In other words, reinvesting 24 billion in their network would be just about 100% of a year's revenue.
It would put their network in a leading position for growing their future revenue while creating additional revenue opportunities
and hurting their would-be competitors, all without antagonizing their customers... which is what's called a smart investment.
If they spent 24 billion on their network, what could they do at best? Their entire revenue from residential customers is $5.7 billion.
You mean their ANNUAL revenue right now from residential customers is $5.7 billion.
If they spent 24 billion on upgrading and adding infrastructure their network, they would earn it
within a few years, ignoring that their revenue will grow with a larger network.
Any form of byte code that runs in an open source interpreter is going to be fairly trivial to work around.
That doesn't make sense... machine language itself is a bytecode that runs on an open interpreter, the CPU; the Intel x86_64 instruction set is an extremely WELL-DOCUMENTED bytecode, and there are open source emulators, so.... well.... a native binary DRM implementation IS running on an 'open source interpreter'
On the other hand... a customized bytecode language for implementing the DRM would inherently be more obfuscated than machine language; providing the details of the bytecode instruction set are not published....
You keep talking about the danger of the things as if every ER in America is packed full of related injuries.
The burden of proof rests on you to show why drone aircraft are 'not dangerous' or so special that no licensing or safety precautions should be required.
Yours is the path to the police state where all is forbidden unless explicitly permitted. That is not how law is supposed to work.
Other people's right to feel safe and secure in their person and their property trumps kids' rights to play with dangerous "toys" such as high-flying drones. The danger of these "toys" is not in question; the physics is known, it is simply a game of numbers -- in regards, to how popular they become before effective regulations are put in place to deal with that.
The law already works this way with activities that may harm others.
You need a license to drive a car.
You need a permit to handle certain materials, for example: to make fireworks.
I think a nice solution for this would be for Adobe to donate the viewer side source to Mozilla (or some other foundation) which would be explicitly licensed to build and release binary modules for whatever OS's their browser runs on
I think a nice solution would be for Adobe to rewrite their DRM wrapper in Javascript, so it is not using platform-specific code in the first place; Firefox could add some "gated" mechanism of allowing a bit of digitally signed javascript to run inside a Sandbox, which would allow it to process the media stream.
There are various packages already available which can obfuscate and "compile" Javascript code.
For example: by converting the Javascript code into a bytecode, with a bytecode interpreter written in Javascript, that can perform the decryption in a portable manner, AND has all the security limitations that already come with the Javascript interpreter.
Then the "sandbox" can be open sourced.
And no proprietary binaries.... Just proprietary bytecode on the website itself.
What, you think that all the existing video DRM would magically disappear? Firefox and Chrome already actively support DRM through proprietary binary plugins like Flash, which have total access to your PC.
Flash is dying, and support for it will go away before too long.
Most likely this is just like flash plugin, except the API surface will be smaller, the module will be better sandboxed, there will be real security and work to ensure users privacy
What about support for all platforms, including ones Mozilla doesn't ship binaries for and need to be built from source?
Consider this argument though.... someone incompetent clicked 19 of the correct buttons, BUT
they wound up setting up for deployment the WRONG group of computers.
Just a few XP computers were to be migrated to Windows 7, but they somehow mistakenly
applied it to the entire environment.
Perhaps you missed the direction about cooking the hotpocket inside the crisper it comes with in a 1100 watt microwave oven;
preferably in a microwave with a rotating carousel. Or possibly the direction to let it sit for 5 minutes after cooking.
A minute or two later, you pull it out, and there it is: boiling on the outside, frozen in the middle. Finally, a physicist answers the eternal question: why do microwaved foods remain frozen on the inside
Because the microwaves are high energy, they are absorbed or dispersed near the surface, when they come into contact
with compounds such as water.
The heat takes much longer to conduct through the material, than microwaves take to hit the material,
therefore: the center takes longer to be heated.
I like having no remotes for an alarm system. That way, I can use a duress code if need be.
"Remotes" ? Since when did real alarms have remotes?
Maybe you just have the remote turn off one zone, say the zone covering the garage with an alarm keypad.
So you can then step in and turn off the entire system by entering the code.
On second thought..... require a button push on a remote to enable 'entry delay';
if no remote press, then instant alarm.
The house is alarmed, but much to my annoyance it isn't always set when people go out for any length of time.
You aren't using the security you got efficiently.
Before you think about using more technology -- solve the problem with your existing security tech being underutilized.
Make it a strong habit to arm the system 100% of the time, when there are not people about.
The next step is to install highly visible surveillance and bolt down/physically secure fixed valuable items.
For items that are highly mobile.... put them in a safe or security trunk, and get that bolted down.
Also; conceal the locations of your high-tech item vaults, and leave unappealing older tech visible.
Next... get some dogs that are large and bark very loudly.
Put a high fence to completely enclose a buffer zone around your building; the zone should be covered with cameras,
and there should be cameras visible from outside the fence.
Keep secondary gates locked at all times, using a boltcutter-resistant / crowbar-resistant locking mechanism.
Install an automatic driveway gate to manage vehicle ingress/egress.
Store a copy of surveillance footage offsite -- make sure you have backup communication links and backup power that automatically engages.
It discourages the trolls to operate, period, as long as the anti-trolling laws do not interfere with federal law, or patent rights protected by federal law, [which would lead to a legal challenge against the state act] ---- the rules of commerce, how property/trade work, dispute procedure, your abaility to send threatening blackmail/extortionate messages can be limited by the states.
That is the whole idea. They want the trolls to avoid their states.
However, if they do avoid my state, and the troll does choose to mail me a letter in violation of my state's laws,
then I could still sue them in my own state, since their act of sending the letter to someone in my state means that
they are doing business in my state -- they become subject to the local jurisdiction here.
As I've not seen such a clause yet, no cloud provider has ever passed basic "due diligence".
Sorry... Dell won't indemnify you if a bug in your server causes the MB to catch fire, and the thing explodes, tearing apart your datacenter.
Microsoft won't indemnify you if due to running Internet Explorer on Windows, your system is compromised, and a million credit card numbers get stolen from you, for using their software.
If your VMware cluster croaks due to a software bug or a SAN glitch,
and upon inspection, the backups won't restore because some bug in the backup software
caused them to become corrupt, you are sadly out of luck.
Why the heck do you think a cloud provider would indemnify you for your risks involved
with using that kind of product that the cloud provider has no control over;
which no server vendor cloud virtual server vendor, or physical server vendor indemnifies against?
No need. Your disk I/Os and network I/Os are already being streamed to NSA HQ
after any encryption removed for a quick analysis, and disney's legal department probably
just bought a subscription to the feed to scan for potential infringements.
And you'd better have a backup-backup offsite recovery contract for when the cloud provider announces it can't really recover (e.g. Hurricane Sandy).
This can happen even if the server is in your main office. You need that offsite recovery plan, regardless: cloud doesn't eliminate that bit.
And a super-backup plan in case the cloud provider disappears with no forwarding address, or has all its servers confiscated by DHS.
This is no different from the previous. Just make sure your backup-backup is not with the same cloud provider; preferably, use colocated equipment in locked cages that only your company holds the keys to.
The credentials are available. All you have to do is write your own CDM to request them.
I'm referring to the TPM passing a digital signature certifying a security metric; effectively attesting that the Sandbox
and the CDM, and everything up the stack validate.
The hardware TPM chip doesn't pass its secret credentials; it only digitally signs things.
The CDM can validate the digital signature, but it doesn't get the secret key needed to sign a false attestation that neither the CDM nor the Sandbox have been tampered with.
This is an EU decision. Companies are not persons in the EU.
I believe that's an overly optimistic view of the situation.
Corporate personhood is a European principle that the US was late to adopt.
If corporations don't secure the right in the EU today, it's only a short matter of time before they do.
Obviously the primary use case of this 'right' is to create deception by promoting only search results you want/like about you,
and to conceal/destroy the rest.
#ifndef BOOKS_EVERY_PROGRAMMER_SHOULD_READ_H
#define BOOKS_EVERY_PROGRAMMER_SHOULD_READ_H
"The TAO of Programming",
"Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills - Abigail R. Gehring",
"Paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto",
"Murach's Mainframe COBOL - Mike Murach, Anne Prince and Raul Menendez",
"Cosmos - Carl Sagan",
"The Persian Expedition - Xenophon",
"Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville",
"Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior -- Kerry Patterson,
Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler",
"The Curriculum - Stanley Bing",
"Python the hard way",
"Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational",
"Are your lights on?",
"A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking ",
"D is for Digital: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications - Brian W. Kernighan",
"History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides",
"PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook - Adobe Systems"/* (The Blue Book) */,
"Elements of Positional Evaluation - Heisman",
"The origin of the species - Charles Darwin",
"The Fourth Turning - William Strauss, Neil Howe",
"The Art of War - Sun Tzu",
"The Practice of Programming", "The Elements of Programming Style",
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Malkiel",
"One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch",
"The TeX book",
"Silent Spring - Rachel Carson",
"LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Stefan Kottwitz",
"The Art of Choosing",
"Liespotting",
"Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide",
"The Art of Assembly Language - Randall Hyde",
"1491 - Charles C. Mann",
"The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler - Chris Eagle",
"The Unix Programming Environment",
"http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/*",
"http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/*",
"Learning CFEngine 3: Automated system administration for sites of any size - Diego Zamboni",
"UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook - R. Hein",
"DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices - Kyle Rankin",
"The Unix Philosophy - Mike Gancarz",
"What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP - K. Scott Allen",
"A Mathematician's Apology - G H Hardy",
"Linux Device Drivers - Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini",
"http://www.slashdot.org/*",
"http://rubyonrails.org/*",
"paper: Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson",
"Computers, Chess, and Cognition",
"paper: Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages - Christopher Strachey",
"paper: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming - C. A. R. Hoare",
"Cryptonomicon", " Dreaming in Code", "Beautiful Code:*",
"The future of the internet and how to stop it - Zittrain",
"The Devil's Dictionary",
"I, Robot - Isaac Asimov",
"1984 - George Orwell",
"Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information",
"The Non-Designer's Design Book - Robin Williams",
"The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler",
"Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency - Tom DeMarco",
"Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles - Richard B. McKenzie",
"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet",
"Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing -- David Patterson, Armando ",
"Practical Electronics for Inventors - Paul Scherz and Simon Monk",
"How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic - Michael Geier ",
"Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire - James Wallace",
"Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics ",
"Brave New World - Aldous Huxley",
"Understanding Digital Signal Processing - Richard G. Lyons",
"HBase: The Definitive Guide",
"The Joy of jQuery: A Beginner's Guide to the World's Most Popular Javascript Library ",
"TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1",
"DNS And Bind",
"Cisco Internet Routing Architectures",
"HTTP The Definitive Guide",
"Foundations of IT Service Management with ITIL 2011 - Brady Orand, Julie Villarreal",
"In S
but also seem to kill the last things that make BlackBerry special.
You think the competing management platforms driven to be as generic as possible and manage multiple vendors' phones
will be "better" at managing BB devices, than their own product?
I see a few ways this may not hurt BB...
(1) It makes their smartphones more attractive, if they will be compatible with customers' existing management solution.
(2) Potential licensing fees from developers of management software for access to SDKs and advanced APIs.
and (3) They may still provide superior manageability/functionality for their own management platform, by using undocumented APIs,
or by introducing new APIs to their devices and management platform simultaneously --- so they always leverage new management and security features first..
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@daveaitel All espionage is illegal in the country you do it against.
And since everyone in the world in any country, especially banks (under FACTA) and foreign officials are under US jurisdiction, why not indict?
No, their quarterly revenue is that.
In other words, reinvesting 24 billion in their network would be just about 100% of a year's revenue.
It would put their network in a leading position for growing their future revenue while creating additional revenue opportunities and hurting their would-be competitors, all without antagonizing their customers... which is what's called a smart investment.
If they spent 24 billion on their network, what could they do at best? Their entire revenue from residential customers is $5.7 billion.
You mean their ANNUAL revenue right now from residential customers is $5.7 billion. If they spent 24 billion on upgrading and adding infrastructure their network, they would earn it within a few years, ignoring that their revenue will grow with a larger network.
and they manage to do that just fine without my fuel getting taxed extra to pay for their fuel.
Your fuel IS taxed, and their fuel is exempt from the taxes.
What do you think is happening?
You are paying higher fuel tax to displace the revenue not gained as a result of them not paying fuel taxes.
Any form of byte code that runs in an open source interpreter is going to be fairly trivial to work around.
That doesn't make sense... machine language itself is a bytecode that runs on an open interpreter, the CPU; the Intel x86_64 instruction set is an extremely WELL-DOCUMENTED bytecode, and there are open source emulators, so.... well.... a native binary DRM implementation IS running on an 'open source interpreter'
On the other hand... a customized bytecode language for implementing the DRM would inherently be more obfuscated than machine language; providing the details of the bytecode instruction set are not published....
You keep talking about the danger of the things as if every ER in America is packed full of related injuries.
The burden of proof rests on you to show why drone aircraft are 'not dangerous' or so special that no licensing or safety precautions should be required.
Drones are not very widely in use yet; this is expensive advanced technology that the 1% owns, so even ONE incident shows a high accident rate and high proportion of risk from each operator, and there have been plenty of near misses, accidents involving illegal operation in proximity to fatal crashes, drone crashes causing injuries and unlawful interference with emergency medical flights.
Yours is the path to the police state where all is forbidden unless explicitly permitted. That is not how law is supposed to work.
Other people's right to feel safe and secure in their person and their property trumps kids' rights to play with dangerous "toys" such as high-flying drones. The danger of these "toys" is not in question; the physics is known, it is simply a game of numbers -- in regards, to how popular they become before effective regulations are put in place to deal with that.
The law already works this way with activities that may harm others. You need a license to drive a car.
You need a permit to handle certain materials, for example: to make fireworks.
I think a nice solution for this would be for Adobe to donate the viewer side source to Mozilla (or some other foundation) which would be explicitly licensed to build and release binary modules for whatever OS's their browser runs on
I think a nice solution would be for Adobe to rewrite their DRM wrapper in Javascript, so it is not using platform-specific code in the first place; Firefox could add some "gated" mechanism of allowing a bit of digitally signed javascript to run inside a Sandbox, which would allow it to process the media stream.
There are various packages already available which can obfuscate and "compile" Javascript code.
For example: by converting the Javascript code into a bytecode, with a bytecode interpreter written in Javascript, that can perform the decryption in a portable manner, AND has all the security limitations that already come with the Javascript interpreter.
Then the "sandbox" can be open sourced.
And no proprietary binaries.... Just proprietary bytecode on the website itself.
What, you think that all the existing video DRM would magically disappear? Firefox and Chrome already actively support DRM through proprietary binary plugins like Flash, which have total access to your PC.
Flash is dying, and support for it will go away before too long.
Chrome has nearly 50% of the browser market share all it itself...
They were supposed to partner with Google and jointly say NO to DRM.
Then DRM would be dead in the water.
Most likely this is just like flash plugin, except the API surface will be smaller, the module will be better sandboxed, there will be real security and work to ensure users privacy
What about support for all platforms, including ones Mozilla doesn't ship binaries for and need to be built from source?
Consider this argument though.... someone incompetent clicked 19 of the correct buttons, BUT they wound up setting up for deployment the WRONG group of computers. Just a few XP computers were to be migrated to Windows 7, but they somehow mistakenly applied it to the entire environment.
Perhaps you missed the direction about cooking the hotpocket inside the crisper it comes with in a 1100 watt microwave oven; preferably in a microwave with a rotating carousel. Or possibly the direction to let it sit for 5 minutes after cooking.
A minute or two later, you pull it out, and there it is: boiling on the outside, frozen in the middle. Finally, a physicist answers the eternal question: why do microwaved foods remain frozen on the inside
Because the microwaves are high energy, they are absorbed or dispersed near the surface, when they come into contact with compounds such as water.
The heat takes much longer to conduct through the material, than microwaves take to hit the material, therefore: the center takes longer to be heated.
I like having no remotes for an alarm system. That way, I can use a duress code if need be.
"Remotes" ? Since when did real alarms have remotes?
Maybe you just have the remote turn off one zone, say the zone covering the garage with an alarm keypad. So you can then step in and turn off the entire system by entering the code.
On second thought..... require a button push on a remote to enable 'entry delay'; if no remote press, then instant alarm.
The house is alarmed, but much to my annoyance it isn't always set when people go out for any length of time.
You aren't using the security you got efficiently.
Before you think about using more technology -- solve the problem with your existing security tech being underutilized. Make it a strong habit to arm the system 100% of the time, when there are not people about.
The next step is to install highly visible surveillance and bolt down/physically secure fixed valuable items.
For items that are highly mobile.... put them in a safe or security trunk, and get that bolted down. Also; conceal the locations of your high-tech item vaults, and leave unappealing older tech visible.
Next... get some dogs that are large and bark very loudly. Put a high fence to completely enclose a buffer zone around your building; the zone should be covered with cameras, and there should be cameras visible from outside the fence. Keep secondary gates locked at all times, using a boltcutter-resistant / crowbar-resistant locking mechanism.
Install an automatic driveway gate to manage vehicle ingress/egress.
Store a copy of surveillance footage offsite -- make sure you have backup communication links and backup power that automatically engages.
It discourages the trolls to operate, period, as long as the anti-trolling laws do not interfere with federal law, or patent rights protected by federal law, [which would lead to a legal challenge against the state act] ---- the rules of commerce, how property/trade work, dispute procedure, your abaility to send threatening blackmail/extortionate messages can be limited by the states.
That is the whole idea. They want the trolls to avoid their states.
However, if they do avoid my state, and the troll does choose to mail me a letter in violation of my state's laws, then I could still sue them in my own state, since their act of sending the letter to someone in my state means that they are doing business in my state -- they become subject to the local jurisdiction here.
As I've not seen such a clause yet, no cloud provider has ever passed basic "due diligence".
Sorry... Dell won't indemnify you if a bug in your server causes the MB to catch fire, and the thing explodes, tearing apart your datacenter.
Microsoft won't indemnify you if due to running Internet Explorer on Windows, your system is compromised, and a million credit card numbers get stolen from you, for using their software.
If your VMware cluster croaks due to a software bug or a SAN glitch, and upon inspection, the backups won't restore because some bug in the backup software caused them to become corrupt, you are sadly out of luck.
Why the heck do you think a cloud provider would indemnify you for your risks involved with using that kind of product that the cloud provider has no control over; which no server vendor cloud virtual server vendor, or physical server vendor indemnifies against?
the government grabs all the servers.
No need. Your disk I/Os and network I/Os are already being streamed to NSA HQ after any encryption removed for a quick analysis, and disney's legal department probably just bought a subscription to the feed to scan for potential infringements.
And you'd better have a backup-backup offsite recovery contract for when the cloud provider announces it can't really recover (e.g. Hurricane Sandy).
This can happen even if the server is in your main office. You need that offsite recovery plan, regardless: cloud doesn't eliminate that bit.
And a super-backup plan in case the cloud provider disappears with no forwarding address, or has all its servers confiscated by DHS.
This is no different from the previous. Just make sure your backup-backup is not with the same cloud provider; preferably, use colocated equipment in locked cages that only your company holds the keys to.
The credentials are available. All you have to do is write your own CDM to request them.
I'm referring to the TPM passing a digital signature certifying a security metric; effectively attesting that the Sandbox and the CDM, and everything up the stack validate.
The hardware TPM chip doesn't pass its secret credentials; it only digitally signs things. The CDM can validate the digital signature, but it doesn't get the secret key needed to sign a false attestation that neither the CDM nor the Sandbox have been tampered with.
This is an EU decision. Companies are not persons in the EU.
I believe that's an overly optimistic view of the situation. Corporate personhood is a European principle that the US was late to adopt.
If corporations don't secure the right in the EU today, it's only a short matter of time before they do.
Obviously the primary use case of this 'right' is to create deception by promoting only search results you want/like about you, and to conceal/destroy the rest.
Due to their broadcasting of magnetometer data and other measurements used by military and civillians throughout the world ?
How are you going to check the binary if you've explicitly isolated the CDM from any access to the system?
By requiring the sandbox to prove that it passes a validation with an attestation using credentials that are not available to the user.
Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) / TPM come to mind. The TPM allows for secure storage and secure reporting of some security related metrics.
The Sandbox can't spoof a validation of the trusted status of the Sandbox program, because the digital signature needs to be made by the hardware
#ifndef BOOKS_EVERY_PROGRAMMER_SHOULD_READ_H /* (The Blue Book) */,
#define BOOKS_EVERY_PROGRAMMER_SHOULD_READ_H
"The TAO of Programming", "Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills - Abigail R. Gehring", "Paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto",
"Murach's Mainframe COBOL - Mike Murach, Anne Prince and Raul Menendez", "Cosmos - Carl Sagan", "The Persian Expedition - Xenophon",
"Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville", "Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior -- Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler",
"The Curriculum - Stanley Bing", "Python the hard way",
"Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational", "Are your lights on?", "A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking ",
"D is for Digital: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications - Brian W. Kernighan",
"History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides", "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook - Adobe Systems"
"Elements of Positional Evaluation - Heisman", "The origin of the species - Charles Darwin", "The Fourth Turning - William Strauss, Neil Howe", "The Art of War - Sun Tzu",
"The Practice of Programming", "The Elements of Programming Style", "A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Malkiel", "One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch", "The TeX book",
"Silent Spring - Rachel Carson", "LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Stefan Kottwitz", "The Art of Choosing", "Liespotting",
"Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide", "The Art of Assembly Language - Randall Hyde", "1491 - Charles C. Mann",
"The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler - Chris Eagle", "The Unix Programming Environment", "http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/*", "http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/*",
"Learning CFEngine 3: Automated system administration for sites of any size - Diego Zamboni", "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook - R. Hein", "DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices - Kyle Rankin", "The Unix Philosophy - Mike Gancarz",
"What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP - K. Scott Allen", "A Mathematician's Apology - G H Hardy", "Linux Device Drivers - Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini", "http://www.slashdot.org/*",
"http://rubyonrails.org/*", "paper: Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson", "Computers, Chess, and Cognition", "paper: Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages - Christopher Strachey",
"paper: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming - C. A. R. Hoare", "Cryptonomicon", " Dreaming in Code", "Beautiful Code:*", "The future of the internet and how to stop it - Zittrain",
"The Devil's Dictionary", "I, Robot - Isaac Asimov", "1984 - George Orwell", "Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information",
"The Non-Designer's Design Book - Robin Williams", "The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler", "Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency - Tom DeMarco", "Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles - Richard B. McKenzie",
"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet", "Engineering Long-Lasting Software: An Agile Approach Using SaaS and Cloud Computing -- David Patterson, Armando ", "Practical Electronics for Inventors - Paul Scherz and Simon Monk", "How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic - Michael Geier ", "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire - James Wallace",
"Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics ", "Brave New World - Aldous Huxley", "Understanding Digital Signal Processing - Richard G. Lyons", "HBase: The Definitive Guide",
"The Joy of jQuery: A Beginner's Guide to the World's Most Popular Javascript Library ", "TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1", "DNS And Bind", "Cisco Internet Routing Architectures",
"HTTP The Definitive Guide", "Foundations of IT Service Management with ITIL 2011 - Brady Orand, Julie Villarreal", "In S
but also seem to kill the last things that make BlackBerry special.
You think the competing management platforms driven to be as generic as possible and manage multiple vendors' phones will be "better" at managing BB devices, than their own product?
I see a few ways this may not hurt BB... (1) It makes their smartphones more attractive, if they will be compatible with customers' existing management solution.
(2) Potential licensing fees from developers of management software for access to SDKs and advanced APIs.
and (3) They may still provide superior manageability/functionality for their own management platform, by using undocumented APIs, or by introducing new APIs to their devices and management platform simultaneously --- so they always leverage new management and security features first..