The "fact" as quoted is incorrect, as Proview (the company) sold its rights to another company, which sold them on to Apple in 2009.
Probably the other company didn't care that their deal excluded China as they had no intention of doing business there, and when Apple bought it, they mistakenly believed they were buying the rights for the whole world, because the company name of the holder recorded for China matched the previous owner of the trademark they were buying apart from the city in which the company was based.
Shenzhen sold apple the international trademark to "iPad" back in 2006.
The city of Shenzhen never held the iPad trademark. Proview Technology (Taipei) sold the trademark that they held in a number of countries, but Proview Technology (Shenzhen) chose to hold onto the trademark in China.
All it really needs to do is fly in the general direction of home until it gets outside the area that is being jammed. The trick is to not do it so predictably that the attacker can use the "level flight and return to home" behaviour against it.
Ever tried to use data when roaming?
If telco A can offer unlimited bandwidth to any country in the world for less than US$50 / month and telco B offers the same deal as telco A for CA$50 / month, why is it that when roaming on telco B's network, telco A customers are charged US$10 / MB?
Furthermore in Ubuntu, you can't just kill the current X session and start a new one from the command line with the application as the window manager.
Why not?
sudo service gdm stop; Xorg -sp security.policy & kiosk-mode-test-program
Probably if you spend more than the two seconds I did thinking about this you can find a more robust version perhaps involving a custom gdm configuration that can restart the X server if the user logs out prematurely etc.
True kiosk mode exists in the Linux world too, just not with the restrictions that the submitter placed "no special user accounts or changes to the OS configuration" is a pretty big restriction, no matter what OS you are trying to do this on.
Android is going to beat iOS in the market for the same reason as IBM PC clones running Microsoft Windows beat the original Mac in the market 20 years ago. In the Steve Jobs reality distortion field, both cases are because his precious inventions were copied.
It almost qualifies as a twitter entry. Meanwhile some of us have real work to do which we need our PC's for. We aren't all hipster freelance writers that have nothing to do with our day that can't be done on an iPad while sitting in Starbucks taking up space that should be reserved for paying customers.
Another plausible explanation is that the governments of Israel and US tracked down the original East European authors of Conficker before they deployed the financial fraud aspect of it, and made them an offer they couldn't refuse to come and work for them.
Over time that became Geocities, and now it's Facebook.
Or in the corporate world, Powerpoint. I don't have a lot of experience personally with Hypercard, but the one guy I know who was really into it seemed to continually produce slideshows with it - exactly what pointy haired types use Powerpoint for today.
There are whole villages across Asia, Africa and South America that do not have an internet connection. Are you sure everyone on Earth knows someone with a facebook account?
there is no way to have an Android smartphone working decently without sharing all of your contacts, calendar appointments, and other stuff with Google.
It is perfectly workable to plug in your old SIM with phone numbers stored on it and use them from an Android phone without ever setting up a Google account. It is also possible to add fully featured contacts and calendar appointments locally on your phone without sharing them with Google.
If by "working decently" you mean the phone should seamlessly sync with your other devices through the cloud, you have the option of setting up your own SyncML server, and most manufacturers also include MS Exchange ActiveSync as well.
The Slashdot story last week about the Malaysian Government certificate that was "stolen" referred to a certificate from a Department of Agriculture website, but I think the more newsworthy revelation in this article is that payments.bnm.gov.my was using one of the 512 bit RSA keys that has been compromised. BNM (Bank Negara Malaysia) is the equivalent of US Treasury, or Bank of England.
Israel is the only nation in the region attacking its neighbors.
Right. The missiles shot from Gaza into Israeli territory were launched by whom?
Not by any officially government backed forces of any recognized nation. Meanwhile Israel continues to turn a blind eye to, and even encourage, an even bigger PR problem which is entirely within their control - settlement construction in occupied territories. This isn't the actions of a country that wants to live peacefully with its neighbors. As long as they have the sympathetic ear of the US government and public, they will do what they can to keep their status as "victims".
Depending on what part of Europe you were flying back to, but if the UK as your sig suggests you are from, I'm pretty sure you would be flying North over Siberia, not South over China. If you were flying to Istanbul or Athens, maybe you would have flown over this area, Rome or Madrid at a stretch.
They have patented two different ways of simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices. I'm not sure how this is relevant, because Android does not simulate a mouse device, it is a natively touchscreen interface with D-Pad events as a secondary non-simulated method of navigating between UI objects.
It's also possible that the emergence of HDMI commands will fix things -- turning DVD players and the like into extensions of the television, operated by the same remote. But somehow I don't see the kind of strong interoperability needed to make this happen actually occurring either.
My TV remote has limited DVD/Bluray/VCR controls, and my Bluray player has limited TV controls (operating over IR rather than HDMI though, so still necessary to configure the remote for the right brand of player/TV). Between these and the limited HDCP functionality that switches the TV to the right HDMI input when the Bluray starts playing, there isn't much that the user needs to understand beyond "put the disc in and press play".
While this makes the situation slightly less distasteful, the company should have reduced their compensation or fired them as soon as it noticed they were not performing. Not wait until IPO is looming and try and take back compensation already granted.
The perception that It is strictly PROGRESSIVE download - i.e. download the whole file, and play it (though I wouldn't call that progressive) probably comes from the fact that when people try to do it themselves without deep understanding of how video streaming works, they use single pass transcoders that lump all the metadata at the end of the file. The metadata needs to be at the start of the file if you want it to stream as it downloads.
I wouldn't say Javascript is a particularly difficult language to program, but there is a huge variation in the skill sets of people developing in it, with a heavy bias towards those who couldn't write an original line of code to save their ass. This is the type of programmer who will flood message boards with requests for help with trivial little problems.
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The "fact" as quoted is incorrect, as Proview (the company) sold its rights to another company, which sold them on to Apple in 2009.
Probably the other company didn't care that their deal excluded China as they had no intention of doing business there, and when Apple bought it, they mistakenly believed they were buying the rights for the whole world, because the company name of the holder recorded for China matched the previous owner of the trademark they were buying apart from the city in which the company was based.
The city of Shenzhen never held the iPad trademark. Proview Technology (Taipei) sold the trademark that they held in a number of countries, but Proview Technology (Shenzhen) chose to hold onto the trademark in China.
All it really needs to do is fly in the general direction of home until it gets outside the area that is being jammed. The trick is to not do it so predictably that the attacker can use the "level flight and return to home" behaviour against it.
ie. to get data out of obsolete big-iron databases and display it on green screen TN3270 terminals.
FTFY. Dates are date work first started on the language, and the date it was released to the public.
Ever tried to use data when roaming? If telco A can offer unlimited bandwidth to any country in the world for less than US$50 / month and telco B offers the same deal as telco A for CA$50 / month, why is it that when roaming on telco B's network, telco A customers are charged US$10 / MB?
Why not?
sudo service gdm stop; Xorg -sp security.policy & kiosk-mode-test-program
Probably if you spend more than the two seconds I did thinking about this you can find a more robust version perhaps involving a custom gdm configuration that can restart the X server if the user logs out prematurely etc.
True kiosk mode exists in the Linux world too, just not with the restrictions that the submitter placed "no special user accounts or changes to the OS configuration" is a pretty big restriction, no matter what OS you are trying to do this on.
Android is going to beat iOS in the market for the same reason as IBM PC clones running Microsoft Windows beat the original Mac in the market 20 years ago. In the Steve Jobs reality distortion field, both cases are because his precious inventions were copied.
It almost qualifies as a twitter entry. Meanwhile some of us have real work to do which we need our PC's for. We aren't all hipster freelance writers that have nothing to do with our day that can't be done on an iPad while sitting in Starbucks taking up space that should be reserved for paying customers.
Imagine what they could have done with the other $700k they would have saved by choosing a mail server other than MS Exchange.
Another plausible explanation is that the governments of Israel and US tracked down the original East European authors of Conficker before they deployed the financial fraud aspect of it, and made them an offer they couldn't refuse to come and work for them.
Or in the corporate world, Powerpoint. I don't have a lot of experience personally with Hypercard, but the one guy I know who was really into it seemed to continually produce slideshows with it - exactly what pointy haired types use Powerpoint for today.
There are whole villages across Asia, Africa and South America that do not have an internet connection. Are you sure everyone on Earth knows someone with a facebook account?
It is perfectly workable to plug in your old SIM with phone numbers stored on it and use them from an Android phone without ever setting up a Google account. It is also possible to add fully featured contacts and calendar appointments locally on your phone without sharing them with Google.
If by "working decently" you mean the phone should seamlessly sync with your other devices through the cloud, you have the option of setting up your own SyncML server, and most manufacturers also include MS Exchange ActiveSync as well.
The Slashdot story last week about the Malaysian Government certificate that was "stolen" referred to a certificate from a Department of Agriculture website, but I think the more newsworthy revelation in this article is that payments.bnm.gov.my was using one of the 512 bit RSA keys that has been compromised. BNM (Bank Negara Malaysia) is the equivalent of US Treasury, or Bank of England.
Maybe you're living in a different Asia than I am. Pizza in this Asia comes with chili sauce, not tomato ketchup.
Not by any officially government backed forces of any recognized nation. Meanwhile Israel continues to turn a blind eye to, and even encourage, an even bigger PR problem which is entirely within their control - settlement construction in occupied territories. This isn't the actions of a country that wants to live peacefully with its neighbors. As long as they have the sympathetic ear of the US government and public, they will do what they can to keep their status as "victims".
Depending on what part of Europe you were flying back to, but if the UK as your sig suggests you are from, I'm pretty sure you would be flying North over Siberia, not South over China. If you were flying to Istanbul or Athens, maybe you would have flown over this area, Rome or Madrid at a stretch.
They have patented two different ways of simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices. I'm not sure how this is relevant, because Android does not simulate a mouse device, it is a natively touchscreen interface with D-Pad events as a secondary non-simulated method of navigating between UI objects.
My TV remote has limited DVD/Bluray/VCR controls, and my Bluray player has limited TV controls (operating over IR rather than HDMI though, so still necessary to configure the remote for the right brand of player/TV). Between these and the limited HDCP functionality that switches the TV to the right HDMI input when the Bluray starts playing, there isn't much that the user needs to understand beyond "put the disc in and press play".
While this makes the situation slightly less distasteful, the company should have reduced their compensation or fired them as soon as it noticed they were not performing. Not wait until IPO is looming and try and take back compensation already granted.
The perception that It is strictly PROGRESSIVE download - i.e. download the whole file, and play it (though I wouldn't call that progressive) probably comes from the fact that when people try to do it themselves without deep understanding of how video streaming works, they use single pass transcoders that lump all the metadata at the end of the file. The metadata needs to be at the start of the file if you want it to stream as it downloads.
FTFY
I wouldn't say Javascript is a particularly difficult language to program, but there is a huge variation in the skill sets of people developing in it, with a heavy bias towards those who couldn't write an original line of code to save their ass. This is the type of programmer who will flood message boards with requests for help with trivial little problems.