1. Send computer to Apple. 2. They ship it off to PowerON 3. PowerON figures out how much it's worth 4. You get a gift card in the mail for what it's worth
Uh.... what? I don't even get to barter this? I don't even get to see their standards for judging how much is worth what?
I like to think of it this way, if my union ever needs to do something like this, but can't because of legal repercussions, I'll just be sure to add the company's server to a few spam lists, and then we'll see if they wanna cry about their emails.
PostgreSQL is also nice because it isn't lazy with the commands and can likewise support spatial systems, as well as integrate into apache a little IIRC (if you use stack builder).
Postgres isn't the king of open source databases for nothing.
The tagging of the photos, as well as all the brutal geo-tagging and exif data put into photos nowadays make it damn nice to mine photos for data.
Not only can they get your face, name and profile, they can also figure out WHERE the photo was taken and what time etc... Facebook has it figured out, they know exactly what they're doing with this and they're trying to do it because they know how much of a gold mine this information is.
I'm personally glad Germany has taken a stance on it, it's about time others do the same.
With all the idiots they're chasing after on facebook, how many of the criminals who don't use facebook will go un-caught? Seems like an invasion of personal privacy and waste of tax dollars, IMHO.
They should stop trying to filter every little online program and just do the actual work. I'm sure that a majority of these "criminals" are just underage kids drinking or smoking pot and then uploading pictures to facebook, and there's no point in trying to go after them, kids are stupid, and they'll likely do what they want anyways.
To think nowadays this sort of mistake is made by DBANning the disk or "sudo rm -rf/*". And even though that's hard to do, it still seems common that people do this on advice of trolls.
I'm glad I'm just the right age to have never fought with this crap though.
Now if only we could control those pesky, random power consumption bugs from the 11.04 kernel.........
I kid I kid. I don't know if that specific issue still affects people because I haven't upgraded, but I plan on installing either 11.10 or 12.04 when they come out.
This is still pretty impressive stuff though, good job Canonical.
Then K-Splice, and then the WHOLE OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
Oracle will shit on anything and buy out anyone they can in order to do such.
I question whether their management is run by businessmen, engineers, users, or professional trolls. It could just be both the very former and the latter, but it's starting to get old.
I mean, it's one thing if something like Microsoft buys Skype, that's not so bad, but at least Microsoft isn't retarded enough to make Skype "Windows Only". If I'm thinking this through properly, taking away the user base of a product is almost a greater hit than just not having the product itself. Isn't the user base and market share where it's all at nowadays anyways?
Now if only their Websites were this secure...... *coughAnonymouscough*
Though really, the imprint is left on the network, even if it's encrypted. and something might be left over BIOS, mechanical keylogger... There's probably a lot of ways these guys could be found out, but it could be a good thing that they're at least using SSH and a portable OS, it shows they're TRYING.
They'll probably hand out the first batch to people like Mr. Anthony Weiner just to avoid that kind of embarrassment, if not for national security...
Duke Nukem Forever was originally envisioned on a napkin as well. Mind you, that being so long ago I would assume napkins were all we had to put our designs down back then.....
I guess the problem is the staff wrote their deadlines for the project on that napkin as well, and it was clearly lost to time.
I'm surprised the common public hasn't really gotten into password managers like lastpass or keepass yet.
For example, I use lastpass. I have it set up so it logs off every time I close my browser, and I can set a delay time on how long after I close my browser it logs off as well. I only really have to log in with my master password once, and then everything is great after that.
Seeing as lastpass will autofill every form or password field on every website, and can even generate completely random passwords, from all forms of characters and symbols at any length, it seems odd to me that most wouldn't like to use it. It's very point-and-click-y and doesn't really provoke much in the way of effort, sans setting it up once and letting it do it's thing.
Plus, you only have to remember one password. The master password. And if you tell me that you can't remember a single complex password, then I challenge you to try. It's really not that hard. With only one password to remember, it's hardly a big deal to strain yourself to remember it. Plus, if you do it properly, the rest of your passwords that are stored will be 64+ some characters in length (assuming there's no size limit) and will be 100% random. Since you never bother to look at the generated passwords, you never remember them, and never know them, which is probably the safest way to keep it.
In any case, I'm shocked that people still think they can get away with garbage passwords nowadays. I could probably break into the entirety of my parent's and sister's accounts just by guessing passwords that I think they'd use. My parent's especially on that list. Then again, here I am preaching to the choir (I hope) and it's likely they'll never change their ways and set up a decent password longer than 6 or 8 characters.
(Since this was a long post, here, have fun playing the how secure is my password game. Longest amount of years = biggest e-peen)
Rooting actually has nothing to do with replacing the ROM, kernel or OS.
Rooting is the act of installing the superuser.apk file into your phone's flash memory. Basically, giving you admin/superuser permissions in your own phone. This sort of thing is normally locked via bootloaders by carriers or manufacturers because superuser permissions can be just as dangerous as they are useful. It's not necessarily just Dalvik permissions that do it, but normal users are denied su permissions on the default install because they don't have either the knowledge or the attention span to bother learning how to use and restrict those kinds of permissions. (imagine your grandmother seeing the su permission request pop up, and hit yes every time. For everything. Ever.)
Note that some people often mix up this process with flashing a custom recovery, or even installing a custom ROM. These are both very different and separate procedures that require a rooted device to work.
Also note that you can't install a different kernel if you plan to use android (what comparable alternatives would work on an android phone anyways?) and installing a different operating system (OS) means you're not using android at all. Remember: ROM = version/instance of android OS, OS = an entire entity of a system of core utils, kernel etc that work together to form the components of what you see when you use your computer/ phone.
I'm not trying to sound like a smartass with this post either, just trying to clear things up a little.
The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).
I would disagree. It took me about three or four hours to root my Cliq/Dext, no previous experience. Most of that time was reading documentation or waiting for it to install the new ROM.
Besides, this is the same argument many hackers use when refurbishing a desktop. Why buy brand new when you can just format it into a server/ linux machine.
There is a way to get the most out of old hardware, and in this case can be much cheaper. (the exception being you brick your phone, in which case it probably costs around the same as a new phone.)
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1. Send computer to Apple.
2. They ship it off to PowerON
3. PowerON figures out how much it's worth
4. You get a gift card in the mail for what it's worth
Uh.... what? I don't even get to barter this? I don't even get to see their standards for judging how much is worth what?
source: https://www.apple.com/recycling/gift-card/
I'm not sure I'd ever bother with this, I might as well take the old parts and fashion myself a small server or micro PC.
I don't want your goddamn lemons!
I'm the man who's gonna burn your Apple store down! With Lemons!
"It's like they're *daring* us to revolt!"
I like to think of it this way, if my union ever needs to do something like this, but can't because of legal repercussions, I'll just be sure to add the company's server to a few spam lists, and then we'll see if they wanna cry about their emails.
PostgreSQL is also nice because it isn't lazy with the commands and can likewise support spatial systems, as well as integrate into apache a little IIRC (if you use stack builder).
Postgres isn't the king of open source databases for nothing.
The tagging of the photos, as well as all the brutal geo-tagging and exif data put into photos nowadays make it damn nice to mine photos for data.
Not only can they get your face, name and profile, they can also figure out WHERE the photo was taken and what time etc...
Facebook has it figured out, they know exactly what they're doing with this and they're trying to do it because they know how much of a gold mine this information is.
I'm personally glad Germany has taken a stance on it, it's about time others do the same.
PERL!? Garbage!
The only language we can use to protect the business market is COBOL!
Now get off my lawn you insensitive clod!
Kind of like the no Homers club. You're allowed one.
I do miss the days where men were pedophiles, women were men and kids were FBI agents in a van outside your house.
Back then, I at least knew who I was talking to...
You forgot sudo.
Or do you just assume root all the time and/or disable the UAC?
With all the idiots they're chasing after on facebook, how many of the criminals who don't use facebook will go un-caught? Seems like an invasion of personal privacy and waste of tax dollars, IMHO.
They should stop trying to filter every little online program and just do the actual work. I'm sure that a majority of these "criminals" are just underage kids drinking or smoking pot and then uploading pictures to facebook, and there's no point in trying to go after them, kids are stupid, and they'll likely do what they want anyways.
To think nowadays this sort of mistake is made by DBANning the disk or "sudo rm -rf /*". And even though that's hard to do, it still seems common that people do this on advice of trolls.
I'm glad I'm just the right age to have never fought with this crap though.
Now if only we could control those pesky, random power consumption bugs from the 11.04 kernel.........
I kid I kid. I don't know if that specific issue still affects people because I haven't upgraded, but I plan on installing either 11.10 or 12.04 when they come out.
This is still pretty impressive stuff though, good job Canonical.
In that line of thinking we'll have to adopt the Firefox method of versioning if we ever want to get to 7 in the next ten years.
They can't get me, officer! I have norton!!!
Then K-Splice, and then the WHOLE OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
Oracle will shit on anything and buy out anyone they can in order to do such.
I question whether their management is run by businessmen, engineers, users, or professional trolls.
It could just be both the very former and the latter, but it's starting to get old.
I mean, it's one thing if something like Microsoft buys Skype, that's not so bad, but at least Microsoft isn't retarded enough to make Skype "Windows Only".
If I'm thinking this through properly, taking away the user base of a product is almost a greater hit than just not having the product itself. Isn't the user base and market share where it's all at nowadays anyways?
Now if only their Websites were this secure...... *coughAnonymouscough*
Though really, the imprint is left on the network, even if it's encrypted. and something might be left over BIOS, mechanical keylogger... There's probably a lot of ways these guys could be found out, but it could be a good thing that they're at least using SSH and a portable OS, it shows they're TRYING.
They'll probably hand out the first batch to people like Mr. Anthony Weiner just to avoid that kind of embarrassment, if not for national security...
I was about to say this myself. Nothing like losing all your blood on a breezy summer's day...
Duke Nukem Forever was originally envisioned on a napkin as well. Mind you, that being so long ago I would assume napkins were all we had to put our designs down back then.....
I guess the problem is the staff wrote their deadlines for the project on that napkin as well, and it was clearly lost to time.
http://xkcd.com/859/
Gah! Every time!
That unmatched parenthesis is corrupting my sterile environment!
If you happened to be a botnet owner, and you turned yourself in to Microsoft, would they pay your lawyer fees and bail as well?
Just saying, some of the smaller botnets could make a lot of money that way.....
Well, we can always take solace in the fact it wasn't Windows ME....
You wouldn't be talking about GNU/Hurd would you?
I'm surprised the common public hasn't really gotten into password managers like lastpass or keepass yet.
For example, I use lastpass. I have it set up so it logs off every time I close my browser, and I can set a delay time on how long after I close my browser it logs off as well. I only really have to log in with my master password once, and then everything is great after that.
Seeing as lastpass will autofill every form or password field on every website, and can even generate completely random passwords, from all forms of characters and symbols at any length, it seems odd to me that most wouldn't like to use it. It's very point-and-click-y and doesn't really provoke much in the way of effort, sans setting it up once and letting it do it's thing.
Plus, you only have to remember one password. The master password. And if you tell me that you can't remember a single complex password, then I challenge you to try. It's really not that hard. With only one password to remember, it's hardly a big deal to strain yourself to remember it. Plus, if you do it properly, the rest of your passwords that are stored will be 64+ some characters in length (assuming there's no size limit) and will be 100% random. Since you never bother to look at the generated passwords, you never remember them, and never know them, which is probably the safest way to keep it.
In any case, I'm shocked that people still think they can get away with garbage passwords nowadays. I could probably break into the entirety of my parent's and sister's accounts just by guessing passwords that I think they'd use. My parent's especially on that list. Then again, here I am preaching to the choir (I hope) and it's likely they'll never change their ways and set up a decent password longer than 6 or 8 characters.
(Since this was a long post, here, have fun playing the how secure is my password game. Longest amount of years = biggest e-peen)
HowSecureIsMyPassword?
Rooting actually has nothing to do with replacing the ROM, kernel or OS.
Rooting is the act of installing the superuser.apk file into your phone's flash memory. Basically, giving you admin/superuser permissions in your own phone.
This sort of thing is normally locked via bootloaders by carriers or manufacturers because superuser permissions can be just as dangerous as they are useful. It's not necessarily just Dalvik permissions that do it, but normal users are denied su permissions on the default install because they don't have either the knowledge or the attention span to bother learning how to use and restrict those kinds of permissions. (imagine your grandmother seeing the su permission request pop up, and hit yes every time. For everything. Ever.)
Note that some people often mix up this process with flashing a custom recovery, or even installing a custom ROM. These are both very different and separate procedures that require a rooted device to work.
Also note that you can't install a different kernel if you plan to use android (what comparable alternatives would work on an android phone anyways?) and installing a different operating system (OS) means you're not using android at all. Remember: ROM = version/instance of android OS, OS = an entire entity of a system of core utils, kernel etc that work together to form the components of what you see when you use your computer/ phone.
I'm not trying to sound like a smartass with this post either, just trying to clear things up a little.
Was it worth it? Maybe.
The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).
I would disagree. It took me about three or four hours to root my Cliq/Dext, no previous experience. Most of that time was reading documentation or waiting for it to install the new ROM.
Besides, this is the same argument many hackers use when refurbishing a desktop. Why buy brand new when you can just format it into a server/ linux machine.
There is a way to get the most out of old hardware, and in this case can be much cheaper. (the exception being you brick your phone, in which case it probably costs around the same as a new phone.)