In Android all apps get different UIDs (unless they demand sharing the id), and GID determines the allowed permissions. So it's very easy to filter not just by usual IP rules (src:port-dest:port), but also by application, effectively doing application level firewall. That's what DroidWall is.
There is a huge difference between rooting and jailbreaking. Android is open, in a sense that it allows installing apps from any source out of the box, you don't need jailbreaking. Rooting just allows superuser permissions to some apps, and you explicitly control which ones and when to give them root access. Very few apps need root and always for a very good reason (in 2.2+ at least. In 2.1 rooting was required to control LED flash, which wasn't a good reason, so Google fixed it).
What's your app, and what kind of ads do you use? And why are you AC?
I use DroidWall and have a few simple rules for allowing or disallowing net access. First, all apps are denied 3G access unless they really need it (my data plan is limited). Second, if an app requires some suspicious permissions - it is denied Wi-Fi access as well. For instance, if an offline game requires location information (and a lot do!) - it is denied any kind of net access.
I don't mind to see the occasional ad, but I never agreed to sending my personal information to the advertisers. It is not essential to them, the targeted ads don't seem to work anyway despite all their efforts (I don't remember any mobile ad that seemed even little relevant).
Since it's the app developers who send the information, they deserve to be left without revenue. Maybe it'll teach them to value their users' privacy.
After rooting your Android phone, you can block the advertisers with AdFree (which a simple black list for all ad sites), or go with a more complex solution like DroidWall and only allow apps you trust to access the net. And you can easily change Android ID with aptly named Android ID changer or simple db hack.
Not sure if something similar exists for iPhone (would never touch it anyway).
While Qualcomm is major player, it hardly has a market share of Intel: Samsung sells a bunch load of phones and they have their own platform. Motorola Droid/Milestone and its newer versions are all based on TI OMAP platform. Lots of new phones will be released with Nvidia Tegra 2. Several Chinese phones are Marvell Armada (former Intel XScale) based. The platform makers are in stiff competition so their margins can't be too high. And unike Microsoft, Google doesn't charge a lot for its OS (you know, it's free). ARM itself faces an imminent competition from upcoming low-power Intel chips.
Android went the same way as NT: it was initially designed with full portability in mind, didn't provide NDK for native code, and was available for two different CPU architectures (ARM and x86, you can still find android 1.6 distribution for eeePC). All programs were supposed to run equally on all platforms.
Google, however, quickly realized that there is no market for anything but ARM, and NDK is a must (especially with no JIT for Dalvik available until Froyo - meaning very bad application performance).
That said, Android, being Linux-based, is still very easily portable to any other platform. E.g. if Intel decides at any point to go with Android in addition to MeeGo, it can be achieved very quickly. And the android market could always filter application not compatible with the platform it is running on. So different platform won't be a pain for customers, only to developers using native code.
The first inventor (and probably the only one, the rest are usually just added to get the corporate patent bonus) of the patent in question is Dryfoos, Robert O.
I just wanted to point that for some people showing the face is just as bad as for you being seen without clothes. Both have religious backgrounds, it's just so deep inside you, that you no longer understand the reason.
Air freight is scanned and can be opened too. If you value your privacy so much you shouldn't take no luggage with you at all.
BTW, it's quite sad to see the number of different moderations my first comment received. I guess mere mentioning of religion qualifies as flamebait here. So much for the freedom of thought.
Maybe it's time for us to stop being ashamed of our own bodies? Especially those of us who don't believe in any gods, why do we still support a taboo that didn't exist in many cultures before the spread of Christianity?
Remote wipe can also be issued from Google apps, if the phone is configured to sync from it. Most see it as a very useful feature, the phone can be wiped if it is lost or stolen.
Interestingly this feature isn't available in Google's own Android phones, it's necessary to use third party software for remote wiping.
Next time I'm in Japan, I'm surely gonna check what it suggests to a gaijin like me. Is it programmed to offer us the diet coke poison or some exotic Japanese drink like Pocari Sweat?
Everyone is having the same problem. Just look at the market comments - last 100 ratings are 1 star with the same complaint. The weird thing is that it does establish connection to
194.165.188.125 port 12350, so the server is not down. The actual data is encrypted, I can't understand what's going on.
The writers of the worm must be laughing at the long and baseless chain that connected the word "myrtus" (plant name) to queen Esther. Only journalists could come up with something like that. I'm quite sure that with proper motivation they would find a very convincing logic chain between b:\ in the path name and genital warts of the Zimbabwean president.
Sorry, I meant ~2400MB/s or ~2.4GB/s (which is 24Gbps divided by roughly 10 to take into an account protocol overhead - that's the rule of thumb in SCSI, you get at most 400MB/s out of 4Gbps FC or 300MB/s out of 3Gbps SAS).
Not confusing bits and bytes, just a typo.
In any case, this thoughput is currently theoretical - best SAS HBAs are 8x PCIe 2.0, and limited by its bandwidth of 20Gbps (which is also divided by 10 because of 8b/10b encoding).
Of course, it's part of the deal: they will rename it to Intileon raceway. Since Infineon and Intel already have the same logo (well, almost the same), no one will notice any difference.
If Infineon doesn't ring a bell to someone, the name Siemens surely does. Infineon was the semiconductor division of Siemens, before being spun off into a separate company.
Infineon's current market cap is around 5B, so Intel is rumored to buy about 1/3 of the company (assuming some premium over the stock price).
... It's been (mumble) years now but I'm still not using a single Java application for anything important (I think I've only ever installed one Java program on my machine), and neither is anybody else I know.
I'm not using motorcycles and neither is anybody else I know. Does it mean motorcycles are dead?
They didn't really shelve it, they continued to invest in the development of the digital photography and made many achievements. They improved the CCDs a lot, built the digital part of the first professional SLRs (using bodies from Nikon and later Canon). However they were unable to keep the pace and were soon surpassed by the Japanese companies
Ironically Kodak contributed a lot to the technology that in the end made their traditional business obsolete.
"The regime of Israel" is called democracy. Your reply only shows how brainwashed "many rational, sane folk" are. And yes, I do know a lot about the subject, which unfortunately isn't true about you.
What is the relation between "racism against Muslims" and disapproval of an evil regime that kills and tortures its own citizens, supports and trains terrorist organizations and openly states its goal to wipe another country? You don't make any sense.
Besides, by definition there can't be any racism against Muslims, only against Persians or Arabs.
If fusion really works by then, we won't have to worry about helium, as it is the product of nuclear fusion. The resulting helium-3 is even lighter than the regular helium-4 as found on earth, the party balloons will fly into the stratosphere even faster!
By then, however, we'll waste all our reserves of lithium-6 needed for production of tritium used in the nuclear fusion. And of course all humans will be killed long before that by the antibiotics-and-everything-else-resistant crazy flesh-eating-for-breakfast bacteria, so it won't matter at all.
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In Android all apps get different UIDs (unless they demand sharing the id), and GID determines the allowed permissions. So it's very easy to filter not just by usual IP rules (src:port-dest:port), but also by application, effectively doing application level firewall. That's what DroidWall is.
There is a huge difference between rooting and jailbreaking. Android is open, in a sense that it allows installing apps from any source out of the box, you don't need jailbreaking. Rooting just allows superuser permissions to some apps, and you explicitly control which ones and when to give them root access. Very few apps need root and always for a very good reason (in 2.2+ at least. In 2.1 rooting was required to control LED flash, which wasn't a good reason, so Google fixed it).
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What's your app, and what kind of ads do you use? And why are you AC?
I use DroidWall and have a few simple rules for allowing or disallowing net access. First, all apps are denied 3G access unless they really need it (my data plan is limited). Second, if an app requires some suspicious permissions - it is denied Wi-Fi access as well. For instance, if an offline game requires location information (and a lot do!) - it is denied any kind of net access.
I don't mind to see the occasional ad, but I never agreed to sending my personal information to the advertisers. It is not essential to them, the targeted ads don't seem to work anyway despite all their efforts (I don't remember any mobile ad that seemed even little relevant).
Since it's the app developers who send the information, they deserve to be left without revenue. Maybe it'll teach them to value their users' privacy.
After rooting your Android phone, you can block the advertisers with AdFree (which a simple black list for all ad sites), or go with a more complex solution like DroidWall and only allow apps you trust to access the net. And you can easily change Android ID with aptly named Android ID changer or simple db hack.
Not sure if something similar exists for iPhone (would never touch it anyway).
While Qualcomm is major player, it hardly has a market share of Intel: Samsung sells a bunch load of phones and they have their own platform. Motorola Droid/Milestone and its newer versions are all based on TI OMAP platform. Lots of new phones will be released with Nvidia Tegra 2. Several Chinese phones are Marvell Armada (former Intel XScale) based. The platform makers are in stiff competition so their margins can't be too high. And unike Microsoft, Google doesn't charge a lot for its OS (you know, it's free). ARM itself faces an imminent competition from upcoming low-power Intel chips.
In short, this article is a BS and waste of time.
Android went the same way as NT: it was initially designed with full portability in mind, didn't provide NDK for native code, and was available for two different CPU architectures (ARM and x86, you can still find android 1.6 distribution for eeePC). All programs were supposed to run equally on all platforms.
Google, however, quickly realized that there is no market for anything but ARM, and NDK is a must (especially with no JIT for Dalvik available until Froyo - meaning very bad application performance).
That said, Android, being Linux-based, is still very easily portable to any other platform. E.g. if Intel decides at any point to go with Android in addition to MeeGo, it can be achieved very quickly. And the android market could always filter application not compatible with the platform it is running on. So different platform won't be a pain for customers, only to developers using native code.
The real question is why was the investigation reopened?
Didn't the first investigation have all the facts?
And why did reopening of the investigation happen while the rumors of the new leaks started to spread?
The first inventor (and probably the only one, the rest are usually just added to get the corporate patent bonus) of the patent in question is Dryfoos, Robert O.
Maybe it is the beginning of the new Dreyfus affair?
I just wanted to point that for some people showing the face is just as bad as for you being seen without clothes. Both have religious backgrounds, it's just so deep inside you, that you no longer understand the reason.
Air freight is scanned and can be opened too. If you value your privacy so much you shouldn't take no luggage with you at all.
BTW, it's quite sad to see the number of different moderations my first comment received. I guess mere mentioning of religion qualifies as flamebait here. So much for the freedom of thought.
But is it OK for TSA to see your face and contents of your bags?
Maybe it's time for us to stop being ashamed of our own bodies? Especially those of us who don't believe in any gods, why do we still support a taboo that didn't exist in many cultures before the spread of Christianity?
Remote wipe can also be issued from Google apps, if the phone is configured to sync from it. Most see it as a very useful feature, the phone can be wiped if it is lost or stolen. Interestingly this feature isn't available in Google's own Android phones, it's necessary to use third party software for remote wiping.
Next time I'm in Japan, I'm surely gonna check what it suggests to a gaijin like me. Is it programmed to offer us the diet coke poison or some exotic Japanese drink like Pocari Sweat?
Everyone is having the same problem. Just look at the market comments - last 100 ratings are 1 star with the same complaint. The weird thing is that it does establish connection to 194.165.188.125 port 12350, so the server is not down. The actual data is encrypted, I can't understand what's going on.
Or you could beat the big box stores for any hardware by not buying the windows license at all. Especially if you don't use it.
The writers of the worm must be laughing at the long and baseless chain that connected the word "myrtus" (plant name) to queen Esther. Only journalists could come up with something like that. I'm quite sure that with proper motivation they would find a very convincing logic chain between b:\ in the path name and genital warts of the Zimbabwean president.
BTW, what kind of path starts with "b:\"?
Sorry, I meant ~2400MB/s or ~2.4GB/s (which is 24Gbps divided by roughly 10 to take into an account protocol overhead - that's the rule of thumb in SCSI, you get at most 400MB/s out of 4Gbps FC or 300MB/s out of 3Gbps SAS).
Not confusing bits and bytes, just a typo.
In any case, this thoughput is currently theoretical - best SAS HBAs are 8x PCIe 2.0, and limited by its bandwidth of 20Gbps (which is also divided by 10 because of 8b/10b encoding).
My question exactly. One miniSAS connector would give them 6Gb*4 = 24Gbps = ~2400GB/s (including overhead) - a lot more than enough bandwidth
Maybe to save the costs of SAS HBA (at least 200-300$) and avoid paying royalties to T10?
Of course, it's part of the deal: they will rename it to Intileon raceway. Since Infineon and Intel already have the same logo (well, almost the same), no one will notice any difference.
If Infineon doesn't ring a bell to someone, the name Siemens surely does. Infineon was the semiconductor division of Siemens, before being spun off into a separate company.
Infineon's current market cap is around 5B, so Intel is rumored to buy about 1/3 of the company (assuming some premium over the stock price).
... It's been (mumble) years now but I'm still not using a single Java application for anything important (I think I've only ever installed one Java program on my machine), and neither is anybody else I know.
I'm not using motorcycles and neither is anybody else I know. Does it mean motorcycles are dead?
(Sorry for the car analogy)
They didn't really shelve it, they continued to invest in the development of the digital photography and made many achievements. They improved the CCDs a lot, built the digital part of the first professional SLRs (using bodies from Nikon and later Canon). However they were unable to keep the pace and were soon surpassed by the Japanese companies
Ironically Kodak contributed a lot to the technology that in the end made their traditional business obsolete.
"The regime of Israel" is called democracy. Your reply only shows how brainwashed "many rational, sane folk" are. And yes, I do know a lot about the subject, which unfortunately isn't true about you.
What is the relation between "racism against Muslims" and disapproval of an evil regime that kills and tortures its own citizens, supports and trains terrorist organizations and openly states its goal to wipe another country? You don't make any sense.
Besides, by definition there can't be any racism against Muslims, only against Persians or Arabs.
If fusion really works by then, we won't have to worry about helium, as it is the product of nuclear fusion. The resulting helium-3 is even lighter than the regular helium-4 as found on earth, the party balloons will fly into the stratosphere even faster!
By then, however, we'll waste all our reserves of lithium-6 needed for production of tritium used in the nuclear fusion. And of course all humans will be killed long before that by the antibiotics-and-everything-else-resistant crazy flesh-eating-for-breakfast bacteria, so it won't matter at all.