they either end up being synchronized to one account or they are only local contacts on your phone which are lost when you reboot, right?
If by "reboot", you mean "factory reset", then yes. You can merge multiple accounts into the same contact (called "join contacts" in android), but if you factory reset those merges are not preserved. Google contacts and Google+ contacts are automatically merged though, at least in Jelly Bean. And to answer another point you make -- when you join contacts, data is not copied between the several accounts.
When you add a new contact, it will be automatically assigned to your main account, you can not chose to which phonebook it should belong, correct? In WP, you can have your live account, as many ActiveSync accounts as you like, Facebook, whatever. And when you add a contact it will ask you for which account it is.
No, it works the same way in Android. When you create a contact, it asks you to which account you want to save it to (Phone, SIM, Google, Exchange, etc.). I'm not sure what happens you delete an account as I'm not inclined to test it, but I suppose it's up to the account implementation whether to leave the data there unmanaged or to delete it.
In sum, there doesn't seem to be difference between Android and WP8 in this regard.
Since in WP8 each contact is associated to an account, the different accounts are never merged. That's the reason WP is afaik the first mobile phone system capable to properly manage multiple active sync accounts. If I want contacts to be only on my phone, I just configure a fake account with invalid server name and associate contacts with this account => they will not be synchronized
Not sure what you're saying here, but in Android you can synchronize data contacts from multiple accounts and have local, non-synchronized contacts without hacks. The same applies to other classes of data like events, tasks, e-mail, etc. Lookup account authenticators and sync providers in the android docs.
Whether their they look similar or whether Samsung copied Apple's design ideas is completely irrelevant. There's no general protection against "copying ideas".
It's well established that "look and feel" are not protected by copyright (see Apple vs. Microsoft), so they've turned instead to these doubtful patents to stifle competition. Even if these trivial patents are in fact valid (and having one held invalid takes years and millions of dollars and relatively onerous standards of evidence), they're arguably an abuse of the system originally designed to protect other sorts of inventions.
The summary is inaccurate when it says Jones required a warrant. The Court only found that the installation of the GPS device was a search because it involved a trespass. It did not say whether that search was unreasonable or, if it is, whether a search warrant or probable cause were required.
In fact, reading the opinions, it would appear that all the justices (except maybe Sottomayor) would allow GPS devices installed without a warrant for short term tracking.
Of course, the Justice department usually prefers err on the safe side.
The GPL doesn't require the source code to be provided together with the binaries, just that the source code be made available to the recipient of the binaries, possibly even charging him for the transportation costs.
So unless someone requested the source code and didn't get it, no one violated the GPL.
Though not really relavant to this story, cannabis does cause schizophreniform disorder in people with two common allelic variants in the gene for catechol-O-methyltransferase (esp one of these variants).
The Directive 1999/93/EC of of the European Parliament and of the Council already has established a framework where digital signatures are legally binding. In my country, Portugal, this has been implemented even before the directive. These certificates for signing can be emitted by any company as long as it follows some certifications. So on that aspect, it's been more than 10 years now...
The second aspect of what you say -- and the supposedly what the article mentions (not that I've read it, of course) -- is authentication against web services. Since the introduction of smart cards replacing the usual id cards, this has also become more common, but really, only some government services use it. Anyone can of course do authentication against the smart card certificate, all you need is Apache, mod_ssl and the root certificate. The certificate will tell you name and unique id of the person. This is a bit more insidious, but really no really less privacy than giving a credit card number and your name when you're shopping.
I'm surprised to hear it's so wild-spread in Bulgaria, almost no one here has smartcard readers or for that matter would know how to use it...
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This is not an IE bug. It is a.Net bug in mscorie.dll. Mscorie.dll is not required by IE. (IE works just fine, so to speak, without.Net.)
Referece? The CVE description says:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via multiple @import calls in a crafted document.
But increasingly in non-Islamic countries Sharia law is being given precedence over local laws for violations between Muslims. This is happening in the US, Australia, Germany and the UK.
Smoking in not a choice; for the vast majority of the smokers, it's an addiction. These people don't smoke because they want to, they smoke because they can't help it. So the point of personal liberty is very weakened.
That's strange, I find that behavior much worse in Linux (i.e., Linux is more aggressive swapping out applications). I usually tune the "swappiness" (see http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 ) to very low levels, but sometimes after having to wait a few seconds each time I switched to some huge application such as NetBeans made me disabled the swap space.
Exactly. The first amendment should be applied in declaring this unconstitutional. In BRANDENBURG v. OHIO (1969). This is the summary:
Appellant, a Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted under the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism statute for "advocat[ing] . . . the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform" and for "voluntarily assembl[ing] with any society, group or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal syndicalism." Neither the indictment nor the trial judge's instructions refined the statute's definition of the crime in terms of mere advocacy not distinguished from incitement to imminent lawless action. Held: Since the statute, by its words and as applied, purports to punish mere advocacy and to forbid, on pain of criminal punishment, assembly with others merely to advocate the described type of action, it falls within the condemnation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Freedoms of speech and press do not permit a State to forbid advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Or you could partition the disk, format the first partition (the only one Windows sees on removable media) with FAT32 and the other one with ext3/whatever when you want to keep the meta-data. The best of both worlds.
Of the 31 papers not written by El Naschie in the most recent issue of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, at least 11 are related to his theories and include 58 citations of his work in the journal.
And it's actually a theoretical-physics journal, with a relatively high impact factor of 3.025 for 2007.
There are solutions for each one of those circumstances:
1. You never open links in search results to sites you have never been to?
- If you are running windows using Firefox or IE there have been many cases of 0 day exploits
Run your browser with lower privileges (even if you are a not an administrator, which by itself thwarts most of the virus, which expect otherwise, run it with a constrained token). See http://blogs.msdn.com/nigelwa/archive/2005/07/29/445155.aspx. Additionally, IE7 protected mode under Vista has an excellent record.
2. Do you not use any USB storage devices?
- Just this Christmas I purchases a digital photo frame for a family member that had built in storage. low and behold when I went to preload it with photos it was already infected with a virus that was set to use auto play to install.
This one is straight-forward: just deactivate auto-run.
3. You 100% trust EVERY thing your friends or family send you? Document infections are still somewhat common. I suppose using Open office would get you around macro infections but you also might not be able to open company documents then.
This may be a bit more problematic, but macros are usually not set to be run by default. If you are paranoid, you can always run Office apps with less privileges.
That's not right. "Omniscient" should be understood as meaning "to know everything that is possible to be known". Therefore, if there is free will, God won't be able to predict our actions.
At least in Christianity, free will is assumed. If there were no free will, our love for God would mean nothing, because we wouldn't have any alternative.
"Time and time again studies have shown that if cities really wanted to make traffic crossings safer there's a very simple way to do so: increase the length of the yellow light and make sure there's a pause before the cross traffic light turns green
This is not entirely true, at least in the long term. Once you know the all red clearance time is there, you tend to cross red lights more often.
While results indicate
short-term reductions in crash rates (approximately one year after the implementation), long-term reductions
are not observed.
As for whether red light cameras increase safety, studies usually find that angle and left-turn crashes are reduced but rear-end crashes tend to increase. See, for example Kangwon Shin and Simon Washington, The impact of red light cameras on safety in Arizona, Accident Analysis & PreventionVolume 39, Issue 6, , November 2007, Pages 1212-1221.
That would be the best thing to do, but it's not always trivial. In fact, sometimes it's impossible.
I've seen e-mail setups where after the mail is sent to the servers in MX records it goes through several MTAs until it's finally delivered. In order to be possible to reject the e-mail at SMTP time, you'd have to do some kind of synchronization between the MTAs so that the MX server could know whether the addresses exist. Plus, the same domain could read users from several databases at the same time (e.g. mysql,/etc/passwd, LDAP,...) which would complicate synchronization even more.
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Yes, you can have several ActiveSync accounts, at least in my Samsung Jellybean ROM. And you can join contacts -- see my post above.
they either end up being synchronized to one account or they are only local contacts on your phone which are lost when you reboot, right?
If by "reboot", you mean "factory reset", then yes. You can merge multiple accounts into the same contact (called "join contacts" in android), but if you factory reset those merges are not preserved. Google contacts and Google+ contacts are automatically merged though, at least in Jelly Bean. And to answer another point you make -- when you join contacts, data is not copied between the several accounts.
When you add a new contact, it will be automatically assigned to your main account, you can not chose to which phonebook it should belong, correct? In WP, you can have your live account, as many ActiveSync accounts as you like, Facebook, whatever. And when you add a contact it will ask you for which account it is.
No, it works the same way in Android. When you create a contact, it asks you to which account you want to save it to (Phone, SIM, Google, Exchange, etc.). I'm not sure what happens you delete an account as I'm not inclined to test it, but I suppose it's up to the account implementation whether to leave the data there unmanaged or to delete it.
In sum, there doesn't seem to be difference between Android and WP8 in this regard.
Since in WP8 each contact is associated to an account, the different accounts are never merged. That's the reason WP is afaik the first mobile phone system capable to properly manage multiple active sync accounts. If I want contacts to be only on my phone, I just configure a fake account with invalid server name and associate contacts with this account => they will not be synchronized
Not sure what you're saying here, but in Android you can synchronize data contacts from multiple accounts and have local, non-synchronized contacts without hacks. The same applies to other classes of data like events, tasks, e-mail, etc. Lookup account authenticators and sync providers in the android docs.
Whether their they look similar or whether Samsung copied Apple's design ideas is completely irrelevant. There's no general protection against "copying ideas".
It's well established that "look and feel" are not protected by copyright (see Apple vs. Microsoft), so they've turned instead to these doubtful patents to stifle competition. Even if these trivial patents are in fact valid (and having one held invalid takes years and millions of dollars and relatively onerous standards of evidence), they're arguably an abuse of the system originally designed to protect other sorts of inventions.
In fact, reading the opinions, it would appear that all the justices (except maybe Sottomayor) would allow GPS devices installed without a warrant for short term tracking.
Of course, the Justice department usually prefers err on the safe side.
What? Those exact same shortcuts work in Microsoft Office.
The GPL doesn't require the source code to be provided together with the binaries, just that the source code be made available to the recipient of the binaries, possibly even charging him for the transportation costs. So unless someone requested the source code and didn't get it, no one violated the GPL.
Though not really relavant to this story, cannabis does cause schizophreniform disorder in people with two common allelic variants in the gene for catechol-O-methyltransferase (esp one of these variants).
See Caspi, A. et al. Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset cannabis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: longitudinal evidence of a gene X environment interaction. Biol. Psychiatry 57, 1117–1127 (2005) (longitudinal study)
The Directive 1999/93/EC of of the European Parliament and of the Council already has established a framework where digital signatures are legally binding. In my country, Portugal, this has been implemented even before the directive. These certificates for signing can be emitted by any company as long as it follows some certifications. So on that aspect, it's been more than 10 years now...
The second aspect of what you say -- and the supposedly what the article mentions (not that I've read it, of course) -- is authentication against web services. Since the introduction of smart cards replacing the usual id cards, this has also become more common, but really, only some government services use it. Anyone can of course do authentication against the smart card certificate, all you need is Apache, mod_ssl and the root certificate. The certificate will tell you name and unique id of the person. This is a bit more insidious, but really no really less privacy than giving a credit card number and your name when you're shopping.
I'm surprised to hear it's so wild-spread in Bulgaria, almost no one here has smartcard readers or for that matter would know how to use it...
Referece? The CVE description says:
What the hell are you talking about?
A jury? In Sweden?
Smoking in not a choice; for the vast majority of the smokers, it's an addiction. These people don't smoke because they want to, they smoke because they can't help it. So the point of personal liberty is very weakened.
Try not to be ignorant, not to say idiotic. "Any possible message" includes "any reasonable message". Come back when you understand Shannon's theorem.
That's strange, I find that behavior much worse in Linux (i.e., Linux is more aggressive swapping out applications). I usually tune the "swappiness" (see http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 ) to very low levels, but sometimes after having to wait a few seconds each time I switched to some huge application such as NetBeans made me disabled the swap space.
This statute was actually passed in 1951; actually, there was an attempt to get the law repeated and they got it backwards. See http://volokh.com/2010/02/10/did-south-carolina-pass-a-subversive-activities-registration-act-last-year/
Appellant, a Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted under the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism statute for "advocat[ing] . . . the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform" and for "voluntarily assembl[ing] with any society, group or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal syndicalism." Neither the indictment nor the trial judge's instructions refined the statute's definition of the crime in terms of mere advocacy not distinguished from incitement to imminent lawless action. Held: Since the statute, by its words and as applied, purports to punish mere advocacy and to forbid, on pain of criminal punishment, assembly with others merely to advocate the described type of action, it falls within the condemnation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Freedoms of speech and press do not permit a State to forbid advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Actually "infeasible" is a valid word: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=infeasible , it's the same as "unfeasible". Moreover, "in-" is the typical prefix for words of latin origin, so it would be more likely to exist than "unpossible".
Or you could partition the disk, format the first partition (the only one Windows sees on removable media) with FAT32 and the other one with ext3/whatever when you want to keep the meta-data. The best of both worlds.
Of the 31 papers not written by El Naschie in the most recent issue of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, at least 11 are related to his theories and include 58 citations of his work in the journal.
And it's actually a theoretical-physics journal, with a relatively high impact factor of 3.025 for 2007.
There are solutions for each one of those circumstances:
1. You never open links in search results to sites you have never been to? - If you are running windows using Firefox or IE there have been many cases of 0 day exploits
Run your browser with lower privileges (even if you are a not an administrator, which by itself thwarts most of the virus, which expect otherwise, run it with a constrained token). See http://blogs.msdn.com/nigelwa/archive/2005/07/29/445155.aspx. Additionally, IE7 protected mode under Vista has an excellent record.
2. Do you not use any USB storage devices? - Just this Christmas I purchases a digital photo frame for a family member that had built in storage. low and behold when I went to preload it with photos it was already infected with a virus that was set to use auto play to install.
This one is straight-forward: just deactivate auto-run.
3. You 100% trust EVERY thing your friends or family send you? Document infections are still somewhat common. I suppose using Open office would get you around macro infections but you also might not be able to open company documents then.
This may be a bit more problematic, but macros are usually not set to be run by default. If you are paranoid, you can always run Office apps with less privileges.
That's not right. "Omniscient" should be understood as meaning "to know everything that is possible to be known". Therefore, if there is free will, God won't be able to predict our actions.
At least in Christianity, free will is assumed. If there were no free will, our love for God would mean nothing, because we wouldn't have any alternative.
This is not entirely true, at least in the long term. Once you know the all red clearance time is there, you tend to cross red lights more often.
For instance, this report says:
As for whether red light cameras increase safety, studies usually find that angle and left-turn crashes are reduced but rear-end crashes tend to increase. See, for example Kangwon Shin and Simon Washington, The impact of red light cameras on safety in Arizona, Accident Analysis & PreventionVolume 39, Issue 6, , November 2007, Pages 1212-1221.
That would be the best thing to do, but it's not always trivial. In fact, sometimes it's impossible.
I've seen e-mail setups where after the mail is sent to the servers in MX records it goes through several MTAs until it's finally delivered. In order to be possible to reject the e-mail at SMTP time, you'd have to do some kind of synchronization between the MTAs so that the MX server could know whether the addresses exist. Plus, the same domain could read users from several databases at the same time (e.g. mysql, /etc/passwd, LDAP, ...) which would complicate synchronization even more.
That's still not as good as this solution. I can't understand why it's not widely adopted.