Apple was not supposed to have any viable attack vectors; that's what made it so superior to Windows - you never had to worry about malware or viruses.
Maybe the Surface RT. The Pro has much of what power users wanted out of the iPad, but which Cupertino has decided isn't part of their base, i.e. file access, stylus input, full applications. If MS smacked Intel around enough to get a low power / dual mode chip that let them slim the chassis down to within 10% of the iPad weight/thickness and still get 8+ hours of battery life in surfing/work processing mode, and threw in an LTE chip, people would start wondering why you even need an iPad.
Probably too late for you, but my first thought was: Register a corporation, sell all of your business assets to that corporation for a dollar. It may be too late though; the courts tend to frown on this sort of thing, especially for small players. Plus, you may have been infringing as your sole proprietorship all these years and still be liable personally.
I hope you have $5,000-10,000 sitting around to find out if this actually applies to you and at least attempt to make them go away.
A question, though: was the letter sent using a traceable method? You'll want a lawyer anyway, but it would be nice to have plausible deniability that you every received this communication to begin with.
1) If cell data is off on the phone, it won't use data - unless the carrier is specifically bypassing the user settings to gather data (which, generally, it won't...I used to have an AT&T iPhone 4 with 200MB of data a month. If I got close to my limit, which only happened twice in about 3 years, I would turn off cell data off.)
Besides, why would they not put a data block on his phone if he requested it? It's an option in their system (for said children for whom streaming a couple gigs of youtube a day seems commonplace), why not just allow it? It's not like they're subsidizing his iPhone purchase.
It's what you do when people do not find sufficient value in what you produce to commission you for works.
My passion is singing. There aren't enough people out there who will pay to hear me sing to support my family in the lifestyle I choose*. So for 40-50 hours a week I provide engineering services - design, analysis, consulting. See, there are enough people around me who need or desire the type of engineering services I can provide to support my family, so I have chosen to do that instead of sing for a living. Other members of my band heal children, give financial advice, or wait tables at local restaurants. Not everybody gets to live their passion with an income that satisfies their every need.
Ever seen the guys who paint/chalk all those cool trompe l'oeil images on sidewalks? That's a pretty amazing talent, and it takes a lot of time, but nobody seems to be willing to pay them for photos of them, or the pay to walk down the street and look at them.
Sometimes what you love to do is something that makes enough money to form an income. For 99+% of humans on this planet, that means getting a day job.
Yes, but then she would have to work several hours every single day, and as soon as she stopped busking she would never make a single cent. Provided that her music has staying power, she stands to receive something on the order of $100,000 over her copyright term for the music she has produced with not a single minute of additional effort, outlay, or risk. That's not bad for a style which, to my knowledge, has never even had a sub-section in a traditional music store and produces only six hits on arguably the largest music site in the world.
Builders may be able to build them, but I can guarantee you they haven't got a fucking clue what actually keeps them from falling down. Interesting, most architects don't know either. I suspect this is also the case when considering heating/cooling, and electrifying them as well, but those are not my specialty.
If you coded software like we build houses, you would never make an external call and every single routine would be accessed using GOTO.
No - it's easy: What would you allow your 8 year old (or 12, or 16 year old) to tell you as true?
The top two are TRUE and the rest are FALSE. You provide a "human" error band of a few percent on actual facts (the federal government spent 2.5 Trillion Dollars last year would be true, and I'd take anything from 2.4 to 2.7 as an acceptable answer, since 2.67 was requested and 2.49 was approved).
Why should we allow half or partial truths from our leaders, when we don't accept them from our children?
Because facts are facts - and if the fact checker is proven to be wrong, there will be outcry. That's the nice thing about facts - they are facts.
Politicians (and mathematicians) will argue that 2 + 2 = 5 (for sufficiently large values of 2), but a computer knows that 2.0000 + 2.0000 does not equal 5.0000 and will note that - for the parameters provided that sum is incorrect. The politician will then have to "admit" that they "fudged" 2 a bit, and they really meant 2.3, and then rounded up. And if you don't think 0.3 matters, let 2 bet the current US budget in Trillions. that 0.3 they left off was $300 Billion, and they threw in an extra $400 Billion when they rounded - and that's not an insignificant amount.
Anyone can go look up the facts, and within a certain margin they will all agree for a set of parameters. Facts which change either (a) aren't facts or (b) are in areas where not enough is known to establish facts. In 2013, there are very, very few "facts" which vary by more than a couple of percent, and even fewer which do so and are the subject of political talking points.
The difference is that the T/Z interaction details are not facts.
How much money was allocated to the military in the last ten years in budgets? How much money was spent by the military in the last ten years? What percentage of the revenue of the federal budget is collected as income tax on those making in the top X% of income earners? How many people receive social security who also have assets greater than $2,000,000? Are there more or fewer naval ships in service today than in 2000? Do the bottom 50% of income households pay zero income taxes? zero federal taxes? zero taxes? How many days of vacation has the president taken in the past 4 years? Has the president taken more vacation days per year than the previous president? How many firearms are purchased in the US in a year? How many intruders are shot by firearms owners defending their property or person? How many suicides are the result of firearm use? Of poison use? Of jumping off buildings? What is the national average price of hamburger?
All verifiable facts from reliable, independent sources. Based on the ability of Watson to parse, search, and manage data, I think it's also possible to determine if the data is in question.
As someone who routinely fact checks and is appalled at the gross inaccuracies out there (not just the twisting or cherry picking, but simply wrong) I, for one, welcome our new robotic fact checking overlord(s).
It happens, but in that lucky instance you get to simply overwrite the 20GB of "broken" with the 20GB of "pristine backup" that is part of that 41GB of space. So, in the end, you don't need a single extra byte of space.
Copyright doesn't enter into it. The process of "unlocking" is an unauthorized (by the creator) circumvention of digital rights management. Boom - against the law - game, set, match.
This is based on the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA - and act which is not really about copyright but rather about encryption and the legality of removing encryption. Nothing about copyright changed in the DMCA. Except that now instead of having to actually violate copyright to be in violation of a law, you simply need to access copyrighted material you have purchased or licensed without using the method of access supplied by the content provider to be in violation.
I would love (LOVE) to find out which congressmen have, or have family members, with ripped material in their possession and go black-ops apeshit on their houses. Because I can guarantee you that most* of them never really figured that this would be the result; their handlers simply told them that this was absolutely necessary to stem piracy and save everything that is good an wholesome in the universe from evil hackers.
*The rest are actively in bed with the labels and would crush anyone who stands between them and an augmented payday. No party has a monopoly on either side.
I was going to post that the military shock requirements for transport are MIL-810 and that's only a 2m drop on any surf/edge/corner without operational damage, but it turns out, it doesn't even meet that spec without requiring extra packaging:
"The Bunker XRV-5241 can withstand a free-fall drop of around 1 meter, but for parachute deployment it needs to be packaged into the case for additional protection."
You know, we can package inertial guidance mechanisms (some of the most shock sensitive components you're likely to ship, which have about 1/5th the shock resistance of a china plate) to meet MIL-810, so if you're going to require that we add special packing to meet the basic transport spec we may as well not spend $4k on this and save the money for packing.
According to TFA, you can unlock it yourself - you're the only person authorized to unlock it. The catch is that nobody can help you, or they'll be in violation of traffiking in circumvention methods or software, which is illegal. Just like DVDs and Bluray discs.
If they take you to court, you can claim either fair use and/or interoperability requirements in order to make your phone work on another carrier. If they take your unlocking service to court, your service will likely have no such claim as it was not for their use. At least, that's how I understand the goofiness which is the DMCA.
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Apple was not supposed to have any viable attack vectors; that's what made it so superior to Windows - you never had to worry about malware or viruses.
Maybe the Surface RT. The Pro has much of what power users wanted out of the iPad, but which Cupertino has decided isn't part of their base, i.e. file access, stylus input, full applications. If MS smacked Intel around enough to get a low power / dual mode chip that let them slim the chassis down to within 10% of the iPad weight/thickness and still get 8+ hours of battery life in surfing/work processing mode, and threw in an LTE chip, people would start wondering why you even need an iPad.
Isn't it a shame that there isn't a significant, statutory penalty for filing or threatening to file a false claim?
Probably too late for you, but my first thought was: Register a corporation, sell all of your business assets to that corporation for a dollar. It may be too late though; the courts tend to frown on this sort of thing, especially for small players. Plus, you may have been infringing as your sole proprietorship all these years and still be liable personally.
I hope you have $5,000-10,000 sitting around to find out if this actually applies to you and at least attempt to make them go away.
A question, though: was the letter sent using a traceable method? You'll want a lawyer anyway, but it would be nice to have plausible deniability that you every received this communication to begin with.
I'm not sure what to say here.
Looks like the Empire is playing both sides in this game...
1) If cell data is off on the phone, it won't use data - unless the carrier is specifically bypassing the user settings to gather data (which, generally, it won't...I used to have an AT&T iPhone 4 with 200MB of data a month. If I got close to my limit, which only happened twice in about 3 years, I would turn off cell data off.)
Besides, why would they not put a data block on his phone if he requested it? It's an option in their system (for said children for whom streaming a couple gigs of youtube a day seems commonplace), why not just allow it? It's not like they're subsidizing his iPhone purchase.
It's what you do when people do not find sufficient value in what you produce to commission you for works.
My passion is singing. There aren't enough people out there who will pay to hear me sing to support my family in the lifestyle I choose*. So for 40-50 hours a week I provide engineering services - design, analysis, consulting. See, there are enough people around me who need or desire the type of engineering services I can provide to support my family, so I have chosen to do that instead of sing for a living. Other members of my band heal children, give financial advice, or wait tables at local restaurants. Not everybody gets to live their passion with an income that satisfies their every need.
*Or likely in any reasonable first world lifestye
Ever seen the guys who paint/chalk all those cool trompe l'oeil images on sidewalks? That's a pretty amazing talent, and it takes a lot of time, but nobody seems to be willing to pay them for photos of them, or the pay to walk down the street and look at them.
Sometimes what you love to do is something that makes enough money to form an income. For 99+% of humans on this planet, that means getting a day job.
Yes, but then she would have to work several hours every single day, and as soon as she stopped busking she would never make a single cent.
Provided that her music has staying power, she stands to receive something on the order of $100,000 over her copyright term for the music she has produced with not a single minute of additional effort, outlay, or risk. That's not bad for a style which, to my knowledge, has never even had a sub-section in a traditional music store and produces only six hits on arguably the largest music site in the world.
Builders may be able to build them, but I can guarantee you they haven't got a fucking clue what actually keeps them from falling down. Interesting, most architects don't know either. I suspect this is also the case when considering heating/cooling, and electrifying them as well, but those are not my specialty.
If you coded software like we build houses, you would never make an external call and every single routine would be accessed using GOTO.
You assume that a mobile launcher can outrun the collective blast radii of a MRV payload. You would be wrong.
Practically every residential structure is mobile.
It's like a meter, but the white version.
No - it's easy: What would you allow your 8 year old (or 12, or 16 year old) to tell you as true?
The top two are TRUE and the rest are FALSE. You provide a "human" error band of a few percent on actual facts (the federal government spent 2.5 Trillion Dollars last year would be true, and I'd take anything from 2.4 to 2.7 as an acceptable answer, since 2.67 was requested and 2.49 was approved).
Why should we allow half or partial truths from our leaders, when we don't accept them from our children?
Because facts are facts - and if the fact checker is proven to be wrong, there will be outcry. That's the nice thing about facts - they are facts.
Politicians (and mathematicians) will argue that 2 + 2 = 5 (for sufficiently large values of 2), but a computer knows that 2.0000 + 2.0000 does not equal 5.0000 and will note that - for the parameters provided that sum is incorrect. The politician will then have to "admit" that they "fudged" 2 a bit, and they really meant 2.3, and then rounded up. And if you don't think 0.3 matters, let 2 bet the current US budget in Trillions. that 0.3 they left off was $300 Billion, and they threw in an extra $400 Billion when they rounded - and that's not an insignificant amount.
Anyone can go look up the facts, and within a certain margin they will all agree for a set of parameters. Facts which change either (a) aren't facts or (b) are in areas where not enough is known to establish facts. In 2013, there are very, very few "facts" which vary by more than a couple of percent, and even fewer which do so and are the subject of political talking points.
The difference is that the T/Z interaction details are not facts.
How much money was allocated to the military in the last ten years in budgets?
How much money was spent by the military in the last ten years?
What percentage of the revenue of the federal budget is collected as income tax on those making in the top X% of income earners?
How many people receive social security who also have assets greater than $2,000,000?
Are there more or fewer naval ships in service today than in 2000?
Do the bottom 50% of income households pay zero income taxes? zero federal taxes? zero taxes?
How many days of vacation has the president taken in the past 4 years? Has the president taken more vacation days per year than the previous president?
How many firearms are purchased in the US in a year?
How many intruders are shot by firearms owners defending their property or person?
How many suicides are the result of firearm use? Of poison use? Of jumping off buildings?
What is the national average price of hamburger?
All verifiable facts from reliable, independent sources. Based on the ability of Watson to parse, search, and manage data, I think it's also possible to determine if the data is in question.
As someone who routinely fact checks and is appalled at the gross inaccuracies out there (not just the twisting or cherry picking, but simply wrong) I, for one, welcome our new robotic fact checking overlord(s).
Go install OSX or Linux on it, then - it's a full x86 computer, not some Android, MS-RT, or iOS toy.
It happens, but in that lucky instance you get to simply overwrite the 20GB of "broken" with the 20GB of "pristine backup" that is part of that 41GB of space. So, in the end, you don't need a single extra byte of space.
This isn't a tablet for your mother.
Copyright doesn't enter into it. The process of "unlocking" is an unauthorized (by the creator) circumvention of digital rights management. Boom - against the law - game, set, match.
This is based on the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA - and act which is not really about copyright but rather about encryption and the legality of removing encryption. Nothing about copyright changed in the DMCA. Except that now instead of having to actually violate copyright to be in violation of a law, you simply need to access copyrighted material you have purchased or licensed without using the method of access supplied by the content provider to be in violation.
I would love (LOVE) to find out which congressmen have, or have family members, with ripped material in their possession and go black-ops apeshit on their houses. Because I can guarantee you that most* of them never really figured that this would be the result; their handlers simply told them that this was absolutely necessary to stem piracy and save everything that is good an wholesome in the universe from evil hackers.
*The rest are actively in bed with the labels and would crush anyone who stands between them and an augmented payday. No party has a monopoly on either side.
I was going to post that the military shock requirements for transport are MIL-810 and that's only a 2m drop on any surf/edge/corner without operational damage, but it turns out, it doesn't even meet that spec without requiring extra packaging:
"The Bunker XRV-5241 can withstand a free-fall drop of around 1 meter, but for parachute deployment it needs to be packaged into the case for additional protection."
You know, we can package inertial guidance mechanisms (some of the most shock sensitive components you're likely to ship, which have about 1/5th the shock resistance of a china plate) to meet MIL-810, so if you're going to require that we add special packing to meet the basic transport spec we may as well not spend $4k on this and save the money for packing.
According to TFA, you can unlock it yourself - you're the only person authorized to unlock it. The catch is that nobody can help you, or they'll be in violation of traffiking in circumvention methods or software, which is illegal. Just like DVDs and Bluray discs.
If they take you to court, you can claim either fair use and/or interoperability requirements in order to make your phone work on another carrier. If they take your unlocking service to court, your service will likely have no such claim as it was not for their use. At least, that's how I understand the goofiness which is the DMCA.
Yeah - you can tell that corporate, money grubbing, fuck the environment and the people son-of-a-bitc....
Wait...who were we talking about?