare than any other card ever was in the whole game.
Seth
Here's some food for thought regarding your interest in understanding why companies develop products that are destined to fail.
When these CEOs have to meet with shareholders and the board of directors, they have to face questions about what the company is doing in response to the success other companies are having with a certain product. There is intense pressure on them to have an answer.
This is why Microsoft has things like their storefronts. So Ballmer can tell the shareholders they're doing a 'me-too' in response to the Apple store success. It's also why HP bought Palm and released the TouchPad. It's why motorola released the Xoom. It's why RIM released the PlayBook.
Seth
While on this topic, I thought I should encourage you to purchase your phone off Craigslist or eBay. If you're trying to save money, do NOT buy it from your wireless provider. If you show up with your own phone, you can demand that they deduct the built-in phone subsidy from your bill. Since you're trying to skim by on a cheapie phone/plan combo, no need for them to keep charging you $5 per month as if they had given you a phone.
Seth
Really, the majority of drone strikes are largely undocumented. It works out best for all parties involved.
Seth
Healthcare doesn't have money to burn. The insurance companies have seen to that by erecting absurdly complex reimbursement obstacles. It can be so expensive to pursue these debts, that a lot just goes uncollected.
Next time you need surgery, ask how much it would cost if you paid up front with cash. They'll drop thousands to avoid dealing with insurance.
Whoever got handed the assignment to produce this garbage has got to hate their job right now. This is so clumsy. This is so ugly.
I know, there's constant pressure on the organization to somehow monetize the website. This shows an utter lack of creativity in answering that need. Best wishes in your future efforts.
Seth
One of the biggest innovations the new board members could bring with them would be a time machine that would enable them to travel back to 1999 and prevent Yahoo! from squandering $5.7 billion in capital on its acquisition of Broadcast.com from Mark Cuban.
These time travelling board of directors could then safeguard this capital from other potential blunders by locking it up in Apple Computer stock, which according to this inspired 1999 Motley Fool article admits Apple is "a very meaningful distance away from being a top tier Cisco, Intel, Microsoft or Yahoo!. That said, Apple is directionally on target and looking quite strong among the pack of PC makers." It would have been a much cheaper buy than Broadcast.com and left Yahoo! with pockets full of cash in 2012.
Yahoo!'s biggest problem over the years has been their leaders who have been suckers for hucksters who can deliver a good dog-and-pony-show and their organization itself has been unable to successfully deploy any new business concepts.
Seth
One of the side issues here is speculation about whether the FBI can't decrypt this hard drive. I suspect they can, and already have.
There is likely content on that hard drive that will likely incriminate this woman (who lives with her mother) and bigger players in the mortgage scam. I don't think the FBI would otherwise care so much about getting at this woman's data.
In order to use that content in court against these other players, the FBI can't so well make a case out of data THEY have decrypted. The defense could claim the evidence is invalidated by the decryption method employed by the FBI. So, it's important to lean on this person to properly decrypt the data so the FBI can use it in other cases.
Seth
Oh, I entirely agree with your observations.
I think the irony I was commenting on was that the movie studios themselves had grown up by usurping the content provided by live performers and at the same time, taking the profits of these performers while even physically displacing them off their stages with screens. One of those 'turnabout is fair play' scenarios.
Seth
Yes, and things have changed in the marketplace since those years. One of the things that has changed dramatically is the relationship between Adobe and Apple (see Flash).
If Apple was worried about Adobe abandoning the Mac OS platform, they wouldn't be selling Aperture and Final Cut Pro and giving away iBooks Author.
Seth
I don't know if you're trolling or not, but A4/A5 are ARM chips. Moving Mac OS X to ARM would unify the OS X & iOS platforms on one hardware platform that is entirely controlled by Apple. The potential benefits to Apple making this move are enormous. Likely the only thing holding them back is the interest of having dual-boot compatibility with Windows on the Macbooks. Once Redmond's top people get Windows 8 ported over to Arm, Apple will jettison Intel.
Seth
Mr. Otellini. Thank you for meeting with us to discuss the Intel hardware performance-per-watt roadmap. It certainly looks like you have top engineers working very hard on this issue.
We have to head back to Cupertino in just a few moments, but before we conclude, I want to introduce you to young Tristan Schapp. He's an intern with us this semester and we've really enjoyed having him around the office. Now Tristan, can you show these nice gentlemen what it was you were able to cobble together in your cubicle over the summer?
Nobody much says this, but when moving pictures came out, it literally crushed the livelihoods of thousands of live vaudeville performers. Instead of traveling their acts all over the country, one act would get filmed and then that would travel the country being projected for screens set up on stages in the same theaters that used to host the live performers.
Seth
Roger Ebert lost his jaw because of uncontrollable bleeding from a blood vessel in his jaw that was weakened due to the chemo for the thyroid cancer. It was an unexpected byproduct of the original malady.
He also says he won't undergo any more surgery, so it's unlikely he'll receive one of these jaws.
The man is a national treasure. Any filmmaker who sees their film reviewed by Roger Ebert at this point in his life should consider themselves blessed, even if his review is saying the film sucks. It's a herculean task for him to watch these movies and write reviews.
Seth
Uhhh, but then you don't get to buy a boat to do the moving. Your suggestion interferes as much with the original goal as renting a boat. Or paying a shipping company to move the servers. These are all dead-end approaches that fail to result in someone writing off a boat purchase on her taxes and then getting to sail the boat around for the purpose of 'helping' WikiLeaks move servers.
Seth
Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Traditional will speak more to your maturity than trying to overly-complicate the invitation. Any crap you put into the invitation process is a barrier to people actually getting the information they need to attend. QRCodes? You're going to make grandma feel alienated by your invitation and the damn event is supposed to bring people together.
If you want to go technology in your wedding aesthetic, go with capacitor napkin rings. Go with stuff people can just look at and appreciate on some level. Don't make understanding it a requirement for participation.
Seth
Somehow this reminds me of when Rick Perry was the LT. Governor of Texas and got pulled over for speeding. He did his best to intimidate the DPS officer into letting him "just get on down the road." Man, where are these guys having to always get to in such a hurry?!?
Seth