You're looking for a fight where there isn't any and I have no idea why. My recommendation is decaff. While you're looking for the coffeepot, you might re-read my message and try to figure out where I had misunderstood anything I read.
Epic, you insult me then insist I simultaneously look for a coffeepot and re-read your post. The statement "if you have to turn off all the features to make the phone usable" is very clear and to the point, but is completely misplaced since no one ever suggested doing that. Thanks for trolling then complaining when someone called you out on it. You are really making the internet a better place!
Well it's more secure then just "slide to unlock" and it's not as inconvenient as a more secure screen lock.
Secure screen locks are a bit of a problem with smart phones, since (in order to save battery) the lock engages so often. It would be nice if there was an option to have different locks - just a slide if you haven't used the phone for a minute, and e.g. a PIN if you haven't used it in 15 mins or so.
Yeah, it's a wonder they haven't thought of that... Er wait no they did that exactly. You can set the PIN to engage only after a set interval that can be longer than the screen timeout. Slightly less secure but a lot less annoying if you are prone to using your phone for short, frequent bursts during the day.
A little digging into focus distance data will give the phone more than enough info it needs to tell the difference between an actual life-size face and a tiny little image of a face on a card... Also, most (all?) photo IDs have security features including watermarks, overlays, and holograms that could be detected and used to negate the scan. Or, as many have pointed out, just don't tell it what your face looks like and stick with putting in a pin or using a silly little puzzle to unlock it. Whatever lets you sleep at night.
My reasoning has always been, if you have to turn off all the features to make the phone usable, why have the features at all? And turning them on only when I want to use them is too much hassle if I have to do it manually. I'm an American, I want it now and I want someone else to do it for me, damnit. Fortunately I found a workable solution (battery saving application).
My reasoning has always been: "reading, it's fundamental!"'
However, I found that if you disable all the features that are not present in the iPhone
In other words, if you make it feature-comparable with an iPhone it will also be battery life comparable with an iPhone. This has been my experience with battery life as well. If you turn off the cool but unnecessary features (Google Latitude is one example) and still retain its smartphone-ness (email, web, social media, etc) you will get plenty of life out of your Android phone.
If that's the case, then the question is a complete non-starter. Is he really asking "what carrier will sell me an Android phone that has a feature that is not present in Android to begin with"? Excuse me for not answering a completely absurd question properly.
I never meant to say that Fox doesn't have it's biases, I'm only saying that they're not alone.
Pithy comments like "oh well Fox is biased like every other news outlet" are so far off the mark you might as well get your news from papyrus rolls. Its amazingly disingenuous to merely say that "Fox has it's biases" when 75% of its "news" content is actually opinion/editorial and only slants one direction... Thinking that if you spend 50% of your news-gathering with Fox and 50% with say CNN will get you anywhere close to middle ground is total nonsense. Watch Fox if you are a conservative who wants to be shown/told what to think about what is happening in the world; there is nothing wrong with that as long as you are comfortable admitting it. Turn it off if you aren't.
NPR has its own skeletons in the closet. Look up Juan Williams. I think it's better to just assume that every news source has its junk, whether its well-known or not, and to just read any news source with a grain of salt, and then cross-reference it with other news sources. I think this is more realistic than to assume X is biased, and Y is not.
The thing that makes Fox extra fun is that they admittedly spend only about 6 hours a day being a "news source" (and it's not in the timeslots you think it is)... Guess which category Juan's little crymeafuckin river rant was aired in? Tune out 100% of the prime time talking heads and their anything-for-ratings antics and you MIGHT get enough information from Fox to make it worthwhile, but you won't see Juan or any of the other "familiar faces" on during those hours.
You can try to spin this whatever way you want, but facts are facts. CALPers is trying to tank a stock it owns, to the financial detriment of the people CALPers represents.
Your argument is that the News Corp stock will go down if the Murdochs are ousted... Do you think the decline and scuttling of News of the World was good for the share price? The share price tends to disagree (it has been markedly below average recently).
Root your phone and install a copy of Barnacle Wi-Fi tether. It works on just about any Android phone with a 2g/3g data connection, it is lightweight and easy to set up. At an MSRP of free, it won't break the bank. All hail our open source overlords!
With the limited and dwindling funds that state and federal government has at its disposal, would you rather they spend their time tracking and prosecuting violent offenders or tossing mad-dog phone picker uppers in prison?
So, what part of "iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation" made you think he spent time in prison? RTFT much?
Yeah imagine your disappointment when you see the "sorry, the device you are trying to pair with is not running iOS 13.3 or later... please dock the device and launch iTunes before proceeding"
It runs on glucose (sugar) and oxygen... If you could afford to buy such a device, why bother putting it inside you? Just give the device the sugar and oxygen and keep your under-achieving meat bag out of the equation. Trust me, it will cost you less in the long run. Want to know what to do with all that fat? Invest in an at-home liposuction kit and start making "all natural" beauty soaps... I read this great how-to once...
Good call on that. Having the thing internal will prevent the screen from breaking all the time on that damn iPhone.
It will make for an even elevated sense of iEnvy though... Just imagine having a major surgical operation to install the iPhone 9 in your body only to have Robot Steve Jobs announce a week later that the iPhone 9S++ is out, with enhanced mind control and better support for "Device pairing".
How about you be more careful with your $5000 and not dropping it where anybody can just pick it up?
Now if someone pulled out a gun and made you hand over the $5000, that is a crime, bring out the police and the criminal justice system.
The only reason we're talking about this is because it's an iPhone and Steve got his pickle in a twist that someone saw his secret and ruined his big reveal at MacWorld. A billionaire's tantrum, more or less.
Care is not at issue; there is simply no such thing as "finders keepers" in any nation observing modern property laws. This guy was punished like the thief he was, end of story. If you had "lost" a $5000 phone that someone found and immediately hocked instead of returning it, would you really think to yourself "oh well it was his to sell" and just move on with your life?
You have never been to a bar where people have "parked" their phones on the table/bartop/counter for the duration of their visit? I have observed this routine practice in many places around the US...
If you spot a lost cell phone, ignore it. Don't touch it, don't look at it, don't ponder it, and above all, don't be the one who calls attention to it. Just keep moving. In today's environment of runaway government, chances are high you will be punished for trying to do right, rather than rewarded as one should be.
Holy tinfoil hat... Michelle Bachmann, is that you? This case is not even remotely about someone trying to do the "right thing", by any stretch of the imagination. A guy found some lost property and immediately tried to sell it, which in almost every sane, law abiding nation, is a CRIME. He got punished. I think the protest down at the Crymeafuckin river is missing you sorely, why don't you get back to it?
What crime was committed? He found some prototype in a bar and sold it to some news website. What crime was committed, exactly? The guy didn't sign an NDA or anything.
It would be like finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk and being convicted of theft because you didn't turn it in to the police. Who knows? Maybe that is a misdemeanor.
Sure, it wasn't the most ethical thing to do. An ethical person presumably would have turned the device in to its presumed owner, if there were any ownership markings on it.
The whole thing is kind of sleazy and it leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth about Apple. Come on, you're already a rich corporation; how much could this guy have possibly hurt you? Did it stop even one person from buying one of your products?
Correction, it would be like finding a $5000 bill (or its equivalent of 100's) and keeping it instead of notifying the local police, which in the US is *not at all different with stealing $5000 (or an iphone) out of someones wallet/purse and having no intent of giving it back*. You can understand that stealing $5000 from someone would meet with severe consequences, can't you?
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
Well, did he pick it up, remove the SIM card so the owner couldn't just call it and ask about it? Or did he keep it at home waiting for the owner to call and after a few days decided to sell it?
Completely not the point. (make way for the car analogy!) Hey I found this sweet car, and the owner never once showed up in the few days that I waited for him to claim it. It's totally mine. I wonder why so many people abandon cars at the airport, anyway? Oh well, finders keepers!
Most jurisdictions require public notification of found goods, as well as a 6 month waiting period. Neither of which this guy even came close to adhering to.
Steve may not have liked your taste in ripped music, your torrented TV series, or your third party apps, but he would defend to the death your right to run them, as long as that means you will pay an Apple tax to do so.
Unless you bought an Apple TV; in that case he would have liked you to pay the apple tax on the gizmo, the apple tax on the media, as well as the media tax for "owning" a proprietary bit of content for a fixed amount of time...
I'd mod you up, had I the points. I even saw a somewhat disturbing piece on one of those Sunday shows asserting that Steve Jobs was indeed the FOUR most important people to influence technology in the past half century, since calling him the single most important person was apparently already too low a tribute. Steve was clearly very influential but to blindly say that he was "The most influential in history" is a huge reach. Just because there are certain groups of people who rely entirely on his company's products (not even a majority of those who use technology on a daily basis) that group (almost all of those in national media, it would seem) feel justified in glorifying him to no apparent end.
And hey, at least RMS won't need to worry about his funeral being picketed by the Westboro folks.
All of the studies about icon size, color schemes, human motion studies, and cognitive science will be meaningless if you believe you need it "just because my customers are idiots".
Golf clap. I would add the "seriously, who would actually want to use this" test. If you have developerS (plural) just set them down with each others designs and see how long it takes them to accomplish a very specific task. Their weaknesses will become apparent very fast. For the ones that still don't get it, have some customers/end users/whatever come in, and force the developer to stand in front of them and teach them how to use it cold turkey. I have watched this happen and it is a priceless learning experience, things that should have been obvious during design will stand out clear as day.
It also meant we had to spend weeks inside very hot dams in the worst god-forsaken parts of Brazil to set the entire parameter set locally while doing "comissioning".
But did you get to visit Itaipu? Come on, that would be cool as hell.
the categorization of these flaws, and whether they are a "bug" or not, can determine by law or policy who is on the hook for the $$$ required to fix the flaw.
That's exactly it. (make way for the car analogy!) You wouldn't say that a car with glass windows has a "Security flaw" in which the interior can be accessed through the use of a ball pean hammer and 1/2 lb of force. You instead say that it has known security limitations involving vectors x y and z. If your system (the car) is improperly configured (left unattended in a shitty neighborhood) and subsequently gets burglarized, you would not say that the vendor provided an insufficiently secure car, would you?
So it is with ICS and SCADA. No vendor is out there saying "sure these are secure enough to attach to the internet at large, with no firewalls at all protecting them"... And yet that is what we see happen. Is it the vendor's fault for not making the system impossible to set up insecurely? Or is it the implementers fault for being an idiot? You know which side I am on.
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You're looking for a fight where there isn't any and I have no idea why. My recommendation is decaff. While you're looking for the coffeepot, you might re-read my message and try to figure out where I had misunderstood anything I read.
Epic, you insult me then insist I simultaneously look for a coffeepot and re-read your post. The statement "if you have to turn off all the features to make the phone usable" is very clear and to the point, but is completely misplaced since no one ever suggested doing that. Thanks for trolling then complaining when someone called you out on it. You are really making the internet a better place!
Well it's more secure then just "slide to unlock" and it's not as inconvenient as a more secure screen lock.
Secure screen locks are a bit of a problem with smart phones, since (in order to save battery) the lock engages so often. It would be nice if there was an option to have different locks - just a slide if you haven't used the phone for a minute, and e.g. a PIN if you haven't used it in 15 mins or so.
Yeah, it's a wonder they haven't thought of that... Er wait no they did that exactly. You can set the PIN to engage only after a set interval that can be longer than the screen timeout. Slightly less secure but a lot less annoying if you are prone to using your phone for short, frequent bursts during the day.
A little digging into focus distance data will give the phone more than enough info it needs to tell the difference between an actual life-size face and a tiny little image of a face on a card... Also, most (all?) photo IDs have security features including watermarks, overlays, and holograms that could be detected and used to negate the scan. Or, as many have pointed out, just don't tell it what your face looks like and stick with putting in a pin or using a silly little puzzle to unlock it. Whatever lets you sleep at night.
My reasoning has always been, if you have to turn off all the features to make the phone usable, why have the features at all? And turning them on only when I want to use them is too much hassle if I have to do it manually. I'm an American, I want it now and I want someone else to do it for me, damnit. Fortunately I found a workable solution (battery saving application).
My reasoning has always been: "reading, it's fundamental!"'
However, I found that if you disable all the features that are not present in the iPhone
In other words, if you make it feature-comparable with an iPhone it will also be battery life comparable with an iPhone. This has been my experience with battery life as well. If you turn off the cool but unnecessary features (Google Latitude is one example) and still retain its smartphone-ness (email, web, social media, etc) you will get plenty of life out of your Android phone.
If that's the case, then the question is a complete non-starter. Is he really asking "what carrier will sell me an Android phone that has a feature that is not present in Android to begin with"? Excuse me for not answering a completely absurd question properly.
I never meant to say that Fox doesn't have it's biases, I'm only saying that they're not alone.
Pithy comments like "oh well Fox is biased like every other news outlet" are so far off the mark you might as well get your news from papyrus rolls. Its amazingly disingenuous to merely say that "Fox has it's biases" when 75% of its "news" content is actually opinion/editorial and only slants one direction... Thinking that if you spend 50% of your news-gathering with Fox and 50% with say CNN will get you anywhere close to middle ground is total nonsense. Watch Fox if you are a conservative who wants to be shown/told what to think about what is happening in the world; there is nothing wrong with that as long as you are comfortable admitting it. Turn it off if you aren't.
NPR has its own skeletons in the closet. Look up Juan Williams. I think it's better to just assume that every news source has its junk, whether its well-known or not, and to just read any news source with a grain of salt, and then cross-reference it with other news sources. I think this is more realistic than to assume X is biased, and Y is not.
The thing that makes Fox extra fun is that they admittedly spend only about 6 hours a day being a "news source" (and it's not in the timeslots you think it is)... Guess which category Juan's little crymeafuckin river rant was aired in? Tune out 100% of the prime time talking heads and their anything-for-ratings antics and you MIGHT get enough information from Fox to make it worthwhile, but you won't see Juan or any of the other "familiar faces" on during those hours.
You can try to spin this whatever way you want, but facts are facts. CALPers is trying to tank a stock it owns, to the financial detriment of the people CALPers represents.
Your argument is that the News Corp stock will go down if the Murdochs are ousted... Do you think the decline and scuttling of News of the World was good for the share price? The share price tends to disagree (it has been markedly below average recently).
Root your phone and install a copy of Barnacle Wi-Fi tether. It works on just about any Android phone with a 2g/3g data connection, it is lightweight and easy to set up. At an MSRP of free, it won't break the bank. All hail our open source overlords!
With the limited and dwindling funds that state and federal government has at its disposal, would you rather they spend their time tracking and prosecuting violent offenders or tossing mad-dog phone picker uppers in prison?
So, what part of "iPhone 4 Prototype Finder Gets Probation" made you think he spent time in prison? RTFT much?
Yeah imagine your disappointment when you see the "sorry, the device you are trying to pair with is not running iOS 13.3 or later... please dock the device and launch iTunes before proceeding"
It runs on glucose (sugar) and oxygen... If you could afford to buy such a device, why bother putting it inside you? Just give the device the sugar and oxygen and keep your under-achieving meat bag out of the equation. Trust me, it will cost you less in the long run. Want to know what to do with all that fat? Invest in an at-home liposuction kit and start making "all natural" beauty soaps... I read this great how-to once...
Good call on that. Having the thing internal will prevent the screen from breaking all the time on that damn iPhone.
It will make for an even elevated sense of iEnvy though... Just imagine having a major surgical operation to install the iPhone 9 in your body only to have Robot Steve Jobs announce a week later that the iPhone 9S++ is out, with enhanced mind control and better support for "Device pairing".
How about you be more careful with your $5000 and not dropping it where anybody can just pick it up?
Now if someone pulled out a gun and made you hand over the $5000, that is a crime, bring out the police and the criminal justice system.
The only reason we're talking about this is because it's an iPhone and Steve got his pickle in a twist that someone saw his secret and ruined his big reveal at MacWorld. A billionaire's tantrum, more or less.
Care is not at issue; there is simply no such thing as "finders keepers" in any nation observing modern property laws. This guy was punished like the thief he was, end of story. If you had "lost" a $5000 phone that someone found and immediately hocked instead of returning it, would you really think to yourself "oh well it was his to sell" and just move on with your life?
You have never been to a bar where people have "parked" their phones on the table/bartop/counter for the duration of their visit? I have observed this routine practice in many places around the US...
If you spot a lost cell phone, ignore it. Don't touch it, don't look at it, don't ponder it, and above all, don't be the one who calls attention to it. Just keep moving. In today's environment of runaway government, chances are high you will be punished for trying to do right, rather than rewarded as one should be.
Holy tinfoil hat... Michelle Bachmann, is that you? This case is not even remotely about someone trying to do the "right thing", by any stretch of the imagination. A guy found some lost property and immediately tried to sell it, which in almost every sane, law abiding nation, is a CRIME. He got punished. I think the protest down at the Crymeafuckin river is missing you sorely, why don't you get back to it?
What crime was committed? He found some prototype in a bar and sold it to some news website. What crime was committed, exactly? The guy didn't sign an NDA or anything.
It would be like finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk and being convicted of theft because you didn't turn it in to the police. Who knows? Maybe that is a misdemeanor.
Sure, it wasn't the most ethical thing to do. An ethical person presumably would have turned the device in to its presumed owner, if there were any ownership markings on it.
The whole thing is kind of sleazy and it leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth about Apple. Come on, you're already a rich corporation; how much could this guy have possibly hurt you? Did it stop even one person from buying one of your products?
Correction, it would be like finding a $5000 bill (or its equivalent of 100's) and keeping it instead of notifying the local police, which in the US is *not at all different with stealing $5000 (or an iphone) out of someones wallet/purse and having no intent of giving it back*. You can understand that stealing $5000 from someone would meet with severe consequences, can't you?
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
Well, did he pick it up, remove the SIM card so the owner couldn't just call it and ask about it? Or did he keep it at home waiting for the owner to call and after a few days decided to sell it?
Completely not the point. (make way for the car analogy!) Hey I found this sweet car, and the owner never once showed up in the few days that I waited for him to claim it. It's totally mine. I wonder why so many people abandon cars at the airport, anyway? Oh well, finders keepers!
Most jurisdictions require public notification of found goods, as well as a 6 month waiting period. Neither of which this guy even came close to adhering to.
Disclaimer: I am NOT choosing sides in this post.
The notion that the Obama team is the only one in the prospective 2012 race to understand data mining and acting on numbers is pretty shallow. Rick Perry has a well documented (and apparently very well run) data mining team that he has used in the past and would no doubt use again in a presidential bid... More info here: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/rick-perrys-scientific-campaign-method/ and here: http://www.thevictorylab.com/ and in this E-book: http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Perry-His-Eggheads-ebook/dp/B005HE8ED4
Steve may not have liked your taste in ripped music, your torrented TV series, or your third party apps, but he would defend to the death your right to run them, as long as that means you will pay an Apple tax to do so.
Unless you bought an Apple TV; in that case he would have liked you to pay the apple tax on the gizmo, the apple tax on the media, as well as the media tax for "owning" a proprietary bit of content for a fixed amount of time...
I'd mod you up, had I the points. I even saw a somewhat disturbing piece on one of those Sunday shows asserting that Steve Jobs was indeed the FOUR most important people to influence technology in the past half century, since calling him the single most important person was apparently already too low a tribute. Steve was clearly very influential but to blindly say that he was "The most influential in history" is a huge reach. Just because there are certain groups of people who rely entirely on his company's products (not even a majority of those who use technology on a daily basis) that group (almost all of those in national media, it would seem) feel justified in glorifying him to no apparent end.
And hey, at least RMS won't need to worry about his funeral being picketed by the Westboro folks.
All of the studies about icon size, color schemes, human motion studies, and cognitive science will be meaningless if you believe you need it "just because my customers are idiots".
Golf clap. I would add the "seriously, who would actually want to use this" test. If you have developerS (plural) just set them down with each others designs and see how long it takes them to accomplish a very specific task. Their weaknesses will become apparent very fast. For the ones that still don't get it, have some customers/end users/whatever come in, and force the developer to stand in front of them and teach them how to use it cold turkey. I have watched this happen and it is a priceless learning experience, things that should have been obvious during design will stand out clear as day.
here are ever increasing numbers of elderly to care for, but relatively fewer younger people to do the job
I think you mean fewer younger people *willing* to do the job... There is clearly no shortage of unemployed youth in almost every market in the world.
It also meant we had to spend weeks inside very hot dams in the worst god-forsaken parts of Brazil to set the entire parameter set locally while doing "comissioning".
But did you get to visit Itaipu? Come on, that would be cool as hell.
it matters to beaurocrats, unfortunately.
the categorization of these flaws, and whether they are a "bug" or not, can determine by law or policy who is on the hook for the $$$ required to fix the flaw.
That's exactly it. (make way for the car analogy!) You wouldn't say that a car with glass windows has a "Security flaw" in which the interior can be accessed through the use of a ball pean hammer and 1/2 lb of force. You instead say that it has known security limitations involving vectors x y and z. If your system (the car) is improperly configured (left unattended in a shitty neighborhood) and subsequently gets burglarized, you would not say that the vendor provided an insufficiently secure car, would you?
So it is with ICS and SCADA. No vendor is out there saying "sure these are secure enough to attach to the internet at large, with no firewalls at all protecting them"... And yet that is what we see happen. Is it the vendor's fault for not making the system impossible to set up insecurely? Or is it the implementers fault for being an idiot? You know which side I am on.