How is this phone any different than any other phone? AT&T can and will unlock other phones. Unlocking it does nothing to get you out of your contract with AT&T. Apple and AT&T are still getting their money.
The only reasons that I can see Apple and AT&T doing this are:
1. Force international users to pay insane roaming rates. (That's why I unlock GSM phones - I use an Orange SIM when I go to the UK.)
2. Prevent users from taking their legally purchased hardware to another carrier after the (unlikely) expiration of the contract.
I'm not talking about required Microsoft stuff, I'm talking about known standards that our Linux guys seemed to find a problem, like 802.1x. I'm talking about being tired of troubleshooting things because it broke when you upgraded the kernel. I'm tired of linux users not being up to the task of admining their own boxes and expecting IT to - when would any decent admin let someone who couldn't handle the box (like the user) have root? And who would want to support such a box?
We're using EAP-PEAP as well, due to the Windows folks (EAP-PEAP with MSCHAPv2 as the inner auth is just about the only thing you can be sure that Windows will support out of the box, although the Leonovo software works well for other schemes and most of our Windows folks have Thinkpads.) I don't know if they just overlooked it in the GUI but whatever at least one guy was running didn't have a supplicant that he could find.
For me, it's easy - I tell them that 802.1x is what is required, give them the details, and let them figure it out. They wanted to be their own sysadmins and I wish them well with that.:)
Any project I've been involved with has been made MUCH more complicated by the requirement to support linux desktops. Since OpenVPN wasn't working on the Intel Macs (and this was about a year ago - yes it works fine now) we went with the Cisco VPN. Getting that to work for the Linux guys was a PITA - maybe that's Cisco's fault but one guy I opened a TAC case for just hadn't bothered to follow all the steps in the procedure we had worked out. Getting an 802.1x network to work was a pain - they were annoyed that they had to install and configure a supplicant. I get really tired of the extra effort required to support the linux users - the 10% of them take up as much effort as the Mac users (which make up over 50% of our desktops).
If you're going to run linux as your desktop then you need to be prepared to realize that support becomes your problem. It's YOUR responsibility to make it work with the solutions that your company has decided to support. Companies pick standards for a reason. Finding products with Mac + Windows support covers 90% of my users. If a product has Mac + Windows support then it'll probably work with linux, but if you come to me and complain that you can't get something to work on your gentoo system and it broke because you upgraded to the uber-latest kernel then I'll wish you good luck. If you're having network problems at home and are running custom linux firmware on your linksys router then good luck. If you want to run on the bleeding edge then don't expect me to bleed with you.
If AJAX is truly only going to be the way to develop apps for the phone then give us 3G. Sorry, I'm not gonna do ajax surfing over a lousy GPRS connection...
I was suggesting something that can capture raw signal...it'd have to be compressed.
One suggested solution was analog -> HD-SDI (via something like the AJA HD10A, the Orca MPEG2 Encoder which will take HD-SDI and output DVB-ASI, and then a DVB-ASI capture card. It would not be cheap or easy but you should be able to build a system for $10K that can do analog HD recording. And then you can tell CableLabs to go screw themselves.
It looks like for not too much money you could make a box that can record 1080i/720p via component cables and solve this whole problem. At least until analog is completely outlawed.
I think he's a bit biased...calling DVDJohn a profiteer and such.
As for stripping the DRM having little use since you can burn a CD and re-rip...converting AAC to AIFF and then reconverting causes a huge quality loss. I used QTFairUse to strip my AAC encrypted files so I could play them on my Squeezebox. I did it only to play MY music, not to steal any music. But not being able to play my own music on my Squeezebox also made me realize I didn't want to buy iTMS music any more....
And then Apple would not be able to provide features like visual voice mail which require changes to the carrier network. So Apple is embracing and extending voice mail and it's ok? Cuz when Microsoft does it y'all piss your panties in frustration.
So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack. Gotta love the logic here. Even if I *was* shopping for password management tools I wouldn't buy one from that guy just based on that statement.
Do what I do - carry a form that informs the company that by holding your ID they are responsible for keeping the information safe and are responsible for any misuse of that information. Make the person who takes your ID sign the form personally. If they refuse then it puts you in the position of not saying you're unwilling to surrender your ID but rather you have your own requirements before you're willing to do so and that they are not willing to guarantee the security of your information.
Blame your favorite money-losing American car company, and its support for and from Big Oil, for the lack of diesel options in US cars. I don't know what the deal with the car companies is, but yeah I do blame the US oil companies for not giving us ULSD until recently. Now that we have it, though, I hope to see nice and advanced diesel engines from the European car companies to show us stupid American'ts what modern diesel is like.
Diesel is DIRTY, loud and stinky, period! As I said, Mr. AC Retard, RECENT (i.e. ULSD) engines are NOT dirty nor loud nor stinky. The truck you refer to has an old diesel engine. ULSD engines with modern emission systems don't blow out black smoke at all.
Why do so many folks go nutty over proving that hybrids are the greatest thing ever or the stupidest thing ever? Don't you watch South Park? The folks with hybrids bend over and fart into glasses because they think their farts smell so good. The hybrid drivers are so much more evolved than the rest of us, or so they would have you believe.
I don't really hate hybrids but I do get annoyed when things seem to be rigged for hybrids and against diesel when recent diesel engines are much cleaner than they used to be and on the freeway do much better than a hybrid. You also don't have to pay the weight penalty of batteries and you still get to have gobs of torque.
While a racing game may not teach you car control I know that many road course drivers, including many young F1 drivers, use video games to learn tracks they may not have been too. So yes, you may not have raced at Monza but if you spend enough time playing a game that simulates Monza pretty closely then you may have a leg up.
ATI and nVidia are chock full of ex-SGI employees. For example, a good chunk of my friends from the MIPS division are at ATI. There's also the story of how they got rid of the desktop graphics division. The story goes that the entire team was pulled into the cafe. As they walked in their badges were taken. They were then told that some would be going to nVidia and some would be going home. So there is probably a whole bunch of SGI guys at nVidia as well. I wouldn't be surprised if some SGI-patented ideas leaked in....
My understanding is that a vendor is contracted to produce, say, 100,000 cards for Cisco. They make 100,000 and then another 100,000 more (say without the Cisco logo or whatever) and sell the extra ones on the pirate market. It's not like it's totally hacked together - this is gear off of the same production line. They may sub in some cheaper components.
Now would I knowingly use pirate gear in my production network? No. But when I was building a lab at home and needed 20 WIC-1Ts I was sure glad I could get them on eBay in bulk. Probably not legit but I wasn't planning on putting my home lab under Smartnet.
When asked what I wanted for work while in Japan my co-workers were tired of hearing "ramen". There was a great ramen-ya near the office and I could eat there every day if asked. Their gyoza was da shiznit.
Last time I was in Tokyo they had the "teritama burger". Take the meat, egg, and cheese part of a susage McMuffin, pour teriyaki sauce on it, and put it on a hamburger bun. Best. Burger. Evar. I was flying back business class and I took one on the plane with me cuz it was better than the plane food.
(I would have said it was the bomb but you know how uptight those security guys are.)
But I'm petty like that. I mean how much ad revenue can Belgium possibly add to their bottom line? Kill Google.be and news.google.be, block all known IP ranges from Belgium and throw them to a redirect that says "No google for you!"
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How is this phone any different than any other phone? AT&T can and will unlock other phones. Unlocking it does nothing to get you out of your contract with AT&T. Apple and AT&T are still getting their money.
The only reasons that I can see Apple and AT&T doing this are:
1. Force international users to pay insane roaming rates. (That's why I unlock GSM phones - I use an Orange SIM when I go to the UK.)
2. Prevent users from taking their legally purchased hardware to another carrier after the (unlikely) expiration of the contract.
Sorry, but both of those seem just plain evil.
I'm not talking about required Microsoft stuff, I'm talking about known standards that our Linux guys seemed to find a problem, like 802.1x. I'm talking about being tired of troubleshooting things because it broke when you upgraded the kernel. I'm tired of linux users not being up to the task of admining their own boxes and expecting IT to - when would any decent admin let someone who couldn't handle the box (like the user) have root? And who would want to support such a box?
We're using EAP-PEAP as well, due to the Windows folks (EAP-PEAP with MSCHAPv2 as the inner auth is just about the only thing you can be sure that Windows will support out of the box, although the Leonovo software works well for other schemes and most of our Windows folks have Thinkpads.) I don't know if they just overlooked it in the GUI but whatever at least one guy was running didn't have a supplicant that he could find.
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For me, it's easy - I tell them that 802.1x is what is required, give them the details, and let them figure it out. They wanted to be their own sysadmins and I wish them well with that.
Any project I've been involved with has been made MUCH more complicated by the requirement to support linux desktops. Since OpenVPN wasn't working on the Intel Macs (and this was about a year ago - yes it works fine now) we went with the Cisco VPN. Getting that to work for the Linux guys was a PITA - maybe that's Cisco's fault but one guy I opened a TAC case for just hadn't bothered to follow all the steps in the procedure we had worked out. Getting an 802.1x network to work was a pain - they were annoyed that they had to install and configure a supplicant. I get really tired of the extra effort required to support the linux users - the 10% of them take up as much effort as the Mac users (which make up over 50% of our desktops).
If you're going to run linux as your desktop then you need to be prepared to realize that support becomes your problem. It's YOUR responsibility to make it work with the solutions that your company has decided to support. Companies pick standards for a reason. Finding products with Mac + Windows support covers 90% of my users. If a product has Mac + Windows support then it'll probably work with linux, but if you come to me and complain that you can't get something to work on your gentoo system and it broke because you upgraded to the uber-latest kernel then I'll wish you good luck. If you're having network problems at home and are running custom linux firmware on your linksys router then good luck. If you want to run on the bleeding edge then don't expect me to bleed with you.
If AJAX is truly only going to be the way to develop apps for the phone then give us 3G. Sorry, I'm not gonna do ajax surfing over a lousy GPRS connection...
I was suggesting something that can capture raw signal...it'd have to be compressed.
One suggested solution was analog -> HD-SDI (via something like the AJA HD10A, the Orca MPEG2 Encoder which will take HD-SDI and output DVB-ASI, and then a DVB-ASI capture card. It would not be cheap or easy but you should be able to build a system for $10K that can do analog HD recording. And then you can tell CableLabs to go screw themselves.
It looks like for not too much money you could make a box that can record 1080i/720p via component cables and solve this whole problem. At least until analog is completely outlawed.
To prepare I recommend this product:
http://www.holisticwisdom.com/anal-eze.htm
and start off with small plugs before going for the full-bore SOX audit.
No, you didn't, because you're wrong.
QTFairUse grabs the unencrypted AAC from memory. BEFORE it's sent to the audio driver. It doesn't "de-code and re-encode".
But thanks for playing...
I think he's a bit biased...calling DVDJohn a profiteer and such.
As for stripping the DRM having little use since you can burn a CD and re-rip...converting AAC to AIFF and then reconverting causes a huge quality loss. I used QTFairUse to strip my AAC encrypted files so I could play them on my Squeezebox. I did it only to play MY music, not to steal any music. But not being able to play my own music on my Squeezebox also made me realize I didn't want to buy iTMS music any more....
Do what I do - carry a form that informs the company that by holding your ID they are responsible for keeping the information safe and are responsible for any misuse of that information. Make the person who takes your ID sign the form personally. If they refuse then it puts you in the position of not saying you're unwilling to surrender your ID but rather you have your own requirements before you're willing to do so and that they are not willing to guarantee the security of your information.
I don't really hate hybrids but I do get annoyed when things seem to be rigged for hybrids and against diesel when recent diesel engines are much cleaner than they used to be and on the freeway do much better than a hybrid. You also don't have to pay the weight penalty of batteries and you still get to have gobs of torque.
The Prairie/Masker has been used for a while to reduce the acoustical signature of ships conducting anti-submarine warfare.
While a racing game may not teach you car control I know that many road course drivers, including many young F1 drivers, use video games to learn tracks they may not have been too. So yes, you may not have raced at Monza but if you spend enough time playing a game that simulates Monza pretty closely then you may have a leg up.
ATI and nVidia are chock full of ex-SGI employees. For example, a good chunk of my friends from the MIPS division are at ATI. There's also the story of how they got rid of the desktop graphics division. The story goes that the entire team was pulled into the cafe. As they walked in their badges were taken. They were then told that some would be going to nVidia and some would be going home. So there is probably a whole bunch of SGI guys at nVidia as well. I wouldn't be surprised if some SGI-patented ideas leaked in....
My understanding is that a vendor is contracted to produce, say, 100,000 cards for Cisco. They make 100,000 and then another 100,000 more (say without the Cisco logo or whatever) and sell the extra ones on the pirate market. It's not like it's totally hacked together - this is gear off of the same production line. They may sub in some cheaper components.
Now would I knowingly use pirate gear in my production network? No. But when I was building a lab at home and needed 20 WIC-1Ts I was sure glad I could get them on eBay in bulk. Probably not legit but I wasn't planning on putting my home lab under Smartnet.
When asked what I wanted for work while in Japan my co-workers were tired of hearing "ramen". There was a great ramen-ya near the office and I could eat there every day if asked. Their gyoza was da shiznit.
Getting totally pwn3d - I'm lovin in!
Last time I was in Tokyo they had the "teritama burger". Take the meat, egg, and cheese part of a susage McMuffin, pour teriyaki sauce on it, and put it on a hamburger bun. Best. Burger. Evar. I was flying back business class and I took one on the plane with me cuz it was better than the plane food.
(I would have said it was the bomb but you know how uptight those security guys are.)
You don't get it. All they have to do is not be a business entity in Belgium. Then they can't be sued there.
But I'm petty like that. I mean how much ad revenue can Belgium possibly add to their bottom line? Kill Google.be and news.google.be, block all known IP ranges from Belgium and throw them to a redirect that says "No google for you!"