You should be more careful, you just posted to a public forum admitting to your tax fraud.
Just because you committed tax fraud year after year and got away with it, is not reason to double-tax the rest of us.
There is already a box on your tax form, which you clearly are not aware of and filled in a zero value, where you must claim all out of state purchases, which they then tax you on.
Adding a second box for the exact same thing would be double taxing.
But so would keeping "summer hours" at various businesses. 9-5 in the winter? 8-4 in the summer! See how easy that is? No need to take something that has a real, astronomical meaning, and fiddle with it completely arbitrarily for no real benefit at all.
All you have to do is get all employers to sign off. I'll be over here holding my breath.
Actually to see a benefit you only need to get roughly half the employers to sign off, possibly even slightly under half of them. That is after taking into account the number of businesses already using 8-4 hours right now, which while small is not zero. So in a way it has already started, even if not for that reason specifically.
It still sounds daunting and unlikely I know, but I'd think even if 25-33% of the normal rush hour traffic was not on the road at rush hour, it would improve driving conditions vastly!
All it would take is some small benefit offered by the government to make such a change, even if it's only a small percent or fixed amount off the yearly taxes, and you will see more than zero percent.
If the initial goal is 50% of the businesses, then there will be limited tax benefit slots available, which will encourage more to take up the new plan faster than normal. Together with a detailed cost savings plan to be presented to the bean counters, and the whole idea is not as impossible as you make it out to be.
It only needs some central coordination, and a detailed written plan to sell.
I just wanted to say thanks for your post! I've been putting off the upgrade too, mainly due to new versions mangling my profile, and not really wanting to deal with manually replacing my extensions (The "The following extensions will not be compatible" window can't be resized, and would have taken 4 screen shots to even show someone):/
I just did the side-by-side install and profile copy thing from your instructions, and now on FF10.
Still have a metric crap-ton of plugins to wade through.. Thankfully a third of the list was Java Consoles and don't matter;}
But that still helped cut out a lot of the work I was dreading, so again thank you!
I think this would be a great addition to the market, but if I can't carry over my PC catalog then it will be stillborn.
You clearly have never used steam before! (Which prompts the question: What catalog?)
Anywhere you install Steam, you can sign into your account and download games you have purchased. All you need to remember is your Steam ID and password, and it will show your library of games. You can install any or all of them.
This is one of the biggest features Steam provides, to make it easy to manage your library from anywhere.
As the article clearly states, this is just a PC inside, and will not be locked down such as the xbox, nor require any special devkit. Only the PC case will be designed for the living room (Which has been done before) and will come with game pads. Being a regular PC with a regular OS and regular Steam client, it should have all of the regular features Steam has.
Being a regular PC, one would even imagine a bunch of front USB ports, in addition to the internal USB wireless dongle for their own controllers. It should work equally well with a keyboard and mouse as it does with a wired game pad, which is one of the reasons I don't like current generation consoles. A lot of people prefer keyboard/mouse over game pad, despite both being available on PC. This should cater well to everyone.
I think CP violation was used by particle physicists long before the term was hijacked and given a different meaning by law enforcement hysteria.
There's another meaning? Google just turns up the physics one, at least for me.
Well there's your problem! Don't search for Child Porn on Google, search for it on 4chan or motherless instead, you'll get many more non-physics related results!
Lieutenant Riker, or Commander Riker? I know, same person at one point, but now it actually matters...
It was Commander Riker who shot first, but he blamed it on Lieutenant Riker who was taken away and put to death by electric chair (It was warp core powered. You can imagine the pain and mess that made!)
So everyone thinks Commander Riker is innocent, but oh yes, he will strike again.
I was referencing the claimed excessive amount of chargebacks for said material, not the processor's moral values.
That has less to do with women and any target audience, than it does with one person in a marrage purchasing the porn because they want it, and then getting caught by their partner and trying to lie their way out of explaining it. This in my experience is usually married men.
"My kid must have bought it, I would never do such a thing! My wife is watching, so you know I'm telling the truth!" or "Must have been a stolen credit card! I am an outstanding member of the *blahblah* community and would never do such a thing!"
We see it all the time in the computer repair business. Someone brings in a PC infected to hell, with timestamps matching the massive amount of recent porn they just downloaded... But it wasn't them! Must have been the kids, or the uncle staying that weekend, or some hacker.
Basically the charge backs are because a lot of people are not capable of owning up to their own responsibilities and actions, and it's an easy way to pass the blame off to some 'faceless' company they don't care about anyway.
In response to the underhanded update, users take to the ratings system with a vengeance and downmod the developer into oblivion. Thus, the app ecosystem sees shady behavior as 'damage' and 'routes' around it.
Paid money and now have to spend more:( by Bob1274
Was on offroad tournament for free with no adds and could get supertrax for free. Now I have to pay more money === You call this update?? by menRfromMars
Seriously very disappointing after this update... Ads and have to pay for what was free in first edition.....Sadly saying goodbye!!!!
Once again the pirates are not bothered by this one bit.
Checking the standard iOS warez site, I can download versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4. All kracked and fully unlocked. v1.5 is the current broken one, which ironically I see an entry for and the comment "You don't want this version, use 1.4 instead"
And people wonder why I always try the pirated version first, and only purchase after! I can honestly say not a single app on any of my devices is pirated. However I can guarantee that nearly all of them were pirated for at most 30 minutes. Plenty of time to know if I want to just delete it and move on, or go buy it.
Of course I'm not exactly their target market, as the few games I do have I already knew about before seeing them available on iOS. Either ports of PC games, clones of PC games, or a buddy had it and let me try it. But I'm weird like that.
Meh, they might as well just shut the DNS servers down fully.
The type of people who run their computers this way (always infected, never updated, no AV) are used to their computer to just up and stop working all the time.
They will simply go out and purchase a new one to replace the old 'broken' one, which will end up in the trash - and at the very least off the Internet. Best case they give it away to their "computer guy" buddy, who will wipe it and have a free computer. It's a win-win!
or they could crush caffeine pills, which is even easier and hasn't been a problem.
No need for so much work and effort. You can buy it in bulk powder form pretty cheaply. PureBulk lists it as $8.50 for 100g, $60 for 1kg, and up to 20kg for $700
The inhalers contain 300mg worth for $3. So at the smallest amount you can get in bulk, you get 100 times the caffeine for the same price. The pills are cheaper than the inhalers by far, but still not as cheap as bulk powder.
Here on Earth, people will steal whatever they can get their hands on if they think they need it and it's relatively easy to do without consequence.
Damn, that's a tough break. I'm sorry your software got stolen from you, so you don't have it anymore, can't work on it, or sell any other copies.
Have you checked the pirate bay for your own software? If it was stolen from you, you can likely download a copy from there and have it back. It won't have the source of course, but it's better than nothing at all!
However, I'm curious, where the hell can you find a smart phone that doesn't have bluetooth? Heck, at this point, I would expect it to be a major challenge to find any cell phone less than 3-4 years old without bluetooth.
Funny you mention that. When I first typed out my post, it did have a similar comment in it: "(Do they even make non bluetooth smart phones anymore?)", but I ended up cutting it out. I have not seen a smart phone without bluetooth support in a very very long time.
I know there are still basic "dumb" phones that do not include it for price reasons, and yet others that do have it but limited to audio only. But you need to look at the "$20 or less" types to find such a phone.
Verizon used to have some low end phones with locked down bluetooth, where you had to pay an extra monthly fee for them to enable it for more than audio only use. This was to keep you from using BT to transfer pictures and ring tones to your phone on your own, and make you purchase such things from their store instead. I haven't been with Verizon in years however, so I truly hope they stopped that practice in this day and age.
I thought the iPhone supported most assistive devices, like braille keyboards, and "reading sticks"
Yes, those devices typically show as bluetooth keyboards/HID devices, so are supported on any BT enabled smart phone.
But that doesn't preclude yet another such device, and especially one that doesn't require additional hardware. I hear such hardware addons are rather expensive.
I've found that the mouse with my iPad only gets used for remote desktop and vnc, basically to control systems that are designed for mouse use.
It is pretty funny seeing a mouse cursor on spring board the first time, but not very useful compared to the touch screen. I've only used the mouse about twice with the notepad app, and honestly both of those times were right after using the mouse/keyboard for remote desktop.
My iPads keyboard is built into its case, so is already with me. The mouse generally stays in my tablet bag (aka man purse)
One annoying issue is you have to select which bluetooth stack to use, either Apples or the jailbroken drivers. Apples keyboard support is much better, and works in any app with text input. But to use the mouse, you have to flip to the other set of bluetooth drivers, which requires re-pairing the keyboard as well.
Between this annoying flipping between BT stacks, and the fact I have my mouse with me less frequent than the keyboard, I find myself almost never using it.
Activator (with the Apple keyboard drivers) gives you access to all the F-keys and alt-keys for performing actions and running apps. This method is far more flexible and useful.
After finishing up an RDP session, I always flip the bluetooth stack back to Apples, for the slightly less rare occasion I want to turn the keyboard on.
So I too wish Apple would add mouse support in their own bluetooth stack. I just can't see them doing this unfortunately. It would mean that somewhere some programmer would make an iPad app where the mouse was required for use. Would ruin the sexy image.
Apple as of late does not seem to care about their users needs like in the old days. They have gone from a company that used to include schematics and firmware source in the manual of their product, to a company that sues someone for posting a patch to their firmware (ie jailbreaks)
However if I was to limit myself to only purchasing from companies I am morally comfortable with, I would not have a single piece of technology in my life. The entire industry just sucks now.
What indeed happens when one of the other monitored cars has an impulsive driver who decides in the last few seconds before the intersection to floor the accelerator?
The exact same thing that happens right now. An collision caused by the driver that floored the accelerator. I FAIL to see how you think this is any worse off.
Once you look at all the other improvements, this one neutral issue does not change the fact that it is a huge improvement.
You are claiming x < x when clearly both values are the same.
Wow... Yea, now I feel bad for even comparing this guy to a true security researcher.
This is just not how anyone in this industry acts. You would have to be so stupid to believe this was OK that even booting a computer would be too complex for him, which is clearly not the case.
It's starting to sound like his "registered security company" only existed to provide an excuse for if and when he got caught doing what he knew he shouldn't be doing.
Why did he need to download facebook source code after he found the vulnerability? Why did he need to breach the server at all? Much less 3 servers?!
This here is the root of the problem of why his actions were so wrong.
Granted, he shouldn't have been poking around in the first place, but that action (if limited to that) might be able to be forgiven. Everything else he did after the poking around was very much uncalled for and unprofessional behavior. It would be one thing if he accidentally stumbled over a possible vulnerability, but that is Not what he did.
Example: "Hello facebook security team. I was attempting to reach my server at 123.x.x.x port yyyy, and I accidentally 'typoed' the address and entered 124.x.x.x, which appears to be assigned to your network. Port yyyy is the defacto standard port for service (blah), which is known to have vulnerabilities in recent versions. While an open port is hardly conclusive, I wanted you to be aware it was open. If you were unaware of that fact, you may wish to check and make sure there are no further problems.
I happen to run a professional security auditing company, and if you have any interest in our services, please feel free to contact me. Please note we can NOT perform any detailed analysis without a business contract, and signed agreements of permission from you. You will likely require an NDA from us as well. We can speak on details if you choose to contact us. "
Going any further than that example, such as verifying the open port has a vulnerable service (say a nesus scan or another such tool), let alone exploiting the vulnerability as proof it exists without permission, is not considered good will.
Downloading data of any type is Never valid evidence, unless your contract specifically states that is your end goal, as specified by the company!
Standard procedure (after having written permission) is touching a zero byte file of a specific name, and making a log of their locations and c/m-times. That way it is easy for the client to both find all such files, and confirm nothing else was modified after that point in time.
True professionals work only under contract, and have a packet logger sitting between their LAN of pen-test systems, and the network connection to the client. FULL logs are turned over to the client, both as proof of what you did, and more important, what you did not do.
There are plenty of companies out there who will hire a security auditor willingly. Nothing good can come of an unsolicited notice like this, nor doing the work for free ahead of time only to get paid in months of jail time.
Thank you for the update. Such things generally never make the news as big as the initial few announcements.
But as you say, there is still plenty wrong with that raid including the shoot first ask later aspects, so my original point still stands.
Even reading the update, it still seems as fucked up as when initially reported. They show the father provided the gun, but that no one knew or even suspected that at the time of the raid. The cop that shot the 7 year old had also in the past threatened children with his weapon, including an infant, and shooting family dogs. A&E still refuses to release the video evidence of the cover up to anyone.
But my point is that once you are so much as linked to a crime, they will come in guns blazing and figure out the details later. The feds do take counterfeiting money pretty seriously, as in guns drawn seriously.
Even if this one example wasn't perfect (aka only 3 out of 5 innocent people in the home, instead of 4 out of 5), there are plenty of other examples that are.
If I sold off my printer or tossed it in a dumpster, I would prefer the feds think of that possibility first instead of simply linking the crime to documents I printed on it long in the past, and bust my door down with guns drawn...
Let's imagine I have a home printer that prints these microdots. I use it for printing birthday cards, kids' homework, letters to my bank, and other miscellany.
The problem comes when you go to sell that printer, and it is then used to print money. Shoot first, ask later - is now the official policy in this country.
Now all that illegitimate money printed off your old printer is linked to the families names on the birthday cards, your childrens names on the homework, your name and the name of your bank, and likely your address on one of those bank letters as well. Plenty of evidence linking you to the crime!
Which door exactly do you think the secret service will be kicking in first, and whos faces will the assault riffles be in? Yes, you and your family.
Better hope your wife doesn't ask what is going on, as that is resisting. They shoot first and ask questions later you know.
A similar raid gone bad in Detroit ended up with a flash grenade tossed in a window, and killing a 7 year old child sleeping on a couch. The father was forced to the ground at gunpoint with his face in his own childs pool of blood, for quite some time before they realized it wasn't even the right house.
shoot first, ask questions later, questions such as: is this even the right house, and could ANY possible circumstances mean we have the wrong person.
For your own sake, I hope no criminals purchase your printer, or dig it out of the trash when you are done with it. Even more reason to go Office Space on it when you are done with it.
I have to agree with you there. I know nearly nothing about Scientology, but I agree with you on principle.
I don't see why it's so popular on Slashdot to hate people who believe in some sort of God.
Scientologists do not believe in a god or God (or Gods), they believe in Aliens in space ships who's souls lay dormant in earths volcanoes, put there by Xenu long ago during the great space battle. These souls infecting us humans are the reason for our misery and pain. (No, I am *NOT* kidding or making that up!)
They do not believe in helping others. They believe that if you pay them very large 5-digit sums of money every couple of months, that they will remove these souls from your body, thus ridding you of pain and misery.
That is why most slashdotters hate and despise scientologists. That and their well documented crimes such as kidnapping, torture, and murder.
So basically their illegal shenanigans make the global news (including slashdot), and tens to hundreds of thousands of people world wide go clicking links in the article to see the take down notice.
They interpret this as tens to hundreds of thousands of returning pirates, who must have cleared their cache and history!
Now they get to claim the site was WAY more popular in members than it actually was, and some huge conspiracy is going on to keep them hidden and secret.
In their minds, they are not doing anything wrong, and in fact are heros for this action. So why would anyone be upset at rights violations and want to see if the news stories are true? That's simply impossible. We are all long time members using the site to download trillions of songs, and we all clear our history daily to avoid getting caught, because their javascriptlet told them so.
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You should be more careful, you just posted to a public forum admitting to your tax fraud.
Just because you committed tax fraud year after year and got away with it, is not reason to double-tax the rest of us.
There is already a box on your tax form, which you clearly are not aware of and filled in a zero value, where you must claim all out of state purchases, which they then tax you on.
Adding a second box for the exact same thing would be double taxing.
But so would keeping "summer hours" at various businesses. 9-5 in the winter? 8-4 in the summer! See how easy that is? No need to take something that has a real, astronomical meaning, and fiddle with it completely arbitrarily for no real benefit at all.
All you have to do is get all employers to sign off. I'll be over here holding my breath.
Actually to see a benefit you only need to get roughly half the employers to sign off, possibly even slightly under half of them. That is after taking into account the number of businesses already using 8-4 hours right now, which while small is not zero. So in a way it has already started, even if not for that reason specifically.
It still sounds daunting and unlikely I know, but I'd think even if 25-33% of the normal rush hour traffic was not on the road at rush hour, it would improve driving conditions vastly!
All it would take is some small benefit offered by the government to make such a change, even if it's only a small percent or fixed amount off the yearly taxes, and you will see more than zero percent.
If the initial goal is 50% of the businesses, then there will be limited tax benefit slots available, which will encourage more to take up the new plan faster than normal.
Together with a detailed cost savings plan to be presented to the bean counters, and the whole idea is not as impossible as you make it out to be.
It only needs some central coordination, and a detailed written plan to sell.
I just wanted to say thanks for your post! :/
I've been putting off the upgrade too, mainly due to new versions mangling my profile, and not really wanting to deal with manually replacing my extensions (The "The following extensions will not be compatible" window can't be resized, and would have taken 4 screen shots to even show someone)
I just did the side-by-side install and profile copy thing from your instructions, and now on FF10.
Still have a metric crap-ton of plugins to wade through.. Thankfully a third of the list was Java Consoles and don't matter ;}
But that still helped cut out a lot of the work I was dreading, so again thank you!
I think this would be a great addition to the market, but if I can't carry over my PC catalog then it will be stillborn.
You clearly have never used steam before! (Which prompts the question: What catalog?)
Anywhere you install Steam, you can sign into your account and download games you have purchased. All you need to remember is your Steam ID and password, and it will show your library of games. You can install any or all of them.
This is one of the biggest features Steam provides, to make it easy to manage your library from anywhere.
As the article clearly states, this is just a PC inside, and will not be locked down such as the xbox, nor require any special devkit. Only the PC case will be designed for the living room (Which has been done before) and will come with game pads.
Being a regular PC with a regular OS and regular Steam client, it should have all of the regular features Steam has.
Being a regular PC, one would even imagine a bunch of front USB ports, in addition to the internal USB wireless dongle for their own controllers. It should work equally well with a keyboard and mouse as it does with a wired game pad, which is one of the reasons I don't like current generation consoles. A lot of people prefer keyboard/mouse over game pad, despite both being available on PC. This should cater well to everyone.
I think CP violation was used by particle physicists long before the term was hijacked and given a different meaning by law enforcement hysteria.
There's another meaning? Google just turns up the physics one, at least for me.
Well there's your problem! Don't search for Child Porn on Google, search for it on 4chan or motherless instead, you'll get many more non-physics related results!
Riker shot first!
Lieutenant Riker, or Commander Riker?
I know, same person at one point, but now it actually matters...
It was Commander Riker who shot first, but he blamed it on Lieutenant Riker who was taken away and put to death by electric chair (It was warp core powered. You can imagine the pain and mess that made!)
So everyone thinks Commander Riker is innocent, but oh yes, he will strike again.
Next time, it's Spot!!!
I was referencing the claimed excessive amount of chargebacks for said material, not the processor's moral values.
That has less to do with women and any target audience, than it does with one person in a marrage purchasing the porn because they want it, and then getting caught by their partner and trying to lie their way out of explaining it.
This in my experience is usually married men.
"My kid must have bought it, I would never do such a thing! My wife is watching, so you know I'm telling the truth!" or "Must have been a stolen credit card! I am an outstanding member of the *blahblah* community and would never do such a thing!"
We see it all the time in the computer repair business. Someone brings in a PC infected to hell, with timestamps matching the massive amount of recent porn they just downloaded... But it wasn't them! Must have been the kids, or the uncle staying that weekend, or some hacker.
Basically the charge backs are because a lot of people are not capable of owning up to their own responsibilities and actions, and it's an easy way to pass the blame off to some 'faceless' company they don't care about anyway.
In response to the underhanded update, users take to the ratings system with a vengeance and downmod the developer into oblivion. Thus, the app ecosystem sees shady behavior as 'damage' and 'routes' around it.
Citation please?
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touch-racing/id363548886?mt=8
Ratings on left side, comments are at the bottom.
Here are the last two comments:
Paid money and now have to spend more:(
by Bob1274
Was on offroad tournament for free with no adds and could get supertrax for free. Now I have to pay more money
===
You call this update??
by menRfromMars
Seriously very disappointing after this update... Ads and have to pay for what was free in first edition.....Sadly saying goodbye!!!!
Once again the pirates are not bothered by this one bit.
Checking the standard iOS warez site, I can download versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4. All kracked and fully unlocked.
v1.5 is the current broken one, which ironically I see an entry for and the comment "You don't want this version, use 1.4 instead"
And people wonder why I always try the pirated version first, and only purchase after!
I can honestly say not a single app on any of my devices is pirated. However I can guarantee that nearly all of them were pirated for at most 30 minutes.
Plenty of time to know if I want to just delete it and move on, or go buy it.
Of course I'm not exactly their target market, as the few games I do have I already knew about before seeing them available on iOS. Either ports of PC games, clones of PC games, or a buddy had it and let me try it.
But I'm weird like that.
Is there any way we can pin this on Julian Assange?
Sure! Let's just say the female connector was being loose, but after making contact it then brought charges
Meh, they might as well just shut the DNS servers down fully.
The type of people who run their computers this way (always infected, never updated, no AV) are used to their computer to just up and stop working all the time.
They will simply go out and purchase a new one to replace the old 'broken' one, which will end up in the trash - and at the very least off the Internet.
Best case they give it away to their "computer guy" buddy, who will wipe it and have a free computer. It's a win-win!
or they could crush caffeine pills, which is even easier and hasn't been a problem.
No need for so much work and effort. You can buy it in bulk powder form pretty cheaply.
PureBulk lists it as $8.50 for 100g, $60 for 1kg, and up to 20kg for $700
The inhalers contain 300mg worth for $3. So at the smallest amount you can get in bulk, you get 100 times the caffeine for the same price.
The pills are cheaper than the inhalers by far, but still not as cheap as bulk powder.
Here on Earth, people will steal whatever they can get their hands on if they think they need it and it's relatively easy to do without consequence.
Damn, that's a tough break. I'm sorry your software got stolen from you, so you don't have it anymore, can't work on it, or sell any other copies.
Have you checked the pirate bay for your own software? If it was stolen from you, you can likely download a copy from there and have it back. It won't have the source of course, but it's better than nothing at all!
what the text SHOULD look like (assme angle brackets here; sorry for having to reformat to get around slash filters)
[META xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/01/P3Pv1"]
[POLICY-REFERENCES]
[POLICY-REF about="/P3P/Policies.xml#first"]
[COOKIE-INCLUDE name="*" value="*" domain="*" path="*"/]
[COOKIE-EXCLUDE name="obnoxious-cookie" value="*" domain=".example.com" path="/"/]
[/POLICY-REF]
[POLICY-REF about="/P3P/Policies.xml#second"]
[COOKIE-INCLUDE name="obnoxious-cookie" value="*" domain=".example.com" path="/"/]
[/POLICY-REF]
[/POLICY-REFERENCES]
[/META]
And what the P3P header at www.microsoft.com looks like:
P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI"
now, without even having a compsci101 level course, anyone here see which is the more correct parseable string and which is weasel bullshit?
I guess the first is correct, and the second is bullshit?
However, I'm curious, where the hell can you find a smart phone that doesn't have bluetooth? Heck, at this point, I would expect it to be a major challenge to find any cell phone less than 3-4 years old without bluetooth.
Funny you mention that. When I first typed out my post, it did have a similar comment in it: "(Do they even make non bluetooth smart phones anymore?)", but I ended up cutting it out.
I have not seen a smart phone without bluetooth support in a very very long time.
I know there are still basic "dumb" phones that do not include it for price reasons, and yet others that do have it but limited to audio only.
But you need to look at the "$20 or less" types to find such a phone.
Verizon used to have some low end phones with locked down bluetooth, where you had to pay an extra monthly fee for them to enable it for more than audio only use. This was to keep you from using BT to transfer pictures and ring tones to your phone on your own, and make you purchase such things from their store instead.
I haven't been with Verizon in years however, so I truly hope they stopped that practice in this day and age.
I thought the iPhone supported most assistive devices, like braille keyboards, and "reading sticks"
Yes, those devices typically show as bluetooth keyboards/HID devices, so are supported on any BT enabled smart phone.
But that doesn't preclude yet another such device, and especially one that doesn't require additional hardware. I hear such hardware addons are rather expensive.
I've found that the mouse with my iPad only gets used for remote desktop and vnc, basically to control systems that are designed for mouse use.
It is pretty funny seeing a mouse cursor on spring board the first time, but not very useful compared to the touch screen.
I've only used the mouse about twice with the notepad app, and honestly both of those times were right after using the mouse/keyboard for remote desktop.
My iPads keyboard is built into its case, so is already with me. The mouse generally stays in my tablet bag (aka man purse)
One annoying issue is you have to select which bluetooth stack to use, either Apples or the jailbroken drivers.
Apples keyboard support is much better, and works in any app with text input. But to use the mouse, you have to flip to the other set of bluetooth drivers, which requires re-pairing the keyboard as well.
Between this annoying flipping between BT stacks, and the fact I have my mouse with me less frequent than the keyboard, I find myself almost never using it.
Activator (with the Apple keyboard drivers) gives you access to all the F-keys and alt-keys for performing actions and running apps. This method is far more flexible and useful.
After finishing up an RDP session, I always flip the bluetooth stack back to Apples, for the slightly less rare occasion I want to turn the keyboard on.
So I too wish Apple would add mouse support in their own bluetooth stack. I just can't see them doing this unfortunately.
It would mean that somewhere some programmer would make an iPad app where the mouse was required for use. Would ruin the sexy image.
Apple as of late does not seem to care about their users needs like in the old days.
They have gone from a company that used to include schematics and firmware source in the manual of their product, to a company that sues someone for posting a patch to their firmware (ie jailbreaks)
However if I was to limit myself to only purchasing from companies I am morally comfortable with, I would not have a single piece of technology in my life. The entire industry just sucks now.
What indeed happens when one of the other monitored cars has an impulsive driver who decides in the last few seconds before the intersection to floor the accelerator?
The exact same thing that happens right now. An collision caused by the driver that floored the accelerator. I FAIL to see how you think this is any worse off.
Once you look at all the other improvements, this one neutral issue does not change the fact that it is a huge improvement.
You are claiming x < x when clearly both values are the same.
Wow... Yea, now I feel bad for even comparing this guy to a true security researcher.
This is just not how anyone in this industry acts. You would have to be so stupid to believe this was OK that even booting a computer would be too complex for him, which is clearly not the case.
It's starting to sound like his "registered security company" only existed to provide an excuse for if and when he got caught doing what he knew he shouldn't be doing.
Why did he need to download facebook source code after he found the vulnerability? Why did he need to breach the server at all? Much less 3 servers?!
This here is the root of the problem of why his actions were so wrong.
Granted, he shouldn't have been poking around in the first place, but that action (if limited to that) might be able to be forgiven. Everything else he did after the poking around was very much uncalled for and unprofessional behavior.
It would be one thing if he accidentally stumbled over a possible vulnerability, but that is Not what he did.
Example:
"Hello facebook security team.
I was attempting to reach my server at 123.x.x.x port yyyy, and I accidentally 'typoed' the address and entered 124.x.x.x, which appears to be assigned to your network.
Port yyyy is the defacto standard port for service (blah), which is known to have vulnerabilities in recent versions.
While an open port is hardly conclusive, I wanted you to be aware it was open. If you were unaware of that fact, you may wish to check and make sure there are no further problems.
I happen to run a professional security auditing company, and if you have any interest in our services, please feel free to contact me.
Please note we can NOT perform any detailed analysis without a business contract, and signed agreements of permission from you. You will likely require an NDA from us as well. We can speak on details if you choose to contact us.
"
Going any further than that example, such as verifying the open port has a vulnerable service (say a nesus scan or another such tool), let alone exploiting the vulnerability as proof it exists without permission, is not considered good will.
Downloading data of any type is Never valid evidence, unless your contract specifically states that is your end goal, as specified by the company!
Standard procedure (after having written permission) is touching a zero byte file of a specific name, and making a log of their locations and c/m-times. That way it is easy for the client to both find all such files, and confirm nothing else was modified after that point in time.
True professionals work only under contract, and have a packet logger sitting between their LAN of pen-test systems, and the network connection to the client. FULL logs are turned over to the client, both as proof of what you did, and more important, what you did not do.
There are plenty of companies out there who will hire a security auditor willingly. Nothing good can come of an unsolicited notice like this, nor doing the work for free ahead of time only to get paid in months of jail time.
Thank you for the update. Such things generally never make the news as big as the initial few announcements.
But as you say, there is still plenty wrong with that raid including the shoot first ask later aspects, so my original point still stands.
Even reading the update, it still seems as fucked up as when initially reported.
They show the father provided the gun, but that no one knew or even suspected that at the time of the raid.
The cop that shot the 7 year old had also in the past threatened children with his weapon, including an infant, and shooting family dogs.
A&E still refuses to release the video evidence of the cover up to anyone.
But my point is that once you are so much as linked to a crime, they will come in guns blazing and figure out the details later.
The feds do take counterfeiting money pretty seriously, as in guns drawn seriously.
Even if this one example wasn't perfect (aka only 3 out of 5 innocent people in the home, instead of 4 out of 5), there are plenty of other examples that are.
If I sold off my printer or tossed it in a dumpster, I would prefer the feds think of that possibility first instead of simply linking the crime to documents I printed on it long in the past, and bust my door down with guns drawn...
Let's imagine I have a home printer that prints these microdots. I use it for printing birthday cards, kids' homework, letters to my bank, and other miscellany.
The problem comes when you go to sell that printer, and it is then used to print money.
Shoot first, ask later - is now the official policy in this country.
Now all that illegitimate money printed off your old printer is linked to the families names on the birthday cards, your childrens names on the homework, your name and the name of your bank, and likely your address on one of those bank letters as well.
Plenty of evidence linking you to the crime!
Which door exactly do you think the secret service will be kicking in first, and whos faces will the assault riffles be in? Yes, you and your family.
Better hope your wife doesn't ask what is going on, as that is resisting. They shoot first and ask questions later you know.
A similar raid gone bad in Detroit ended up with a flash grenade tossed in a window, and killing a 7 year old child sleeping on a couch. The father was forced to the ground at gunpoint with his face in his own childs pool of blood, for quite some time before they realized it wasn't even the right house.
shoot first, ask questions later, questions such as: is this even the right house, and could ANY possible circumstances mean we have the wrong person.
For your own sake, I hope no criminals purchase your printer, or dig it out of the trash when you are done with it.
Even more reason to go Office Space on it when you are done with it.
I have to agree with you there. I know nearly nothing about Scientology, but I agree with you on principle.
I don't see why it's so popular on Slashdot to hate people who believe in some sort of God.
Scientologists do not believe in a god or God (or Gods), they believe in Aliens in space ships who's souls lay dormant in earths volcanoes, put there by Xenu long ago during the great space battle. These souls infecting us humans are the reason for our misery and pain.
(No, I am *NOT* kidding or making that up!)
They do not believe in helping others. They believe that if you pay them very large 5-digit sums of money every couple of months, that they will remove these souls from your body, thus ridding you of pain and misery.
That is why most slashdotters hate and despise scientologists.
That and their well documented crimes such as kidnapping, torture, and murder.
If you would like to fix the first line I quoted from you and put in bold, I highly recommend the second link here, or the first to "dip your toes" in this frightening subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
http://www.xenu.net/
So basically their illegal shenanigans make the global news (including slashdot), and tens to hundreds of thousands of people world wide go clicking links in the article to see the take down notice.
They interpret this as tens to hundreds of thousands of returning pirates, who must have cleared their cache and history!
Now they get to claim the site was WAY more popular in members than it actually was, and some huge conspiracy is going on to keep them hidden and secret.
In their minds, they are not doing anything wrong, and in fact are heros for this action.
So why would anyone be upset at rights violations and want to see if the news stories are true?
That's simply impossible. We are all long time members using the site to download trillions of songs, and we all clear our history daily to avoid getting caught, because their javascriptlet told them so.
It's almost funny in a way
How about stop providing a free service for scammers? Charge a dollar or two and let the criminals find some other naive startup to exploit.
This coming from a person who refuses to even sign up for an account at slashdot, let alone pay slashdot any money.
I guess you are admitting to be a scammer.
I hope you get thrown in prison for your internet scamming!
I also don't know what planet you live on, but here on Earth, criminals can afford a few dollars.