Yeah there used to be a dashboard widget for mac ("Telemonitor") which showed your total traffic and since the latest changes it does nothing. It was really handy too. I wish they would make such information easy to get.
I think it's hilarious that the leader (and some of the most prominent members) of a party complaining about democracy in Europe is an hereditary peer. It also doesn't stop them from suckling at the teat of the EU at the taxpayers expense in the EU parliament but then as aristocrats I guess they're used to that.
That's actually the reason the ISP posted the information - they want to convince their customers (and potential customers) on cheaper slower plans that not only is the ISP capable of handling massive bandwidth consumption, but that they encourage other people to upgrade/switch to the same unlimited plans and really take advantage of the available capacity.
Its totally the reverse of what we are used to in the USA with places like comcast bitching and moaning about hogs - apparently this ISP understands that bandwidth hogs are a business opportunity to be cultivated not capped.
Although according to their website if you go over the double the average usage for people with a FUP subscription your connection is slowed. These guys are getting a free ride now because Telenet need the publicity. A couple of ISP's have switched from capped downloads to a FUP recently and I guess they are feeling the competition. Let's see how they treat these guys in a couple of months.
The ISP in question has only very recently (since juli) stopped using download caps. They had an 80Gb limit on their most expensive subscription IIRC. This could be people acting out, downloading whatever they can and repairing their ratio's, etc. I'd like to see some more statistics in a couple of months, my guess is usage would level off. With the speeds I'm getting on Telenet I think 2.7 TB would be an always on connection going full blast for the whole month.
Reading this it becomes instantly apparent that "unauthorized use" is referring to users of stolen devices.
Yeah and it ties in nicely with the stories that turn up from time to time of people getting their stolen laptop back because they snapped a picture of the thief and did an ip lookup, or people getting iPhones back using the already existing GPS lookup called, appropriately enough "Find My iPhone". Here's just one example ("Stolen MacBook Victim Uses Screen Sharing and iSight to Bust Thieves") and there's already a product which does this for macs called Undercover. Guess Apple likes the idea and wants it on the iPhone.
Today, I can easily jailbreak and restore my phone as many times as I like without Apple noticing. In the new model, as soon as they suspect jailbreaking, they can take a picture and the next time I go to them to bug them about shitty reception, they'd tell me that my warranty is void (with proof) and they can't do anything to help me.
Illegal if they send the picture home, useless if they leave the picture an the device where it'll be wiped. So quite unlikely that's the intent.
I guess it's in there because if I stole an iPhone and wanted to get to the data jailbreaking it and gaining root access would probably be the first step. That's the way it works, right ? Get physical access + privilege escalation = getting the data. So if you reported a phone stolen using this process you could A: see if they are trying to access the data on it by jailbreaking, B: snap a picture of the perpetrator, and get his location. Or, you know, Apple could be trying to lead us into a dystopian future where we are all slaves to teh Steve. Whichever's more likely.
Employee loyalty died when "personnel" became "human resources". When you treat people like a resource to be mined for your own gain why would they treat the company differently ?
ME1: So I guess this Android thing is getting popular with the geek demographic. ME2: Can can make some money off of that ? We need an angle. ME1: Dude, these guys look like couldn't get laid in a monkey whorehouse carrying a bag of bananas. ME2: Get me match.com
Everyone should have seen this coming when Google decided to make an incompatible version of the Java language since this is the Sun versus Microsoft lawsuit all over again.
Apparently some did see it coming. I don't remember it being reported at the time but here's what the Trolltech CTO said back in 2007 :
"They are using Java, but they aren't implementing any well-known Java framework, and really that just creates another standard to support. The risk they take here is that they might fragment the market further," Benoit Schillings, Trolltech chief technology officer [said]." ("Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group")
Of course Google was, and still is, the tech darling that could do no wrong and nothing seemed to come of it for a couple of years. Unfortunately for Google it seems that Oracle is very much a business company first and a tech company second. One with very deep pockets no less. This could get interesting, if someone could give Google a run for their money it'd be Oracle. Oracle might even see it as a preemptive strike against a company that wants to move data out of the datacenter and into their cloud.
Now Sun sees everyone hopping on the Android train for all sorts of devices, and no licensing fees coming in from any of them. And they're suing.
Actually Sun's grievances go way back to 2007 ("Sun's worried that Google Android could fracture Java".) It's just that Oracle's bite is worse than Sun's bark. Oracle see Java as probably the most important part of the Sun acquisition and it's logical they would want to protect it from fracturing as Sun did with MS in the early years. They're too big to be pushed around by Google too which sadly couldn't be said of the waning Sun.
I'll tell you what makes Macs better. The UI. Everyone know that green plus buttons should make a windows smaller, and a red X should sometimes close a program, and sometimes only close the window, leaving the program still running. Most of all, everyone know that the most logical way to eject a disk from a drive is to throw it in the garbage can. Until Apples competitors can match Apple in at least these obviously superior UI elements, they have no hope of being compared to Apple in quality and ease of use.
I know you're going for a funny mod there (good job) but you know applications that have such non-standard behavior don't follow Apple's interface guidelines. They have no way of forcing the use of the HIG on macs either but on iOS they can and do enforce it. I think it's one of the big reasons, aside from the financial aspect, that they decided to go for the App Store model.
The iPad does PDF of course but it's little known that iOS also natively supports Office documents though you might have to download a (free) file viewer app. As to the comic formats CBR/CBZ there are already iPhone apps out there which you can install on the iPad that let you read them while waiting for Panelfly's upcoming iPad version of its excellent comic book reader.
Or just use something like Easy Root by UnstableApps.com. It roots your phone without needing adb or a computer at all. Of course, it uses an exploit to gain root priv's too:)
I agree with much of what you said, just 2 little points:
As GP said, it depends on the phone. Some phones, like the original Droid, are very easy to root. Download the official motorola program to flash it, download the.sbf file, run said program with said file. Then install superuser. As for the Droid X, how bout A One-Click Root?
I was talking about replacing or patching the bootloader not rooting there. The DroidX comes with some pretty heavy measures to prevent it, just like the iPhone does. The point was that the hardware is already locked down as tight as the iPhone, the software less so probably because the carriers aren't as specialized in hacking the OS.
So far it seems the problem is not Android, the problem is the manufacturers using it (Moto locking the bootloader, Moto and HTC loading crapware onto the phones, the carriers preventing the crapware from being deletable, etc.)
You can't separate the 2 though, there's no platonic ideal Android floating around only Android as it is used out in the real world. That's why I would have preferred Google kept making their own handsets (even if I wouldn't have bought one), at least they were more open in every sense.
They also have an incentive to keep profiles up as they probably sell themselves to advertisers using phrases like "N million users !" that would be a lot less impressive if they only showed active users.
Some Android phones. And if you have a dev bootloader (ie. the folks you bought your phone from aren't assholes), there aren't any security exploits involved in the process anywhere.
Also, the set of things you can do on an Android phone without root is substantially larger than the set of things you can do on a non-jailbroken iPhone (replacing the built-in apps, for instance).
- Even Google's own Nexus One needs to be rooted. - Replacing the bootloader similarly isn't easy to begin with and not getting any easier either : "DroidX bootloader locked tight." And it will only get worse now Google itself is out of the handset game. - The most popular Android phones come with undeletable crapware.
I want to like Android, I really do, but it doesn't help that most of the things people say about it are half-truths at best.
I am curious as to how much longer we will go until the next security hole isn't used so benevolently.
Who's up for a virus that can't be removed by the user once it's in? How about a friendly bugger that takes advantage of your contact list? For that matter, let's bring back the old dialer viruses and have your phone call a 10$/minute hotline every night for an hour.
You mean like the recent Android SMS trojan ? We're actually pretty lucky to have guys like the dev-team around hunting for bugs. Keeps Apple on their toes and the found vulnerabilities get patched.
Indeed. And similarly, it was wrong that the original news of the exploit was publicised as a good thing (or, at worst, neutral), rather than being publicised as a major security hole (like you know they would have had it have been something like Internet Explorer).
This is Apple news, it's always a cause for whining. Jailbreak ? OMG HAX, it's the end the world! Security update ? OMG, evil Apple want to stop users taking control of their device.
Of course, it is a problem that you need to jailbreak an Iphone to enable basic functionality.
This is bullshit, basic functionality ? You gain the ability to run unsigned, unapproved software. A locked iPhone will do the same as any locked smartphone.
But if the media has such a problem with that, maybe they could actually focus on that instead of praising Apple all the time, or conflating the issue with security exploits
The media praise Apple all the time ? This is bullshit on the same order as the "liberal media." It's confirmation bias: you get annoyed by stories that you perceive as pro-Apple and consequently see them everywhere.
or maybe give some coverage to the more popular platforms (Symbian, RIM, Android) that don't need to be jailbroken, instead of the overwhelming coverage of Apple all the time.
Don't know about the others but Android phones need to be jailbroken to gain full control, they just call it being "rooted". In fact Google recently pulled an app that would root your phone from their store (oh the irony!). Android phones get plenty of coverage btw, they just don't specifically talk about the OS as much which you would expect it being a phone.
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Yeah there used to be a dashboard widget for mac ("Telemonitor") which showed your total traffic and since the latest changes it does nothing. It was really handy too. I wish they would make such information easy to get.
I think it's hilarious that the leader (and some of the most prominent members) of a party complaining about democracy in Europe is an hereditary peer. It also doesn't stop them from suckling at the teat of the EU at the taxpayers expense in the EU parliament but then as aristocrats I guess they're used to that.
That's actually the reason the ISP posted the information - they want to convince their customers (and potential customers) on cheaper slower plans that not only is the ISP capable of handling massive bandwidth consumption, but that they encourage other people to upgrade/switch to the same unlimited plans and really take advantage of the available capacity.
Its totally the reverse of what we are used to in the USA with places like comcast bitching and moaning about hogs - apparently this ISP understands that bandwidth hogs are a business opportunity to be cultivated not capped.
Although according to their website if you go over the double the average usage for people with a FUP subscription your connection is slowed. These guys are getting a free ride now because Telenet need the publicity. A couple of ISP's have switched from capped downloads to a FUP recently and I guess they are feeling the competition. Let's see how they treat these guys in a couple of months.
The ISP in question has only very recently (since juli) stopped using download caps. They had an 80Gb limit on their most expensive subscription IIRC. This could be people acting out, downloading whatever they can and repairing their ratio's, etc. I'd like to see some more statistics in a couple of months, my guess is usage would level off. With the speeds I'm getting on Telenet I think 2.7 TB would be an always on connection going full blast for the whole month.
Reading this it becomes instantly apparent that "unauthorized use" is referring to users of stolen devices.
Yeah and it ties in nicely with the stories that turn up from time to time of people getting their stolen laptop back because they snapped a picture of the thief and did an ip lookup, or people getting iPhones back using the already existing GPS lookup called, appropriately enough "Find My iPhone". Here's just one example ("Stolen MacBook Victim Uses Screen Sharing and iSight to Bust Thieves") and there's already a product which does this for macs called Undercover.
Guess Apple likes the idea and wants it on the iPhone.
Today, I can easily jailbreak and restore my phone as many times as I like without Apple noticing. In the new model, as soon as they suspect jailbreaking, they can take a picture and the next time I go to them to bug them about shitty reception, they'd tell me that my warranty is void (with proof) and they can't do anything to help me.
Illegal if they send the picture home, useless if they leave the picture an the device where it'll be wiped. So quite unlikely that's the intent.
I guess it's in there because if I stole an iPhone and wanted to get to the data jailbreaking it and gaining root access would probably be the first step. That's the way it works, right ? Get physical access + privilege escalation = getting the data.
So if you reported a phone stolen using this process you could A: see if they are trying to access the data on it by jailbreaking, B: snap a picture of the perpetrator, and get his location. Or, you know, Apple could be trying to lead us into a dystopian future where we are all slaves to teh Steve. Whichever's more likely.
Because stealing is wrong?
So is most of the shit they pull on their employees but as they keep reminding us "It's just business." Morality doesn't come in to it.
Employee loyalty died when "personnel" became "human resources". When you treat people like a resource to be mined for your own gain why would they treat the company differently ?
Too late it already exists.
ME1: Didn't you hear me? I said they couldn't get laid in a monkey whorehouse carrying a bag of bananas.
On the internet nobody knows you're a dog (or a monkey.)
I couldn't quite put my finger on what problem Vodafone 360 was designed to solve...
The cashflow problem.
These guys have 2 products: the phone which they sell to you, and you who they sell to their partners.
2 marketing executives are sitting in an office :
ME1: So I guess this Android thing is getting popular with the geek demographic.
ME2: Can can make some money off of that ? We need an angle.
ME1: Dude, these guys look like couldn't get laid in a monkey whorehouse carrying a bag of bananas.
ME2: Get me match.com
Everyone should have seen this coming when Google decided to make an incompatible version of the Java language since this is the Sun versus Microsoft lawsuit all over again.
Apparently some did see it coming. I don't remember it being reported at the time but here's what the Trolltech CTO said back in 2007 :
"They are using Java, but they aren't implementing any well-known Java framework, and really that just creates another standard to support. The risk they take here is that they might fragment the market further," Benoit Schillings, Trolltech chief technology officer [said]." ("Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group")
Of course Google was, and still is, the tech darling that could do no wrong and nothing seemed to come of it for a couple of years. Unfortunately for Google it seems that Oracle is very much a business company first and a tech company second. One with very deep pockets no less. This could get interesting, if someone could give Google a run for their money it'd be Oracle. Oracle might even see it as a preemptive strike against a company that wants to move data out of the datacenter and into their cloud.
Now Sun sees everyone hopping on the Android train for all sorts of devices, and no licensing fees coming in from any of them. And they're suing.
Actually Sun's grievances go way back to 2007 ("Sun's worried that Google Android could fracture Java".) It's just that Oracle's bite is worse than Sun's bark. Oracle see Java as probably the most important part of the Sun acquisition and it's logical they would want to protect it from fracturing as Sun did with MS in the early years. They're too big to be pushed around by Google too which sadly couldn't be said of the waning Sun.
I'll tell you what makes Macs better. The UI. Everyone know that green plus buttons should make a windows smaller, and a red X should sometimes close a program, and sometimes only close the window, leaving the program still running. Most of all, everyone know that the most logical way to eject a disk from a drive is to throw it in the garbage can. Until Apples competitors can match Apple in at least these obviously superior UI elements, they have no hope of being compared to Apple in quality and ease of use.
I know you're going for a funny mod there (good job) but you know applications that have such non-standard behavior don't follow Apple's interface guidelines. They have no way of forcing the use of the HIG on macs either but on iOS they can and do enforce it. I think it's one of the big reasons, aside from the financial aspect, that they decided to go for the App Store model.
The iPad does PDF of course but it's little known that iOS also natively supports Office documents though you might have to download a (free) file viewer app. As to the comic formats CBR/CBZ there are already iPhone apps out there which you can install on the iPad that let you read them while waiting for Panelfly's upcoming iPad version of its excellent comic book reader.
Or just use something like Easy Root by UnstableApps.com. It roots your phone without needing adb or a computer at all. Of course, it uses an exploit to gain root priv's too :)
Ironically, an app Google pulled from Android Market.
I agree with much of what you said, just 2 little points:
As GP said, it depends on the phone. Some phones, like the original Droid, are very easy to root. Download the official motorola program to flash it, download the .sbf file, run said program with said file. Then install superuser. As for the Droid X, how bout A One-Click Root?
I was talking about replacing or patching the bootloader not rooting there. The DroidX comes with some pretty heavy measures to prevent it, just like the iPhone does. The point was that the hardware is already locked down as tight as the iPhone, the software less so probably because the carriers aren't as specialized in hacking the OS.
So far it seems the problem is not Android, the problem is the manufacturers using it (Moto locking the bootloader, Moto and HTC loading crapware onto the phones, the carriers preventing the crapware from being deletable, etc.)
You can't separate the 2 though, there's no platonic ideal Android floating around only Android as it is used out in the real world. That's why I would have preferred Google kept making their own handsets (even if I wouldn't have bought one), at least they were more open in every sense.
They also have an incentive to keep profiles up as they probably sell themselves to advertisers using phrases like "N million users !" that would be a lot less impressive if they only showed active users.
I guess VoIP is verging on basic, but there are apps that work over wifi - the 3G restrictions are carrier based.
Skype now works over 3G.
Some Android phones. And if you have a dev bootloader (ie. the folks you bought your phone from aren't assholes), there aren't any security exploits involved in the process anywhere.
Also, the set of things you can do on an Android phone without root is substantially larger than the set of things you can do on a non-jailbroken iPhone (replacing the built-in apps, for instance).
- Even Google's own Nexus One needs to be rooted.
- Replacing the bootloader similarly isn't easy to begin with and not getting any easier either : "DroidX bootloader locked tight." And it will only get worse now Google itself is out of the handset game.
- The most popular Android phones come with undeletable crapware.
I want to like Android, I really do, but it doesn't help that most of the things people say about it are half-truths at best.
Fix is supposedly coming in iOS 4.1 though I've heard resetting network settings to factory default and doing a hard reboot helps in some cases.
I am curious as to how much longer we will go until the next security hole isn't used so benevolently.
Who's up for a virus that can't be removed by the user once it's in? How about a friendly bugger that takes advantage of your contact list? For that matter, let's bring back the old dialer viruses and have your phone call a 10$/minute hotline every night for an hour.
You mean like the recent Android SMS trojan ? We're actually pretty lucky to have guys like the dev-team around hunting for bugs. Keeps Apple on their toes and the found vulnerabilities get patched.
Indeed. And similarly, it was wrong that the original news of the exploit was publicised as a good thing (or, at worst, neutral), rather than being publicised as a major security hole (like you know they would have had it have been something like Internet Explorer).
This is Apple news, it's always a cause for whining. Jailbreak ? OMG HAX, it's the end the world! Security update ? OMG, evil Apple want to stop users taking control of their device.
Of course, it is a problem that you need to jailbreak an Iphone to enable basic functionality.
This is bullshit, basic functionality ? You gain the ability to run unsigned, unapproved software. A locked iPhone will do the same as any locked smartphone.
But if the media has such a problem with that, maybe they could actually focus on that instead of praising Apple all the time, or conflating the issue with security exploits
The media praise Apple all the time ? This is bullshit on the same order as the "liberal media." It's confirmation bias: you get annoyed by stories that you perceive as pro-Apple and consequently see them everywhere.
or maybe give some coverage to the more popular platforms (Symbian, RIM, Android) that don't need to be jailbroken, instead of the overwhelming coverage of Apple all the time.
Don't know about the others but Android phones need to be jailbroken to gain full control, they just call it being "rooted". In fact Google recently pulled an app that would root your phone from their store (oh the irony!).
Android phones get plenty of coverage btw, they just don't specifically talk about the OS as much which you would expect it being a phone.