Its not - there is a real risk that a dstar to wifi gateway (which setting up is trivial) being used by a non ham would be however - even here in the states.
I wouldn't say its a reason to ban the protocol though as it can be used for a great number of things other than internet stuff.
He's generalizing, but there were no other formats that could do 12:1 compression like MP3 did when it came out. Few people remember that if you wanted to rip a CD it was a 50 megabyte file. I still remember playing back a small little file with a.MP2 extension on a Dell 486 running Windows 3.1 and going WOW - thats amazing! (gives you kind of a timeline on how long ago this really was). It was some tune from Kimagure Orange Road.
ATRAC btw was only used internally at Sony for DAT and Minidisc (and later AT3 cd's) - there was never any way then to make or play back an ATRAC file on a home PC until somewhat recent history (and only then to try to lock people into using ATRAC over MP3).
The difference is how much warning you get. Most of the security bugs Adobe fixes are found internally (you'll never hear about those - unless it greatly affects product functionality), and even those told to them externally by 3rd party researchers they usually get a several month lead time.
Zero day bugs are where some guy says "surprise look what I found" on his blog without any warning despite how long a bug takes to fix.
Having read a lot of enforcement logs though - if your just an individual unless you have ample evidence on what is actually causing the interference they won't really do much. Lets face facts - consumer electronics are highly prone to transient glitches that come and go.
And once you do have evidence (neighbors electric fence, utility pole issue etc) they'll send a warning letter with some resources on resolving said interference as a first step.
Now if you are interfering with police/fire/government or other licensed communications (like broadcasters) they will send out the RDF trucks.
I used to have a hard time justifying my World of Warcraft addiction. Then it hit me - at least in WoW you see other players and can compete with them - regularly. Farmville it seems like people are literally just farming for their own amusement (you can visit other farms, but in the students I've observed play it - they never do), and it requires more attention than World of Warcraft. If you don't log in daily your stuff dies.
My Shaman on the other hand is probably still sitting there in Dalaran in her lovely tier 7 gear.
Steve Jobs is the King David (the original kill the messenger of bad news) of computing - can you imagine announcing a product delay because of a crucial design flaw in the iPhone 4 to Steve?
It sounds to me like you cherry-picked the puck mouse example (also, this is a product from 1998 you're talking about).
Apple's laptops are prone to overheating too (just google macbook video overheat) - mine doesn't have these issues, but a students of mine did and many others have too. That said - I've never had an apple mouse that even remotely pleasant to use - even their new one. It looks cool, but its not even remotely ergonomic.
Actually this was my job at Rulespace Inc - look and grade content (which meant browsing porn all day). They made content filters and had this tool to train engines to recognize it more automatically.
Trust me - after the first few days porn does desensitize you...
The "Android Marketplace" does a couple things automatically that solve this - without a walled garden approach. 1) when you install an app via the marketplace it TELLS YOU what the app has access too 2) User rating will inform users whether the app is worthless and 3) there is a report malware feature in the marketplace to inform Google to investigate the app. In other words - often the market can determine what stays and what doesn't.
This is just more FUD against Android - all platforms have this exact same issue - even Apple (more than once I've read about an app that was approved and everything collecting data against Apple's own TOS - good example of this is that company that told us all about iPhone OS 4 metrics they collected from Apple's own development phones).
You could also blame MS for making the bridge field really really really hard to find. I don't see why Apple can't just dial whatever is in the location field though.
When I was working a temp job in Intel product validation - we did a lot of testing for Dell (among a ton of other OEM's) - and from what I understand they worked very closely with Dell (and other OEM's) to build systems. There's a ruddy good reason that desktop, laptop and server motherboards look extremely similar to each other from vendor to vendor... When I had a job at a famous software company in San Jose - Intel had a lot of full time people there as well doing testing on site. Same with AMD.
Just because you don't think it may happen doesn't mean its not a possibility.
You may have an app that requires the new gyroscope, front facing camera or some other service - that a previous iPhone doesn't have. Some iPhone like devices are running 3.x, some are running 4.x (and some won't be able to run 4.x). Its the same thing Android deals with - some Android phones have front facing cameras - some don't. Some have keyboards, some don't. Some are running 1.6, 2.x etc.
Google uses the application manifest to filter results on their store - in other words if your app requires a keyboard or a front camera, or a gyroscope, or a whatever - it won't let you download (or even see!) that app on your phone's marketplace.
It certainly is part of it. Also in terms of hardware configuration - how do you deal with the iPhone 4 and the iPad - both of which have vastly different hardware (and resolutions) than previous iPhone devices?
Probably the same way Google deals with it:) - application manifests and in application condition checking.
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Its not - there is a real risk that a dstar to wifi gateway (which setting up is trivial) being used by a non ham would be however - even here in the states.
I wouldn't say its a reason to ban the protocol though as it can be used for a great number of things other than internet stuff.
http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/flash-player-cpu-hog-or-hot-tamale-it-depends-.html - I think its been proven that Flash performance isn't that bad - once hardware acceleration has been finished for Mac OS its performance will be on par with Windows and it performs better than HTML 5.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/02/adobe_cto_talks_flash_performance_on_macs.html - I think its been proven that Flash reliability isn't that bad either. I personally can't remember the last time Flash crashed.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ - I think its also been proven its an open spec.
Stop repeating the words of the all mighty turtleneck and come up with your own ideas.
He's generalizing, but there were no other formats that could do 12:1 compression like MP3 did when it came out. Few people remember that if you wanted to rip a CD it was a 50 megabyte file. I still remember playing back a small little file with a .MP2 extension on a Dell 486 running Windows 3.1 and going WOW - thats amazing! (gives you kind of a timeline on how long ago this really was). It was some tune from Kimagure Orange Road.
ATRAC btw was only used internally at Sony for DAT and Minidisc (and later AT3 cd's) - there was never any way then to make or play back an ATRAC file on a home PC until somewhat recent history (and only then to try to lock people into using ATRAC over MP3).
Isn't that kinda what I said?
And doing just a bit of research - Foxit only fixed this exact same bug 2 weeks earlier than Adobe.
It's not like Foxit is completely without security flaws either.
The difference is how much warning you get. Most of the security bugs Adobe fixes are found internally (you'll never hear about those - unless it greatly affects product functionality), and even those told to them externally by 3rd party researchers they usually get a several month lead time.
Zero day bugs are where some guy says "surprise look what I found" on his blog without any warning despite how long a bug takes to fix.
Having read a lot of enforcement logs though - if your just an individual unless you have ample evidence on what is actually causing the interference they won't really do much. Lets face facts - consumer electronics are highly prone to transient glitches that come and go.
And once you do have evidence (neighbors electric fence, utility pole issue etc) they'll send a warning letter with some resources on resolving said interference as a first step.
Now if you are interfering with police/fire/government or other licensed communications (like broadcasters) they will send out the RDF trucks.
I would RTFA but the site has been broken all morning - I think they pulled the article.
I used to have a hard time justifying my World of Warcraft addiction. Then it hit me - at least in WoW you see other players and can compete with them - regularly. Farmville it seems like people are literally just farming for their own amusement (you can visit other farms, but in the students I've observed play it - they never do), and it requires more attention than World of Warcraft. If you don't log in daily your stuff dies.
My Shaman on the other hand is probably still sitting there in Dalaran in her lovely tier 7 gear.
How this got through QA is beyond me.
Steve Jobs is the King David (the original kill the messenger of bad news) of computing - can you imagine announcing a product delay because of a crucial design flaw in the iPhone 4 to Steve?
Apple's laptops are prone to overheating too (just google macbook video overheat) - mine doesn't have these issues, but a students of mine did and many others have too. That said - I've never had an apple mouse that even remotely pleasant to use - even their new one. It looks cool, but its not even remotely ergonomic.
Please do enlighten me.
What does that even mean?
Actually this was my job at Rulespace Inc - look and grade content (which meant browsing porn all day). They made content filters and had this tool to train engines to recognize it more automatically.
Trust me - after the first few days porn does desensitize you...
Insightful? Name one thing that is this broken to core functionality in Windows.
The "Android Marketplace" does a couple things automatically that solve this - without a walled garden approach. 1) when you install an app via the marketplace it TELLS YOU what the app has access too 2) User rating will inform users whether the app is worthless and 3) there is a report malware feature in the marketplace to inform Google to investigate the app. In other words - often the market can determine what stays and what doesn't.
This is just more FUD against Android - all platforms have this exact same issue - even Apple (more than once I've read about an app that was approved and everything collecting data against Apple's own TOS - good example of this is that company that told us all about iPhone OS 4 metrics they collected from Apple's own development phones).
I have the impression its impossible to do anything in this country without infringing on some patent somewhere.
At least I have the choice whether I want to run Flash on my phone or not - rather than have some guy in a black turtleneck decide for me.
Why not have your network operator do that?
You could also blame MS for making the bridge field really really really hard to find. I don't see why Apple can't just dial whatever is in the location field though.
When I was working a temp job in Intel product validation - we did a lot of testing for Dell (among a ton of other OEM's) - and from what I understand they worked very closely with Dell (and other OEM's) to build systems. There's a ruddy good reason that desktop, laptop and server motherboards look extremely similar to each other from vendor to vendor... When I had a job at a famous software company in San Jose - Intel had a lot of full time people there as well doing testing on site. Same with AMD.
Just because you don't think it may happen doesn't mean its not a possibility.
You may have an app that requires the new gyroscope, front facing camera or some other service - that a previous iPhone doesn't have. Some iPhone like devices are running 3.x, some are running 4.x (and some won't be able to run 4.x). Its the same thing Android deals with - some Android phones have front facing cameras - some don't. Some have keyboards, some don't. Some are running 1.6, 2.x etc.
Google uses the application manifest to filter results on their store - in other words if your app requires a keyboard or a front camera, or a gyroscope, or a whatever - it won't let you download (or even see!) that app on your phone's marketplace.
Sounds like the same issues to me ;).
It certainly is part of it. Also in terms of hardware configuration - how do you deal with the iPhone 4 and the iPad - both of which have vastly different hardware (and resolutions) than previous iPhone devices?
Probably the same way Google deals with it :) - application manifests and in application condition checking.
Was that a better try?
You mean the iPhone suffers from this fragmentation thing Apple people accuse the Android platform of having?