Yes, iPhones, at least on any semi-recent version of iOS are encrypted. All the remote-wipe feature (usable from, say, the Find my iPhone app) does is erase the encryption key on the phone. The contents are effectively still there, but it is computationally ridiculous* to retrieve them.
*I should trademark the term "computationally ridiculous". I like the way it encompasses "theoretically possible... but it would take so long that by the time you achieved the goal, all of your equipment used to get there would have long ago disintegrated".
These are the rank and file IT jobs they're replacing, not the high end google coders. They guys they bring in from India can hack it just fine. And yeah, it takes a bit to get up to speed, but when the cost of failure is deportation you'll put in 80 hours/week until you do.
Except the guys (and gals) from India "can't hack it just fine." I'm sure there are some decent programmers coming in on H1B visas, but I haven't met any of them. Yes, you can hire three cut-and-paste coders from India for the price of, well, me. It has been my experience (repeatedly) that if those coders can't Google a set of code online for the specific problem, copy it, and make trivial modifications to get it to apply, they don't know what to do. They can't write code. I've rescued so many projects over the last decade it isn't even funny... although it has been great for me, as I've picked up a reputation as a project rescue specialist... but only because I actually know how to apply normal programming techniques to a problem.
I would prefer 24x7 to 24x7x365, as the latter misses leap years. It is my understanding, though, that Windows Phones now have achieved five-nines uptime, running properly 9.9999% of the time.
This should get a billion funny mods. I actually re-read that percentage 'cause I couldn't believe anybody would think MS had 5 9's on anything, then on the second read finally noticed where the decimal place was! Thanks for the late night chuckle.
Yes, but they aren't random native american names. They are names specific to the region, such as that huge central region of Oogallala... that is a huge underground aquifer which is the major source of water for the whole region.
I predict the iPad (and all tablets for that matter) are little more than a fad. I know people who bought them(iPad as well as Samsung Galaxy). They were a fun toy for a couple of weeks and now they collect dust (except for when the kids play an occasional game). These same people who bought them are back to using their laptops and full-sized PCs. The rumors of their demise have been greatly exaggerated.
If laptops get their bulk down to tablet-level and their battery life up to tablet-level, then maybe. Laptop battery life is roughly the same and possibly worse than it was 20 years ago, though, not better (granted, the laptops have much better displays and cpu power these days - but it ate up all of the advances in battery tech).
When I spend an entire day in meetings with sub-teams on a large project, I can carry only my tablet from meeting room to meeting room, use up less than half the battery during the eight hours of the day while taking notes, e-mailing, text messaging, video-calling remote team members, presenting, using RDP to verify info on servers, and browsing/. during the parts of the meeting that don't directly impact my team... that's great.
If I tried that with a laptop, I'd need the bulkier and noisier laptop and a power brick (otherwise the battery would die during the morning) to do the same thing... not nearly as convenient, and the noise level of using the keyboard (and fans) would annoy the other attendees.
Speaking as somebody who uses a lot of iDevices (work and home) including an iPod nano (6th generation) as a watch currently. Battery life is on the order of days of use as a media player, weeks to months if used just as a watch. Adding a few features like Bluetooth would be a further drain on the battery, but I'd hope a few years worth of refinements on an old design would mean that battery life would still be similar after enhancements. An overly obvious way to make an iWatch would be to take that same iPod nano form factor and:
Re-do the case: remove the clip from the back so it is more compact, add mounting points for a watch band
Add Bluetooth communication so it can be paired with a smartphone (in the Apple world, almost certainly an iPhone)
Add a communication channel over the Bluetooth connection so notifications can be passed from the phone to the watch
Add settings on the watch to filter notifications that appear, "Badges", "Banners", "Alerts" (possibly also by App)
Permit the Bluetooth connection to also handle audio so one set of Bluetooth headphones/mic can handle music (iPod functionality) as well as a phone call
Without any serious investment nor innovation, it's already useful. Meeting Alerts will show up on your watch if you want, same for important e-mail, texts from select people, incoming calls, and that stupid reminder to pick up milk on the way home... Since this is obvious stuff and it hasn't been done yet, I'm guessing the designers probably have some "killer features" that are non-obvious.
Compensation. Not necessarily money, but something-done-for-something-gained type of exchange.
They are trying to ban situations like: "You can live here rent free, but you will need to do a perform in my webcam shows on Friday evenings". The performance is being done for the favor of living in the spare room (which is a "valuable consideration" in legal terms... something with a non-zero financial consequence).
Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, not familiar with law in the Philippines. Do not consider the comments herein as legal advice.
GP's linked article was written by a MS Windows Phone enthusiast, but it is describing a problem with all iOS6.1 devices. I'd expect this to be a pretty widely known problem by now... I'll have to look into it further.
As it is, it just seems like there would be a lot more reports of this issue if it were as bad as described. There must be an unusual set of conditions that trigger it, we have thousands of users with several hundred iOS devices used with our Exchange system, but no reports of issues yet. It makes me curious.
Why would this problem be specific to phones, though? I'd guess the Exchange ActiveSync connector for e-mail, calendar, tasks, notes, contact syncing would be the same for iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch, all devices that have it available handling the sync to an Exchange server. Curious.
I guess I've just been lucky, both my iPhone and iPad are using the Exchange ActiveSync for my work account and I haven't had a problem yet (I usually go 2-3 days between using a charger, so it would be very noticeable if I were hit with a big power drain).
It depends... it is pretty easy to hack a common person's e-mail. Look them up on FaceBook (if they have an account there).
Did they leave their e-mail address publicly available? Now you have their e-mail address, all you need is a password.
Look over their profile, noting the names of pets, significant others, family members as well as any publicly mentioned interests, celebrities, whatever.
Use variations of those names of pets, family members, etc as a password, if the account the e-mail is on requires numbers, toss 123 or the age of family member at the end. If the person was a fan of a particular car, try the model and year, etc. You get the idea.
The above will fail more often than not, but sometimes you* get lucky.
*I say you, but of course neither you nor I would be so malicious as to go breaking into an e-mail account.
I see this argument a lot in gay marriage debates, and it's always baffled me. It's about the definition of "impose".
I've never quite understood how you can say "Allowing (x) to happen imposes your viewpoint on me". If you have a viewpoint, that's your viewpoint. You're free to judge people who do (x). You don't have to do (x). Meanwhile, you're perfectly willing to see a law stating "You cannot do (x). (x) is now illegal." All the people who want to do (x) must now conform to your viewpoint or be criminals.
How is "You may do this, or may not, depending on your choice," more imposing than "You may not do this"? How in the world is freedom more imposing than restriction?
+1, Insightful
Restricting others from doing things you don't approve of, actively anti-freedom.
Allowing others to do things you don't want to do yourself, do not accept as moral/proper/right, is being a passive advocate for freedom.
Fighting for the rights of others to do things you don't approve of is being an active advocate for freedom. < People that do this deserve extra kudos!
... so the first thing I think of is a DOS program found lurking in the darkest recesses on a Lab machine, basically doodle a flowchart, and it took that and dumped out C, Basic, Fortran or Pascal code (there may have been other languages, I cant remember.)...
Never heard of that, but I can see where that would be rather useful in teaching a computing-101-type of class... show the parallels between different languages and why a non-specific charting tool is a useful abstraction. Awesome!
The difference is, "American Citizens" are protected by the US Constitution, a document the POTUS has sworn to uphold. Depriving a US citizen of their life without due process of law is a direct violation of that oath. Yes, it should be an offense worthy of impeachment... at the very least, people should care.
My experience has been that whenever this comes up in conversation with actual adults who, while not brilliant, are not stupid either... they get this dismissive look on their face. It is obvious they are thinking "oh, you are one of those conspiracy nuts, there is no way this could be real".
Most people don't believe this has actually happened.
Android and IOS just don't have really good tools to integrate with business.
I'm curious what you feel they are missing.
E-mail and calendaring, I prefer Android and iOS's tools to what is available from Microsoft, and that is connecting to a Microsoft's own Exchange servers on the back end. I imagine Android should be even better for businesses that have migrated to GMail for their back-end. Remote wipe features for mobile devices are available on all platforms. Document creation and perusal seems to be pretty inter-operable across platforms (although animations in presentation packages aren't always compatible across platforms). With more and more business software migrating to web apps (accounting systems, customer management, ERP, etc), it seems that most business software will be more rather than less device-independent.
I think Microsoft can. It's a matter of how many billions of dollars they want to bleed first. It worked with the XBox. Of course the XBox was also helped by Sony's stupidity.
I was going to ask what you were smoking after reading the first sentence. Reading the rest of the post lends credibility to the possibility, though.
If Apple seriously screws up the next iPhone and Microsoft manages to come up with something far, far better than any OS they've put on a phone ever... than they might stand a chance of Microsoft coming out over Apple.
It would be hard to beat out Android on all fronts, though... there have been some seriously crappy Android phones, but I don't think the market has been without great Android phones from at least two different manufacturers in years. So that would require a failure from Google that applied to all manufacturers of Android phones, which doesn't seem too likely.
Unless those bar/pub's are retailing computers/tablets/phones (who knows, maybe they are), they are not in the same "trade" as an Apple store and would not be affected.
Trademarks are specific to a single trade.
Servicemarks are broader, but also much more difficult to acquire.
No... no patent was asked for, and none was given. They trademarked (not patented) a particular set of features, which is fairly common. It only prevents people in the same trade from incorporating the same combination of distinctive features and leaves the enforcement up to Apple's expense to detect and pursue.
Car examples: Much like Jeep trademarking vehicle's with a "7 vertical slot grill between a pair of round headlights" or Harley Davidson trademarking the sound of their V-twin motorcycles.
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Yes, iPhones, at least on any semi-recent version of iOS are encrypted. All the remote-wipe feature (usable from, say, the Find my iPhone app) does is erase the encryption key on the phone. The contents are effectively still there, but it is computationally ridiculous* to retrieve them.
*I should trademark the term "computationally ridiculous". I like the way it encompasses "theoretically possible ... but it would take so long that by the time you achieved the goal, all of your equipment used to get there would have long ago disintegrated".
These are the rank and file IT jobs they're replacing, not the high end google coders. They guys they bring in from India can hack it just fine. And yeah, it takes a bit to get up to speed, but when the cost of failure is deportation you'll put in 80 hours/week until you do.
Except the guys (and gals) from India "can't hack it just fine." I'm sure there are some decent programmers coming in on H1B visas, but I haven't met any of them. Yes, you can hire three cut-and-paste coders from India for the price of, well, me. It has been my experience (repeatedly) that if those coders can't Google a set of code online for the specific problem, copy it, and make trivial modifications to get it to apply, they don't know what to do. They can't write code. I've rescued so many projects over the last decade it isn't even funny ... although it has been great for me, as I've picked up a reputation as a project rescue specialist ... but only because I actually know how to apply normal programming techniques to a problem.
I would prefer 24x7 to 24x7x365, as the latter misses leap years. It is my understanding, though, that Windows Phones now have achieved five-nines uptime, running properly 9.9999% of the time.
This should get a billion funny mods.
I actually re-read that percentage 'cause I couldn't believe anybody would think MS had 5 9's on anything, then on the second read finally noticed where the decimal place was!
Thanks for the late night chuckle.
Yes, but they aren't random native american names. They are names specific to the region, such as that huge central region of Oogallala ... that is a huge underground aquifer which is the major source of water for the whole region.
I predict the iPad (and all tablets for that matter) are little more than a fad. I know people who bought them(iPad as well as Samsung Galaxy). They were a fun toy for a couple of weeks and now they collect dust (except for when the kids play an occasional game). These same people who bought them are back to using their laptops and full-sized PCs. The rumors of their demise have been greatly exaggerated.
If laptops get their bulk down to tablet-level and their battery life up to tablet-level, then maybe. Laptop battery life is roughly the same and possibly worse than it was 20 years ago, though, not better (granted, the laptops have much better displays and cpu power these days - but it ate up all of the advances in battery tech).
When I spend an entire day in meetings with sub-teams on a large project, I can carry only my tablet from meeting room to meeting room, use up less than half the battery during the eight hours of the day while taking notes, e-mailing, text messaging, video-calling remote team members, presenting, using RDP to verify info on servers, and browsing /. during the parts of the meeting that don't directly impact my team ... that's great.
If I tried that with a laptop, I'd need the bulkier and noisier laptop and a power brick (otherwise the battery would die during the morning) to do the same thing ... not nearly as convenient, and the noise level of using the keyboard (and fans) would annoy the other attendees.
Speaking as somebody who uses a lot of iDevices (work and home) including an iPod nano (6th generation) as a watch currently. Battery life is on the order of days of use as a media player, weeks to months if used just as a watch. Adding a few features like Bluetooth would be a further drain on the battery, but I'd hope a few years worth of refinements on an old design would mean that battery life would still be similar after enhancements.
An overly obvious way to make an iWatch would be to take that same iPod nano form factor and:
Without any serious investment nor innovation, it's already useful. Meeting Alerts will show up on your watch if you want, same for important e-mail, texts from select people, incoming calls, and that stupid reminder to pick up milk on the way home ...
Since this is obvious stuff and it hasn't been done yet, I'm guessing the designers probably have some "killer features" that are non-obvious.
s/perform/performance/
Yes, I know, "Preview" is required before "Submit" for a reason.
Compensation. Not necessarily money, but something-done-for-something-gained type of exchange.
They are trying to ban situations like: "You can live here rent free, but you will need to do a perform in my webcam shows on Friday evenings". ... something with a non-zero financial consequence).
The performance is being done for the favor of living in the spare room (which is a "valuable consideration" in legal terms
Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, not familiar with law in the Philippines. Do not consider the comments herein as legal advice.
When did Apples products suck?
Mid 80s- Late 90s. Give or take.
Depends on what you were doing with your computer.
Audio production work: Mac ruled this domain.
Desktop publishing: Mac here as well.
Pretty much anything else, PCs were the order of the day.
GP's linked article was written by a MS Windows Phone enthusiast, but it is describing a problem with all iOS6.1 devices. I'd expect this to be a pretty widely known problem by now ... I'll have to look into it further.
As it is, it just seems like there would be a lot more reports of this issue if it were as bad as described. There must be an unusual set of conditions that trigger it, we have thousands of users with several hundred iOS devices used with our Exchange system, but no reports of issues yet. It makes me curious.
Why would this problem be specific to phones, though? I'd guess the Exchange ActiveSync connector for e-mail, calendar, tasks, notes, contact syncing would be the same for iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch, all devices that have it available handling the sync to an Exchange server. Curious.
I guess I've just been lucky, both my iPhone and iPad are using the Exchange ActiveSync for my work account and I haven't had a problem yet (I usually go 2-3 days between using a charger, so it would be very noticeable if I were hit with a big power drain).
It depends ... it is pretty easy to hack a common person's e-mail. Look them up on FaceBook (if they have an account there).
Did they leave their e-mail address publicly available? Now you have their e-mail address, all you need is a password.
Look over their profile, noting the names of pets, significant others, family members as well as any publicly mentioned interests, celebrities, whatever.
Use variations of those names of pets, family members, etc as a password, if the account the e-mail is on requires numbers, toss 123 or the age of family member at the end. If the person was a fan of a particular car, try the model and year, etc. You get the idea.
The above will fail more often than not, but sometimes you* get lucky.
*I say you, but of course neither you nor I would be so malicious as to go breaking into an e-mail account.
I see this argument a lot in gay marriage debates, and it's always baffled me. It's about the definition of "impose".
I've never quite understood how you can say "Allowing (x) to happen imposes your viewpoint on me". If you have a viewpoint, that's your viewpoint. You're free to judge people who do (x). You don't have to do (x). Meanwhile, you're perfectly willing to see a law stating "You cannot do (x). (x) is now illegal." All the people who want to do (x) must now conform to your viewpoint or be criminals.
How is "You may do this, or may not, depending on your choice," more imposing than "You may not do this"? How in the world is freedom more imposing than restriction?
+1, Insightful
Restricting others from doing things you don't approve of, actively anti-freedom.
Allowing others to do things you don't want to do yourself, do not accept as moral/proper/right, is being a passive advocate for freedom.
Fighting for the rights of others to do things you don't approve of is being an active advocate for freedom. < People that do this deserve extra kudos!
... so the first thing I think of is a DOS program found lurking in the darkest recesses on a Lab machine, basically doodle a flowchart, and it took that and dumped out C, Basic, Fortran or Pascal code (there may have been other languages, I cant remember.) ...
Never heard of that, but I can see where that would be rather useful in teaching a computing-101-type of class ... show the parallels between different languages and why a non-specific charting tool is a useful abstraction. Awesome!
The difference is, "American Citizens" are protected by the US Constitution, a document the POTUS has sworn to uphold. ... at the very least, people should care.
Depriving a US citizen of their life without due process of law is a direct violation of that oath.
Yes, it should be an offense worthy of impeachment
My experience has been that whenever this comes up in conversation with actual adults who, while not brilliant, are not stupid either ... they get this dismissive look on their face. It is obvious they are thinking "oh, you are one of those conspiracy nuts, there is no way this could be real".
Most people don't believe this has actually happened.
When I think of "visual programming" the first thing I think of is Hypercard ... I was at uni when that came out, so late 80's?
Android and IOS just don't have really good tools to integrate with business.
I'm curious what you feel they are missing.
E-mail and calendaring, I prefer Android and iOS's tools to what is available from Microsoft, and that is connecting to a Microsoft's own Exchange servers on the back end. I imagine Android should be even better for businesses that have migrated to GMail for their back-end.
Remote wipe features for mobile devices are available on all platforms.
Document creation and perusal seems to be pretty inter-operable across platforms (although animations in presentation packages aren't always compatible across platforms).
With more and more business software migrating to web apps (accounting systems, customer management, ERP, etc), it seems that most business software will be more rather than less device-independent.
I think Microsoft can. It's a matter of how many billions of dollars they want to bleed first. It worked with the XBox. Of course the XBox was also helped by Sony's stupidity.
I was going to ask what you were smoking after reading the first sentence. Reading the rest of the post lends credibility to the possibility, though.
If Apple seriously screws up the next iPhone and Microsoft manages to come up with something far, far better than any OS they've put on a phone ever ... than they might stand a chance of Microsoft coming out over Apple.
It would be hard to beat out Android on all fronts, though ... there have been some seriously crappy Android phones, but I don't think the market has been without great Android phones from at least two different manufacturers in years. So that would require a failure from Google that applied to all manufacturers of Android phones, which doesn't seem too likely.
Yes, there are a number of names that are typically only given to females in the USA, but are gender-neutral in many other places.
Kim, Lauren, Laura are the ones that immediately come to mind (as I've met all of the above), but there are quite a few others as well.
Best plate ever, I wish I had mod points.
Every software geek will get it, but the other 99.5% of the people will be clueless.
Unless those bar/pub's are retailing computers/tablets/phones (who knows, maybe they are), they are not in the same "trade" as an Apple store and would not be affected.
Trademarks are specific to a single trade.
Servicemarks are broader, but also much more difficult to acquire.
Note that coffee shops are not in the same "trade" as an Apple store, so they are not impacted.
Now, if Apple had requested a servicemark instead of a trademark, that would be a different story ... but a service mark is much harder to get.
s/vehicle\'s/vehicles/g
No ... no patent was asked for, and none was given.
They trademarked (not patented) a particular set of features, which is fairly common. It only prevents people in the same trade from incorporating the same combination of distinctive features and leaves the enforcement up to Apple's expense to detect and pursue.
Car examples:
Much like Jeep trademarking vehicle's with a "7 vertical slot grill between a pair of round headlights" or Harley Davidson trademarking the sound of their V-twin motorcycles.