Same thing with any game or software. Want to make a trial period? 24 hours is more than enough to evaluate if it is good enough or not. 7 days is unreasonable.
"If the passcode was too long to bruteforce, the company said it was possible to bypass this by hacking what are called "escrow keys," which are created by Apple applications such as iTunes and stored on a user's computer."
If you also happen to steal a computer along with an iPhone, you might be able to. And for the record, before the OTA update this might actually be a true scenario (you need a computer to get stuff into-from your iPhone)
"If the passcode was too long to bruteforce, the company said it was possible to bypass this by hacking what are called "escrow keys," which are created by Apple applications such as iTunes and stored on a user's computer."
Source or I do not believe it. I highly doubt every time you change your pin/id method it re-encrypts everything on your phone with the new key (that would require quite a while, even with symmetric encryption). I believe the problem is that all (default) keys are generated during production and then used for everything.
Also, the intuitive interface, the great phones and... APPS. For any/everything.
The only thing BB's still have going for them is the encryption and (some) of the physical keyboards, that I consider the best qwerty keyboards on the market.
There were news some time ago that said that the 256 bit encryption was based on a 4 digit numerical value, so it was possible to brute-force in less than 24 hours.
This is not exactly true. Some parts might be secure because they're encrypted and whatnot, but the phones themselves are easy to jailbreak/root and get access to everything you have in there.
Furthermore, the state of Android updates leaves most phones frozen in time in relation to security updates... And iPhone's encryption, at least, has already been broken by a Russian firm.
Not saying they are insecure, but stating they are the same is dangerous. The reason RIM is liked it's because it has stood the test of time and, until now, not one is complaining about security.
When BB was the majority, you had a reason to stick around. But there are new kids on the block that don't rely on developers to adapt to their stupidly absurd development environment.
They release an "upgrade" that degrades performance on older phones. People update because of the new features but soon decide it is too slow for their taste and try to downgraded back to when it was ok.
Since now they won't be able to, and their phone is ruined, they decide they need a new phone. But all those apps they bought are stuck to iThings, so, not wanting to lose them, they buy a new iPhone.
Then any company that promotes it's products from within another product they own should hide. How dare skype or Apple push their products through their products!!!
They give their service for free, so you should just accept it as it is. It's a small thing when gmail is still so much better than everyone else...
PS: And after reading the article I honestly believe the case is easier than that. Google tracks you by more than your account, so I do think he "noticed" both accounts belonged to the same person and defaulted the filters to what it already knew about him.
If it would be possible to teach a neural network or something like it to get tweets it recognized as sports commentary and generating an automated live stream (as long as you had the event tag you could subscribe).
In europe we get a screen asking what browser we want to use. They did all that, true, but by bundling IE it was thought as an unfair advantage and they were forced to include the browser ballot.
And, as I said, you don't really get new browsers on iOS, you get Safari running on another skin.
It has nothing to do with being able to install, microsoft got hit hard because it bundled IE with their OS and Opera didn't like it. You have always been able to install another browser.
And on iOS you can't install your browser, you can only skin safari and you're dependent on what apple lets webviews do. For the past months, for example, safari was way faster than any other iOS browser simply because Apple said so.
I'm quite sure that the near monopoly of some platforms might end up biting Apple in the ass some day (for example, bundling Safari and the Appstore with their new OS)
And then there is the (small) logistic problem of building a spaceship that could get there. As in, infinite fuel and traveling without a reasonable timeframe for a human being.
If you know the explanation, the machine will know it too. That's not the limitation, the biggest problem is the same expression used in different contexts. Markov models and neural networks can only get you so far if you can't analyse everything. That's why I say that what we miss is power
well, "true AI" is relative. If you have enough computing to support a complex combination of sequences of words, sequences of sequences of words (etc), the current AI is enough. You just need enough processing and storage to be able to distinguish patterns within patterns within patterns.
That's my opinion obviously, but great steps have been made in this area lately, and I strongly believe in what I'm saying:)
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine the following scenario:
I go on a weekend visit to a city.
I buy a 30$ GPS software for my phone
I use it for the weekend.
I return it.
Same thing with any game or software. Want to make a trial period? 24 hours is more than enough to evaluate if it is good enough or not. 7 days is unreasonable.
please, do tell why it is stupid.
I don't mind constructive criticism.
Still think that should be considered a scamm. It tries really hard to look legit on everything but the description...
They have refunding protocols, just not for 7 days.
In a few years, if this sticks, we'll see a slashdot article about common words like n**** f** etc that should be avoided.
I answered to this later, but:
"If the passcode was too long to bruteforce, the company said it was possible to bypass this by hacking what are called "escrow keys," which are created by Apple applications such as iTunes and stored on a user's computer."
If you also happen to steal a computer along with an iPhone, you might be able to. And for the record, before the OTA update this might actually be a true scenario (you need a computer to get stuff into-from your iPhone)
but,
"If the passcode was too long to bruteforce, the company said it was possible to bypass this by hacking what are called "escrow keys," which are created by Apple applications such as iTunes and stored on a user's computer."
So still not BB like
I stand corrected, the key is the one encrypted with the used defined password that by default is 4 digits.
I answered to this later, but I want a source to that.
No article I read mentioned that. And I do not believe the phone re-encrypts anything because you changed id method.
I might be wrong, but it wouldn't be feasible.
You sure about that?
Source or I do not believe it. I highly doubt every time you change your pin/id method it re-encrypts everything on your phone with the new key (that would require quite a while, even with symmetric encryption). I believe the problem is that all (default) keys are generated during production and then used for everything.
For one, just read the thread bellow this one.
Also, the intuitive interface, the great phones and... APPS. For any/everything.
The only thing BB's still have going for them is the encryption and (some) of the physical keyboards, that I consider the best qwerty keyboards on the market.
There were news some time ago that said that the 256 bit encryption was based on a 4 digit numerical value, so it was possible to brute-force in less than 24 hours.
I wouldn't stick my head out for the iPhone yet.
This is not exactly true. Some parts might be secure because they're encrypted and whatnot, but the phones themselves are easy to jailbreak/root and get access to everything you have in there.
Furthermore, the state of Android updates leaves most phones frozen in time in relation to security updates... And iPhone's encryption, at least, has already been broken by a Russian firm.
Not saying they are insecure, but stating they are the same is dangerous. The reason RIM is liked it's because it has stood the test of time and, until now, not one is complaining about security.
The judge is still out on that.
This is what I was going to say.
When BB was the majority, you had a reason to stick around. But there are new kids on the block that don't rely on developers to adapt to their stupidly absurd development environment.
I'm quite sure you can achieve something like this.
If you're standing 2 feet from your cell tower.
I feel that their objective is simple.
They release an "upgrade" that degrades performance on older phones. People update because of the new features but soon decide it is too slow for their taste and try to downgraded back to when it was ok.
Since now they won't be able to, and their phone is ruined, they decide they need a new phone. But all those apps they bought are stuck to iThings, so, not wanting to lose them, they buy a new iPhone.
*Sigh*
He forgets something important.
Google tracks you by more than your account. Unless he changed system and IP address I highly doubt gmail didn't "know" who it was.
Then any company that promotes it's products from within another product they own should hide. How dare skype or Apple push their products through their products!!!
They give their service for free, so you should just accept it as it is. It's a small thing when gmail is still so much better than everyone else...
PS: And after reading the article I honestly believe the case is easier than that. Google tracks you by more than your account, so I do think he "noticed" both accounts belonged to the same person and defaulted the filters to what it already knew about him.
If it would be possible to teach a neural network or something like it to get tweets it recognized as sports commentary and generating an automated live stream (as long as you had the event tag you could subscribe).
In europe we get a screen asking what browser we want to use. They did all that, true, but by bundling IE it was thought as an unfair advantage and they were forced to include the browser ballot.
And, as I said, you don't really get new browsers on iOS, you get Safari running on another skin.
It has nothing to do with being able to install, microsoft got hit hard because it bundled IE with their OS and Opera didn't like it. You have always been able to install another browser.
And on iOS you can't install your browser, you can only skin safari and you're dependent on what apple lets webviews do. For the past months, for example, safari was way faster than any other iOS browser simply because Apple said so.
I'm quite sure that the near monopoly of some platforms might end up biting Apple in the ass some day (for example, bundling Safari and the Appstore with their new OS)
And then there is the (small) logistic problem of building a spaceship that could get there. As in, infinite fuel and traveling without a reasonable timeframe for a human being.
If you know the explanation, the machine will know it too. That's not the limitation, the biggest problem is the same expression used in different contexts. Markov models and neural networks can only get you so far if you can't analyse everything. That's why I say that what we miss is power
well, "true AI" is relative. If you have enough computing to support a complex combination of sequences of words, sequences of sequences of words (etc), the current AI is enough. You just need enough processing and storage to be able to distinguish patterns within patterns within patterns.
That's my opinion obviously, but great steps have been made in this area lately, and I strongly believe in what I'm saying :)
"According to Kurzweil, machines will reach human levels of translation quality by the year 2029."
That's from the article, by the way.
I say, it'll happen way sooner. Not by 2029, I'd say that in 10 years we'll get there.