1) No challenge there. 2) Try a few times, you're bound to have luck sooner or later - pocket heights don't vary that much. 3/4) It's the default, and what most average users will have. 5) Just a few seconds will do. 6) The attacker can run anything on the target phone. I expect that whatever he runs would steal the data through other means, and not NFC (ie: email? remote server?)
1) Average users don't install several browsers. 2) On a subway or any other crowded enviroment, it's not hard to stay that close to someone for plenty of time. 3) "Rolled in a few months" can also be read as "All S3's will be vulnerable for several more months". 4) Average users don't change the defaults, including disabling the NFC.
Photographers sell a a lot with their own image. And macs make them "look cool". I actually had a designer friend who owned a mac plenty of years ago, and he told me that many customers were pretty impressed by his laptop and the aesthetics, that it actually added bonus points when trying to land some job.
Stupid, I know, but we all know this is quite true.
I think they're not considering the Total cost of ownership for Windows XP. How much patching, firewalling and antivirusing do you need to constantly monitor in order for your XP machines to be "secure"? The cost of supporting XP must be really high. It must also be pretty hard to choose new hardware that still supports XP.
Indeed, planned obsolescence. You payed for XP knowing this beforhand, and you're paying for Windows 7 knowing it'll happen again. If they manage to fool the company you work for twice like that, then I'm guessing the on to blame isn't microsoft, but rather the person who keeps on taking these decisions.
AFIP (Argentina's equivalent of the USA's IRS) recomends IE6, and states that their systems are certified to work on IE6 (I always wonder "certified by WHOM?"). There's no chance of them working on firefox, chrome, opera, etc, and one needs to access it to pay taxes if you're self-employed.
While I don't use any version of windows anywhere, it still means I'm thankful computers at my university run XP, since it's the only way I can actually do my tax-related-stuff. As a shitty country, we need XP.
People didn't ever, and never will take laptops to bars. This isn't relevant at all. I don't think many cell phones are broken/lost in bars either. You'd have to be really stupid to somehow break you phone in a bar.
Actually, I'm old enough to go to bars. I honestly haven't gone to any in years though.
My point was that comparing "how many people bring laptops" to bar is stupid. People don't bring laptop to bars, just like they don't bring pillows, and trash cans. It's just not the sort of thing people take to bars. Nor has it ever been.
Actually, I'm guessing he lives in a non-US country. I live in Argentina and we tend to have that issue; a lot of programs are dubbed to spanish - just as badly as anime is dubbed in english. Another huge downside, is that a lot of series have about 6 months lag with USA, and UK series have around a year. If they ever reach TV here. So I can: a) Pirate the series from tpb, watch it as it comes out and understand jokes and references to in everywere. b) Pay a fortune on Cablt-TV, wait 6-12 months for the series to get here. If it never reaches TV in argentina, then pirate it.
Most BBC shows don't make it here, I wouldn't mind paying $5 for each episode, but the fact is, I can't. I don't think the BBC would sue me though, since they can't claim any losses anyway.
I think what you mean is that sharing games is considered fair use, but I'm pretty sure that making several copies of a game and distributing it to your friends isn't fair use at all.
Why do people keep forgetting wine? Every day, more and more games work out of the box. Several high end big commercial games just worked perfectly out of the box the day they were release in recent months with no issues at all (ie: Mass Effect 3).
I think what's still missing is promoting wine if you want people to game on linux.
However, I should point something out; if you care about FLOSS, you then you wouldn't promote stuff like Steam (DRM-infested), which goes completely against FLOSS.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: carriers have no busyness selling mobile phones, they need to be separate things, to avoid vendor-lock in, and plenty of other issues. I'm still surprised how many people in the US seem to buy their phones from their carriers really. Phones need to be sold in closed boxes on default factory settings, and sold by phone-selling companies. Otherwise, there's a severe conflict of interests. Imagine if PCs were sold by ISPs, and TVs by cable-companies!
I'm not sure they're in a position to try this. No huge-corp would upgrade it's Exchange servers if it meant that they need to replace all their mobile hardware (BBs, iPhones, Androids), and plenty of other services that connect to Exchange. The result would be: 1) Some sort of third-party middleware. 2) A different upgrade path that doens't include windows.
The developer tools cost a fortune (MS windows + MS visual studio), certainly more than what I make in a few weeks. Meanwhile, most of the other mobile OS's dev tools cost $0. Except iOS, of course.
Howadays software-based audio-decoding is almost as efficient as hardware-based. There' almost no differente in energy consumption, and the cost of the additional isn't worth it.
If Intel keeps up the pace, and nvidia/ati don't want to start loosing market, they'd better follow the example. Intel is already taking over the medium-end market for non-gamers, and low-end market for gamers. Especially due to the huge power saving differences.
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The carrier has nothing to do with this, it's just the manufacturer's problem, or maybe Google's in the long run, but no-one else's.
1) No challenge there.
2) Try a few times, you're bound to have luck sooner or later - pocket heights don't vary that much.
3/4) It's the default, and what most average users will have.
5) Just a few seconds will do.
6) The attacker can run anything on the target phone. I expect that whatever he runs would steal the data through other means, and not NFC (ie: email? remote server?)
How are service providers involved in what updates you install on your OS, which is not developed or maintained by them?
1) Average users don't install several browsers.
2) On a subway or any other crowded enviroment, it's not hard to stay that close to someone for plenty of time.
3) "Rolled in a few months" can also be read as "All S3's will be vulnerable for several more months".
4) Average users don't change the defaults, including disabling the NFC.
Ever been on the subway or a bus? It's around 0cm in either of those during some hours of the day.
Photographers sell a a lot with their own image. And macs make them "look cool".
I actually had a designer friend who owned a mac plenty of years ago, and he told me that many customers were pretty impressed by his laptop and the aesthetics, that it actually added bonus points when trying to land some job.
Stupid, I know, but we all know this is quite true.
3. A saner driver model.
How does this affect the user? Especially, considering his hardware works fine.
4. Support for newer hardware. Vanilla XP needs drivers slipstreamed into the installer to deal with SATA drives.
GP did actually say he would upgrade if he had issues with newer hardware, but currently he does not.
5. Support for more standards-compliant versions of IE. Only Microsoft thinks that tying improvements like that to major OS releases is a good idea.
Ever heard of Firefox? Or Chromium?
There plenty of reasons to hate XP. These are not valid ones.
"Power Users" running windows? "Power Users" really out-of-date software? Never heard of either of those.
I think they're not considering the Total cost of ownership for Windows XP. How much patching, firewalling and antivirusing do you need to constantly monitor in order for your XP machines to be "secure"? The cost of supporting XP must be really high. It must also be pretty hard to choose new hardware that still supports XP.
Indeed, planned obsolescence. You payed for XP knowing this beforhand, and you're paying for Windows 7 knowing it'll happen again.
If they manage to fool the company you work for twice like that, then I'm guessing the on to blame isn't microsoft, but rather the person who keeps on taking these decisions.
AFIP (Argentina's equivalent of the USA's IRS) recomends IE6, and states that their systems are certified to work on IE6 (I always wonder "certified by WHOM?").
There's no chance of them working on firefox, chrome, opera, etc, and one needs to access it to pay taxes if you're self-employed.
While I don't use any version of windows anywhere, it still means I'm thankful computers at my university run XP, since it's the only way I can actually do my tax-related-stuff. As a shitty country, we need XP.
People didn't ever, and never will take laptops to bars. This isn't relevant at all.
I don't think many cell phones are broken/lost in bars either. You'd have to be really stupid to somehow break you phone in a bar.
3k/week? Depends a lot on were you live really. That's about 7x the average salary where I live.
Actually, I'm old enough to go to bars. I honestly haven't gone to any in years though.
My point was that comparing "how many people bring laptops" to bar is stupid. People don't bring laptop to bars, just like they don't bring pillows, and trash cans. It's just not the sort of thing people take to bars. Nor has it ever been.
Actually, I'm guessing he lives in a non-US country. I live in Argentina and we tend to have that issue; a lot of programs are dubbed to spanish - just as badly as anime is dubbed in english.
Another huge downside, is that a lot of series have about 6 months lag with USA, and UK series have around a year. If they ever reach TV here. So I can:
a) Pirate the series from tpb, watch it as it comes out and understand jokes and references to in everywere.
b) Pay a fortune on Cablt-TV, wait 6-12 months for the series to get here. If it never reaches TV in argentina, then pirate it.
Most BBC shows don't make it here, I wouldn't mind paying $5 for each episode, but the fact is, I can't. I don't think the BBC would sue me though, since they can't claim any losses anyway.
Well, look at how many sales Diablo II, or StarCraft made, and they were easy as hell to crack.
I think what you mean is that sharing games is considered fair use, but I'm pretty sure that making several copies of a game and distributing it to your friends isn't fair use at all.
I see a lot less people taking their toothbrushes to bars, so toothbrush sales must be down as well.
Why do people keep forgetting wine? Every day, more and more games work out of the box. Several high end big commercial games just worked perfectly out of the box the day they were release in recent months with no issues at all (ie: Mass Effect 3).
I think what's still missing is promoting wine if you want people to game on linux.
However, I should point something out; if you care about FLOSS, you then you wouldn't promote stuff like Steam (DRM-infested), which goes completely against FLOSS.
That's just the Express version, and I don't see a free version of windows to install it on either. Or a portable version.
I've said it once, and I'll say it again: carriers have no busyness selling mobile phones, they need to be separate things, to avoid vendor-lock in, and plenty of other issues.
I'm still surprised how many people in the US seem to buy their phones from their carriers really. Phones need to be sold in closed boxes on default factory settings, and sold by phone-selling companies. Otherwise, there's a severe conflict of interests.
Imagine if PCs were sold by ISPs, and TVs by cable-companies!
I'm not sure they're in a position to try this. No huge-corp would upgrade it's Exchange servers if it meant that they need to replace all their mobile hardware (BBs, iPhones, Androids), and plenty of other services that connect to Exchange.
The result would be:
1) Some sort of third-party middleware.
2) A different upgrade path that doens't include windows.
The developer tools cost a fortune (MS windows + MS visual studio), certainly more than what I make in a few weeks. Meanwhile, most of the other mobile OS's dev tools cost $0. Except iOS, of course.
Howadays software-based audio-decoding is almost as efficient as hardware-based. There' almost no differente in energy consumption, and the cost of the additional isn't worth it.
If Intel keeps up the pace, and nvidia/ati don't want to start loosing market, they'd better follow the example.
Intel is already taking over the medium-end market for non-gamers, and low-end market for gamers. Especially due to the huge power saving differences.