Oh for fucks sake, chill. It was some low paid drone in a call center who made the original decision. Not exactly an executive decision
I agree with your point to some degree, but doing some basic math (average human life expectancy, average cell phone contract), it should happen relatively often that a cell-phone owner dies before his/her contract is up (even if you account for the fact many old people wont have a phone). Think of how many people die (too) young from cancer/traffic etc.. and a large cell-phone company should have a procedure (and risk calculation) for handling subscribers dying.
For all i care they put a clause in the contract that if the subscriber dies before the contract is up, the (subsidized) phone needs to be returned...
This wasnt an executive decision, but there damn well should have been one beforehand, with an appropriate policy
i didnt RTFA, but i assume this is about the deceased guy's phone?
Then i presume that the contract was between him and verizon, and then one of the two parties dies, how does that NOT end the contract? one of the parties is by no definition a legal entity anymore...
besides, it's not likely people would kill themselves to get out of a contract (i'll just go ahead and assume verizon isnt that bad), so provided they require a copy of the death certificate, this can not be exploited for fraud (unless you are willing to fake your death, once again, that is taking it a bit far). I'd say this is just a business risk verizon needs to take into account...
Gah, i just pissed away my mod-points this morning, otherwise you would have earned a +1 insightfull from me.
Contrary to what many americans seem to believe, nations like iraq, north korea and north vietnam were/are no serious threat (they cant even put the M in MAD if they chose to go to war with the US), and what little realistic threat they pose, is mostly due to the fact that the US cant keep out of other peoples business. If you pull enough strings that dont belong to you, you are bound to end up pissing people off...
Now i'm european, so i should be thankfull for liberating us from the germans in '45, but doing one thing right doesnt give you a free pass to go around and play shadow-puppet games around the world..
I agree that apple most likely will never do this, but the appeal of this over jailbreaking is that it still allows apple to control the experience to some degree
Off course i'm not suggesting my solution is THE solution, but it made more sense to me then selling seperate unlocked phones and such, and would prevent people from buying an unlocked phone and hosing it without knowing what they were getting into. The warrantee voiding function just ensures apple can easily deal with the unwashed masses which brick their device by getting in over their heads.
Put an unlock option somewhere in the settings behind a huge disclaimer, hell, you could even have it send a registration message to apple when the user unlocks the phone, voiding all warrantee
Also, make said disclaimer SHORT, putting it in a 100 page EULA will just make people click 'OK' and then get upset about breaking their phone without knowing it could be done at all..
if we have some sort of warhol worm, everyone ranting against the kill switch will be begging for the president to cut off the internet
Eh? At the height of the cold war the us president always had a special briefcase with him which allowed him to launch a nuclear counterstrike (MAD and all that), IIRC the average soviet first strike scenario allowed 30-45 minutes of reaction time betwene missile launch and the targets getting hit.
How the hell, do you propose we set up a system that will detect a warhol worm, propogate the information and have the decision be made, and the net shut down? Slammer infected 90% of its eventual victims with 10 minutes, and the first few minutes of that it could presumably avoid getting detected simply because it hadnt hit a lot of systems yet..
Also, even if you manage to set up a system to take down the net within minutes of a thread being detected, that probably revolves around a few central hubs, with most subnets remaining up (in smaller or larger fragments depending on which level you shut down). Any subnet where a single host has been compromised will be completely owned, even after the high level infrastructure shuts down.
My 3 year old nokia however, would disagree (so the mobile phone thing is valid)
Sure the ipod screen might be hard enough, but i just dont feel like risking it...
as for the back side, OMFG, within a week my ipod touch went from mirror finish to sanded glass... it looks awefull (and i bet its just a ploy to sell as much pouches/purses/sleeves as they can to the "oh shiney" crowd)
I really wonder about this, The sole reason everyone was moving their 360 was because of the gravity orientation on the 'Ring of light' anyway, has anyone ever tried rotating a ps1/ps2/saturn/dreamcast/gamecube/xbox in the same way?
i'd say the disc scratching is a non-issue, sure some pads would be nice, but any carefull gamer wouldnt move a running console around anyway..
a teardown to PCB level of a new large revision of a gaming device isnt news for nerds?
Sure/. could have given it a better title, but TFA is actually quite interesting
As for the slim machine, if i didnt already have two 360's, i might consider getting this, less noise and all, but as it is, i have enough gaming hardware.
And still slightly annoyed by the fact that this probably means no new xbox for two more years or so..
What? the ps3's RSX is based on Nvidia's Geforce 7900 architecture, which features Pixel shader 3.0 as seen in DirectX 9.0C. (and vertext shaders as well) I would say that qualifies as full shader support by even the most rigid definition. The fact that the PS3 might have some custom extension doesnt detract from that.
In this PICA chip however, the extensions apparently are the only form of shader-like functionality, and apparently dont quite conform to what most people in the industry would call full shader support
Also, pixel shaders? my 7 year old Geforce 4 wants its features back... (and yes, i know GF3 had them first, as did the radeon 8500, i just dont have those things myself)
Ah i see, must have slightly misunderstood your post
my point is though, that even the existence of vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution warrants some thought into what you put your banking info into
Now i know the iphone is a far cry from an unpatched windows box, but it isnt a black box appliance like old phones used to be
what i meant is, that multitasking (as in apple doing it, not jailbreaking), shouldnt open the door for keyloggers, as TheSunborn suggested, my comments have 0 to do with jailbreaking, or jailbroken phones, if anything, your explanation of jailbreaking solidifies my argument that multi-tasking (if done properly by apple) should not pose any security risk at all
probably, after installing 4.0 on my ipod the app store requested i take the time to read *109* pages of EULA before updating some apps.. I can only imagine how many pages i ignored to install that update in the first place..
Also, Fuck you apple, why do you need 3GS type hardware in order to have the option for orientation locking? i fully realize that my 3G ipod (8gb, so actually a 2G with a new sticker) probably hasnt got the memory for serious multi-tasking, but no orientation lock? WTF
Can you point to any actual reason to worry about your bank information being vulnerable from an iPhone?
You need help to see the problem with your e-banking platform being compromised? You dont see a problem with handling your credit-card data using a computing device that potentially has just about anyone listening-in in the background?
Now obviously the iphone isnt that leaky, but if some of these vulnerabilities marked "arbitrary code execution" could lead to key-logging software being secretely installed, that would be a rather big issue, especially since lots of people still see the iphone as a phone (an appliance), rather then a computer, with all the needed security worries
Ah i see, so basically the first stage can run on 8 engines without having to compromise on the flight-path?
Interesting, although i would think that it all engines are made equal, and starting out with a first stage with all new engines, that once one fails, others will also be very close to their usefull life..
Anyway, good to read this, i hope SpaceX does really well
especially considering the first stage can complete its mission even with a engine failure at any point during its flight.
Please explain this to me, in my mind, if the first stage conks out halfway through its use-cycle, how is that not a problem? I might be missing something, but how is losing a significant portion of your delta-v not a problem?
i'd love to see a spammer company go up against google...
If google doesnt buy them out ouright (and fire every single employee), they will just open up such a big can of lawyers, their documents will blot out the sun...
Honestly, i appreciate the whole 'Do no evil' mantra, but when it comes to these kind of douche-bags, Google can go nuts!
what gets me in wii-baseball is just that, the lack of an actual object to hit, and transfer power to. I have no problem swinging, but at the end of the swing, i have to absorb all that kinetic energy back into my left arm/shoulder, in a very unergonomic way, which literally makes my arms hurts after a few swings.
Motion control is a nice gizmo, and for something like metroid prime 3, it worked quite well, but all in all, i prefer a gamepad
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Oh for fucks sake, chill. It was some low paid drone in a call center who made the original decision. Not exactly an executive decision
I agree with your point to some degree, but doing some basic math (average human life expectancy, average cell phone contract), it should happen relatively often that a cell-phone owner dies before his/her contract is up (even if you account for the fact many old people wont have a phone). Think of how many people die (too) young from cancer/traffic etc.. and a large cell-phone company should have a procedure (and risk calculation) for handling subscribers dying.
For all i care they put a clause in the contract that if the subscriber dies before the contract is up, the (subsidized) phone needs to be returned...
This wasnt an executive decision, but there damn well should have been one beforehand, with an appropriate policy
i didnt RTFA, but i assume this is about the deceased guy's phone?
Then i presume that the contract was between him and verizon, and then one of the two parties dies, how does that NOT end the contract? one of the parties is by no definition a legal entity anymore...
besides, it's not likely people would kill themselves to get out of a contract (i'll just go ahead and assume verizon isnt that bad), so provided they require a copy of the death certificate, this can not be exploited for fraud (unless you are willing to fake your death, once again, that is taking it a bit far). I'd say this is just a business risk verizon needs to take into account...
Gah, i just pissed away my mod-points this morning, otherwise you would have earned a +1 insightfull from me.
Contrary to what many americans seem to believe, nations like iraq, north korea and north vietnam were/are no serious threat (they cant even put the M in MAD if they chose to go to war with the US), and what little realistic threat they pose, is mostly due to the fact that the US cant keep out of other peoples business. If you pull enough strings that dont belong to you, you are bound to end up pissing people off...
Now i'm european, so i should be thankfull for liberating us from the germans in '45, but doing one thing right doesnt give you a free pass to go around and play shadow-puppet games around the world..
I agree that apple most likely will never do this, but the appeal of this over jailbreaking is that it still allows apple to control the experience to some degree
Off course i'm not suggesting my solution is THE solution, but it made more sense to me then selling seperate unlocked phones and such, and would prevent people from buying an unlocked phone and hosing it without knowing what they were getting into. The warrantee voiding function just ensures apple can easily deal with the unwashed masses which brick their device by getting in over their heads.
Put an unlock option somewhere in the settings behind a huge disclaimer, hell, you could even have it send a registration message to apple when the user unlocks the phone, voiding all warrantee
Also, make said disclaimer SHORT, putting it in a 100 page EULA will just make people click 'OK' and then get upset about breaking their phone without knowing it could be done at all..
if we have some sort of warhol worm, everyone ranting against the kill switch will be begging for the president to cut off the internet
Eh? At the height of the cold war the us president always had a special briefcase with him which allowed him to launch a nuclear counterstrike (MAD and all that), IIRC the average soviet first strike scenario allowed 30-45 minutes of reaction time betwene missile launch and the targets getting hit.
How the hell, do you propose we set up a system that will detect a warhol worm, propogate the information and have the decision be made, and the net shut down? Slammer infected 90% of its eventual victims with 10 minutes, and the first few minutes of that it could presumably avoid getting detected simply because it hadnt hit a lot of systems yet..
Also, even if you manage to set up a system to take down the net within minutes of a thread being detected, that probably revolves around a few central hubs, with most subnets remaining up (in smaller or larger fragments depending on which level you shut down). Any subnet where a single host has been compromised will be completely owned, even after the high level infrastructure shuts down.
Inject Kurt Russel with some 24-hour timed explosive, give him some high tech gear and send him on a mission to the data-center?
Dont forget us dutch! voetbal! (oh, and probably the flemmish belgians too)
My 3 year old nokia however, would disagree (so the mobile phone thing is valid)
Sure the ipod screen might be hard enough, but i just dont feel like risking it...
as for the back side, OMFG, within a week my ipod touch went from mirror finish to sanded glass... it looks awefull (and i bet its just a ploy to sell as much pouches/purses/sleeves as they can to the "oh shiney" crowd)
I really wonder about this, The sole reason everyone was moving their 360 was because of the gravity orientation on the 'Ring of light' anyway, has anyone ever tried rotating a ps1/ps2/saturn/dreamcast/gamecube/xbox in the same way?
i'd say the disc scratching is a non-issue, sure some pads would be nice, but any carefull gamer wouldnt move a running console around anyway..
Not sure if this helps, but apparently the 360 does play MA2:lone wolf, which in the end is just MA with some added features (hi-jacking and such)
If you love MA, just hit up your local gamestore/ebay for a used copy of MA2, it'll also give you a new single player campaign
I had one of my two 360s (a first version one) die on me, but MS replaced it free of charge, so for now i'm good.
If either of my machines die, i'll consider replacing it with a slim (and selling the old replacement or something..)
a teardown to PCB level of a new large revision of a gaming device isnt news for nerds?
Sure /. could have given it a better title, but TFA is actually quite interesting
As for the slim machine, if i didnt already have two 360's, i might consider getting this, less noise and all, but as it is, i have enough gaming hardware.
And still slightly annoyed by the fact that this probably means no new xbox for two more years or so..
What? the ps3's RSX is based on Nvidia's Geforce 7900 architecture, which features Pixel shader 3.0 as seen in DirectX 9.0C. (and vertext shaders as well) I would say that qualifies as full shader support by even the most rigid definition. The fact that the PS3 might have some custom extension doesnt detract from that.
In this PICA chip however, the extensions apparently are the only form of shader-like functionality, and apparently dont quite conform to what most people in the industry would call full shader support
Also, pixel shaders? my 7 year old Geforce 4 wants its features back... (and yes, i know GF3 had them first, as did the radeon 8500, i just dont have those things myself)
i think intel prefers binary...
Ah i see, must have slightly misunderstood your post
my point is though, that even the existence of vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution warrants some thought into what you put your banking info into
Now i know the iphone is a far cry from an unpatched windows box, but it isnt a black box appliance like old phones used to be
what i meant is, that multitasking (as in apple doing it, not jailbreaking), shouldnt open the door for keyloggers, as TheSunborn suggested, my comments have 0 to do with jailbreaking, or jailbroken phones, if anything, your explanation of jailbreaking solidifies my argument that multi-tasking (if done properly by apple) should not pose any security risk at all
I can't wait for the first news headline 'Severed horse's head found in MPAA chair-person's bed'
Come to think of it, since we are talking about russian mafia, that would be a best case scenario..
which wouldnt be an issue with a competent security model and process seperation, what modern OS allows one userland proces to snoop on another one?
probably, after installing 4.0 on my ipod the app store requested i take the time to read *109* pages of EULA before updating some apps.. I can only imagine how many pages i ignored to install that update in the first place..
Also, Fuck you apple, why do you need 3GS type hardware in order to have the option for orientation locking? i fully realize that my 3G ipod (8gb, so actually a 2G with a new sticker) probably hasnt got the memory for serious multi-tasking, but no orientation lock? WTF
Can you point to any actual reason to worry about your bank information being vulnerable from an iPhone?
You need help to see the problem with your e-banking platform being compromised? You dont see a problem with handling your credit-card data using a computing device that potentially has just about anyone listening-in in the background?
Now obviously the iphone isnt that leaky, but if some of these vulnerabilities marked "arbitrary code execution" could lead to key-logging software being secretely installed, that would be a rather big issue, especially since lots of people still see the iphone as a phone (an appliance), rather then a computer, with all the needed security worries
Ah i see, so basically the first stage can run on 8 engines without having to compromise on the flight-path?
Interesting, although i would think that it all engines are made equal, and starting out with a first stage with all new engines, that once one fails, others will also be very close to their usefull life..
Anyway, good to read this, i hope SpaceX does really well
especially considering the first stage can complete its mission even with a engine failure at any point during its flight.
Please explain this to me, in my mind, if the first stage conks out halfway through its use-cycle, how is that not a problem? I might be missing something, but how is losing a significant portion of your delta-v not a problem?
i'd love to see a spammer company go up against google...
If google doesnt buy them out ouright (and fire every single employee), they will just open up such a big can of lawyers, their documents will blot out the sun...
Honestly, i appreciate the whole 'Do no evil' mantra, but when it comes to these kind of douche-bags, Google can go nuts!
what gets me in wii-baseball is just that, the lack of an actual object to hit, and transfer power to. I have no problem swinging, but at the end of the swing, i have to absorb all that kinetic energy back into my left arm/shoulder, in a very unergonomic way, which literally makes my arms hurts after a few swings.
Motion control is a nice gizmo, and for something like metroid prime 3, it worked quite well, but all in all, i prefer a gamepad