You can drop the anti-American rhetoric. Roman's never used a fiat money system(their coins were made of silver/gold) and almost no government uses the gold standard whether they have a real army or not. Large scale fiat currency has only been used for ~50 years. Gold only has value in the real world is for making certain goods, it's value is grossly inflated(that it's near the price of platinum is absurd).
Windows, Linux, and MacOS didn't have signed-code until somewhat recently, and it's optional(you can run unsigned code). Same thing with Android, you "can" have it check if code is signed, but it will run unsigned code. The PSP, PS3, XBox, iPhone, and Nokia S60 make it non-optional, so they get jailbroken.
Jailbreaking is a type of privilege escalation... Privilege escalations that can only be exploited by a local user are way too common to be anything to worry about.
This certainly does seem to be a step backwards to me. Will ISPs be allowed to block port 25(SMTP)? I would think ISPs will definitely have to forget about prioritization of HTTP traffic over torrent/VOIP/encrypted traffic... fun times for the Dutch... Blanket blacklist for SMTP servers in the Netherlands and choked connections for regular surfing are the first things that come to mind.
I'm interested exactly how they are proposing to guarantee net neutrality by law. There are very few details.
Free Wifi really isn't much considering the millions in taxes that can be paid by these companies... I think Jobs's tax comment was a swipe at Google which doesn't pay much of any tax to Mountain View.
Jailbreaking is not really a security problem. Firstly, because "jailbreaking" just means allowing unsigned code to run. Secondly, I don't think you have ever been able to Jailbreak an iPhone remotely, you have to be in possession of it. If you give a hacker unlimited time with a device, they will find a way to do what they want.
Not for little things like not saying please, but if someone tried to pass a law baring me from ever slamming doors I'd certainly try to slam doors in their face.
The only way to get native apps on iOS is through the Appstore(with certain exceptions if you have a enterprise account with Apple). To use the Appstore to sell virtual stuff, you let Apple handle the distribution and payments, and they takea 30% cut(you can't use it for physical goods). Apple had been allowing free apps to take in money from other sources, but they have since closed this down.
They could still create an HTML5 version that can be installed like with an app icon and stuff that you install directly from a website, but it wouldn't be in the store and I don't think anyone has had a very successful app going the HTML-app route.
You should be able to point to some project you have completed; I don't think he was talking about 5-6 years of experience. If you haven't actually finished anything of consequence, then you are going to have a large ramp up to actually producing something. In software you can do a small scale project on your own or with a few friends and get it out for next to nothing.
I think coming into a job with at least a little experience is pretty critical. You don't have nearly as long of a ramp-up period, which makes your co-workers and employer happier, and you don't get cast as the "stupid new guy", a role which you may never be able to shake.
Knowing a history of where you've been is key to determining where you might be going in the future.
Oddly, this is true for your phone as well. The reason it caches any location data is so that it can figure out where you are without hitting the internet. If it sees the same WiFi access points that it did sometime in the past, and it knew where it was, then it knows where it is now.
I'm an iOS developer and am glad this is finally over. I wasn't worried about the security ascpect; I was tired of getting stupid alarmist questions about it.
You have your facts wrong. The rainwater was several thousand percent above EPA limits for drinking water. Bad, but actually this radiation is just barely detectable.
Conversely, USB3 drives won't get you any extra speed on most laptops since Intel still hasn't included a USB3 chipset in anything and few laptop manufacturers want the extra expense and power drain of a separate USB3 controller. Dell has been putting combined USB2/eSata ports on their laptops for years now so they aren't that hard to find on laptops.
If that really happens then AT&T would have a class action lawsuit from irate AT&T customers who have their 3G swamped by ex-T-Mobile customers. AT&T and T-Mobile already have a lot of roaming agreements and T-Mobile will be run as a separate company even after the acquisition. It should stop crap like this http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Coverage/T-Mobile-and-AT-amp-T-roaming-agreement/td-p/132907
T-Mobile uses 1700Mhz 3G and AT&T uses 1900Mhz. 1900Mhz is more of the world standard but other stuff shares this band with 3G in the USA and only AT&T uses it. They both use 850Mhz for voice and Edge.
So you can use a iPhone on TMobile, but it will only be Edge. Same goes for a lot of phones bought with TMobile when trying to use them with AT&T or outside the US.
Even Cuba admits the five cubans are inteligence officers sent to the US to spy, it's just a matter of what they were sent here to spy on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Five
I don't believe this guy should be freed(and he likely won't be freed). He wasn't doing this out of concern for people, he was doing it because he was getting paid by the US. He's a mercenary, but he didn't kill anyone so instead of being executed he's being sent to prison.
It is funny that it is now preferable to use DC for bulk power transmission and very rarely use regular transformers(using non-switching regulators) because our grids are only AC because the transmission loss at low voltages...
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Devalued currency isn't the same as fiat currency, it's still pegged to a certain amount of gold/silver.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. What was that quote? "The gods themselves struggle in vain against fools"? Something like that.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realize I was talking to a god... but, you are still wrong.
through time honored tradition like gold.
You can drop the anti-American rhetoric. Roman's never used a fiat money system(their coins were made of silver/gold) and almost no government uses the gold standard whether they have a real army or not. Large scale fiat currency has only been used for ~50 years. Gold only has value in the real world is for making certain goods, it's value is grossly inflated(that it's near the price of platinum is absurd).
Windows, Linux, and MacOS didn't have signed-code until somewhat recently, and it's optional(you can run unsigned code). Same thing with Android, you "can" have it check if code is signed, but it will run unsigned code. The PSP, PS3, XBox, iPhone, and Nokia S60 make it non-optional, so they get jailbroken.
Jailbreaking is a type of privilege escalation... Privilege escalations that can only be exploited by a local user are way too common to be anything to worry about.
This certainly does seem to be a step backwards to me. Will ISPs be allowed to block port 25(SMTP)? I would think ISPs will definitely have to forget about prioritization of HTTP traffic over torrent/VOIP/encrypted traffic... fun times for the Dutch... Blanket blacklist for SMTP servers in the Netherlands and choked connections for regular surfing are the first things that come to mind.
I'm interested exactly how they are proposing to guarantee net neutrality by law. There are very few details.
Free Wifi really isn't much considering the millions in taxes that can be paid by these companies... I think Jobs's tax comment was a swipe at Google which doesn't pay much of any tax to Mountain View.
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2060919/Tax-Assessor-Wants-Google-To-Pay-Property-Taxes-Even-Though-New-Facility-Will-Be-on-Federal-Land
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/google-tax-cut/google-terminal.html
Jailbreaking is not really a security problem. Firstly, because "jailbreaking" just means allowing unsigned code to run. Secondly, I don't think you have ever been able to Jailbreak an iPhone remotely, you have to be in possession of it. If you give a hacker unlimited time with a device, they will find a way to do what they want.
Hell, I'd sign up at least several thousand times!!!
Yep! I can be pretty damn spiteful!
Not for little things like not saying please, but if someone tried to pass a law baring me from ever slamming doors I'd certainly try to slam doors in their face.
The only way to get native apps on iOS is through the Appstore(with certain exceptions if you have a enterprise account with Apple). To use the Appstore to sell virtual stuff, you let Apple handle the distribution and payments, and they takea 30% cut(you can't use it for physical goods). Apple had been allowing free apps to take in money from other sources, but they have since closed this down.
They could still create an HTML5 version that can be installed like with an app icon and stuff that you install directly from a website, but it wouldn't be in the store and I don't think anyone has had a very successful app going the HTML-app route.
You should be able to point to some project you have completed; I don't think he was talking about 5-6 years of experience. If you haven't actually finished anything of consequence, then you are going to have a large ramp up to actually producing something. In software you can do a small scale project on your own or with a few friends and get it out for next to nothing.
I think coming into a job with at least a little experience is pretty critical. You don't have nearly as long of a ramp-up period, which makes your co-workers and employer happier, and you don't get cast as the "stupid new guy", a role which you may never be able to shake.
Knowing a history of where you've been is key to determining where you might be going in the future.
Oddly, this is true for your phone as well. The reason it caches any location data is so that it can figure out where you are without hitting the internet. If it sees the same WiFi access points that it did sometime in the past, and it knew where it was, then it knows where it is now.
They(OSX and Linux) have utterly failed to "destroy Windows on the desktop", and will continue to do so.
I don't think Windows has failed to fail. It fails pretty well.
Turning location services off doesn't make it any harder for someone to track your phone... it just makes it harder for you to find your location.
I'm an iOS developer and am glad this is finally over. I wasn't worried about the security ascpect; I was tired of getting stupid alarmist questions about it.
You have your facts wrong. The rainwater was several thousand percent above EPA limits for drinking water. Bad, but actually this radiation is just barely detectable.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/03/30/japan-nuclear-fallout-radiation-rainwater-thousands-times-legal-drinking-water-limits-12593/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9435035.stm
http://froyonation.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/qatar-invents-artificial-flying-clouds-to-block-sun-over-stadiums/
Lightpeak/Thunderbolt support hubs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface) )
Since Thunderbolt is displayport 1.2 you can actually plug two displays into each thunderbolt port, so a hub makes a lot of sense anyway.
It will be interesting to see what happens with PCIe expansion cards, but I don't see why a display-less Thunderbolt would be a problem for desktops.
Conversely, USB3 drives won't get you any extra speed on most laptops since Intel still hasn't included a USB3 chipset in anything and few laptop manufacturers want the extra expense and power drain of a separate USB3 controller. Dell has been putting combined USB2/eSata ports on their laptops for years now so they aren't that hard to find on laptops.
Thunderbolt uses a chain, and the last device is a regular displayport(which is supposed to work with any displayport 1.2 adapter). http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-hardware/2011/02/25/thunderbolt-speeds-on-new-macbook-pro-40091943/8/#story
If that really happens then AT&T would have a class action lawsuit from irate AT&T customers who have their 3G swamped by ex-T-Mobile customers. AT&T and T-Mobile already have a lot of roaming agreements and T-Mobile will be run as a separate company even after the acquisition. It should stop crap like this http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Coverage/T-Mobile-and-AT-amp-T-roaming-agreement/td-p/132907
T-Mobile uses 1700Mhz 3G and AT&T uses 1900Mhz. 1900Mhz is more of the world standard but other stuff shares this band with 3G in the USA and only AT&T uses it. They both use 850Mhz for voice and Edge.
So you can use a iPhone on TMobile, but it will only be Edge. Same goes for a lot of phones bought with TMobile when trying to use them with AT&T or outside the US.
There was nothing in his post about having a big bureaucracy. Total transparency could easily lead to FAR less bureaucracy/government.
The guy went to jail was being paid by Hezbollah to broadcast the station($28K/month). http://ztruth.typepad.com/ztruth/2008/12/new-york-javed-iqbal-pleads-guilty-to-broadcasting-hezbollah-television-in-us.html
Posada is finally being tried for the airline bombing which, although he is a terrorist, he may not have done. http://venezuela-us.org/2011/01/28/el-paso-diary-day-9-in-the-trial-of-posada-carriles-abascals-testimony-damages-posadas-defense/
Even Cuba admits the five cubans are inteligence officers sent to the US to spy, it's just a matter of what they were sent here to spy on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Five
I don't believe this guy should be freed(and he likely won't be freed). He wasn't doing this out of concern for people, he was doing it because he was getting paid by the US. He's a mercenary, but he didn't kill anyone so instead of being executed he's being sent to prison.
Japan use HVDC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC )
It is funny that it is now preferable to use DC for bulk power transmission and very rarely use regular transformers(using non-switching regulators) because our grids are only AC because the transmission loss at low voltages...