A jailbroken OS is often used to play pirated content?
There is some truth to that. As an app developer, just the other day I saw over 500 downloads of my application after it had been posted to the big iPhone pirate site. Of that 500+, only 18 were legitimate sales.
I still do not think that is a good reason to prevent jailbreaking though. Pirating software is already illegal anyway.
I live on a farm, nowhere near any major cities. The DSL rollout happened here nine years ago and has been a financial success for the providers, despite the relatively small customer base. They're even starting to consider a fiber rollout in the next few years. Heck, you can go out into the nothern wilderness and still get mobile high speed internet service.
I do not doubt your claims, it just boggles the mind that in the last ten years there has been seemingly no progress at all in rural USA.
Their argument will not protect you from malware or attacks on the infrastructure. Take the recent SMS vulnerability as an example. Your phone is vulnerable right now; no jailbreaking required.
Keep in mind that if someone actually launched an attack using that SMS vulnerability, it is already illegal to do so. Additional laws will not help you here.
If the software is vulnerable, it is vulnerable with or without a jailbroken iPhone. Even confiscating every single iPhone in existence will not stop someone from taking advantage of the vulnerabilities, if they are so inclined.
Most people jailbreak to access all of the apps that Apple refuses to make available via the App Store. Being able to unlock the phone is just a nice side effect of the process.
The iPhone already has carrier specific stores in a sense; by country. Netshare has already shown us that AT&T calls the shots for all carriers. Rogers, for example, at the time, allowed tethering on all of their data plans. There is no reason why the app should not have been in the Canadian store, even if AT&T wanted it pulled from the U.S. market.
I found I was so busy writing notes, I wasn't able to focus on what was actually being taught. I eventually discovered that I could retain the information if I just paid full attention to the class. Unfortunately, I bought into the idea that note taking was somehow useful for far too long.
I assume they return the favor by letting you use bandwidth and computing power of other users. It may ultimately be a zero-sum game, but it does have some interesting properties. Like being able to temporarily use the power of, say, 1000 computers if you let someone else use the power of your computer later.
FTP, while in ASCII mode, can try to translate line endings. If the carriage returns were removed, in order to be UNIX compatible, the file size would have been reduced.
Most FTP clients allow the enabling of a binary mode which prevents the conversion from happening.
- Corn is in such abundance that we have to pack it into things like soft drinks just to get rid of the stuff.
- The digestible compounds of the kernel just so happens to not be the parts that are useful for creating fuel. This means that you can extract the ethanol and then eat the byproduct.
- Ethanol is typically extracted from No. 2 yellow corn. Good eats for animals such as cattle, but it's not the same kind of corn found at your local grocery store.
Corn-based ethanol may have it's flaws, but running out of corn for humans to eat is not one of them.
"Popular" is about as close as it gets to matching Pandora. But it is, at least at time of writing, entirely composed of music most people are already familiar with. This makes it quite poor at doing what Pandora was so good at.
As far as I know there are no mobile clients available for the service. Pandora is perfect for those long road trips when you don't want to be fumbling around with interfaces trying to find songs you want to hear.
It is a cool service, but is in no way a replacement for Pandora.
It's quite clear that an emulator is OK as long as it can only run the app sold with it, and not arbitrary code.
Except it's not clear. There's a Brainfuck interpreter, as well as a Z-machine interpreter. Both execute arbitrary code which can be downloaded from a remote source, or entered right on the device itself.
What I wonder is: How can Apple distribute the Remote application for free? It is an additional feature that was not provided with the original sale. There is no technical difference between downloading Remote through iTunes and downloading iPhone OS 3.0 through iTunes.
I see no problem with Apple charging for the update if they want to charge for it. But the SOX reasoning doesn't seem to make sense when they clearly provide additional features for free already.
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I'm pretty sure he means Canada, and he is just upset that Rogers new 20Mbps 3G network isn't supported by his iPhone.
There is some truth to that. As an app developer, just the other day I saw over 500 downloads of my application after it had been posted to the big iPhone pirate site. Of that 500+, only 18 were legitimate sales.
I still do not think that is a good reason to prevent jailbreaking though. Pirating software is already illegal anyway.
I live on a farm, nowhere near any major cities. The DSL rollout happened here nine years ago and has been a financial success for the providers, despite the relatively small customer base. They're even starting to consider a fiber rollout in the next few years. Heck, you can go out into the nothern wilderness and still get mobile high speed internet service.
I do not doubt your claims, it just boggles the mind that in the last ten years there has been seemingly no progress at all in rural USA.
More like China and India will begin to outsource their work to USA/Europe because it will be too costly to have it done domestically.
Who doesn't have high speed internet access and is also interested in console gaming?
Their argument will not protect you from malware or attacks on the infrastructure. Take the recent SMS vulnerability as an example. Your phone is vulnerable right now; no jailbreaking required.
Keep in mind that if someone actually launched an attack using that SMS vulnerability, it is already illegal to do so. Additional laws will not help you here.
Attacking a cell tower is already illegal. No additional legislation is needed here.
If the software is vulnerable, it is vulnerable with or without a jailbroken iPhone. Even confiscating every single iPhone in existence will not stop someone from taking advantage of the vulnerabilities, if they are so inclined.
Most people jailbreak to access all of the apps that Apple refuses to make available via the App Store. Being able to unlock the phone is just a nice side effect of the process.
The iPhone already has carrier specific stores in a sense; by country. Netshare has already shown us that AT&T calls the shots for all carriers. Rogers, for example, at the time, allowed tethering on all of their data plans. There is no reason why the app should not have been in the Canadian store, even if AT&T wanted it pulled from the U.S. market.
The $1000+ computer market is a market as much as any other market you might want to look at. The point I was raising is that there is no one market.
For example, Windows only dominates one specific market. Windows is small peanuts if you are looking at every single computer in existence.
All market share statistics are meaningless.
I found I was so busy writing notes, I wasn't able to focus on what was actually being taught. I eventually discovered that I could retain the information if I just paid full attention to the class. Unfortunately, I bought into the idea that note taking was somehow useful for far too long.
Well, it is hard to compete with Apple's 91% market share.
I assume they return the favor by letting you use bandwidth and computing power of other users. It may ultimately be a zero-sum game, but it does have some interesting properties. Like being able to temporarily use the power of, say, 1000 computers if you let someone else use the power of your computer later.
Funny, considering that OS X is officially a UNIX distribution, while Linux is not.
FTP, while in ASCII mode, can try to translate line endings. If the carriage returns were removed, in order to be UNIX compatible, the file size would have been reduced.
Most FTP clients allow the enabling of a binary mode which prevents the conversion from happening.
- Corn is in such abundance that we have to pack it into things like soft drinks just to get rid of the stuff.
- The digestible compounds of the kernel just so happens to not be the parts that are useful for creating fuel. This means that you can extract the ethanol and then eat the byproduct.
- Ethanol is typically extracted from No. 2 yellow corn. Good eats for animals such as cattle, but it's not the same kind of corn found at your local grocery store.
Corn-based ethanol may have it's flaws, but running out of corn for humans to eat is not one of them.
It is a cool service, but is in no way a replacement for Pandora.
Some of the independent telephone companies have branched out into the cell service business in the last couple of years.
Yes, but unlike Google, the government's motto is "Do evil." At least I'm pretty sure it is.
Except it's not clear. There's a Brainfuck interpreter, as well as a Z-machine interpreter. Both execute arbitrary code which can be downloaded from a remote source, or entered right on the device itself.
What I wonder is: How can Apple distribute the Remote application for free? It is an additional feature that was not provided with the original sale. There is no technical difference between downloading Remote through iTunes and downloading iPhone OS 3.0 through iTunes.
I see no problem with Apple charging for the update if they want to charge for it. But the SOX reasoning doesn't seem to make sense when they clearly provide additional features for free already.
Rogers have allowed tethering up until this point. They are taking it away at the end of year though.
If you murdered someone you may, depending on the jurisdiction, be sentenced to death. But what does that have to do with copyright infringement?