The block is done the same way the tethering block is implemented. There's a setting in the carrier file which controls whether or not FaceTime is allowed over 3G. The processing of said file is built into the iOS and can be downloaded over the air and time the user connects to the carrier network. AT&T sets the FaceTime flag to no or yes based on user's the chosen plan. Other carriers simply set it to yes.
For example, when I went to China with my iPhone and connected to China Mobile the tethering option suddenly became available (since China Mobile doesn't block tethering). When I got back to the U.S. and connected back to AT&T, the tethering option was disabled again (since I'm on the grandfather unlimited plan).
Processing of the carrier file is built into iOS and it doesn't care if your phone is unlocked or not. Unless AT&T sets the FaceTime flag to true for unlocked iPhones, then you still won't be able to do FaceTime over 3G, unless you switch to a Mobile Share plan (which is a rip off if you ask me).
To bypass this block, your iPhone would have to be jailbroken.
I know back in the day Verizon, AT&T and other providers used to get to pick and choose what built-in apps they wanted on their phones, but that's not done anymore since phones aren't really customized for carriers anymore. At least not in the case of the iPhone (other than the CDMA/GSM difference). The same built-in apps are on all iPhones, regardless of the carrier. As such the FaceTime app is being provided by Apple, not AT&T. It shouldn't make any difference whether it's built-in or downloaded. If it did, then Apple could simply add a FaceTime 3G Unlock app to the App Store and then according to AT&T's logic, AT&T would have to allow it.
I suppose since AT&T is subsidizing iPhones, that AT&T can have some say over how things work, but how can they justify applying those same restrictions to people paying full price for the phone or no longer under contract?
People can barely drive correctly on the ground what with people texting while driving, tailgating or simply being a-holes on the road. Imagine what it will be like in the air and imagine the insurance.
The FAA and commercial airlines still haven't gotten free flight working and they've been at it for over 20 years. Do you really expect companies designing flying cars to do any better? Even if they can get auto-pilot and auto-collision working in the air (already available in large commercial aircraft), the cars still have to take off and land and do so anywhere, not just at airports. We still don't have cars that drive themselves (at least not good enough to put into production). Once that becomes available, then we can start talking about when flying cars will be available.
That's actually being done by a number already by some companies. That still doesn't help though if someone enters a question with an easy answer.
The "best" thing people can do is put in wrong answers to their security questions. Unfortunately if someone does so and forgets the answer, then that person can't get access to his or her account. Unless of course that person has an account with Apple or Amazon in which case the secret answers aren't needed. Hence the problem with the entire password system.
I'm not sure what the solution to this problem really is. Gaining access to an account without a password should be difficult, but not impossible since what is a spouse needs access to an account of someone who has died. Maybe password resets should require a court order if the person can't answer the security questions.
The problem here is that for the average Internet user, if you have someone's Amazon email address, you pretty much automatically have access to that person's Amazon account. Not everyone has multiple email accounts and the billing address and name can be gotten from agragators like http://www.spokeo.com./
At that point the person can gain access to the users Amazon account and simply go on a shopping spree at the users expense. Getting into an iTunes account with the same email is just a bonus.
I agree it should be a Google coded app from the App Store. I'm hoping Google ads the remote control feature from the Android app. Yes I can currently go to YouTube in Safari and use the remote control feature there, but the built in app is what opens when I click on YouTube links.
Potentially yes. The flight plan of Air Force One is reported to the FAA Air Traffic Control (ATC), but it's unlikely that the plane's tail number will be reported as Air Force One. Technically Air Force One is whatever plane the POTUS is currently riding on.
Note, that air traffic controllers can see ALL flights: public and private (including military). All aircraft flying in public (non-restricted) airspace which don't use visible flight rules (i.e. big planes) must respond with their beacon code when interrogated, including military aircraft and AF1. All this info is available to the ATC. The private info is just stripped out before being made accessible to the public.
When your phone rings off and on all day, because scammers are calling then come back here and say "just ignore them".
Personally I've created a shit-list contact on my phone which keeps getting larger and larger with scammer phone numbers. I have it set to silent ring so I never hear them call, but it still annoys me.
I can't count the number of "press 1 to speak to a representative, press 2 to be removed" scam calls I get. Most of them are from "my credit card company", "my mortgage company", "my xxxx company". Press "2" once and you are screwed as your phone number ends up being sold to every scammer in the world. Press "1" and the people curse at you if you ask to be removed from the list (and you are still screwed as your phone number ends up being sold to every scammer in the world).
These people deserve a special place in Hell, right next to SMS (texting) scammers (which actually cost me money).
I see all the Fandroids have modded me down (while a few reasonable people modded me up).
My point is that until Google can get the carriers, et al. to upgrade Android devices to the latest version, the only reason for pushing out new releases is to sell new phones. Even that's not quite true since some "new" phones don't even come with the latest version of Android. Compare that with Apple where the newest iOS can run on at least phones sold within the last 2 years. Yes older phones don't get all the newer features that new phones do, but at least they get the latest iOS.
I'm not sure why this was modded insightful, let alone +5 since if you read TFA you'd know that they weren't saying that iOS is more secure, only that there are virtually no delivery mechanism for malware because of Apple's app store policies of requiring real world identification of an app author to publish apps in the app store. That and iOS apps are more restricted in what they can do over Android apps.
That's the problem when articles like this hit Slashdot. Rabid fanboys (Apple and Google) start posted without even reading the article. The same thing with modders.
If you look at the actual breakdown of the charges Ravi was convicted of, you'll notice that he was acquitted of all the bias intimidation sub-charges that he knowingly intimidated Clementi. The one that he was convicted of, which caused the bias intimidation guilty verdict was that "under circumstances that caused Tyler Clementi to be intimidated, and considering the manner in which the offense was committed, Clementi reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense because of sexual orientation".
So basically he was convicted not because Ravi had any bias when committing the act, but but because Clementi believed that the act was committed out of bias.
That's a very scary verdict because it basically states that it doesn't matter whether or not you have any real bias when committing a crime. You can still be convicted of bias intimidation if the victim believes you are biased. In other words, it's not what you believe, it's what someone else things you believe.
With that precedent, you can use bias intimidation charges to charge and convict preachers for preaching against homosexuality in churches or comics for making "inappropriate" jokes in comedy houses.
Apple sure as hell didn't confirm anything. So basically we have someone who looked at a screen, that may or may not be for the iPad 3, under a microscope and "counted the pixels".
Again Slashdot titles are redefining words in the English language.
Lately Yahoo Mail has been very buggy, especially when using IMAP (with mobile phone). The past few months I've seen emails moved to folders simply vanish a few days later, emails that are unreadable, emails that can't be deleted on the web site and IMAP syncing issues and the like.
The first thing the new CEO should do is replace all the people responsible for maintaining and fixing Yahoo Mail with people who are competent.
There are a number of levels inside cable companies when it comes to support.
The lowest level is the "cable guy". This person is not likely to have a computer or engineering background. They receive training from the cable company to do basic things like use the diagnostic meter, run coax cable, strip wiring, etc. basically they are kind of like basic electricians. Some may have some training as to what QAM errors are and the like, but not enough to fix problems. Some are employees of the cable company (more likely for trouble calls) and some are contractors (more likely for installs).
Next up the line are the "line techs". These are the guys in the trucks with cherry pickers. The customer rarely deals with them. They are trained in diagnosing line and node problems to find errors in the signals (leaks, interference, etc). Likely they have an electrical engineering background. When there's an "outage" (TV, Internet and/or phone), these are the guys who are deployed.
Lastly, there's the people who manage the headend and servers. These are ghosts, you'll never see them. These are the ones with computer and engineering backgrounds, the ones you could call network specialists. Customers never deal with them directly.
So basically the "cable guy" is still the "cable guy".
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Yes, hence the last line in my post:
"To bypass this block, your iPhone would have to be jailbroken."
It's likely the DRM is driving people to piracy, even those who purchased the game, since the DRM frequently makes the game unplayable.
The block is done the same way the tethering block is implemented. There's a setting in the carrier file which controls whether or not FaceTime is allowed over 3G. The processing of said file is built into the iOS and can be downloaded over the air and time the user connects to the carrier network. AT&T sets the FaceTime flag to no or yes based on user's the chosen plan. Other carriers simply set it to yes.
For example, when I went to China with my iPhone and connected to China Mobile the tethering option suddenly became available (since China Mobile doesn't block tethering). When I got back to the U.S. and connected back to AT&T, the tethering option was disabled again (since I'm on the grandfather unlimited plan).
Processing of the carrier file is built into iOS and it doesn't care if your phone is unlocked or not. Unless AT&T sets the FaceTime flag to true for unlocked iPhones, then you still won't be able to do FaceTime over 3G, unless you switch to a Mobile Share plan (which is a rip off if you ask me).
To bypass this block, your iPhone would have to be jailbroken.
I know back in the day Verizon, AT&T and other providers used to get to pick and choose what built-in apps they wanted on their phones, but that's not done anymore since phones aren't really customized for carriers anymore. At least not in the case of the iPhone (other than the CDMA/GSM difference). The same built-in apps are on all iPhones, regardless of the carrier. As such the FaceTime app is being provided by Apple, not AT&T. It shouldn't make any difference whether it's built-in or downloaded. If it did, then Apple could simply add a FaceTime 3G Unlock app to the App Store and then according to AT&T's logic, AT&T would have to allow it.
I suppose since AT&T is subsidizing iPhones, that AT&T can have some say over how things work, but how can they justify applying those same restrictions to people paying full price for the phone or no longer under contract?
People can barely drive correctly on the ground what with people texting while driving, tailgating or simply being a-holes on the road. Imagine what it will be like in the air and imagine the insurance.
The FAA and commercial airlines still haven't gotten free flight working and they've been at it for over 20 years. Do you really expect companies designing flying cars to do any better? Even if they can get auto-pilot and auto-collision working in the air (already available in large commercial aircraft), the cars still have to take off and land and do so anywhere, not just at airports. We still don't have cars that drive themselves (at least not good enough to put into production). Once that becomes available, then we can start talking about when flying cars will be available.
That's actually being done by a number already by some companies. That still doesn't help though if someone enters a question with an easy answer.
The "best" thing people can do is put in wrong answers to their security questions. Unfortunately if someone does so and forgets the answer, then that person can't get access to his or her account. Unless of course that person has an account with Apple or Amazon in which case the secret answers aren't needed. Hence the problem with the entire password system.
I'm not sure what the solution to this problem really is. Gaining access to an account without a password should be difficult, but not impossible since what is a spouse needs access to an account of someone who has died. Maybe password resets should require a court order if the person can't answer the security questions.
The problem here is that for the average Internet user, if you have someone's Amazon email address, you pretty much automatically have access to that person's Amazon account. Not everyone has multiple email accounts and the billing address and name can be gotten from agragators like http://www.spokeo.com./
At that point the person can gain access to the users Amazon account and simply go on a shopping spree at the users expense. Getting into an iTunes account with the same email is just a bonus.
I agree it should be a Google coded app from the App Store. I'm hoping Google ads the remote control feature from the Android app. Yes I can currently go to YouTube in Safari and use the remote control feature there, but the built in app is what opens when I click on YouTube links.
This article states that Firefox's user base is shrinking by "significant" numbers and that there are more Chrome users than Firefox users.
The following article claims Firefox's user base is growing and that there are more Firefox users than Chrome users:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/firefox-continues-to-gain-as-internet-explorer-chrome-slide/
How can both be right?
Potentially yes. The flight plan of Air Force One is reported to the FAA Air Traffic Control (ATC), but it's unlikely that the plane's tail number will be reported as Air Force One. Technically Air Force One is whatever plane the POTUS is currently riding on.
Note, that air traffic controllers can see ALL flights: public and private (including military). All aircraft flying in public (non-restricted) airspace which don't use visible flight rules (i.e. big planes) must respond with their beacon code when interrogated, including military aircraft and AF1. All this info is available to the ATC. The private info is just stripped out before being made accessible to the public.
Actually I get next to no calls on my home phone and ones I do, I can block since I use Ooma.
When your phone rings off and on all day, because scammers are calling then come back here and say "just ignore them".
Personally I've created a shit-list contact on my phone which keeps getting larger and larger with scammer phone numbers. I have it set to silent ring so I never hear them call, but it still annoys me.
I can't count the number of "press 1 to speak to a representative, press 2 to be removed" scam calls I get. Most of them are from "my credit card company", "my mortgage company", "my xxxx company". Press "2" once and you are screwed as your phone number ends up being sold to every scammer in the world. Press "1" and the people curse at you if you ask to be removed from the list (and you are still screwed as your phone number ends up being sold to every scammer in the world).
These people deserve a special place in Hell, right next to SMS (texting) scammers (which actually cost me money).
Maybe it was translated from Japanese?
I see all the Fandroids have modded me down (while a few reasonable people modded me up).
My point is that until Google can get the carriers, et al. to upgrade Android devices to the latest version, the only reason for pushing out new releases is to sell new phones. Even that's not quite true since some "new" phones don't even come with the latest version of Android. Compare that with Apple where the newest iOS can run on at least phones sold within the last 2 years. Yes older phones don't get all the newer features that new phones do, but at least they get the latest iOS.
Considering the low amount of people on 4.0, it's seems almost like there's no point in releasing 4.1 at this time.
I'm not sure why this was modded insightful, let alone +5 since if you read TFA you'd know that they weren't saying that iOS is more secure, only that there are virtually no delivery mechanism for malware because of Apple's app store policies of requiring real world identification of an app author to publish apps in the app store. That and iOS apps are more restricted in what they can do over Android apps.
That's the problem when articles like this hit Slashdot. Rabid fanboys (Apple and Google) start posted without even reading the article. The same thing with modders.
Drive with your knees. It keeps your hands free for the important things like texting and eating.
Didn't we learn anything from the "I am Legend" film.
That's two different charges. Invasion of privacy was done knowingly, bias intimidation was not.
If you look at the actual breakdown of the charges Ravi was convicted of, you'll notice that he was acquitted of all the bias intimidation sub-charges that he knowingly intimidated Clementi. The one that he was convicted of, which caused the bias intimidation guilty verdict was that "under circumstances that caused Tyler Clementi to be intimidated, and considering the manner in which the offense was committed, Clementi reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense because of sexual orientation".
So basically he was convicted not because Ravi had any bias when committing the act, but but because Clementi believed that the act was committed out of bias.
That's a very scary verdict because it basically states that it doesn't matter whether or not you have any real bias when committing a crime. You can still be convicted of bias intimidation if the victim believes you are biased. In other words, it's not what you believe, it's what someone else things you believe.
With that precedent, you can use bias intimidation charges to charge and convict preachers for preaching against homosexuality in churches or comics for making "inappropriate" jokes in comedy houses.
Apple sure as hell didn't confirm anything. So basically we have someone who looked at a screen, that may or may not be for the iPad 3, under a microscope and "counted the pixels".
Again Slashdot titles are redefining words in the English language.
Lately Yahoo Mail has been very buggy, especially when using IMAP (with mobile phone). The past few months I've seen emails moved to folders simply vanish a few days later, emails that are unreadable, emails that can't be deleted on the web site and IMAP syncing issues and the like.
The first thing the new CEO should do is replace all the people responsible for maintaining and fixing Yahoo Mail with people who are competent.
>> I never expect them to get the second CPU core enabled.
I stopped reading after this since if you actually had a TiVo Premiere you'd know the second core was enabled in the 14.9 software update.
As for your other issues: crashes, hanging, etc, I have a Premiere and have rarely if ever seen anything like that.
There are a number of levels inside cable companies when it comes to support.
The lowest level is the "cable guy". This person is not likely to have a computer or engineering background. They receive training from the cable company to do basic things like use the diagnostic meter, run coax cable, strip wiring, etc. basically they are kind of like basic electricians. Some may have some training as to what QAM errors are and the like, but not enough to fix problems. Some are employees of the cable company (more likely for trouble calls) and some are contractors (more likely for installs).
Next up the line are the "line techs". These are the guys in the trucks with cherry pickers. The customer rarely deals with them. They are trained in diagnosing line and node problems to find errors in the signals (leaks, interference, etc). Likely they have an electrical engineering background. When there's an "outage" (TV, Internet and/or phone), these are the guys who are deployed.
Lastly, there's the people who manage the headend and servers. These are ghosts, you'll never see them. These are the ones with computer and engineering backgrounds, the ones you could call network specialists. Customers never deal with them directly.
So basically the "cable guy" is still the "cable guy".