On most devices - at least those that were activated via iTunes - that will return the phone number. Or null if you're on an iPod Touch.
Okay, so the developer shouldn't have been harvesting this data, and definitely not without protecting it, but I fail to see how this was bypassing safeguards!
Fantastic! The main character in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", Richard MacDuff, is a programmer whose current project is converting numerical data into sounds. He discusses this in some mathematical detail at times. And MacDuff has written an article on the relationship between music, mathematics, and beauty, and which gets quoted extensively.
While I'm thinking about this... you could even run aVMWare virtual machine using a disk image on a PGPDisk encrypted volume. That way you can run any kind of Windows or Linux on a machine where the OS will have no clue that it's entire underlying file system is encrypted.
The freeware version is here. I've used it before, and it works like a charm. You create a PGPDisk file on a normal volume - this contains an encrypted disk. You can then "mount" the drive after providing the correct password. I've used it in the past on NT4 and on Win2K to great effect.
You're right in that OS stands for Operating System. But MS-DOS was never a/real/ OS. Calling it an OS annoys those who know what the term operating system does (or ought to) connote; DOS is more properly a set of relatively simple interrupt services.
MS-DOS was just a clone of CP/M by Seattle Computer Products, who called it QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Microsoft licensed QDOS in order to have something to demo for IBM on time and the resulting mess became the highest-unit-volume OS in history.
Sound drivers/Multimedia support were kludges that were tacked onto MS-DOS. They were not part of the operating system.
And yes, you know of companies that use DOS for many things - accounting etc... but those are APPLICATIONS running on DOS. As the previous poster stated DOS is at heart a broken shell and program launcher. Anything else is bolt-on.
I read a Wired article in the Summer of 2001 where a Microsoft employee stated that the whole point of the XBox was to reverse the trend you're describing. The idea is that Microsoft build a machine based on Windows and DirectX (the XBox). Now, because this machine is based on standards (hah!) in Microsoft's deskop operating systems, any game developed for the XBox/should/ be able to be ported to the PC with relative ease. This way, you have more games on the PC, requiring more horse power to run - meaning people buy more PCs and, tada: have to buy more Windows licences.
Whether or not this has worked quite how Microsoft planned, I'm not sure...
Exactly right. I've had, over the years, a Psion 3, a 3a, a Psion 5 Series, a Sharp WinCE device and two versions of the iPAQ. For every one of those devices it is true that I carried them around everywhere, yet spent very little time using them. For maybe the first few months, flush with excitement that comes of a new toy, I'd make sure it was synced with Schedule, Outlook or whatever flavour of PIM I had at the time, take notes in meetings, attempt to use it on the train, record voice memos, etc etc.
Without fail though I found that the lack of usability wore me down. Voice recordings lost their appeal, handwriting recognition failed me in hurried situations, batteries died at inopportune moments. The last straw was when my machine failed what one of my friends calls the "coffee/stamp test". His paper diary can be stamped on and have coffee spilled over it, and still works. My iPAQ didn't.
I sold all my PDAs. I have a paper notebook and a very nice Cross pen. I still sync a device with Outlook - only now it is my Nokia 7210. I don't use it for data entry, but it can still store all my contacts and beep at me with reminders for tasks/appointments (which were the only really useful functions a PDA did for me).
There's a whole host of tools on the IBM site all Zap does is write zeros to the first 128 sectors of the disc... if, as a previous poster stated, the password is on a chip on the drive, you're probably screwed.
The effects for Young Sherlock Holmes were supplied by Industrial Light & Magic... but even they didn't know how to make a stained glass window fight a duel with Holmes. It was that computer-animated stained glass warrior that Pixar created.
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How is using standard, documented, code bypassing safeguards?
NSString *telnum = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"SBFormattedPhoneNumber"];
On most devices - at least those that were activated via iTunes - that will return the phone number. Or null if you're on an iPod Touch.
Okay, so the developer shouldn't have been harvesting this data, and definitely not without protecting it, but I fail to see how this was bypassing safeguards!
A nonce is a cryptographic term - a number used only once. They're used as authentication to avoid replay attacks.
Fantastic! The main character in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", Richard MacDuff, is a programmer whose current project is converting numerical data into sounds. He discusses this in some mathematical detail at times. And MacDuff has written an article on the relationship between music, mathematics, and beauty, and which gets quoted extensively.
While I'm thinking about this... you could even run aVMWare virtual machine using a disk image on a PGPDisk encrypted volume. That way you can run any kind of Windows or Linux on a machine where the OS will have no clue that it's entire underlying file system is encrypted.
PGP Disk.
The freeware version is here. I've used it before, and it works like a charm. You create a PGPDisk file on a normal volume - this contains an encrypted disk. You can then "mount" the drive after providing the correct password. I've used it in the past on NT4 and on Win2K to great effect.
You're right in that OS stands for Operating System. But MS-DOS was never a /real/ OS. Calling it an OS annoys those who know what the term operating system does (or ought to) connote; DOS is more properly a set of relatively simple interrupt services.
MS-DOS was just a clone of CP/M by Seattle Computer Products, who called it QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). Microsoft licensed QDOS in order to have something to demo for IBM on time and the resulting mess became the highest-unit-volume OS in history.
Sound drivers/Multimedia support were kludges that were tacked onto MS-DOS. They were not part of the operating system.
And yes, you know of companies that use DOS for many things - accounting etc... but those are APPLICATIONS running on DOS. As the previous poster stated DOS is at heart a broken shell and program launcher. Anything else is bolt-on.
I read a Wired article in the Summer of 2001 where a Microsoft employee stated that the whole point of the XBox was to reverse the trend you're describing. The idea is that Microsoft build a machine based on Windows and DirectX (the XBox). Now, because this machine is based on standards (hah!) in Microsoft's deskop operating systems, any game developed for the XBox /should/ be able to be ported to the PC with relative ease. This way, you have more games on the PC, requiring more horse power to run - meaning people buy more PCs and, tada: have to buy more Windows licences.
Whether or not this has worked quite how Microsoft planned, I'm not sure...
Exactly right. I've had, over the years, a Psion 3, a 3a, a Psion 5 Series, a Sharp WinCE device and two versions of the iPAQ. For every one of those devices it is true that I carried them around everywhere, yet spent very little time using them. For maybe the first few months, flush with excitement that comes of a new toy, I'd make sure it was synced with Schedule, Outlook or whatever flavour of PIM I had at the time, take notes in meetings, attempt to use it on the train, record voice memos, etc etc.
Without fail though I found that the lack of usability wore me down. Voice recordings lost their appeal, handwriting recognition failed me in hurried situations, batteries died at inopportune moments. The last straw was when my machine failed what one of my friends calls the "coffee/stamp test". His paper diary can be stamped on and have coffee spilled over it, and still works. My iPAQ didn't.
I sold all my PDAs. I have a paper notebook and a very nice Cross pen. I still sync a device with Outlook - only now it is my Nokia 7210. I don't use it for data entry, but it can still store all my contacts and beep at me with reminders for tasks/appointments (which were the only really useful functions a PDA did for me).
There's a whole host of tools on the IBM site all Zap does is write zeros to the first 128 sectors of the disc... if, as a previous poster stated, the password is on a chip on the drive, you're probably screwed.
The effects for Young Sherlock Holmes were supplied by Industrial Light & Magic... but even they didn't know how to make a stained glass window fight a duel with Holmes. It was that computer-animated stained glass warrior that Pixar created.