Perhaps other information can be gathered... "Welcome to 911! Please type in the number of people requiring emergency services, followed by the pound symbol."
What other questions are there? "Please enter how many minutes you estimate the person has left."
"For ambulance, press 1, for fire, press 2. For police, press 3.".
apparently it's a less-than-smartphone... i.e. capable of running J2ME apps (surprisingly, iPhone, Android and WP7 can't) but not 3rd party native apps.
So, what did the middle-manager in Facebook say to convince the heads to buy this company, i.e. what is Facebook's goal? Are they thinking of creating a library/platform for Java mobile apps so they can take advantage of social features? (i.e. annoy your FB-friends with wall posts?). Or is it just a too-much-money syndrome?
On the topic of mobile apps, allow me to shamelessly promote my own iPhone app. (Ugh, I feel dirty... but I want nice things:))
hoping that someone from the relevant branch magically answers your query.
Meh, indeed, people are lazy asses... I've sometimes posted links to the Google result page to stupid questions people ask me over IM, but that's the way it is, people are too lazy to navigate around a bank's site and it's easier to get someone else to do it...
If I had the expertise, I'd made a fake video with a fake Geiger counter display, and then showing how the skin is boiling off my arm, put it online and see how much the media would fall for it. They'll probably put it all over the internet news sites (Shittington Post) and fucking CNN, with the weasely disclaimer of "unconfirmed video", which only protects themselves from embarrassment of being hoaxed as well as contributing to the mass panic those blonde airhead news-readers (not journalists) are causing
Oh well, as of now the media's voice is "radiation, what's that? Oh look at those boys bombing Gaddafi!"
You didn't read past 3 lines of my comment did you?
To repeat myself: for 200 students, divide them to 10 groups of 20 students each. Provide 10 desks as "voting stations". 20 students lay their vote (paper with text and QR code of the student's ID + his vote) on 1 desk, desk also has QR code with "Question no: 17" so we can identify which votes belong to which question. Find 10 students/assistants, one to man each "voting station", which involves taking a picture of the 21 QR codes (plus maybe 1 more QR code: desk number) and transferring that picture to a central server that analyzes the QR codes and count the votes.
If you have a good enough camera, you might be able to have each student hold up a paper with the QR-code of their member-ID + vote (so each person gets 3 pieces of paper: one for yes, no, and abstention, make sure the paper are labeled textually with the vote and member ID/field for the member to write down his name), and get someone to take a picture making sure all QR-codes are captured perfectly. But since the chances of the camera seeing all QR codes will probably be low, you need to distribute the task to several cameras. So e.g. you'd have 10 designated tables which you can call the voting station. 20 people each will lay the QR codes of their answers on the table, and one guy takes a picture. Make sure you also have a piece of paper with a QR code to identify which question is being voted on, as well as a textual description of the question. If the questions are to be determined later, than just a QR code of "Question no. 17". During the voting rounds, make sure that number (17) and the question associated with it is displayed on the overhead projector, so that the voters know what they are voting on.
OK, the next part would be collecting all the pictures from the cameras (human problem), and analyzing the pictures to verify that all members' votes have been recorded properly (software problem). I'd say use a good quality camera phone with WiFi (protect the network with a password) and software to upload (mail?) the pictures to a server.
Yeah, and now the kid's whining about wanting to see what's in the treasure chest... pretty fucking evil of the game-maker, but heh, look at FarmVille, the VC's love it! I can already see how the game won't be doable without using something inside that treasure chest.
Maybe I should make a clone of that "Am I rich?" app that cost $1000-1, call it "diamond collector" and let the users collect 200 dollar images of colored stones, which are purchasable within a 2-week window only. Get it now to complete your collection, miss the window and forever have a gap in your collection!
(Or pay $500 to purchase missing items! 3-day offer only!)
Hey, those carts of virtual berries cost $100 (IIRC, even if it's $20 that's freaking insane!), and of course Apple won't do anything about it, since, hey, the Don gets a 30% cut!
What do you mean? I hope you're pointing out the stupidly obvious statement in the headline. What's next? "Using a surgeon's knife on man's stomach shows guts"? Well duhhh!
And what the fucking bullshit is this, the summary doesn't link to iFixit, but to some other blog talking about the iFixit page... fuck you slashdot/submitter!
Since all this does is modify the anchor part of the URL (the part after the #) via Javascript, which is basically what Gawker sites (e.g. Gizmodo) do when you click on a story on their right side navigation bar, and using a JavaScript timer to make the a's move periodically, he could incorporate a period where the whole thing disappears.
But, fun stuff. I don't look forward to the SEO & advertising monkeys selling "ad space direct on the user's URL BAR!"
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Let's see how the radio (or to be exact, the stereo system) can be wired up to other systems:
- it can be wired to the engine RPM-reader/speedometer to detect approximately how loud the environment will be, and turn its volume accordingly. - It might want to display the current song title in the one display available in the car - Wheel-mounted Volume/FF/Rewind/Play/Pause/Next/Prev Track controls anyone? And since that'll be a lot of buttons, they might replace it with a general 4-way joystick which do other things as well depending on the current task (car settings, navigation, stereo system) - If a phone is attached via Bluetooth, silence/pause the current track when a call comes in/when the user wants to make a call.
Of course, all dangerous and non-essential extensions to what a car is supposed to do, but all high-end cars have them, because, well, the customer likes features!
If I were designing a car, the audio codec would get its own CPU, so any exploits would just crash/reboot that mechanism. The only critical output would be the "display song title on screen", but does the CPU that control the display also control the whole car (alarm system, etc?).
But then again, cars with navigation systems can talk, and they need another codec to decode the lady's "turn left" ogg file, and if it's "cost-savings!" they're interested in, they'd think, "oh since we already have an audio part here, let's bodge the stereo system into the equation.", and there you go, MP3 decoding being done on the system that controls the central locking.
Oh man, I'm a fan of Paul Krugman and Glenn Greenwald, and sometimes, or more precisely, a lot of times, Huffington Post pisses me off. If you look at their site now, it's got DISASTER IN JAPAN in big capital letters. If you scroll down you'll have "Jon Stewart DESTROYS Glenn Beck" (substitute the names with people's names when one criticizes the other), "WATCH: Dramatic Video of Tsunami". And usually somewhere there's "Megan Fox' bares her cleavage!" (substitute Megan Fox with any hot actress)
It's a disgusting site focused on getting your eyeballs to view their ads (thank FSM I use Proxomitron, but actually I should block the whole site), so it will write the biggest attention grabbing bullshit to do so. There's another Slashdot thread talking about scammers exploiting disasters for profit, and what Huffington Post does isn't very much different from that: using video of disasters for ad impressions.
Not that the US (cable) news is any different, it talks about things that will grab the viewer's attention ("#WINNING #TigerBlood"!!) because their attention means they might stick around to see the ads, which means money...
God-damn, yet another misunderstanding of L/GPL? If I make an app where I can throw birds at pigs that happens to use a GPL'ed JSON library, it doesn't mean that the whole app has to be open-sourced does it?
Whereas if I take GNU Chess and put a pretty UI on top of it, that's a derivative product, and I do need to provide the source.
and how about the "we want 30% off all the profit from content you sell on iDevices." bullshit. It's like a Junior Mafia Guy negotiating with the bighead Mafia chiefs, slowly scheming his way to be the Godfather...
Is getting asked to speak at a mostly Republican event, and getting "reimbursed for the flight and hotel" enough of a payout for you? How about if it was a first class flight and 5-star Penthouse room with "order anything you want from room service.". Sure, no cash exchanged hands, maybe he just got lobster dinners and got it "reimbursed" because he was traveling to be a guest speaker, and he surely had to eat right? Is that still kosher?
And Thomas' wife works with tea partiers and get money from them. OK, neutral much?
Or just force an upgrade to IE7 or 8. But look at the high percentage in Asia, where they probably have pirated Windows, and never ever update their browser.
Yeah, I sometimes read the blog of Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee (google him for the URL:)), and it seems the reason "why is this thing still broken in Windows?" most of the time is "backwards compatibility, if we changed it, millions of apps won't work, and we get the blame.".
At least OS X is elitist enough to say "we're going to the future, if you can't join us, we'll leave you behind.". And somehow, it doesn't get the blame for making a "crappy" OS.
"Cell phones will be automatically registered at cell towers as soon as they are switched on."... err, as they usually do? Since otherwise, how would the cell company know how to route a call for you?
Of course TFA is in Chinese, and I don't know what it really says, but yeah, the very design of the cell network allows for such tracking, and there's a lot of potential for abuse there, whichever government does it.
I guess this is in response to the Arab protests, if you as the authority can see where people are gathered/gathering, you know where to send the skull-crackers to.
Oh, and logging individuals would make it easier to see which people (phones) show up at these things regularly, for whatever reason, so we can crack their skulls too!
I wonder what sort of techniques can be used to fight this; multiple phones (useless since afaik you need an ID card to get a SIM card), leave your phone at home, go to "airplane mode" at a random time before the planned demo? Should the protesters buy walkie-talkies and tune to xy frequency? (The police would then just skull-crack anyone caught with a walkie-talkie).
LOL. You visit a site using your browser, it downloads code that when run, gets root access. Luckily the jailbreakers are nice people and they prompt you before downloading that code, and after they get the root, they give it to you. What if the code downloaded itself silently, got root, and downloaded and installed malware instead?
The whole thing uses a vulnerability in the PDF rendering system by the way, which luckily (for the jailbreakers) uses a kernel function that ran as root. Yeah...
BlackBerries ask you for each privileged task the app wants, whether you want to always allow that task, always deny, or prompt when the app needs it...
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Perhaps other information can be gathered... "Welcome to 911! Please type in the number of people requiring emergency services, followed by the pound symbol."
What other questions are there? "Please enter how many minutes you estimate the person has left."
"For ambulance, press 1, for fire, press 2. For police, press 3.".
apparently it's a less-than-smartphone... i.e. capable of running J2ME apps (surprisingly, iPhone, Android and WP7 can't) but not 3rd party native apps.
So, what did the middle-manager in Facebook say to convince the heads to buy this company, i.e. what is Facebook's goal? Are they thinking of creating a library/platform for Java mobile apps so they can take advantage of social features? (i.e. annoy your FB-friends with wall posts?). Or is it just a too-much-money syndrome?
On the topic of mobile apps, allow me to shamelessly promote my own iPhone app. (Ugh, I feel dirty... but I want nice things :))
Meh, indeed, people are lazy asses... I've sometimes posted links to the Google result page to stupid questions people ask me over IM, but that's the way it is, people are too lazy to navigate around a bank's site and it's easier to get someone else to do it...
Saw a link on Twitter to an Italian news site that said the background radiation in Rome was higher than in Tokyo. Yeah, well done media, 0.04uSv?!?!
Someone's made a Wiki of shameful reporting by "journalists".
If I had the expertise, I'd made a fake video with a fake Geiger counter display, and then showing how the skin is boiling off my arm, put it online and see how much the media would fall for it. They'll probably put it all over the internet news sites (Shittington Post) and fucking CNN, with the weasely disclaimer of "unconfirmed video", which only protects themselves from embarrassment of being hoaxed as well as contributing to the mass panic those blonde airhead news-readers (not journalists) are causing
Oh well, as of now the media's voice is "radiation, what's that? Oh look at those boys bombing Gaddafi!"
You didn't read past 3 lines of my comment did you?
To repeat myself: for 200 students, divide them to 10 groups of 20 students each. Provide 10 desks as "voting stations". 20 students lay their vote (paper with text and QR code of the student's ID + his vote) on 1 desk, desk also has QR code with "Question no: 17" so we can identify which votes belong to which question. Find 10 students/assistants, one to man each "voting station", which involves taking a picture of the 21 QR codes (plus maybe 1 more QR code: desk number) and transferring that picture to a central server that analyzes the QR codes and count the votes.
If you have a good enough camera, you might be able to have each student hold up a paper with the QR-code of their member-ID + vote (so each person gets 3 pieces of paper: one for yes, no, and abstention, make sure the paper are labeled textually with the vote and member ID/field for the member to write down his name), and get someone to take a picture making sure all QR-codes are captured perfectly. But since the chances of the camera seeing all QR codes will probably be low, you need to distribute the task to several cameras. So e.g. you'd have 10 designated tables which you can call the voting station. 20 people each will lay the QR codes of their answers on the table, and one guy takes a picture. Make sure you also have a piece of paper with a QR code to identify which question is being voted on, as well as a textual description of the question. If the questions are to be determined later, than just a QR code of "Question no. 17". During the voting rounds, make sure that number (17) and the question associated with it is displayed on the overhead projector, so that the voters know what they are voting on.
OK, the next part would be collecting all the pictures from the cameras (human problem), and analyzing the pictures to verify that all members' votes have been recorded properly (software problem). I'd say use a good quality camera phone with WiFi (protect the network with a password) and software to upload (mail?) the pictures to a server.
Yeah, and now the kid's whining about wanting to see what's in the treasure chest... pretty fucking evil of the game-maker, but heh, look at FarmVille, the VC's love it! I can already see how the game won't be doable without using something inside that treasure chest.
Maybe I should make a clone of that "Am I rich?" app that cost $1000-1, call it "diamond collector" and let the users collect 200 dollar images of colored stones, which are purchasable within a 2-week window only. Get it now to complete your collection, miss the window and forever have a gap in your collection!
(Or pay $500 to purchase missing items! 3-day offer only!)
Hey, those carts of virtual berries cost $100 (IIRC, even if it's $20 that's freaking insane!), and of course Apple won't do anything about it, since, hey, the Don gets a 30% cut!
What do you mean? I hope you're pointing out the stupidly obvious statement in the headline. What's next? "Using a surgeon's knife on man's stomach shows guts"? Well duhhh!
And what the fucking bullshit is this, the summary doesn't link to iFixit, but to some other blog talking about the iFixit page... fuck you slashdot/submitter!
Well.. status bar manipulation, they did that on GeoCities sites (pre-cursor to MySpace?) in 1999!
It's very easy to have marquees, etc, and of course, something like this which also reacts to key press events.
That would be easy...
Since all this does is modify the anchor part of the URL (the part after the #) via Javascript, which is basically what Gawker sites (e.g. Gizmodo) do when you click on a story on their right side navigation bar, and using a JavaScript timer to make the a's move periodically, he could incorporate a period where the whole thing disappears.
But, fun stuff. I don't look forward to the SEO & advertising monkeys selling "ad space direct on the user's URL BAR!"
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Let's see how the radio (or to be exact, the stereo system) can be wired up to other systems:
- it can be wired to the engine RPM-reader/speedometer to detect approximately how loud the environment will be, and turn its volume accordingly.
- It might want to display the current song title in the one display available in the car
- Wheel-mounted Volume/FF/Rewind/Play/Pause/Next/Prev Track controls anyone? And since that'll be a lot of buttons, they might replace it with a general 4-way joystick which do other things as well depending on the current task (car settings, navigation, stereo system)
- If a phone is attached via Bluetooth, silence/pause the current track when a call comes in/when the user wants to make a call.
Of course, all dangerous and non-essential extensions to what a car is supposed to do, but all high-end cars have them, because, well, the customer likes features!
If I were designing a car, the audio codec would get its own CPU, so any exploits would just crash/reboot that mechanism. The only critical output would be the "display song title on screen", but does the CPU that control the display also control the whole car (alarm system, etc?).
But then again, cars with navigation systems can talk, and they need another codec to decode the lady's "turn left" ogg file, and if it's "cost-savings!" they're interested in, they'd think, "oh since we already have an audio part here, let's bodge the stereo system into the equation.", and there you go, MP3 decoding being done on the system that controls the central locking.
Oh man, I'm a fan of Paul Krugman and Glenn Greenwald, and sometimes, or more precisely, a lot of times, Huffington Post pisses me off. If you look at their site now, it's got DISASTER IN JAPAN in big capital letters. If you scroll down you'll have "Jon Stewart DESTROYS Glenn Beck" (substitute the names with people's names when one criticizes the other), "WATCH: Dramatic Video of Tsunami". And usually somewhere there's "Megan Fox' bares her cleavage!" (substitute Megan Fox with any hot actress)
It's a disgusting site focused on getting your eyeballs to view their ads (thank FSM I use Proxomitron, but actually I should block the whole site), so it will write the biggest attention grabbing bullshit to do so. There's another Slashdot thread talking about scammers exploiting disasters for profit, and what Huffington Post does isn't very much different from that: using video of disasters for ad impressions.
Not that the US (cable) news is any different, it talks about things that will grab the viewer's attention ("#WINNING #TigerBlood"!!) because their attention means they might stick around to see the ads, which means money...
Yeah, the German Police will probably get to him soon enough...
I wonder though, what effects would this gun have on human skin? He should try it on some leg of ham or equivalent...
God-damn, yet another misunderstanding of L/GPL? If I make an app where I can throw birds at pigs that happens to use a GPL'ed JSON library, it doesn't mean that the whole app has to be open-sourced does it?
Whereas if I take GNU Chess and put a pretty UI on top of it, that's a derivative product, and I do need to provide the source.
and how about the "we want 30% off all the profit from content you sell on iDevices." bullshit. It's like a Junior Mafia Guy negotiating with the bighead Mafia chiefs, slowly scheming his way to be the Godfather...
Here's one
Here's another one.
Is getting asked to speak at a mostly Republican event, and getting "reimbursed for the flight and hotel" enough of a payout for you? How about if it was a first class flight and 5-star Penthouse room with "order anything you want from room service.". Sure, no cash exchanged hands, maybe he just got lobster dinners and got it "reimbursed" because he was traveling to be a guest speaker, and he surely had to eat right? Is that still kosher?
And Thomas' wife works with tea partiers and get money from them. OK, neutral much?
Or just force an upgrade to IE7 or 8. But look at the high percentage in Asia, where they probably have pirated Windows, and never ever update their browser.
Yeah, I sometimes read the blog of Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee (google him for the URL :)), and it seems the reason "why is this thing still broken in Windows?" most of the time is "backwards compatibility, if we changed it, millions of apps won't work, and we get the blame.".
At least OS X is elitist enough to say "we're going to the future, if you can't join us, we'll leave you behind.". And somehow, it doesn't get the blame for making a "crappy" OS.
"Cell phones will be automatically registered at cell towers as soon as they are switched on." ... err, as they usually do? Since otherwise, how would the cell company know how to route a call for you?
Of course TFA is in Chinese, and I don't know what it really says, but yeah, the very design of the cell network allows for such tracking, and there's a lot of potential for abuse there, whichever government does it.
I guess this is in response to the Arab protests, if you as the authority can see where people are gathered/gathering, you know where to send the skull-crackers to.
Oh, and logging individuals would make it easier to see which people (phones) show up at these things regularly, for whatever reason, so we can crack their skulls too!
I wonder what sort of techniques can be used to fight this; multiple phones (useless since afaik you need an ID card to get a SIM card), leave your phone at home, go to "airplane mode" at a random time before the planned demo? Should the protesters buy walkie-talkies and tune to xy frequency? (The police would then just skull-crack anyone caught with a walkie-talkie).
I know it shows you, but it doesn't allow you to approve/deny each individual privilege separately... so the BlackBerry is superior in that regard.
and the part about allowing the user to approve or deny EACH requested privileged action...?
Yeah, very rough indeed. You sound like a marketer, "oh yeah, our product does that too, except that it doesn't".
That's a jailbreak, not a vulnerability.
LOL. You visit a site using your browser, it downloads code that when run, gets root access. Luckily the jailbreakers are nice people and they prompt you before downloading that code, and after they get the root, they give it to you. What if the code downloaded itself silently, got root, and downloaded and installed malware instead?
The whole thing uses a vulnerability in the PDF rendering system by the way, which luckily (for the jailbreakers) uses a kernel function that ran as root. Yeah...
How about just having a proper security system...
BlackBerries ask you for each privileged task the app wants, whether you want to always allow that task, always deny, or prompt when the app needs it...
I agree with the first half of your post, but "before the web, the computers were not that useful to many people"? For FSM's sake...
Parent poster was correct. Before the web, computers were used mainly for business, and for games. Computers were useful for many people [...]
So you agree with me?