Since the begining of time (roughly 1981) users have been hacking Apple products. If you wanted lower case letters on an Apple II you had to solder in an extra wire on the keyboard. This voided the warranty but never seemed to cause any real-world problems. In the past Apple has tolerated this sort of activity; only a limited number of people did it and it and Apple didn't suffer. The difference this time around is that Apple is trampling all over this unspoken arrangement. Instead of tolerating the small number of people who want to mess with their iPhone so they can use TMobile instead of ATT (now tell me again why you want to do that?) Apple has decided to make a Federal case out of it.
They are perfectly within their rights to do so, but I don't think the benefit will make up for the damage to their reputation.
It's also worth looking at Scientific American from the 1950's and 1960's when it was being edited by Gerald Peale. It's particularly interesting to compare to issues from the 1980's just before it was sold.
In the early issues, every concept is clearly explained in terms that should be accessible to a competent high school student - and many of them read it. In the 1980's it had degenerated: The first few paragraphs were carefully edited and then it lapsed into jargon.
So, yes, it is possible but it's hard work and it takes a dedicated, skilled editor.
Now, if I was a terrorist would I do my best to conceal a bomb or would I put the the trigger mechanism on the outside of a sweatshirt? Hmmm. And just what makes trained anti-terrorist personel so sure that bombs require blinking lights? Too many James bond movies? I say this was just plain silly.
"Seems like the real option that's needed is a 'don't make data calls on a foreign network' option."
Or how about reasonable roaming charges? If you have a European account the roaming fees are way down now. There is no real reason for them to be so high other than the opportunity to gouge the customer.
I have frequently had email sent to Hotmail go missing; particularly if the Hotmail account is abroad (eg hotmail.fr). This happens both with and without attachments. It does seem to depend on the sending url. If I send the message from comcast.net, it gets through, if I send it from my own server/url it gets deleted. (And no, I'm not on any blacklists.)
We're going to love it when other countries start applying the same rules to US citizens who want to visit. Right now when you go to Chile you have to buy a visa at the airport for $100, payable in cash, before you can enter the country. How was the price set? Well, it's the same amount we charge Chileans visiting the US.
Want to go across the border to see Niagra Falls from the Canadian side. I can see it now, the highway will be lined with booths with computers to allow you to 'register' your itinerary before you can cross the bridge.
When will we wake up and realize that this serves no purpose.
The senate page is from Senator james Inhofe's office. He has been labelled the "dumbest" senator, so I would hate to trust my kids future to his ideas.
"Further, global warming, whether true or not, could not signifigantly affect trade winds which are governed by the spin of the Earth, and it is they that drive the major weather in many tropical and subtropical regions."
The Earth's spin is responsible for the direction of the trade winds, not their existence or force. The winds are generated by the temperature (and hence pressure) difference between the equatorial zone and the temperate zones. If the Earth didn't spin, the winds would blow straight from the south (or north in the southern hemisphere) instead of from the northeast/southeast.
This is fascinating. The system for exiting a process is so complicated that a lot of implementations fail. In fact, it's so complicated that even Microsoft can't get it right. Sounds like an unbounded loop to me.
Dell selling XP instead of Vista benefits MS in the long run. They sell an OEM operating system today, and they have one more customer to upgrade to Vista tomorrow (or whenever it is they drop support or introduce some must-have feature in Vista only.)
The virtual shelf feature sounds great to me. There's nothing quite like finding the section of the library devoted to the topic you are interested in and browsing through the books. That experience is hard to duplicate on the electronic systems I've used. Now if they'd just add the content online....
The article isn't 100% clear but it doesn't sound to me as though the emails in question were spam. It seems more likely that they were communications relating to his business with incriminating evidence in them. He's being charged with mail fraud and money laundering, not with sending spam.
We have a Web site where we process orders for other companies. The pages are customized to our customers' look and feel and the credit cards are process against their accounts but all of the transactions take place on our server and use our certificate.
We have no problem getting the new certificates but what company name should appear in the bar? If we put our own name in, we will consfuse the end users who have never heard of us. If we want to use our customers company name, then they each have to get their own certificate and we have to assign separate IP addresses to each of our customers - at the moement we only need one IP.
Cingular will sell you a $100 refill for their GoPhone. It expires after 12 months and gets you 800 minutes. If you renew before the 12 months are up they will roll over the minutes. It will work with their phones or with any unlocked GSM phone.
Hey, he's right about the system idle process. It doesn't make sense but every once in a while my computer just freezes and nothing happens for quite a long period of time. The symptom is that the system idle process shows as consuming all the cycles. I know it isn't doing anything, but neither are any of the other processes, and they should be.
I was in China for a month last year. In the Western hotels you would invariably get the BBC news on the tv, BUT every once in while a story about China would start and then a few seconds later the channel would black out. It would be out for a few minutes then it would come back on and another story would be playing. It amused me that they had the capability to black it out but didn't take the trouble to play it on a delay so that they could censor it before the story started.
On the whole, I found people reasonably well informed. They certainly didn't see things the same way we did but they knew quite a lot about both the outside world and their own country. They are fiercly proud of their country and what they have achieved, with good reason.
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Since the begining of time (roughly 1981) users have been hacking Apple products. If you wanted lower case letters on an Apple II you had to solder in an extra wire on the keyboard. This voided the warranty but never seemed to cause any real-world problems. In the past Apple has tolerated this sort of activity; only a limited number of people did it and it and Apple didn't suffer. The difference this time around is that Apple is trampling all over this unspoken arrangement. Instead of tolerating the small number of people who want to mess with their iPhone so they can use TMobile instead of ATT (now tell me again why you want to do that?) Apple has decided to make a Federal case out of it.
They are perfectly within their rights to do so, but I don't think the benefit will make up for the damage to their reputation.
There's a sample search phrase posted in the comments to the original blog entry. It produced a lot of funny .cn results for me. Here it is:
Bayesian networks and decision graphs Finn rapidshare
It's also worth looking at Scientific American from the 1950's and 1960's when it was being edited by Gerald Peale. It's particularly interesting to compare to issues from the 1980's just before it was sold.
In the early issues, every concept is clearly explained in terms that should be accessible to a competent high school student - and many of them read it. In the 1980's it had degenerated: The first few paragraphs were carefully edited and then it lapsed into jargon.
So, yes, it is possible but it's hard work and it takes a dedicated, skilled editor.
Now, if I was a terrorist would I do my best to conceal a bomb or would I put the the trigger mechanism on the outside of a sweatshirt? Hmmm. And just what makes trained anti-terrorist personel so sure that bombs require blinking lights? Too many James bond movies? I say this was just plain silly.
"Seems like the real option that's needed is a 'don't make data calls on a foreign network' option."
Or how about reasonable roaming charges? If you have a European account the roaming fees are way down now. There is no real reason for them to be so high other than the opportunity to gouge the customer.
I have frequently had email sent to Hotmail go missing; particularly if the Hotmail account is abroad (eg hotmail.fr). This happens both with and without attachments. It does seem to depend on the sending url. If I send the message from comcast.net, it gets through, if I send it from my own server/url it gets deleted. (And no, I'm not on any blacklists.)
We're going to love it when other countries start applying the same rules to US citizens who want to visit. Right now when you go to Chile you have to buy a visa at the airport for $100, payable in cash, before you can enter the country. How was the price set? Well, it's the same amount we charge Chileans visiting the US.
Want to go across the border to see Niagra Falls from the Canadian side. I can see it now, the highway will be lined with booths with computers to allow you to 'register' your itinerary before you can cross the bridge.
When will we wake up and realize that this serves no purpose.
Yes, but a lot of the numbers look as though they are the result of key loggers, not slipups by the merchants.
The senate page is from Senator james Inhofe's office. He has been labelled the "dumbest" senator, so I would hate to trust my kids future to his ideas.
"Further, global warming, whether true or not, could not signifigantly affect trade winds which are governed by the spin of the Earth, and it is they that drive the major weather in many tropical and subtropical regions."
The Earth's spin is responsible for the direction of the trade winds, not their existence or force. The winds are generated by the temperature (and hence pressure) difference between the equatorial zone and the temperate zones. If the Earth didn't spin, the winds would blow straight from the south (or north in the southern hemisphere) instead of from the northeast/southeast.
Aw shucks, and I thought this was going to be about Report Program Generator :(
This is fascinating. The system for exiting a process is so complicated that a lot of implementations fail. In fact, it's so complicated that even Microsoft can't get it right. Sounds like an unbounded loop to me.
Dell selling XP instead of Vista benefits MS in the long run. They sell an OEM operating system today, and they have one more customer to upgrade to Vista tomorrow (or whenever it is they drop support or introduce some must-have feature in Vista only.)
Wow, does that include Fortan and Cobal? (Couldn't be C# because it requires lifelong fluency.)
The virtual shelf feature sounds great to me. There's nothing quite like finding the section of the library devoted to the topic you are interested in and browsing through the books. That experience is hard to duplicate on the electronic systems I've used. Now if they'd just add the content online....
Microwaves predate the space program by many years. Here's a short history: http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html/
Sounds like good news for Bose; there are going to be a lot of people buying those noise-cancelling earphones.
The article isn't 100% clear but it doesn't sound to me as though the emails in question were spam. It seems more likely that they were communications relating to his business with incriminating evidence in them. He's being charged with mail fraud and money laundering, not with sending spam.
We have a Web site where we process orders for other companies. The pages are customized to our customers' look and feel and the credit cards are process against their accounts but all of the transactions take place on our server and use our certificate.
We have no problem getting the new certificates but what company name should appear in the bar? If we put our own name in, we will consfuse the end users who have never heard of us. If we want to use our customers company name, then they each have to get their own certificate and we have to assign separate IP addresses to each of our customers - at the moement we only need one IP.
What a nuisance.
Cingular will sell you a $100 refill for their GoPhone. It expires after 12 months and gets you 800 minutes. If you renew before the 12 months are up they will roll over the minutes. It will work with their phones or with any unlocked GSM phone.
Hey, he's right about the system idle process. It doesn't make sense but every once in a while my computer just freezes and nothing happens for quite a long period of time. The symptom is that the system idle process shows as consuming all the cycles. I know it isn't doing anything, but neither are any of the other processes, and they should be.
And besides, what about Alex Doonesbury?
Hey, you have to admit that Madamme Curie was hot.
I was in China for a month last year. In the Western hotels you would invariably get the BBC news on the tv, BUT every once in while a story about China would start and then a few seconds later the channel would black out. It would be out for a few minutes then it would come back on and another story would be playing. It amused me that they had the capability to black it out but didn't take the trouble to play it on a delay so that they could censor it before the story started.
On the whole, I found people reasonably well informed. They certainly didn't see things the same way we did but they knew quite a lot about both the outside world and their own country. They are fiercly proud of their country and what they have achieved, with good reason.
#5. On closer inspection Diebold's code turns out to be GPL'd.