Every phone should be as easy as "fastboot oem unlock". Honestly I think the way that was handled with the warning on the phone you have to accept makes the most sense by far.
I want firmware that has been built by the manufacturer and then tested so I don't miss calls or SMS messages.
Hope you don't have a Droid X then, Motorola's update on that phone screwed up SMS messaging. I believe they fixed it now but still goes to show that having your OS update come from the manufacturer doesn't guarantee it works right.
He has a point, how often do you see someone saying "my Android is the bomb because it's open and I don't need Apple's permission to install software." Apparently you need the permission of Samsung and/or T-Mobile.
With Android you don't need permission to install software and unlike iOS there are other routes to install it without rooting or jailbreaking the phone to get it installed without using the app store. So it can be argued that you need Apple's permission to install software on your iPhone (as unless you jailbreak it you're stuck with what Apple permits on the App Store). The Android Market is far less restrictive and you can additionally install apps from outside the market without rooting the phone.
Now for firmware this might be a bit more difficult but one look at the glut of custom ROMs available for Android handsets shows what is possible for those who want it. How many actual customized firmwares are there for the iPhone?
Sony can still easily PSN ban anyone using the hacks and aimbots you're so worried about. Just like Microsoft can on LIVE. Now please stop whining and ranting against the hardware being opened up for people who bought it to actually use it as they wish.
Diet makes a big difference in how meat tastes too. My family hunts and depending on the available food sources in an area the deer will taste different. People who often find deer taste very "gamey" should try changing the area they hunt in, this is often a result of the diet. Taking deer in an area with abundant sources of alfalfa and beech nuts will usually result in very good meat.
So you would have us believe a society which is not free would be better? If someone else is going to tell you how to live your life why bother living at all?
Had you spent a second trying to figure things out before lambasting the writer you would have realized that TFS links into a post which is a continuation of an issue he introduced in a previous post. He is writing this post expecting that you've read the previous one, notice that the first sentence he writes mentions that he introduced the subject in a prior post and provides a link to it.
My personal view is that it should be an absolute percentage. Everyone feels the same pinch and it does scale with income. What I disagree with is that percentage rising the more you make. How is raising the percentage of your money taken the more money you make seen as "fair"? If the poor cannot afford to pay that percentage and have enough left to live on that is certainly a problem but I don't think the current "solution" is ideal.
It's always good to have paper as an option. I suspect the real driving force behind this idea if it is implemented will be from government agencies wanting an effective tracking system for cash. God forbid we pay the neighbor's kid to mow the lawn without the government knowing about it.
>...what can realistically be memorized by the average person...
And there is the real flaw: not the use of passwords, but the silly notion that average people should memorize them. WRITE THE DAMN THINGS DOWN!
Write them down, then what? It needs to be secure, you don't want someone else getting their hands on your password. It needs to be accessible, you may want to access that site on the go.
Beyond that, for the average user convenience will kill that idea quite quickly. After a few times of "I lost the damn paper" or "I left it in my other pants" etc... they will decide it's simply too much of a hassle and go back to their familiar memorized passwords.
I suspect the amount of people with iPhones or Android devices is high enough that it would still be profitable to get malware on either one of those platforms. iPhone would probably get you the most in a short time but Android may work better long term as some of the carriers are horrible about issuing updates.
For instance a month or 2 back, jailbreakers were able to just visit a website through mobile safari and execute one exploit after another to compromise the entire system and install unapproved software like Cydia. That's a rare alignment of exploits, but who can really say it won't happen again via a malicious attacker?
The most amusing part of that was walking through the local Apple store and noticing Cydia on one of the iphones. Checked the rest of them and realized someone had gone around and jailbroken every iphone in the store, I got a good laugh out of that.
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Every phone should be as easy as "fastboot oem unlock". Honestly I think the way that was handled with the warning on the phone you have to accept makes the most sense by far.
I want firmware that has been built by the manufacturer and then tested so I don't miss calls or SMS messages.
Hope you don't have a Droid X then, Motorola's update on that phone screwed up SMS messaging. I believe they fixed it now but still goes to show that having your OS update come from the manufacturer doesn't guarantee it works right.
He has a point, how often do you see someone saying "my Android is the bomb because it's open and I don't need Apple's permission to install software." Apparently you need the permission of Samsung and/or T-Mobile.
With Android you don't need permission to install software and unlike iOS there are other routes to install it without rooting or jailbreaking the phone to get it installed without using the app store. So it can be argued that you need Apple's permission to install software on your iPhone (as unless you jailbreak it you're stuck with what Apple permits on the App Store). The Android Market is far less restrictive and you can additionally install apps from outside the market without rooting the phone.
Now for firmware this might be a bit more difficult but one look at the glut of custom ROMs available for Android handsets shows what is possible for those who want it. How many actual customized firmwares are there for the iPhone?
The one year release cycle is a well known pattern with Apple. What would make you expect them to break convention with the iPad?
The encryption was poorly implemented which is probably leading people to use the "poorly defended" terminology.
Sony can still easily PSN ban anyone using the hacks and aimbots you're so worried about. Just like Microsoft can on LIVE. Now please stop whining and ranting against the hardware being opened up for people who bought it to actually use it as they wish.
They'll just install another rootkit
They already did.
Diet makes a big difference in how meat tastes too. My family hunts and depending on the available food sources in an area the deer will taste different. People who often find deer taste very "gamey" should try changing the area they hunt in, this is often a result of the diet. Taking deer in an area with abundant sources of alfalfa and beech nuts will usually result in very good meat.
So you would have us believe a society which is not free would be better? If someone else is going to tell you how to live your life why bother living at all?
Had you spent a second trying to figure things out before lambasting the writer you would have realized that TFS links into a post which is a continuation of an issue he introduced in a previous post. He is writing this post expecting that you've read the previous one, notice that the first sentence he writes mentions that he introduced the subject in a prior post and provides a link to it.
In the articles he is discussing buffering on a packet level.
Well if you root you can enable the wireless tethering that most carriers disable. I'm fairly surprised they didn't mention that.
Here's the story on the Lookout Blog.
Nook Color should do the trick if the price isn't a problem. As a bonus you can flash it to a fully functioning Android tablet.
Amazon is a monopoly? Last time I checked Barnes and Noble was still in business and both Apple and Google had launched e-book stores of their own.
Are you planning to run for office because none of the people who normally run seem to have a sensible grasp on these things as you just displayed.
My personal view is that it should be an absolute percentage. Everyone feels the same pinch and it does scale with income. What I disagree with is that percentage rising the more you make. How is raising the percentage of your money taken the more money you make seen as "fair"? If the poor cannot afford to pay that percentage and have enough left to live on that is certainly a problem but I don't think the current "solution" is ideal.
That TV is quite possibly the most hideous thing I could think of putting in a living room. You'd have to pay me to take that.
I can just see the ads now: "Just one dip in this tub of electro-clean and all the transistors are completely gone!"
It's always good to have paper as an option. I suspect the real driving force behind this idea if it is implemented will be from government agencies wanting an effective tracking system for cash. God forbid we pay the neighbor's kid to mow the lawn without the government knowing about it.
> ...what can realistically be memorized by the average person ...
And there is the real flaw: not the use of passwords, but the silly notion that average people should memorize them. WRITE THE DAMN THINGS DOWN!
Write them down, then what? It needs to be secure, you don't want someone else getting their hands on your password. It needs to be accessible, you may want to access that site on the go.
Beyond that, for the average user convenience will kill that idea quite quickly. After a few times of "I lost the damn paper" or "I left it in my other pants" etc... they will decide it's simply too much of a hassle and go back to their familiar memorized passwords.
The user you're replying to is not the same user whose wife graduated in 2003...
I suspect the amount of people with iPhones or Android devices is high enough that it would still be profitable to get malware on either one of those platforms. iPhone would probably get you the most in a short time but Android may work better long term as some of the carriers are horrible about issuing updates.
For instance a month or 2 back, jailbreakers were able to just visit a website through mobile safari and execute one exploit after another to compromise the entire system and install unapproved software like Cydia. That's a rare alignment of exploits, but who can really say it won't happen again via a malicious attacker?
The most amusing part of that was walking through the local Apple store and noticing Cydia on one of the iphones. Checked the rest of them and realized someone had gone around and jailbroken every iphone in the store, I got a good laugh out of that.
The iOS PDF exploit that enabled jailbreakme.com to work could run just from the user clicking a link.