Say I don't have an unlimited plan (which nearly everyone does, but..)
SMS costs £0.04 on average. Let's say you're on a really expensive pay as you talk plan and it costs 3 times that.. so £0.12.
£60
Hardly a 'fortune' if you're planning to take out a phone anyway.. and unlimited plans on pay as you talk cost far less than that anyway so you'd never pay that even in the worst case.
If you assume that 90% of all email is spam, and 2500 is the legit number, that's 250000 emails hitting the mailserver and being rejected.. a.3% false positive means 750 emails a day being dropped.
Indeed in the UK every street corner has a shop that unlocks phones.. especially iphones that can't be simply unlocked by phoning the carrier.
(my favourite one is the one directly opposite Carphone Whorehouse that targets new iphone owners.. as they leave the shop they see an ad 'just bought an iphone? Get it unlocked here').
The majority still don't though, even though it's so freely available.
Outlawing baseband hacking doesn't bother me, provided there's a parallel law requiring apple to provide unlock codes on request.
Really there's no downside to allowing unlocks.. if you're signed up to a contract with AT&T/O2 unlocking doesn't get you out of that contract. If you're out of contract there's no obligation to them to start with.
I have an iphone on pay as you go. I have no contract, and the phone is mine.. but I had to use jailbreaking software to unlock it. On *every* other phone I can get an unlock for free or near free just by phoning the phone company (some of them insist you add £30 or so to the pay as yo go account first).
This is why people end up modifying basebands.. it's an apple created problem. It's a bit rich that they then have a go at users for doing it.
The iphone, like all other modern phones, takes a standard USIM. This is a seperate processor with its own inbuilt encryption. You talk to it by a defined protocol and you can't get its internal keys - the modern USIM is virtually immune to hacking (a few years ago you could clone such SIMs due to faults in their encryption - these have long since been fixed).
Because if this it is pretty much impossible to steal service even if you have complete access to the baseband of the phone. If this wasn't true you'd be able to buy 'fake' phones on street corners.. there's a reason that's never happened.
How about all the millions of phones that are already somewhat open. Even in the US you can get the source code for the G1 if you want.
This is just apple confusing the issue. Jailbreaking = letting you run what you want in userspace. This is totally different to modifying the baseband (generally for unlocking) and that has its own protection built in. It's also only a problem for the iphone because all other phones have unlock codes built in, that you can get for a small fee.
They drove sales, at least. With each game running like crap on last years card gamers spend a fortune each year to keep to the bleeding edge.
Problem is, other than the greater hardware requirements is there *really* that much difference between quake 3 and the latest games? Higher resolution, some explosion effects.. I played left4dead to see what was supposed to be so great and really couldn't see anything that couldn't be done in the quake engine.. except it needed more powerful hardware.
Encryption doesn't require 'importance'. It's just good practice. Anything that asks for passwords - slashdot for example - should probably be encrypted.
The only value of certificates is when they *change*. You can't verify who you're talking to the first time around anyway.. a certificate is *not* sufficient verification.
Sometimes all you're after is an encrypted connection. Self signed certs. do that just fine. Firefox should only warn if a certificate for that *changes* not the first time you go to it. This scheme works just fine for ssh for example.
The way firefox is, you might as well use plaintext.. in fact you *have to* otherwise half your users will complain that they can't access your site. Or pay arm+leg to verisign, who'll refuse you the cert anyway unless you're a registered company (been there.. done that..).
This is stupidity of the highest order - instead of the increased use of encryption browsers like firefox are discouraging its use.
So is putting someone on a life support machine. Or transplanting an organ.
Oh and don't lump all Christians with the nutters you have in the US. Every one I've met has been very pro stem cell research because it potentially saves a lot of lives.
Not widely used at all, due the the lack of HTML5 support except in the very latest browsers (and nothing by Microsoft, who alas still are the majority of browsers out there).
You'd be nuts to make an HTML5 only page at present... a few years down the line, who knows.
I got regular detentions for smudging with fountain pens. Apparently being left handed was evil or something at the school I was at. Didn't endear me to the subject at all...
Eventually they gave up trying to teach me cursive. By the time it came to exams they didn't mark on handwriting (I'm 10 years older than you and they'd already started saying that you couldn't mark outside the subject eg. bad spelling in a science exam wouldn't penalise you).
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It's much higher in the cellphone market. Can't remember when I last saw a non-smartphone that wasn't some brand of Nokia.
Say I don't have an unlimited plan (which nearly everyone does, but..)
SMS costs £0.04 on average. Let's say you're on a really expensive pay as you talk plan and it costs 3 times that.. so £0.12.
£60
Hardly a 'fortune' if you're planning to take out a phone anyway.. and unlimited plans on pay as you talk cost far less than that anyway so you'd never pay that even in the worst case.
Where do people get the idea that apple invented podcasting? It existed long before it was in itunes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting
Anyway, this patent is BS.. just based on that history podcasts (albeit not called podcasts) existed in 2001.
0.3% FP on the total mail input, but 90% is spam anyway.. so that means 3% of legit mail is dropped.
3$ is way too high.
If you assume that 90% of all email is spam, and 2500 is the legit number, that's 250000 emails hitting the mailserver and being rejected.. a .3% false positive means 750 emails a day being dropped.
IMO that's pretty useless.
Indeed in the UK every street corner has a shop that unlocks phones.. especially iphones that can't be simply unlocked by phoning the carrier.
(my favourite one is the one directly opposite Carphone Whorehouse that targets new iphone owners.. as they leave the shop they see an ad 'just bought an iphone? Get it unlocked here').
The majority still don't though, even though it's so freely available.
Cloning used to work but AFAIK the holes that allowed it were fixed years ago. Certainly I've not heard of any method of cloning a modern SIM.
You want to run software in the background?
Theres an app for.. Oh, wait.
COOL!!!!
How do I access this?
Outlawing baseband hacking doesn't bother me, provided there's a parallel law requiring apple to provide unlock codes on request.
Really there's no downside to allowing unlocks.. if you're signed up to a contract with AT&T/O2 unlocking doesn't get you out of that contract. If you're out of contract there's no obligation to them to start with.
I have an iphone on pay as you go. I have no contract, and the phone is mine.. but I had to use jailbreaking software to unlock it. On *every* other phone I can get an unlock for free or near free just by phoning the phone company (some of them insist you add £30 or so to the pay as yo go account first).
This is why people end up modifying basebands.. it's an apple created problem. It's a bit rich that they then have a go at users for doing it.
That's more about the problem where the child finds the pointy thing with the trigger in his parents wardrobe and promptly blows his face off.
Probably more an argument for laws about storage (locked childproof cabinets for example) than for banning them completely though.
You don't need an iphone for that though.. there are already plenty of phones on the market that will do the job nicely.
All you're really saying is that DoS attacks are easy, which we knew.
There isn't, though.
The iphone, like all other modern phones, takes a standard USIM. This is a seperate processor with its own inbuilt encryption. You talk to it by a defined protocol and you can't get its internal keys - the modern USIM is virtually immune to hacking (a few years ago you could clone such SIMs due to faults in their encryption - these have long since been fixed).
Because if this it is pretty much impossible to steal service even if you have complete access to the baseband of the phone. If this wasn't true you'd be able to buy 'fake' phones on street corners.. there's a reason that's never happened.
How about all the millions of phones that are already somewhat open. Even in the US you can get the source code for the G1 if you want.
This is just apple confusing the issue. Jailbreaking = letting you run what you want in userspace. This is totally different to modifying the baseband (generally for unlocking) and that has its own protection built in. It's also only a problem for the iphone because all other phones have unlock codes built in, that you can get for a small fee.
They drove sales, at least. With each game running like crap on last years card gamers spend a fortune each year to keep to the bleeding edge.
Problem is, other than the greater hardware requirements is there *really* that much difference between quake 3 and the latest games? Higher resolution, some explosion effects.. I played left4dead to see what was supposed to be so great and really couldn't see anything that couldn't be done in the quake engine.. except it needed more powerful hardware.
They're not.. they legalised it. That was the whole point of CAN SPAM.
Unfortunately blackholing the entire US isn't an option (you'd lose slashdot for a start).
USA originates twice as much spam as China.. the current most prolific spammer in the world is.... American (thanks to CAN SPAM).
Whereas it's much more multinational than it used to be there's one country always at the top of the list.
No.
Encryption doesn't require 'importance'. It's just good practice. Anything that asks for passwords - slashdot for example - should probably be encrypted.
The only value of certificates is when they *change*. You can't verify who you're talking to the first time around anyway.. a certificate is *not* sufficient verification.
Sometimes all you're after is an encrypted connection. Self signed certs. do that just fine. Firefox should only warn if a certificate for that *changes* not the first time you go to it. This scheme works just fine for ssh for example.
The way firefox is, you might as well use plaintext.. in fact you *have to* otherwise half your users will complain that they can't access your site. Or pay arm+leg to verisign, who'll refuse you the cert anyway unless you're a registered company (been there.. done that..).
This is stupidity of the highest order - instead of the increased use of encryption browsers like firefox are discouraging its use.
The correct action would have been to set fire to the kindles in that case.
So is putting someone on a life support machine. Or transplanting an organ.
Oh and don't lump all Christians with the nutters you have in the US. Every one I've met has been very pro stem cell research because it potentially saves a lot of lives.
Not widely used at all, due the the lack of HTML5 support except in the very latest browsers (and nothing by Microsoft, who alas still are the majority of browsers out there).
You'd be nuts to make an HTML5 only page at present... a few years down the line, who knows.
Sure they can write a lengthy letter but how are they going to email it when the powers out? :p
I got regular detentions for smudging with fountain pens. Apparently being left handed was evil or something at the school I was at. Didn't endear me to the subject at all...
Eventually they gave up trying to teach me cursive. By the time it came to exams they didn't mark on handwriting (I'm 10 years older than you and they'd already started saying that you couldn't mark outside the subject eg. bad spelling in a science exam wouldn't penalise you).