probably containing 99% pirated apps in the first place, because why the hell else would you not use the official marketplace.
Because marketplace access is limited only to certain operating system builds. There are many devices (mainly the sub-$100 tablets) out there that cannot use marketplace. The unofficial x86 port (used on some Atom based hardware) also cannot access marketplace.
You didn't actually read that thread, did you? Applications stored on the SD card are stored in an encrypted filesystem that's loopback mounted. The key stays on the phone, so the threat model you suggest doesn't work.
Yes, the external storage APIs don't provide security, but guess what: those APIs are intended for storing and accessing external files, i.e. stuff that's supposed to be public. Even with SD-based apps, the databases maintained using the system standard database API are secure.
What i'm arguing is that a display of 2x the DPI will look better than a 2x over-sample.
Well, sure, but there are better methods of antialiasing than supersampling. True antialiasing examines the geometry of the objects behind the pixels, rather than just examining more pixels.
No, even with higher DPI than the eye can resolve, you still need AA sometimes, as aliasing can present other problems than the jagged lines you're familiar with (e.g. moiré patterns).
There's a reason why the 9/11/2001 stock options positions have never been released, and probably never will.
Yes. And it's the same reason why neither the 8/11 or the 12/11 positions have been released: they're commercially sensitive confidential information that is in all likelihood not retained beyond the end of the day of trading, and which in any case would require a huge amount of effort to collate as almost all of those positions were held by thousands of brokers on behalf of hundreds of thousands of private clients, and only the brokers would know who the clients were.
At least here in the UK, the easiest way would be to apply for skilled worker status, which gets you a 37 month visa; you can then extend this by another 24 months. After you have been living in the UK for 60 months you can apply for citizenship.
You don't want to use an air-source heat pump if avoidable. They're very inefficient. Strip out the machine's fans and pump R134a directly across its heatsinks would be my suggestion.
Yes, but as methylation of DNA is not preserved when the DNA is duplicated, any effects of these additional bases are only localised. AIUI, different cells in your body will have different methylation states. This means that the information about which precise bases are methylated is not especially useful for most things you would want a gene sequence for. It's important for those studying internal cell processes, especially DNA repair, but otherwise not really interesting.
1. Full genome sequences are useful for research. Lowering the cost opens up new avenues of research (e.g. comparing genomes of thousands of individuals, rather than the much smaller samples used today). Imagine performing automated correlation tests on, say, ten thousand sufferers of a particular disease versus ten thousand control subjects. The results could be quite interesting.
2. Patented genetic tests normally work by patenting a method of isolating a particular gene and determining its presence. If this can be done by a quick grep, the chances of a patent actually being upheld become rather slim. This should drive down the costs of genetic testing.
Neither of these means you should rush out and get your genome sequenced. It's just the possibility that it can be done cheaply if necessary that's important.
Kirrily "Skud" Robert is not his real name. Kirrily Robert is his real name and Skud is his nickname.
Who is to say what is a real name and what isn't? Under common law, I can change my name merely by giving notice to those I deal with of my new name. So if I open my google profile page, delete my real name, and enter "julesh" in its place, as far as Google is concerned, that is now my real name.
Move to the EU. The behaviour you describe is almost certainly illegal under EU competition law, and eBay UK does not have this restriction:
Sellers with their own merchant credit card processing account, and those who use a third-party credit card processor, may also offer their buyers the option of paying directly with a credit card online or by phone.
If you're doing such a large transaction volume that PayPal will start holding funds, you can probably afford a real Internet merchant account with a bank.
When dealing with a vendor I don't trust, I'd rather work through PayPal. PayPal offers a friendlier and easier-to-use dispute resolution system than my bank does, so if my goods don't turn up I'd rather be able to dispute the transaction with PayPal. Therefore, presented with two merchants, one of whom takes PayPal and the other doesn't, and little else to choose between them, I'll take PayPal every time.
So in my other hat as a not-very-well-known retailer, it's to my advantage to accept paypal, even if their terms of business are less friendly to vendors than, say, RBS WorldPay (to pick a merchant processor I've worked with before).
Most are made in Taiwan. For China in my original post read PRC.
But do these have access to Android Market?
Yes.
GSM but not CDMA, leaving AT&T as the only choice once AT&T completes its acquisition of T-Mobile.
Ah, I had momentarily forgotten that GSM networks aren't universal in the US like they are here in the UK. Still, there are plenty of CDMA-capable phones on this list. I'd recommend against buying a phone here that appears to be from a manufacturer you recognize -- it isn't, and there's a chance of it being intercepted at customs.
I remember arcade games that used to put up a message "Insert coin to continue" and then a countdown timer would start. That must have been back in the 80s.
The patent (odd that nobody's linked it AFAICT) will probably include as one of its requirements that a remote server is contacted and data downloaded from it. I don't think any of those 80s games did that, but most modern in-game-purchasing systems do.
These are Google's own numbers here suggesting that the iPad is still eating their lunch.
Except: they're only considering Android 3.0 or 3.1 devices. They're ignoring the 7" Galaxy Tab, which was the only well-known brand Android tab available for a very long time. They're ignoring all the Archos tabs, and all the cheap-ass Chinese import tabs. They're ignoring the tab that I saw sold in my local supermarket with Android 1.5 on an Atom-based system dual-booting with Windows 7. Instead they're looking at sales figures of a system that has only been available for a month or so, and until last week only on a couple of very high end devices that were widely regarded as broken (e.g. had SD card slots that didn't work).
So comparing those figures with all iPads sold ever is rather unfair.
Three words: Eee Pad Transformer. It would be interesting to see its share of the Android tab market, but you know that with the exception of maybe a few days of delay, shipping share equaled sales share for a few months. It was not until the past few weeks that Transformer backordering and price scalping ended.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting. I note that on sites that sell both Eee pads and iPads and have a "sort by poularity" option, the Eee pad is sorting higher at the moment. Presumably because there's finally a brandname Android tab that competes with the iPad on features, isn't known to be broken (*cough* Motorola Zoom), and is priced substantially cheaper than the iPad. We knew it could be done, so why it's taken so long I have to wonder....
Every one that turns on one, because they contact Google servers to check for updates and other things. Just what did you think "activation" meant in the context of tablets anyway?
I have one right here that I use every day but has never been connected to the Internet. Also, google will only collect update stats on devices that are using Google's marketplace -- a lot of the cheaper devices (e.g. Archos tablets, or the Atom-based tab I saw on sale in my local supermarket this morning which is presumably using the unofficial x86 port) use alternative marketplace sites instead, so google probably never get to hear from them,.
Only a total nut would intentionally choose a solution that ties you to a single hosting provider who have acquired a reputation for kicking off clients they don't like.
Any time you store a piece of information in 2 places, it's just a matter of time until the 2 don't agree.
create table users (
uid int not null primary key,
username varchar(255) not null,
passwordhash varchar(255) not null,
unique (username) )
When I insert into this table, a reference to the generated row is stored in two places: the primary key index and the unique username constraint index. Is it just a matter of time until the two don't agree?
Why would this be different for a NoSQL system that stores information in two different ways to allow it to be found more efficiently?
The "article" is based on somebody's comments about their upcoming presentation at a conference. I'm sure the apps will be named and shamed at or immediately after the conference (in just under 2 weeks). I'll be intrigued to find out what exactly the researcher is defining as "personal information" though: my suspicion is he interprets it *very* broadly. As an example, I'm working on an Android app right now that sends the device's OS version, model name and screen resolution back to my server for the purpose of anonymous stastic collection. Would this be classed as personal information? By some definitions it may be...
Are there any Android-powered phones that are 1. designed from the ground up to be rootable and 2. available on a pay-as-you-go carrier?
Yes. Import one from China. They're all rootable, and they're all unlocked by default. I have a Ctone T01, which is a pretty decent phone in most respects. It has something pretty close to a stock Android 2.2 install, looks decent, and works as you'd expect.
Yes? We know of Pontius, do we not? A man of considerably less stature, and ability, and magic, than Jesus was supposed to have.
We do. However, I'm forced to point out in the interestes of fairness, that he was an 'equestrian' (i.e. what in modern English would call a knight of the realm) and therefore of substantial stature in Rome. Jesus however (according to the story) was born into a family of low status, held no title, and had no political power other than through the action of his followers. (The family history given for him in the Bible is dismissed by most Christians as fabrication to make his story better fit prophecy, so should probably be disregarded in this respect.)
Pilate was also a Roman. The Romans were compulsive record-keepers. Jesus (if he existed) was Judean; the Judeans did not keep records to anything like the extent that the Romans did.
But even then, we had no truly independent corroboration of Pilate's existence until relatively recently (a contemporary stone engraved with his name and title was discovered in 1961). We still know little about his life before he was appointed Prefect of Judea, or what happened to him after he returned to Rome.
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probably containing 99% pirated apps in the first place, because why the hell else would you not use the official marketplace.
Because marketplace access is limited only to certain operating system builds. There are many devices (mainly the sub-$100 tablets) out there that cannot use marketplace. The unofficial x86 port (used on some Atom based hardware) also cannot access marketplace.
You didn't actually read that thread, did you? Applications stored on the SD card are stored in an encrypted filesystem that's loopback mounted. The key stays on the phone, so the threat model you suggest doesn't work.
Yes, the external storage APIs don't provide security, but guess what: those APIs are intended for storing and accessing external files, i.e. stuff that's supposed to be public. Even with SD-based apps, the databases maintained using the system standard database API are secure.
Perhaps you aren't aware, but there are multiple places called Georgia. See this useful wikipedia disambiguation page.
Not been the victim of id theft/fraud much?
Yes. I complained to my bank that there were unauthorised transactions on my account, and they reversed them.
Oh, wait, you're probably American. You guys get screwed every time. Sorry.
What i'm arguing is that a display of 2x the DPI will look better than a 2x over-sample.
Well, sure, but there are better methods of antialiasing than supersampling. True antialiasing examines the geometry of the objects behind the pixels, rather than just examining more pixels.
AA is a crutch to get around a lack of DPI
No, even with higher DPI than the eye can resolve, you still need AA sometimes, as aliasing can present other problems than the jagged lines you're familiar with (e.g. moiré patterns).
There's a reason why the 9/11/2001 stock options positions have never been released, and probably never will.
Yes. And it's the same reason why neither the 8/11 or the 12/11 positions have been released: they're commercially sensitive confidential information that is in all likelihood not retained beyond the end of the day of trading, and which in any case would require a huge amount of effort to collate as almost all of those positions were held by thousands of brokers on behalf of hundreds of thousands of private clients, and only the brokers would know who the clients were.
At least here in the UK, the easiest way would be to apply for skilled worker status, which gets you a 37 month visa; you can then extend this by another 24 months. After you have been living in the UK for 60 months you can apply for citizenship.
You don't want to use an air-source heat pump if avoidable. They're very inefficient. Strip out the machine's fans and pump R134a directly across its heatsinks would be my suggestion.
Yes, but as methylation of DNA is not preserved when the DNA is duplicated, any effects of these additional bases are only localised. AIUI, different cells in your body will have different methylation states. This means that the information about which precise bases are methylated is not especially useful for most things you would want a gene sequence for. It's important for those studying internal cell processes, especially DNA repair, but otherwise not really interesting.
There are two things:
1. Full genome sequences are useful for research. Lowering the cost opens up new avenues of research (e.g. comparing genomes of thousands of individuals, rather than the much smaller samples used today). Imagine performing automated correlation tests on, say, ten thousand sufferers of a particular disease versus ten thousand control subjects. The results could be quite interesting.
2. Patented genetic tests normally work by patenting a method of isolating a particular gene and determining its presence. If this can be done by a quick grep, the chances of a patent actually being upheld become rather slim. This should drive down the costs of genetic testing.
Neither of these means you should rush out and get your genome sequenced. It's just the possibility that it can be done cheaply if necessary that's important.
Kirrily "Skud" Robert is not his real name. Kirrily Robert is his real name and Skud is his nickname.
Who is to say what is a real name and what isn't? Under common law, I can change my name merely by giving notice to those I deal with of my new name. So if I open my google profile page, delete my real name, and enter "julesh" in its place, as far as Google is concerned, that is now my real name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_change#Usage_method
Move to the EU. The behaviour you describe is almost certainly illegal under EU competition law, and eBay UK does not have this restriction:
(http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html)
If you're doing such a large transaction volume that PayPal will start holding funds, you can probably afford a real Internet merchant account with a bank.
When dealing with a vendor I don't trust, I'd rather work through PayPal. PayPal offers a friendlier and easier-to-use dispute resolution system than my bank does, so if my goods don't turn up I'd rather be able to dispute the transaction with PayPal. Therefore, presented with two merchants, one of whom takes PayPal and the other doesn't, and little else to choose between them, I'll take PayPal every time.
So in my other hat as a not-very-well-known retailer, it's to my advantage to accept paypal, even if their terms of business are less friendly to vendors than, say, RBS WorldPay (to pick a merchant processor I've worked with before).
They're all made in China.
Most are made in Taiwan. For China in my original post read PRC.
But do these have access to Android Market?
Yes.
GSM but not CDMA, leaving AT&T as the only choice once AT&T completes its acquisition of T-Mobile.
Ah, I had momentarily forgotten that GSM networks aren't universal in the US like they are here in the UK. Still, there are plenty of CDMA-capable phones on this list. I'd recommend against buying a phone here that appears to be from a manufacturer you recognize -- it isn't, and there's a chance of it being intercepted at customs.
I remember arcade games that used to put up a message "Insert coin to continue" and then a countdown timer would start. That must have been back in the 80s.
The patent (odd that nobody's linked it AFAICT) will probably include as one of its requirements that a remote server is contacted and data downloaded from it. I don't think any of those 80s games did that, but most modern in-game-purchasing systems do.
These are Google's own numbers here suggesting that the iPad is still eating their lunch.
Except: they're only considering Android 3.0 or 3.1 devices. They're ignoring the 7" Galaxy Tab, which was the only well-known brand Android tab available for a very long time. They're ignoring all the Archos tabs, and all the cheap-ass Chinese import tabs. They're ignoring the tab that I saw sold in my local supermarket with Android 1.5 on an Atom-based system dual-booting with Windows 7. Instead they're looking at sales figures of a system that has only been available for a month or so, and until last week only on a couple of very high end devices that were widely regarded as broken (e.g. had SD card slots that didn't work).
So comparing those figures with all iPads sold ever is rather unfair.
Three words: Eee Pad Transformer. It would be interesting to see its share of the Android tab market, but you know that with the exception of maybe a few days of delay, shipping share equaled sales share for a few months. It was not until the past few weeks that Transformer backordering and price scalping ended.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting. I note that on sites that sell both Eee pads and iPads and have a "sort by poularity" option, the Eee pad is sorting higher at the moment. Presumably because there's finally a brandname Android tab that competes with the iPad on features, isn't known to be broken (*cough* Motorola Zoom), and is priced substantially cheaper than the iPad. We knew it could be done, so why it's taken so long I have to wonder....
Every one that turns on one, because they contact Google servers to check for updates and other things. Just what did you think "activation" meant in the context of tablets anyway?
I have one right here that I use every day but has never been connected to the Internet. Also, google will only collect update stats on devices that are using Google's marketplace -- a lot of the cheaper devices (e.g. Archos tablets, or the Atom-based tab I saw on sale in my local supermarket this morning which is presumably using the unofficial x86 port) use alternative marketplace sites instead, so google probably never get to hear from them,.
Only a total nut would intentionally choose a solution that ties you to a single hosting provider who have acquired a reputation for kicking off clients they don't like.
Any time you store a piece of information in 2 places, it's just a matter of time until the 2 don't agree.
create table users (
uid int not null primary key,
username varchar(255) not null,
passwordhash varchar(255) not null,
unique (username)
)
When I insert into this table, a reference to the generated row is stored in two places: the primary key index and the unique username constraint index. Is it just a matter of time until the two don't agree?
Why would this be different for a NoSQL system that stores information in two different ways to allow it to be found more efficiently?
The "article" is based on somebody's comments about their upcoming presentation at a conference. I'm sure the apps will be named and shamed at or immediately after the conference (in just under 2 weeks). I'll be intrigued to find out what exactly the researcher is defining as "personal information" though: my suspicion is he interprets it *very* broadly. As an example, I'm working on an Android app right now that sends the device's OS version, model name and screen resolution back to my server for the purpose of anonymous stastic collection. Would this be classed as personal information? By some definitions it may be...
Are there any Android-powered phones that are 1. designed from the ground up to be rootable and 2. available on a pay-as-you-go carrier?
Yes. Import one from China. They're all rootable, and they're all unlocked by default. I have a Ctone T01, which is a pretty decent phone in most respects. It has something pretty close to a stock Android 2.2 install, looks decent, and works as you'd expect.
Yes? We know of Pontius, do we not? A man of considerably less stature, and ability, and magic, than Jesus was supposed to have.
We do. However, I'm forced to point out in the interestes of fairness, that he was an 'equestrian' (i.e. what in modern English would call a knight of the realm) and therefore of substantial stature in Rome. Jesus however (according to the story) was born into a family of low status, held no title, and had no political power other than through the action of his followers. (The family history given for him in the Bible is dismissed by most Christians as fabrication to make his story better fit prophecy, so should probably be disregarded in this respect.)
Pilate was also a Roman. The Romans were compulsive record-keepers. Jesus (if he existed) was Judean; the Judeans did not keep records to anything like the extent that the Romans did.
But even then, we had no truly independent corroboration of Pilate's existence until relatively recently (a contemporary stone engraved with his name and title was discovered in 1961). We still know little about his life before he was appointed Prefect of Judea, or what happened to him after he returned to Rome.
Smooth.