There will likely always be a niche market for your hack if it is a good one, simply because you can devote more time and innovation to it.
Feature developers at MS or Apple or Google or whatever will rarely implement the full spectrum of improvements. They will pick one or two features that they like and ignore the rest. To do anything else would introduce too much complexity and feature bloat.
So, while your app's signature feature may be superseded, you will still be able to offer a more feature rich competitive product if you want to.
Anyone who puts their entire monetary existence in the hands of a single app are either fools or independently wealthy already...
In my own experience, problem drinking stems from unpreparedness. If you are living away from home for the first time it can be an overwhelming experience when all these new and previously restricted things are shoved in your face.
You could solve a lot of problems by just preparing people earlier. And what better way to prepare than to get your hands dirty? As in, allow some "bad" things (drinking, drug use, sexual relationships, break-ups and financial mishaps to name a few) to happen while the child is still in a safe and controlled environment so they know better how to deal with them when they arise in the real world.
Think of it like vaccinating your kids for the real world. It doesn't just help them, it helps the other kids around them.
I am thinking that "you can simply not ignore Apple" is true... in the same way that you can simply not ignore the pretentious dork at the party who keeps turning all conversations back toward himself.
I do understand your point and I personally agree that CF is not in the wrong here IF they have no involvement.
In the bank example, if a bank holds a criminals money and refuses to cease doing business with the criminal despite the bank's knowledge that the money is ill-gotten gains, then the bank has some culpability. No?
What I meant is: If a judge decides that a company is up to illegal activities and tells the company to stop then anyone working with that company in spite of this is aiding those illegal activities.
Copyright infringement is illegal. If Cloudflare is providing a service to a company that LEO has identified as being an illegal operation and has been told to stop, then Cloudflare is aiding a criminal operation.
I could see this law suit as having merit if Cloudflare has been made aware but continues to provide services to a company doing illegal things.
But until then, Cloudflare is doing nothing wrong by providing a legal service.
Even if they were just hashes, those hashes could be used to correlate against a number of existing password databases from previous leaks (if the hashing algrothims are known or can be guessed). That could then give you better data on who is using the same password elsewhere.
Also, a birthday is not a trivial piece of information. It is used as a security question all too often. It also give the attacker more clues about you which is never good.
The nice thing about IT work is that all sectors need IT workers.
So you don't have to restrict yourself to one market sector.
Some sectors pay more than others.
For me, it is always a trade off between freedom and burdensome restrictions.
Usually, the bigger the company, the more you can get paid as an IT worker and the less you need to know. However, you also have much less freedom to drive company policy or to even do your job (or what you view to be your job).
OTOH, the smaller the company, the less money you make as salary but the perks may be bigger (retirement, medical insurance, free parking, etc) and you have more freedom to involve yourself in more things (wear more hats). However, the work is harder and you need to know more.
I personally like the smaller companies. I don't make as much as my peers, but I do get to do a lot more interesting things on a daily basis.
At this point I fear it would take an extremely egregious act for anyone in authority to get a meaningful sentence and actually stay in jail for it, like being caught on multiple angles of video outside a burning domestic abuse shelter full of women/children laughing maniacally with a cigar in your mouth, an empty can of gas in one hand and a lighter in the other.
Something tells me that even then, because the footage wasn't officially police sanctioned video, he would be put on administrative leave with pay.
I like to reserve my "handle" on all the new platforms I hear about. So I do have accounts on most of the major platforms today. However, I do not actively use any of them.
I think one of the problems of this is that even though the site (say a forum) is not valuable to you, it could be used to "spoof" your identity to someone else.
It just takes one gullible help desk guy at an organization you DO care about to be fooled into thinking the attacker is actually the victim.
As with most vulnerabilities, all you need to start with is a toe-hold. Once you have that, you can start leveraging other exploits until, ultimately, you end up with the victim's important stuff.
If you can close the holes on the small stuff, then you have less to worry about.
At one point, while working on a team which was developing a custom web interface to a telephone system, our manager *insisted* that an HTTP GET method be added called "override". If the user requesting the web page manually added "override=1" to the URL string... all authentication was bypassed, allowing full access to that phone tree. That company and all software is long gone now but the override=1 remains as a fun joke among the ex-team members.
Assuming that your phone's hardware could keep up with it and that it could be delivered to you that fast by the sending end's infrastructure and everything in between... yes.
I use their 60Mbit DSL service. I could go with gigabit DSL (DSL down to the demarc) but I just don't need that kind of speed (I tried it for a few months but couldn't justify the $150/mo, especially since streaming HD content was no faster/better than 60Mbit).
I am pretty happy with the reliability and speed of the service. So... don't count me as one of the 6 million DSL subscribers Comcast is referring to.
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I would say that there is a caveat to that.
There will likely always be a niche market for your hack if it is a good one, simply because you can devote more time and innovation to it.
Feature developers at MS or Apple or Google or whatever will rarely implement the full spectrum of improvements. They will pick one or two features that they like and ignore the rest. To do anything else would introduce too much complexity and feature bloat.
So, while your app's signature feature may be superseded, you will still be able to offer a more feature rich competitive product if you want to.
Anyone who puts their entire monetary existence in the hands of a single app are either fools or independently wealthy already...
Well, iPhone is certainly a lot more brain dead easy.
You can find quality Android devices, but it is harder and you have to do considerably more research.
With an iPhone, you know what you are getting. IMO that is the main reason people stick with iPhones.
There is too much choice in the world these days. If you don't have any choice, then the decision is easy.
I was going to post something similar.
In my own experience, problem drinking stems from unpreparedness. If you are living away from home for the first time it can be an overwhelming experience when all these new and previously restricted things are shoved in your face.
You could solve a lot of problems by just preparing people earlier. And what better way to prepare than to get your hands dirty? As in, allow some "bad" things (drinking, drug use, sexual relationships, break-ups and financial mishaps to name a few) to happen while the child is still in a safe and controlled environment so they know better how to deal with them when they arise in the real world.
Think of it like vaccinating your kids for the real world. It doesn't just help them, it helps the other kids around them.
100% the same. Most of the time, I come in to work and my phone goes on the charger until I leave.
I can tell you that when there are occasions where I need to be in heavy use of my phone, I am definitely not getting as much work done.
I am very task oriented and not very good at multitasking so the more distractions I am subjected to, the worse my efficiency.
Of course, this probably comes as no surprise to anyone.
I personally would have rather seen the measurement in Olympic swimming pools or football fields...
I am thinking that "you can simply not ignore Apple" is true... in the same way that you can simply not ignore the pretentious dork at the party who keeps turning all conversations back toward himself.
As I said, I am not a lawyer.
I do understand your point and I personally agree that CF is not in the wrong here IF they have no involvement.
In the bank example, if a bank holds a criminals money and refuses to cease doing business with the criminal despite the bank's knowledge that the money is ill-gotten gains, then the bank has some culpability. No?
Ok, I misspoke.
What I meant is: If a judge decides that a company is up to illegal activities and tells the company to stop then anyone working with that company in spite of this is aiding those illegal activities.
It isn't so obvious which cloud, if any, is hosting the site.
Or which flare, if any, is involved in criminal aiding and abetting.
Copyright infringement is illegal. If Cloudflare is providing a service to a company that LEO has identified as being an illegal operation and has been told to stop, then Cloudflare is aiding a criminal operation.
I could see this law suit as having merit if Cloudflare has been made aware but continues to provide services to a company doing illegal things.
But until then, Cloudflare is doing nothing wrong by providing a legal service.
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It depends on how the passwords were "scrambled"
Even if they were just hashes, those hashes could be used to correlate against a number of existing password databases from previous leaks (if the hashing algrothims are known or can be guessed). That could then give you better data on who is using the same password elsewhere.
Also, a birthday is not a trivial piece of information. It is used as a security question all too often. It also give the attacker more clues about you which is never good.
The nice thing about IT work is that all sectors need IT workers.
So you don't have to restrict yourself to one market sector.
Some sectors pay more than others.
For me, it is always a trade off between freedom and burdensome restrictions.
Usually, the bigger the company, the more you can get paid as an IT worker and the less you need to know. However, you also have much less freedom to drive company policy or to even do your job (or what you view to be your job).
OTOH, the smaller the company, the less money you make as salary but the perks may be bigger (retirement, medical insurance, free parking, etc) and you have more freedom to involve yourself in more things (wear more hats). However, the work is harder and you need to know more.
I personally like the smaller companies. I don't make as much as my peers, but I do get to do a lot more interesting things on a daily basis.
At this point I fear it would take an extremely egregious act for anyone in authority to get a meaningful sentence and actually stay in jail for it, like being caught on multiple angles of video outside a burning domestic abuse shelter full of women/children laughing maniacally with a cigar in your mouth, an empty can of gas in one hand and a lighter in the other.
Something tells me that even then, because the footage wasn't officially police sanctioned video, he would be put on administrative leave with pay.
So just change your UA to match one of the big 3 or 4...
I am thinking the same thing.
I just see this as Google flexing their muscles and weighting their search results to favor their own platform.
I browse the web in a standard PC web browser. I cannot stand browsing the web on anything else. To me, "mobile friendly" means "crippled"
Hopefully, mobile optimized searches are context aware and will only highly weight "mobile friendly" sites when searching from a mobile device.
Yeah, but in gtmo, /. is the ONLY allowed web site.... so what do you think now?
I am assuming that something was lost in the translation...
I like to reserve my "handle" on all the new platforms I hear about. So I do have accounts on most of the major platforms today. However, I do not actively use any of them.
This just opens up more opportunities for a MITM to screw with you. E-mail is not secure. SMS is not secure.
I think one of the problems of this is that even though the site (say a forum) is not valuable to you, it could be used to "spoof" your identity to someone else.
It just takes one gullible help desk guy at an organization you DO care about to be fooled into thinking the attacker is actually the victim.
As with most vulnerabilities, all you need to start with is a toe-hold. Once you have that, you can start leveraging other exploits until, ultimately, you end up with the victim's important stuff.
If you can close the holes on the small stuff, then you have less to worry about.
At one point, while working on a team which was developing a custom web interface to a telephone system, our manager *insisted* that an HTTP GET method be added called "override". If the user requesting the web page manually added "override=1" to the URL string... all authentication was bypassed, allowing full access to that phone tree. That company and all software is long gone now but the override=1 remains as a fun joke among the ex-team members.
I am a DSL guy too.
It's all about the reliability.
Speed is just fine. But it is the most common story for people to be without their cable internet connection for days at a time.
I know that when I lived with a friend for a few years, his cable would go out all the time. Sometimes for a day or more.
Never had that issue with DSL.
I can get 1000Mbit DSL (fiber to the building, DSL to the demarc).
The fastest cable I can get is 20Mbit. I tried the 20Mbit cable for a day and was never able to get speeds above 5Mbit.
I currently have 60Mbit DSL. It is reliable as hell and consistently 60Mbit no matter which speed test I use or time of day.
Assuming that your phone's hardware could keep up with it and that it could be delivered to you that fast by the sending end's infrastructure and everything in between... yes.
I am also a CenturyLink customer.
I use their 60Mbit DSL service. I could go with gigabit DSL (DSL down to the demarc) but I just don't need that kind of speed (I tried it for a few months but couldn't justify the $150/mo, especially since streaming HD content was no faster/better than 60Mbit).
I am pretty happy with the reliability and speed of the service. So... don't count me as one of the 6 million DSL subscribers Comcast is referring to.