Yeah clearly that data needs to be synchronised to iTunes
OK, one last time for the cheap seats: Apple syncs everything as part of an iPhone backup. They do this so that when you restore from backup you get the device back to its backed up state (kinda the point), temporary files included. When you actually look at a backup all manner of cache files are included. It is not only a backup of data, it's a backup of device state.
I was replying originally to tripleevenfall, who most definitely did accuse Truecrypt of having a backdoor. That's what I reject, I do not disagree in the slightest with your assertion that it is crackable when using a weak password.
The high end iMac has 2 thunderbolt ports,each one serving 2 channels at 10 Gbps full duplex. That's a total of 40 Gbps full duplex theoretical maximum if someone bothered too build an enclosure that could actually use all 4 channels at once.
Each thunderbolt port serves 2 channels each channel having 10 Gbps available to it. So an external disk would happily coexist with an external display on the same port.
Of course you can't rule out the NSA math whizzes have some unknown vulnerability they are keeping under wraps even though it is unlikely: the same vulnerability could potentially expose a lot of US organizations (maybe including parts of government) too. Keeping your own side purposefully weak for unknown potential gains seems like a losing proposition to me. Anyway the charge wasn't weak passwords or even vulnerabilities but a backdoor, a completely baseless and wholly made up claim as far as I can see.
I would imagine a big old truecrypt partition, though perhaps he didn't encrypt things for some reason?
The guy was 54 and the latter part of those years was spent in some pretty remote areas. I doubt he had much expertise in computer security. They probably relied much more on physical security, i.e. being to blow all their stuff up if the shit hit the fan (or their stuff going up in same bombing raid as them.)
He further assumes that Truecrypt does not provide a backdoor to NSA for this in the first place.
He also further assumes the NSA don't have a wizard on hand who can utter an incantation to call on the dark powers of the Ancient Ones to reveal the password. That's probably because the evidence so far makes both a tad unlikely.
Perhaps, but it's no longer clear to me that the US feels itself capable of putting Al Quaeda leaders on trial. At least, most of Congress no longer has enough faith in our justice system to allow it.
"If the bomb belt don't fit, you must acquit! Praise be to Allah !"
People on slashdot will misunderstand, or wilfully misinterpret the "scandal" and come out with demonstrably false statements like "they forgot to add a USB port to iPad, and the next iteration has a USB port".
It used to be called FUD but apparently it's OK now on Slashdot if used against someone you don't like. Like the man said "Choose your enemies carefully, for you will become like them."
To a developer for many platforms, every statement of yours shows fanboi bias.
Frankly, I should've stopped reading here. Step back and accept there are people with opinions that are different from yours to paint them all with a broad brush and call them "fanbois" is lazy. It shows a willingness to disregard the opinion of others based on stereotype. OK got that out of my system, lets continue.
Oh, yeah, they put thought into it! Gee, why didn't anybody else think of that!
Some people (many of them) are code wizards but can't do design, you see this all over the open source world as well. A lot of the "boutique" developers that came over from the mac side put a lot of thought into the user facing design and it sets a higher standard. Tapbots are a good example of this. You want to put out a cheap Twitter app, then you've got to have a well thought out and attractive user interface because that's the kind of competition you are up against.
On the OS level this is true as well. Apple is a company that hires UI designers, puts out Human Interface Guideline documents and actually follows and enforces them. Google is the kind of company that when it has to pick a shade of blue runs a test testing 41 different shades, the last great UI design they put out was the original starkly minimalist Google Search and they've been messing it up ever since. I'm exaggerating somewhat here but there is a culture difference between a company where the engineers call all the shots and one where the designers have a say and it shows in the products.
I can't imagine favoring a touch screen keyboard over even a 10 year old Psion. Instead of using half the screen for a keyboard, having a real keyboard and a shorter screen is orders of magnitude better for more serious tasks.
Stop everything ! Aighearach can't imagine it. Pack up your stuff we must've been wrong:-) You're confusing opinion with fact again.
And for niche business users that really do need something like a tablet to carry around, the walled garden isn't what you want at all. You want to be able to install your own proprietary updates, and have full system control.
Conclusion: iPod and iPhone are here to stay, iPad is a fad that will make a lot of money but not influence computing in the future.
I disagree. I think the iPad(-alikes) will become ubiquitous. It will be used for small tasks so you won't need to be hidden away behind a bulky computer but can integrate it better into your day-to-day activities. For some, the barely tech literate who just do email, IM, facebook and webcam chat; it will probably become their preferred way of accessing the internet. as always IMHO, YMMV, etc, etc.
"Troubleshooting: Droid users: Stuck at the "M" logo? Flash an alternate recovery and flash back to ClockworkMod. HTC Users: Flash recovery not working? Try fastbooting a recovery on. Droid X/2/Pro Users: You must run the Bootstrap application first to use ROM Manager. Samsung users: You must flash a Clockwork compatible kernel first (see XDA forums) IF YOU ARE HAVING LICENSE ISSUES, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF FREE (4.0+) AND THE LATEST LICENSE (1.0.7+) INSTALLED!"
Sounds great (!) That vs. getting every upgrade for my iPhone immediately to the latest version (not just the latest version released for my vendor) without fuss or having to download third party apps. I'm glad it works out for you but it's not worth my time.
Because giant corporation just love to throw away cash ? If Oracle wins and Google has to pay license fees for their Android implementation of Java Oracle will not only have protected its lucrative Java business from similar shenanigans in the future but it will go home with a pile of cash much bigger than what they are paying their law department. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't pay.
"In its quarterly filing, Microsoft indicated that the consumer PC market was the primary culprit for the decline — pointing in particular to a 40 percent decline in netbook sales in the consumer market. That’s more evidence of the iPad’s impact on the market. Many consumers are opting for the Apple slate rather than Windows-based netbooks to fill the gap between the PC and the phone."
Stick a fork in the netbook, it is done. It's niche has been largely taken over by a combination of the smartphone and the tablet. To blame "fanboys" for 40% market moves is ridiculous to the extreme and not a little trollish.
If you really cared about the user experience, you'd buy the PlayBook or wait for webOS or one of the newer Android tablets. (Even as incomplete as it is, the PB is still light-years ahead of iOS in terms of user experience.)
I'm completely serious here. What do you love, really, about the iOS UI? The wall of colorful icons or the intrusive, stop-what-you're-doing-now notifications?
I honestly don't know how Apple gets away with promoting these bizarre myths. It's like the "macs are better for graphics" nonsense all over again.
Are you trolling ? You have to tether the playbook to another device to use some basic functionality, how is that good design ? WebOS: you mean you can tell hw intuitive the user interface is from the demo's, because there is NO shipping device ? I'll leave Android alone, because I know there are people that prefer it but I don't, it feels cluttered and awkward to me. You do have a point on the iOS notification system; it's a throwback to the original iPhone and overdue for a overhaul.
Here's what I love about iOS: there's thought being put into how apps are designed and an effort made to make the experience as consistent as possible. It's not always perfect but it does show. And that carries over into third party apps as well which is why iPhone apps look better than Android apps from the same company.
Just because you're a techie doesn't mean you want to play around with unsupported (or even "community supported") hacks to upgrade your damn phone. I do enough upgrading and tweaking at work thank you very much, I want my phone of all things to do it automagically. What else am I shelling out all that money for ?
The explanation is simple : there were a lot of crap merchants already selling phones that decided to ship them with Android instead of their homegrown OS. There were no companies already shipping tablets for them to slap Android on and ship. It was a relatively small investment on the phone side (and they had to make it to remain even remotely relevant) but there's a large investment to be made on the tablet side and that's to compete for second place until someone gets it right, which will require an even greater investment.
This and also : patented technologies used that might leave a company liable and similarly licensed technology used that cannot be open sourced. They're asking companies to take a product they are about to kill and spend a lot of money on it to go through the code weeding out anything that might expose them to lawsuits. In exchange for what, exactly ? It might be a boon to customers using legacy products but you want those using your new products, there's zero upside for companies on this.
They used to charge $200 extra for the black MacBook... just because of the color... you should be thankful that this time it only costs like 9 month of wait time:)
IIRC the black macbook also came with a bigger HD.
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Yeah clearly that data needs to be synchronised to iTunes
OK, one last time for the cheap seats: Apple syncs everything as part of an iPhone backup. They do this so that when you restore from backup you get the device back to its backed up state (kinda the point), temporary files included. When you actually look at a backup all manner of cache files are included. It is not only a backup of data, it's a backup of device state.
I was replying originally to tripleevenfall, who most definitely did accuse Truecrypt of having a backdoor. That's what I reject, I do not disagree in the slightest with your assertion that it is crackable when using a weak password.
The high end iMac has 2 thunderbolt ports,each one serving 2 channels at 10 Gbps full duplex. That's a total of 40 Gbps full duplex theoretical maximum if someone bothered too build an enclosure that could actually use all 4 channels at once.
Each thunderbolt port serves 2 channels each channel having 10 Gbps available to it. So an external disk would happily coexist with an external display on the same port.
Of course you can't rule out the NSA math whizzes have some unknown vulnerability they are keeping under wraps even though it is unlikely: the same vulnerability could potentially expose a lot of US organizations (maybe including parts of government) too. Keeping your own side purposefully weak for unknown potential gains seems like a losing proposition to me. Anyway the charge wasn't weak passwords or even vulnerabilities but a backdoor, a completely baseless and wholly made up claim as far as I can see.
I would imagine a big old truecrypt partition, though perhaps he didn't encrypt things for some reason?
The guy was 54 and the latter part of those years was spent in some pretty remote areas. I doubt he had much expertise in computer security. They probably relied much more on physical security, i.e. being to blow all their stuff up if the shit hit the fan (or their stuff going up in same bombing raid as them.)
He further assumes that Truecrypt does not provide a backdoor to NSA for this in the first place.
He also further assumes the NSA don't have a wizard on hand who can utter an incantation to call on the dark powers of the Ancient Ones to reveal the password. That's probably because the evidence so far makes both a tad unlikely.
These stories pop up about one a year. Infection rates are always nearly zero. This was the last "OMG mac virus" story, OSX.HellRTS :
Threat Assessment
Wild
Wild Level: Low
Number of Infections: 0 - 49
Number of Sites: 0 - 2
Geographical Distribution: Low
Threat Containment: Easy
Removal: Easy
Until evidence to the contrary I'll be treating the one you mentioned the same.
Maybe announce each time that they are being buried in an unmarked grave wrapped in bacon? That might cut down on the religious fanatics.
Desecrate their bodies? _You_ are the pig.
It's just a meat bag, or do you think your invisible friend will get upset they don't follow the fanatics' invisible friend's rules ?
Perhaps, but it's no longer clear to me that the US feels itself capable of putting Al Quaeda leaders on trial. At least, most of Congress no longer has enough faith in our justice system to allow it.
"If the bomb belt don't fit, you must acquit! Praise be to Allah !"
People on slashdot will misunderstand, or wilfully misinterpret the "scandal" and come out with demonstrably false statements like "they forgot to add a USB port to iPad, and the next iteration has a USB port".
It used to be called FUD but apparently it's OK now on Slashdot if used against someone you don't like. Like the man said "Choose your enemies carefully, for you will become like them."
To a developer for many platforms, every statement of yours shows fanboi bias.
Frankly, I should've stopped reading here. Step back and accept there are people with opinions that are different from yours to paint them all with a broad brush and call them "fanbois" is lazy. It shows a willingness to disregard the opinion of others based on stereotype. OK got that out of my system, lets continue.
Oh, yeah, they put thought into it! Gee, why didn't anybody else think of that!
Some people (many of them) are code wizards but can't do design, you see this all over the open source world as well. A lot of the "boutique" developers that came over from the mac side put a lot of thought into the user facing design and it sets a higher standard. Tapbots are a good example of this. You want to put out a cheap Twitter app, then you've got to have a well thought out and attractive user interface because that's the kind of competition you are up against.
On the OS level this is true as well. Apple is a company that hires UI designers, puts out Human Interface Guideline documents and actually follows and enforces them. Google is the kind of company that when it has to pick a shade of blue runs a test testing 41 different shades, the last great UI design they put out was the original starkly minimalist Google Search and they've been messing it up ever since. I'm exaggerating somewhat here but there is a culture difference between a company where the engineers call all the shots and one where the designers have a say and it shows in the products.
I can't imagine favoring a touch screen keyboard over even a 10 year old Psion. Instead of using half the screen for a keyboard, having a real keyboard and a shorter screen is orders of magnitude better for more serious tasks.
Stop everything ! Aighearach can't imagine it. Pack up your stuff we must've been wrong :-)
You're confusing opinion with fact again.
And for niche business users that really do need something like a tablet to carry around, the walled garden isn't what you want at all. You want to be able to install your own proprietary updates, and have full system control.
There exists iOS Enterprise Developer Program, used to distribute in-house apps. No walled garden. People are doing all sorts cool stuff, like the iPhone heart monitor.
Conclusion: iPod and iPhone are here to stay, iPad is a fad that will make a lot of money but not influence computing in the future.
I disagree. I think the iPad(-alikes) will become ubiquitous. It will be used for small tasks so you won't need to be hidden away behind a bulky computer but can integrate it better into your day-to-day activities. For some, the barely tech literate who just do email, IM, facebook and webcam chat; it will probably become their preferred way of accessing the internet. as always IMHO, YMMV, etc, etc.
From the site you linked :
"Troubleshooting:
Droid users: Stuck at the "M" logo? Flash an alternate recovery and flash back to ClockworkMod.
HTC Users: Flash recovery not working? Try fastbooting a recovery on.
Droid X/2/Pro Users: You must run the Bootstrap application first to use ROM Manager.
Samsung users: You must flash a Clockwork compatible kernel first (see XDA forums)
IF YOU ARE HAVING LICENSE ISSUES, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST VERSION OF FREE (4.0+) AND THE LATEST LICENSE (1.0.7+) INSTALLED!"
Sounds great (!) That vs. getting every upgrade for my iPhone immediately to the latest version (not just the latest version released for my vendor) without fuss or having to download third party apps. I'm glad it works out for you but it's not worth my time.
Because giant corporation just love to throw away cash ? If Oracle wins and Google has to pay license fees for their Android implementation of Java Oracle will not only have protected its lucrative Java business from similar shenanigans in the future but it will go home with a pile of cash much bigger than what they are paying their law department. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't pay.
Internet tough guy detected.
It will help save the lives of our brave soldiers as they stand knee deep in the blood of the infidels.
"In its quarterly filing, Microsoft indicated that the consumer PC market was the primary culprit for the decline — pointing in particular to a 40 percent decline in netbook sales in the consumer market. That’s more evidence of the iPad’s impact on the market. Many consumers are opting for the Apple slate rather than Windows-based netbooks to fill the gap between the PC and the phone."
Stick a fork in the netbook, it is done. It's niche has been largely taken over by a combination of the smartphone and the tablet. To blame "fanboys" for 40% market moves is ridiculous to the extreme and not a little trollish.
If you really cared about the user experience, you'd buy the PlayBook or wait for webOS or one of the newer Android tablets. (Even as incomplete as it is, the PB is still light-years ahead of iOS in terms of user experience.)
I'm completely serious here. What do you love, really, about the iOS UI? The wall of colorful icons or the intrusive, stop-what-you're-doing-now notifications?
I honestly don't know how Apple gets away with promoting these bizarre myths. It's like the "macs are better for graphics" nonsense all over again.
Are you trolling ? You have to tether the playbook to another device to use some basic functionality, how is that good design ? WebOS: you mean you can tell hw intuitive the user interface is from the demo's, because there is NO shipping device ? I'll leave Android alone, because I know there are people that prefer it but I don't, it feels cluttered and awkward to me. You do have a point on the iOS notification system; it's a throwback to the original iPhone and overdue for a overhaul.
Here's what I love about iOS: there's thought being put into how apps are designed and an effort made to make the experience as consistent as possible. It's not always perfect but it does show. And that carries over into third party apps as well which is why iPhone apps look better than Android apps from the same company.
Just because you're a techie doesn't mean you want to play around with unsupported (or even "community supported") hacks to upgrade your damn phone. I do enough upgrading and tweaking at work thank you very much, I want my phone of all things to do it automagically. What else am I shelling out all that money for ?
The explanation is simple : there were a lot of crap merchants already selling phones that decided to ship them with Android instead of their homegrown OS. There were no companies already shipping tablets for them to slap Android on and ship. It was a relatively small investment on the phone side (and they had to make it to remain even remotely relevant) but there's a large investment to be made on the tablet side and that's to compete for second place until someone gets it right, which will require an even greater investment.
I think the term is "delicious copypasta".
and speech input shouldn't be a part of the browser. I DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE BROWSER KEEP A MIC LINE OPEN.
Google's still living in the late 90's world of "the browser will become the OS." Because you know: if you only have a hammer ...
This and also : patented technologies used that might leave a company liable and similarly licensed technology used that cannot be open sourced. They're asking companies to take a product they are about to kill and spend a lot of money on it to go through the code weeding out anything that might expose them to lawsuits. In exchange for what, exactly ? It might be a boon to customers using legacy products but you want those using your new products, there's zero upside for companies on this.
Or post-ironic bullshit like "intarwebz".
They used to charge $200 extra for the black MacBook... just because of the color... you should be thankful that this time it only costs like 9 month of wait time :)
IIRC the black macbook also came with a bigger HD.