No, it doesn't. You get access to/sdcard (whether it corresponds to a physical SD card or not), but that's it. You don't get access (even read access) to sandboxed application and system data storage, unless your phone is rooted.
So the obvious answer is that, if you want security, don't root your phone. It should be kinda obvious that if you can do what you want with the phone via USB, so can any application running on your PC.
You don't have to have USB debugging (a.k.a. ADB) enabled at all. Simply leaving it disables mitigates that concern.
Mounting the phone as a USB mass storage device also doesn't allow you to access the application data unless they store it on the shared SD card storage.
There are bad doc/dentists. There are bad everywhere.
I think this point is missed every once in a while. People tend to look at an MD/DDS as being able to do no wrong, but, like everyone else, half of doctors are below average. You can use what little signal you have to determine if a doctor is good: what school they attended, how many years they've worked, how many times they've done a certain procedure, etc.
Those signals are well and good, but there are other signals that aren't expressed in any other way that these review sites: when you're leaning back in the dentist chair, will you be looking up at cobwebs? How does that reflect on the general hygiene of the tools going into your mouth? Is the office staff friendly to children or is it staffed with anti-breeders? Those subjective measurements aren't reflected in a simple list of facts.
For the doctors out there, if a someone is dumb enough not to be able to see past some random idiot posting a inflammatory or untrue review, maybe you don't want them as a patient.
Oracle is also one of the top Linux code contributors, popping in more code than even the Linux Foundation (see Table 9): Xen, YAST, NFS on IPv6, "data=guarded" for ext3, Asynchronous IO kernel subsystem, and more. Not surprisingly, most of what Oracle contributes is germane to Orafcle DB & apps, no different from every other contributor working on something he is specifically interested in or in need of.
Oracle contributed Xen to Linux? The boys in Cambridge are going to be scratching their heads at that one. Also, Novell is probably going to be alarmed that Oracle put their setup tool, YaST, into the kernel.
Cool project. Unfortunately the use of AGPL will guarantee no one ever uses it. Too bad.
Imagine having a base station where you have to require a partition for the source. Or people with broken cell phones saying you're not providing an equal opportunity to download the software source. Ugh.
ironically, CR still rates it HIGHER than any other smart phone for the US market!
actual report is behind a CR paywall, link goes to blog post that shows a screen shot of the report...
Er, except that picture shows that it's filtered on "AT&T smart phones" and not smart phones in general. That certainly cuts down the competition. I bet the iPhone 4 is also the best iPhone 4!
Once my shoe starts to go, I'll start to get intense pain in my hips and knees. Changes the shoe, and the pain goes away. It's a form issue in my case which the shoe helps to correct. I'm guessing those people who run barefoot have really good form.
I don't know how old you are, but it might be a matter of age for some people. My father-in-law, a 62 year-old former police officer, has been running every day since he joined the police academy and still runs several miles a day up and down the mountainous roads near his flat.
I mentioned Nike Free to him when those first came out and he laughed and said he would be in agony if he ran without the support that his shoes offer him. Maybe it would have worked when he was younger, but it definitely won't now. For now he says just stick with $10 running shoes from Michaels that he has to replace every month!
And he once was convinced he found a security breach in my code because he composed a GET request, making a pistol gesture and a "pow" sound.
Being able to compose an HTTP GET request just by making a pistol gesture and a "pow" sound definitely requires some serious "skillz." No matter how much I tried, I couldn't replicate this on my PC. I tried every conceivable pistol gesture and permutation of "pow," "ka-blooey," "Muad-dib," etc. It wasn't happening for me.
In the language of the eligibility requirements for the DTV coupons, it has language that strictly limits the feature set of the DTV tuner boxes. I believe there aren't any hidden features put in by manufacturers for fear of running afoul of the rules and being disqualified from being eligible for the coupons. Of course, risking disqualification from the program means significant revenue impact.
If you really want to examine a country for taxes, then take a look at Hong Kong. There are 4 tax tiers starting at 2% and the highest is 20%. I think most would fit into the 8% and 14% tier though. However, despite these low taxes there is public health care. Go figure.
Also there is no sales tax in Hong Kong either.
Okay, I just convinced myself; I'm packing my bags.
As long as they don't have mysterious "fiber splices" into a sealed room, I'm in. Ma Bell's mobile broadband service sucks. If these folks set up a reliable connection and don't get greedy then they will win. Whoops, all telecommunications providers already have mysterious splices in a sealed room. CALEA was designed to let law enforcement tap telecommunications equipment easily. Sprint is a telecommunications carrier and therefore must comply with CALEA.
Oh, also, it's possible for data networks to carry VoIP and IM conversations, so they have access to those as well. In fact, the FCC issued a ruling in 2005 expanding the reach of CALEA over Internet broadband providers.
This is the kind of problem the FreeAuth Project was created to solve. You use a one-time pad program on your phone or PDA that can run Java MIDlets. However, you have to use a site that supports FreeAuth or have control of your own webserver to support this.
I notice that this hardware supports JumboFLAME. I thought this had something to do with the temperature extremes, but after further investigation it seems to be another R/L discrimination problem.
It'll be even better if Ms. Clinton (or whomever runs for the Democrats) gets into power and it's Bush and the current TSA cronies who get their travel plans royally messed up by this proposed rule.
Wait, they all fly on private jets so these rules wouldn't affect them. Besides, it's too inconvenient to drive to a commercial airport when they each have a private runway outside their ivory towers.
If only they had peer-reviewed AACS before releasing it like the RIAA did with their Secure Digital Music Initiative, then none of this would have happened!
Is the current generation of CPU not optimized for mathematic operations? This seems the most direct way to get the best all around performance, to me.
There are a few operations that are significantly slower on a regular CPU as compared to a special purpose processor like an FPGA. For instance, FPGAs usually have quite a few 18x18 multipliers. These multipliers can be used effectively for many algorithms such as an inverse discrete cosine transform (iDCT).
That could mean, for example, less power used to render MPEG-2 video; effectively delivering HDTV to notebook users without draining the battery.
... finds that the demand for new systems and infrastructure is leading to more hiring for IT professionals who can build them. The result: Project managers and programmers/systems developers top the list of IT professionals CIOs are looking to hire.
Is it just me or do these two statements not make sense together? Once they hire all the project managers and programmers, they're still not going to have people that can build infrastructure. You'll need more systems administrators to get the actual hardware infrastructure in there.
Perhaps this magazine meant the news was that CIO actions don't align with their stated goals.:-)
It seems to me that companies have always had a choice of other operating systems that would allow them more freedom to change the source code and not worry about having to contribute back to the community. Witness the BSD license.
I believe that Linux has been significantly helped because of the GPL. Anybody that is worried about licensing issues with the GPL can just use a BSD derivative and call it a day.
As for the CDDL I have a feeling it will get little attention since it is not compatible with the GPL. It's like creating their own little island community of developers. Yeah, it's nice that they're opening their source code, but there's not much use in everyone dabbling in it because you are unable to take the work elsewhere. I remember IBM trying the same thing with their own incompatible license and it went absolutely nowhere.
It appears that the controversy here is over copyright infringement when the "fansubbing group" releases an entire video with their translated subtitles attached to them. While I agree this is copyright infringement, I would also like to point out that, according to the Berne Convention Article 8, translating copyrighted works is the exclusive right of the copyright holder.
8.0 Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall enjoy the exclusive right of making and of authorizing the translation of their works throughout the term of protection of their rights in the original works.
I would love to hear of any legal precedent that says that this doesn't apply in the case of translating Japanese audio to English text.
Changing the server from "scs.msg.yahoo.com" to "scs.yahoo.com" doesn't fix the problem. It just puts you on a Yahoo! Messenger server that is in a sort of limbo. You can only see other people (using 3rd party clients) connected to the same server, but not anyone using the real Yahoo! Messenger client.
It's illegal to help foreign individuals with crypto code if you're a US citizen. You can't put in hooks in your programs that is for the purpose of adding in a crypto package even if you don't distribute the crypto code with your package.
Well, I thought the Germans had the fastest network.
SIEMENS TRANSMITS 3.2 TBPS ON A FIBER -- 80 CHANNELS AT 40 GBPS
Researchers at Siemen's Transport System Laboratories set a new record for optical data transmission on a single optical fiber: 3.2 terabits/second over a distance of 40 km. The demonstration transmitted 80 wavelengths of 40 Gbps channels generated using an Electronic Time Division Multiplexing ETDM system developed by Siemens. http://www.siemens.co m/ic/networks/news/icmore/en/events2.htm Siemens, August 9, 1999
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No, it doesn't. You get access to /sdcard (whether it corresponds to a physical SD card or not), but that's it. You don't get access (even read access) to sandboxed application and system data storage, unless your phone is rooted.
So the obvious answer is that, if you want security, don't root your phone. It should be kinda obvious that if you can do what you want with the phone via USB, so can any application running on your PC.
You don't have to have USB debugging (a.k.a. ADB) enabled at all. Simply leaving it disables mitigates that concern.
Mounting the phone as a USB mass storage device also doesn't allow you to access the application data unless they store it on the shared SD card storage.
There are bad doc/dentists. There are bad everywhere.
I think this point is missed every once in a while. People tend to look at an MD/DDS as being able to do no wrong, but, like everyone else, half of doctors are below average. You can use what little signal you have to determine if a doctor is good: what school they attended, how many years they've worked, how many times they've done a certain procedure, etc.
Those signals are well and good, but there are other signals that aren't expressed in any other way that these review sites: when you're leaning back in the dentist chair, will you be looking up at cobwebs? How does that reflect on the general hygiene of the tools going into your mouth? Is the office staff friendly to children or is it staffed with anti-breeders? Those subjective measurements aren't reflected in a simple list of facts.
For the doctors out there, if a someone is dumb enough not to be able to see past some random idiot posting a inflammatory or untrue review, maybe you don't want them as a patient.
Oracle is also one of the top Linux code contributors, popping in more code than even the Linux Foundation (see Table 9): Xen, YAST, NFS on IPv6, "data=guarded" for ext3, Asynchronous IO kernel subsystem, and more. Not surprisingly, most of what Oracle contributes is germane to Orafcle DB & apps, no different from every other contributor working on something he is specifically interested in or in need of.
Oracle contributed Xen to Linux? The boys in Cambridge are going to be scratching their heads at that one. Also, Novell is probably going to be alarmed that Oracle put their setup tool, YaST, into the kernel.
Cool project. Unfortunately the use of AGPL will guarantee no one ever uses it. Too bad. Imagine having a base station where you have to require a partition for the source. Or people with broken cell phones saying you're not providing an equal opportunity to download the software source. Ugh.
ironically, CR still rates it HIGHER than any other smart phone for the US market! actual report is behind a CR paywall, link goes to blog post that shows a screen shot of the report...
Er, except that picture shows that it's filtered on "AT&T smart phones" and not smart phones in general. That certainly cuts down the competition. I bet the iPhone 4 is also the best iPhone 4!
I don't know how old you are, but it might be a matter of age for some people. My father-in-law, a 62 year-old former police officer, has been running every day since he joined the police academy and still runs several miles a day up and down the mountainous roads near his flat.
I mentioned Nike Free to him when those first came out and he laughed and said he would be in agony if he ran without the support that his shoes offer him. Maybe it would have worked when he was younger, but it definitely won't now. For now he says just stick with $10 running shoes from Michaels that he has to replace every month!
Being able to compose an HTTP GET request just by making a pistol gesture and a "pow" sound definitely requires some serious "skillz." No matter how much I tried, I couldn't replicate this on my PC. I tried every conceivable pistol gesture and permutation of "pow," "ka-blooey," "Muad-dib," etc. It wasn't happening for me.
In the language of the eligibility requirements for the DTV coupons, it has language that strictly limits the feature set of the DTV tuner boxes. I believe there aren't any hidden features put in by manufacturers for fear of running afoul of the rules and being disqualified from being eligible for the coupons. Of course, risking disqualification from the program means significant revenue impact.
If you really want to examine a country for taxes, then take a look at Hong Kong. There are 4 tax tiers starting at 2% and the highest is 20%. I think most would fit into the 8% and 14% tier though. However, despite these low taxes there is public health care. Go figure.
Also there is no sales tax in Hong Kong either.
Okay, I just convinced myself; I'm packing my bags.
Oh, also, it's possible for data networks to carry VoIP and IM conversations, so they have access to those as well. In fact, the FCC issued a ruling in 2005 expanding the reach of CALEA over Internet broadband providers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act
This is the kind of problem the FreeAuth Project was created to solve. You use a one-time pad program on your phone or PDA that can run Java MIDlets. However, you have to use a site that supports FreeAuth or have control of your own webserver to support this.
http://www.freeauth.org/
I notice that this hardware supports JumboFLAME. I thought this had something to do with the temperature extremes, but after further investigation it seems to be another R/L discrimination problem.
Definition for JumboFlame in Japanese (translation)
Wait, they all fly on private jets so these rules wouldn't affect them. Besides, it's too inconvenient to drive to a commercial airport when they each have a private runway outside their ivory towers.
If only they had peer-reviewed AACS before releasing it like the RIAA did with their Secure Digital Music Initiative, then none of this would have happened!
Did you rape a baby?!
There are a few operations that are significantly slower on a regular CPU as compared to a special purpose processor like an FPGA. For instance, FPGAs usually have quite a few 18x18 multipliers. These multipliers can be used effectively for many algorithms such as an inverse discrete cosine transform (iDCT).
That could mean, for example, less power used to render MPEG-2 video; effectively delivering HDTV to notebook users without draining the battery.
Is it just me or do these two statements not make sense together? Once they hire all the project managers and programmers, they're still not going to have people that can build infrastructure. You'll need more systems administrators to get the actual hardware infrastructure in there.
Perhaps this magazine meant the news was that CIO actions don't align with their stated goals. :-)
It seems to me that companies have always had a choice of other operating systems that would allow them more freedom to change the source code and not worry about having to contribute back to the community. Witness the BSD license.
I believe that Linux has been significantly helped because of the GPL. Anybody that is worried about licensing issues with the GPL can just use a BSD derivative and call it a day.
As for the CDDL I have a feeling it will get little attention since it is not compatible with the GPL. It's like creating their own little island community of developers. Yeah, it's nice that they're opening their source code, but there's not much use in everyone dabbling in it because you are unable to take the work elsewhere. I remember IBM trying the same thing with their own incompatible license and it went absolutely nowhere.
It's been said before, but I'll have to throw my lot in with Communigate Pro. There have been installations of over 4.5 million.
Check out their page on dynamic clusters. I use it every day and must say it's the best investment I've made in commercial software.
It appears that the controversy here is over copyright infringement when the "fansubbing group" releases an entire video with their translated subtitles attached to them. While I agree this is copyright infringement, I would also like to point out that, according to the Berne Convention Article 8, translating copyrighted works is the exclusive right of the copyright holder.
I would love to hear of any legal precedent that says that this doesn't apply in the case of translating Japanese audio to English text.
Changing the server from "scs.msg.yahoo.com" to "scs.yahoo.com" doesn't fix the problem. It just puts you on a Yahoo! Messenger server that is in a sort of limbo. You can only see other people (using 3rd party clients) connected to the same server, but not anyone using the real Yahoo! Messenger client.
It's illegal to help foreign individuals with crypto code if you're a US citizen. You can't put in hooks in your programs that is for the purpose of adding in a crypto package even if you don't distribute the crypto code with your package.
Use e.g. instead of i.e. when giving examples, dammit.