Diehard touch typists using English-language keyboards actually use the little dimples on the F and J keys. Feeling them under your index fingers confirms that your hands are correctly positioned
Only to be confounded because the pre-OS X Mac keyboards had the bumps over the D and K keys instead. (Nowadays Apple relented and puts them over F and J - probably a Jobs-ian order).
Though, sometimes when I'm not looking at hte keyboard, trying to type with one hand (other on the mouse), I sometimes land on the wrong bump.
Updates. Web apps always run at the latest version, desktop apps do not.
Except the poster had to create a local app because said devices have no internet connection. Otherwise he'd just mandate that the web version be used instead.
So it's a desktop app, just fashioned after a static web app.
Also, updates may be easier to deploy, but there's often a lot of howling and screaming and such from existing users. You hear it every time Facebook changes anything. You also hear it when Netflix changed their interface. etc. Hell, you hear it when Firefox tries to become more like Chrome (but at least you can avoid updating).
You, sir, may have a "friend", but he is *not* stuffing iPads with whatever for Air Force flight crews, at least not for official use. For the USAF, it is *not* an approved device. In fact, there are *no* Apple devices that are approved to be connected to to our network (at least NIPR or SIPRNET), so it would not be possible to update the device - flight pubs, nav databases, and Jeppesen products are updated quite often, almost monthly. Not to mention the aircraft TOs and FCIFs. Currently, the only portable computers we use for pubs are Panasonic ToughBooks.
Have you considered that the iPads may be running regular consumer level apps? The number of pilot assistance apps is huge on iOS. Jeppesen's got a few iPad apps - Jeppsen Mobile FD and Jeppesen Mobile TC. Plus a half dozen other companies are making EFB-style apps.
Electronic charts, airport diagrams, etc. The apps already are there on iPad for consumer use.
Flight manuals and docs? PDFs and a suitable reader. Even iBooks would work.
Ah, so now you've changed from the general case to this specific case. The vast, vast majority of users who need to log into a system have only one system from which to do it from.
Your entire argument fails on that singlular premise.
So... a guy who gets his account locked out because of his iPad... has the iPad as his only device? The guy with the iPad getting his account locked out - already breaks the assumption that it's his only device, excepting very few rare circumstances.
And think of it the other way - if it's so easy to lock out an account, all any hacker needs to do is lock out the sysadmins. Think about it - lock out all the domain administrator accounts, and the network is now yours to explore.
Oh wait, the sysadmin accounts have another account that can log them in (local user)? Well, that can happen, and said attacker can keep trying said account to lock them back out in the time it takes to walk to the data center, go to the domain controller, unlock the account and log off. (What, you want to RDP in via your locked-out PC?).
Malfunctioning devices are common. I've had my account locked out purely from *Samba* on one of our Linux servers. if you don't lock out a device, any one device can promptly go and lock out an entire company by attacking the userlist.
The iPad is made in China (the paranoids could say there could be a backdoor in there, just like we've made backdoors within Intel products and Xerox Machines in the past, we're fearful that a large enough foreign power would try doing the same back to us at some point. It wouldn't have to be an obvious backdoor. Introducing a vulnerability or two into iPhones/iPads at a low enough level could still allow China access to our devices and yet still provide some plausibility of denial that this was just a vulnerability, not a purposeful backdoor).
If that was the big problem, then NIST will not certify anything. Practically all consumer Android devices, iOS devices, the PlayBook, and other tablets are made in China. In fact, it's likely that with this announcement, China may decide to figure out a way to backdoor the PlayBook knowing the government has approved it.
Blackberries aren't made in North America, they're made in China at the same factories churning out iPhones, Droids, and everything else. They're vulnerable to the exact same hacks that'll break through an iPhone and an iPod.
In fact, the sheer volume of iPhones and iPods sold could very well mean the chance that any particular device will have access to sensitive data is very low - if they're churning 5+ million devices a month, it's pretty hard to ensure that one will make it to its intended destination, short of sabotaging the entire run which is extremely difficult (how do you hide the fact that someone just purchased millions of parts?, and if the sabotage has any side effect, you can bet someone will blog about some oddity they're seeing, and being Apple, it'll land on the front page of/.
I'm sick of people proffering this and only this as a reason to Google+ growth. There is something more to it, after all, iTunes Ping isn't Facebook either. Why didn't they balloon up to 20 million in two weeks?
Because Ping is a social network specializing in a niche - music interests. You don't post your every thought to Ping because it's not designed to be a Facebook or a G+. You don't post your vacation pics or your latest drunken brawl on Ping. And you don't go on Ping to find your old buddy from high school.
No, all Ping is for is to follow and share your music interests. Like an artist? Follow them and see what others who like the artist listen to.
Plus, Ping requires iTunes, which on Windows sucks (though I do use it since it seems to manage my music better and is less busy than Windows Media Player...).
If Apple wanted, they could expand Ping into a real social network rather than just music-oriented, but I suspect Apple likes it the way it is - good enough to not be troublesome and have privacy issues, and popular enough for the big artists.
USB really didn't catch on to be popular until the price per MB dropped through the floor. I mean it wasn't even 5 years ago you were still paying $50 for a 200mb stick.
Actually, USB didn't really catch on until the iMac came out. Before that, there was no reason to go USB. A USB keyboard and mouse was expensive over its PS/2 counterpart, serial/printer ports worked just fine, and sneakernet worked.
When the iMac came out, there was a huge demand for things to go into the little USB port - which meant people started buying the expensive USB peripherals. Printers, keyboards, mice (doubly so) and of course, USB floppy drives. Not so much storage (there was FireWire for that).
Basically USB was pretty much an empty port on PCs - no one in their right mind used it for anything, and especially Windows didn't have much support (Windows 98 required a driver to handle mass storage) beyond a keyboard or mouse.
If a virus ravages the country and kills off Windows XP, Adobe Flash, and IIS, then the strong will have survived and the software world will be a better place.
Malware, like real biological diseases, have evolved to where killing the host is a Bad Idea(tm) when it comes to spreading around. It's far better to keep the host alive and churning out copies of infection than to kill the host.
The end result is that all the "better software users" will have to suffer through the crap caused by all the diseased hosts.
Heck, remember the old IIS/SQL Server vulnerability from ages ago? When it hit, it took the internet down *hard* - vulnerable hosts were highly infectious, while other hosts had to suffer from the DoS caused by all the probes for vulnerability, plus the fact that all that bandwidth to hosts got rapidly chewed up. It only got discovered because it was so infectious that people noticed the bandwidth consumption from their PC - but innocent (and invulnerable) hosts had to suffer from the barrage of packets they could not control.
Most people on G+ (at least, most people that I come in contact with in my extended circles) assert they came to G+ to get away from the games and BS that's all over Facebook.
I doubt that - you should ask if they still maintain a Facebook account or if they closed it down completely. Most probably still have it, if nothing more than "a friend is only on facebook" excuse.
The reason G+ is growing is because it ISN'T facebook. Hating the popular thing is a well known behavior that's been around for centuries at least. You'll find tons of people who claim they liked Band X better before they made it big and commercial and started producing crap, and now move onto the next indie band.
Happens everywhere you look. We even see this with iOS vs. Android, Ubuntu vs. Everything Else, etc.
Perfectly normal human behavior. When G+ becomes like Facebook now (it's coming) they'll still claim G+ is better because it's not facebook. When the next big thing after G+ comes along, they'll claim to like ti because it's not G+.
Heck, you can find NATO RESTRICTED documents on eBay. (I saw a flight manual for the Eurofighter Typhoon up for sale. On one of the photos was a shot of the cover page, with NATO RESTRICTED plastered on it).
Though unlikely, a key logger is a real threat to even this type of security.
hardware keyloggers exist. They're small enough to be embedded inside the keyboard itself, though you may also find somethat look like the EMI ferrite lumps they put on cables and have it embedded that way. Or the lamest ones are dongles that stick in-between the keyboard cable and the computer. (And yes, they do USB).
They also don't require software - just hit a few keys, enter a password, and it'll type out the contents of the buffer. (Kinda slow, it can take hours).
That's probably why it died. Face it - it was something that could last forever simply because there's an impressive amount of music out there. Even if they didn't release any more editions, there's tons of music out there for DLC.
Activision, unfortunately, is a company focused on the short term profit than the long term longevity. They will go for $1 today instead of going for the $2 tomorrow (tne $3 the day after, etc). In the end, the desire for money drove the franchise into the ground. They've done it with Blizzard, they'll do it with Bungie.
Well, that and the labels that decided to get greedy instead of using it as an opportunity to market more music. After all, music games lead to the revival of many bands.
And if it was a fad, there wouldn't be music games for over a decade and a half (all the way from Konami bemani, DDR, etc). It was just plain greed between the labels and more importantly, Activision.
It's partly parenting, but I think it's the lawsuit factor that gets people scared.
Where once parents let their kids play and get cuts and scrapes, they now look at it as a sort of lawsuit jackpot. "My kid got hurt! Sue!" in the hopes of extracting a five or six figure settlement.
It only takes the court to issue one judgement in favor of the parent before all the stuff comes down. Then said idiot parent goes in front of all the TVs and bleats about how dangerous stuff is, etc.
Yup, only movies I've seen in 3D which I thought were done well were Avatar and Tron Legacy. I rarely bother to see movies in 3D - usually they're just visually distracting and headache-inducing. It isn't even a matter of money for me so much as paying more for what I'd consider an inferior product to the 2D most of the time.
To make a movie in 3D you need to actually plan it that way - just like you have to plan for movies in 2D. They don't "just happen."
The thing that makes Avatar so good was James Cameron surveyed the 3D cameras on the market, decided they were crap, and created his own. The downside is the cameraman and DP is now a very critical part of the process because the camera's convergence is controllable, and mistakes on that part mean a new take (you can't fix convergence issues in post).
Tron Legacy did it well because it was understated and the director managed to create very natural viewpoints.
Likewise, the 3D in Transformers Dark of the Moon is really good - this time Bay used the Cameron rig (and reshot everything in 3D - it meant throwing out a couple months of shots).
I think the same happens for IMAX 3D.
One of the big issues I have with 3D (and I've seen this with 3D camcorders) is for some reason, instead of trying to make the 3D go from the screen surface and back, they try to put some of the 3D in front of the screen. Which is fine for a movie theatre when you've got the screen filling the entire field of view, but for a TV, is awfully jarring once the "popped out" object hits the edge. Proper camera rigs turn the screen into a window to which the movie unfolds behind the screen, making for a very natural image.
One of my first demos with a 3DTV was a nature show with a polar bear walking across the screen. Cool, but when the head reached the end of the screen and continued walking off, the fact you had just the back end of a polar bear sticking out in your face - it appears someone chopped the front part away.
The 3DS doesn't do this (all imagery is behind the plane of the screen, so you're looking through a window), but I've seen 3D camcorders that do, the Sony one especially.
Now, anything in "plain view" is obviously not protected by the 4th amendment. Seems to me that although your iris is in "plain view", specific details about it are not. Anything that requires a $3000 lens assembly attached to a sophisticated piece of electronic equipment cannot possibly be regarded as "in plain view" by any reasonable person. The problem is that lawyers and police officers are usually far from reasonable and generally have little, if any, common sense.
What if I had a really good dSLR with a really nice zoom lens? And you were walking around and I happened to click my shutter right when your face happened to be in frame? $3000 for a good lens isn't high-end (the ones you see at events that are massive can easily be in the 5 digits).
If I can derive your iris pattern from my photo, is that "in plain view"? At worse, it's just a camera with a really nice lens assembly. It's just the camera app happens to also be able to recognize irises.
Now, I will agree that stopping people to have photos taken of their irises is more of a questionable area. But casually taking photos, I'm not sure what to make of it.
Teen years - you're broke, but have oodles of time to play long winded games straight through, even.
Adult years - got money, but no time to play games.
And yes, we could play through the games, but there are many good ones that are interesting. I think the only games I every finished the campaigns for was the Halo series (I actually decided to play them through a couple of years back).
Doesn't mean there still isn't a pack of games I want to play - I'm trying to make my way through LA Noire. I finished Heavy Rain last year when I got it on sale (and it still ran on OtherOS-capable PCs). Plus I still have God of War 2 and 3 to play through. I've never finished a Final Fantasy, yet I've got FF12 and 13 still in shrinkwrap (7/8/9/X I've all started but not finished).
And no, I don't appreciate 2 hour games. Nor do I appreciate the shortness of even Halo's campaigns (and I really suck at multiplayer).
Of course, one of the bigger problems is games being artificially longer than they have to be. Some sections are just too painful to play so I end up quitting it because it's too tedious to continue. Then there are other games that love to punish you by giving extraordinarily hard bosses or rely on really twitchlike timing where you have to push the buttons as the developer planned it plus or minus 100ms or you won't make it. And oh, the save point is 10 minutes before.
And yeah, don't get me started on widely space save points.
I believe part of the criterion for approval is it must work on the iPad (using 1x and 2x mode for non-iPad, non-Universal apps) and possibly iPod Touch as well (unless it uses features that are iPhone only - e.g., SMS, dialer). Perhaps most of the 2 weeks (which I thought was the average time for app approval - has Apple gotten the turnaround down to 1 week already?) was spent dicking around with Google on why their app only works on iPhone and nothing else.
Or has Google decided they needed everyone's phone number?
I had no clue that asteroids were interested in visiting astronauts!
Alas, the feeling's not mutual, for astronauts are deathly afraid of visiting asteroids. Actually, people generally are, especially if said asteroid is larger than a certain size. But astronauts are very vary of any asteroids or meteroids, no matter how small.
I suppose the asteroids want to explore why astronauts have this phobia.
The phone hackers destroyed no property, deprived no owners of any of its use. I don't think there is any real harm here. As far the policing thinking that little girl might still have been alive, come on if she was dialing into her voice mail they should be all over the phone records to find out where from, the real story there is BAD POLICE work. Information wants to be free any secret you keep you have to work against entropy to keep that information concentrated with you otherwise it will diffuse. If you don't put energy into doing that then it will diffuse. IMHO its not News of the Worlds fault people selected weak voice mail PINs, its their fault.
More like evidence was tampered.
First, listening to voicemail often clears the "new voicemail" flag, and unless you're really anal, no one listens to every voice mail they have daily.
Perhaps the bigger crime is the fact they destroyed evidence - the voice mailbox was full. They deleted voicemails to make room for more. Sure we can hope the reporters deleted the unimportant ones, but can you really be sure?
Lulzsec at least isn't tampering with these things - these emails exist, and they're releasing it. They haven't come in, deleted emails or read unread email (and fail to reset them so the recipient never notices they haven't actually read the email yet).
Yes, there were mistakes on all sides. But leaving my front door unlocked doesn't give anyone the right to enter my house, and especially not to go through my computer reading my email, answering machine/voice mail
Maybe not. But, it definitely raises questions about the guy's integrity. And, you can't help but wonder if this hadn't been noticed and created massive outcry, whether he would have apologized at all, or whether he was just imitating large corporations policy of "hope they don't notice, apologize if they do."
Who cares about the guy's integrity? After all, NoScript is open-source and isn't that the important part?
If you don't trust the guy, take the latest revision (it's GPLv2+ and the source is in the XPI file), and fork it - isn't that the whole point of open source? Considering we've got LibreOffice forked when Oracle acquired Sun and OpenOffice. I don't see why we can't have FreeNoScript as well.
Don't trust it, fine, but when its usefulness is there and it's open-source, I don't see why a more trusted version can't be created. Heck, I'm surprised no one has created a malware version of NoScript.
I say push it live, let those damn n00bs grow some chest hair by referencing all their files by inode id.
You may jest, but it has happened in real life - not sure where I read the story (the daily wtf?) but it was basically a secretary named every file she created with a number. In a notebook, she noted the file number and what it was.
Naturally, disaster struck and she lost the notebook.
The tablet manufacturers seem to be a lot nicer about this. PanDigital released the source to their Android-based readers, and Archos lets you do pretty much anything you want with their Android-based PMP's and tablets.
Must be a new policy. Archos was one of the worst. You could soft-root it, but it won't stick. They locked the hard drive to the bootloader (you can't replace the hard drive... it own't boot without it). Then everything's signed so you can't really replace Android on it.
The only thing you can do is run apps - everything else is pretty much locked down, at least the last time I checked out their 2.2-running devices.
At best you could get a soft root that was lost when you rebooted, but no kernel swaps (signed kernels) and no userland swaps (signed kernel checks signed userspace).
For Mac fanboys the bigger bill is all part of the experience.
Of course, to be fair, the ancient Core2Duo still outruns the Atom processor, and the fact it has decent graphics instead of GMAcrap and SSD tend to make it more pleasant to use.
Then again, if a netbook is satisfying the OP just fine, then CPU horsepower and graphics probably aren't very high on the priority list, and neither is screen rAir's a 1366x768 on the 11" model, versus 1024x600 you get on most netbooks). Differing priorities, I suppose. Even 1366x768 I'd feel cramped (though maybe not as much - those $500 laptops with 15" 1366x768... )
I may have misused the term "root", as I use an Android phone (rooted, obviously:) ). "Jailbreaking" iOS may not be the same as permaroot, hence not being called "rooting", and if that's the case it's my fault for using the improper term.
No, you're correct. Jailbreaking gives you root. It refers to breaking out of the jail() that iOS puts on apps, and as a side effect, also gives you root.
However, iOS has a few more security protections that make it harder to KEEP root. After all, Cydia and the like must run as root in order to work (Cydia relies on apt and debs, and grants full access to the system - something only doable via root as the iOS sandbox has limits).
You see, a vulnerability in iOS (and most other OSes) is that you can patch the in-memory images of stuff. Tethered jailbreaks rely on just that - patching the kernel images and such in memory, AFTER the security check has taken place. If you patch the kernel or other executables on disk, they will fail their signature checks and won't be loaded.
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Only to be confounded because the pre-OS X Mac keyboards had the bumps over the D and K keys instead. (Nowadays Apple relented and puts them over F and J - probably a Jobs-ian order).
Though, sometimes when I'm not looking at hte keyboard, trying to type with one hand (other on the mouse), I sometimes land on the wrong bump.
Except the poster had to create a local app because said devices have no internet connection. Otherwise he'd just mandate that the web version be used instead.
So it's a desktop app, just fashioned after a static web app.
Also, updates may be easier to deploy, but there's often a lot of howling and screaming and such from existing users. You hear it every time Facebook changes anything. You also hear it when Netflix changed their interface. etc. Hell, you hear it when Firefox tries to become more like Chrome (but at least you can avoid updating).
Have you considered that the iPads may be running regular consumer level apps? The number of pilot assistance apps is huge on iOS. Jeppesen's got a few iPad apps - Jeppsen Mobile FD and Jeppesen Mobile TC. Plus a half dozen other companies are making EFB-style apps.
Electronic charts, airport diagrams, etc. The apps already are there on iPad for consumer use.
Flight manuals and docs? PDFs and a suitable reader. Even iBooks would work.
So... a guy who gets his account locked out because of his iPad ... has the iPad as his only device? The guy with the iPad getting his account locked out - already breaks the assumption that it's his only device, excepting very few rare circumstances.
And think of it the other way - if it's so easy to lock out an account, all any hacker needs to do is lock out the sysadmins. Think about it - lock out all the domain administrator accounts, and the network is now yours to explore.
Oh wait, the sysadmin accounts have another account that can log them in (local user)? Well, that can happen, and said attacker can keep trying said account to lock them back out in the time it takes to walk to the data center, go to the domain controller, unlock the account and log off. (What, you want to RDP in via your locked-out PC?).
Malfunctioning devices are common. I've had my account locked out purely from *Samba* on one of our Linux servers. if you don't lock out a device, any one device can promptly go and lock out an entire company by attacking the userlist.
Funny they this page linked off their store (www.apple.com, click on "Store", then "Government Store"). GSA schedule and all.
Of course, you can also use your government status to buy slightly-discounted stuff for yourself, too.
(No, I didn't know it existed until someone asked me to look it up a few days ago...)
If that was the big problem, then NIST will not certify anything. Practically all consumer Android devices, iOS devices, the PlayBook, and other tablets are made in China. In fact, it's likely that with this announcement, China may decide to figure out a way to backdoor the PlayBook knowing the government has approved it.
Blackberries aren't made in North America, they're made in China at the same factories churning out iPhones, Droids, and everything else. They're vulnerable to the exact same hacks that'll break through an iPhone and an iPod.
In fact, the sheer volume of iPhones and iPods sold could very well mean the chance that any particular device will have access to sensitive data is very low - if they're churning 5+ million devices a month, it's pretty hard to ensure that one will make it to its intended destination, short of sabotaging the entire run which is extremely difficult (how do you hide the fact that someone just purchased millions of parts?, and if the sabotage has any side effect, you can bet someone will blog about some oddity they're seeing, and being Apple, it'll land on the front page of /.
Because Ping is a social network specializing in a niche - music interests. You don't post your every thought to Ping because it's not designed to be a Facebook or a G+. You don't post your vacation pics or your latest drunken brawl on Ping. And you don't go on Ping to find your old buddy from high school.
No, all Ping is for is to follow and share your music interests. Like an artist? Follow them and see what others who like the artist listen to.
Plus, Ping requires iTunes, which on Windows sucks (though I do use it since it seems to manage my music better and is less busy than Windows Media Player...).
If Apple wanted, they could expand Ping into a real social network rather than just music-oriented, but I suspect Apple likes it the way it is - good enough to not be troublesome and have privacy issues, and popular enough for the big artists.
Actually, USB didn't really catch on until the iMac came out. Before that, there was no reason to go USB. A USB keyboard and mouse was expensive over its PS/2 counterpart, serial/printer ports worked just fine, and sneakernet worked.
When the iMac came out, there was a huge demand for things to go into the little USB port - which meant people started buying the expensive USB peripherals. Printers, keyboards, mice (doubly so) and of course, USB floppy drives. Not so much storage (there was FireWire for that).
Basically USB was pretty much an empty port on PCs - no one in their right mind used it for anything, and especially Windows didn't have much support (Windows 98 required a driver to handle mass storage) beyond a keyboard or mouse.
Malware, like real biological diseases, have evolved to where killing the host is a Bad Idea(tm) when it comes to spreading around. It's far better to keep the host alive and churning out copies of infection than to kill the host.
The end result is that all the "better software users" will have to suffer through the crap caused by all the diseased hosts.
Heck, remember the old IIS/SQL Server vulnerability from ages ago? When it hit, it took the internet down *hard* - vulnerable hosts were highly infectious, while other hosts had to suffer from the DoS caused by all the probes for vulnerability, plus the fact that all that bandwidth to hosts got rapidly chewed up. It only got discovered because it was so infectious that people noticed the bandwidth consumption from their PC - but innocent (and invulnerable) hosts had to suffer from the barrage of packets they could not control.
I doubt that - you should ask if they still maintain a Facebook account or if they closed it down completely. Most probably still have it, if nothing more than "a friend is only on facebook" excuse.
The reason G+ is growing is because it ISN'T facebook. Hating the popular thing is a well known behavior that's been around for centuries at least. You'll find tons of people who claim they liked Band X better before they made it big and commercial and started producing crap, and now move onto the next indie band.
Happens everywhere you look. We even see this with iOS vs. Android, Ubuntu vs. Everything Else, etc.
Perfectly normal human behavior. When G+ becomes like Facebook now (it's coming) they'll still claim G+ is better because it's not facebook. When the next big thing after G+ comes along, they'll claim to like ti because it's not G+.
Heck, you can find NATO RESTRICTED documents on eBay. (I saw a flight manual for the Eurofighter Typhoon up for sale. On one of the photos was a shot of the cover page, with NATO RESTRICTED plastered on it).
hardware keyloggers exist. They're small enough to be embedded inside the keyboard itself, though you may also find somethat look like the EMI ferrite lumps they put on cables and have it embedded that way. Or the lamest ones are dongles that stick in-between the keyboard cable and the computer. (And yes, they do USB).
They also don't require software - just hit a few keys, enter a password, and it'll type out the contents of the buffer. (Kinda slow, it can take hours).
That's probably why it died. Face it - it was something that could last forever simply because there's an impressive amount of music out there. Even if they didn't release any more editions, there's tons of music out there for DLC.
Activision, unfortunately, is a company focused on the short term profit than the long term longevity. They will go for $1 today instead of going for the $2 tomorrow (tne $3 the day after, etc). In the end, the desire for money drove the franchise into the ground. They've done it with Blizzard, they'll do it with Bungie.
Well, that and the labels that decided to get greedy instead of using it as an opportunity to market more music. After all, music games lead to the revival of many bands.
And if it was a fad, there wouldn't be music games for over a decade and a half (all the way from Konami bemani, DDR, etc). It was just plain greed between the labels and more importantly, Activision.
It's partly parenting, but I think it's the lawsuit factor that gets people scared.
Where once parents let their kids play and get cuts and scrapes, they now look at it as a sort of lawsuit jackpot. "My kid got hurt! Sue!" in the hopes of extracting a five or six figure settlement.
It only takes the court to issue one judgement in favor of the parent before all the stuff comes down. Then said idiot parent goes in front of all the TVs and bleats about how dangerous stuff is, etc.
The thing that makes Avatar so good was James Cameron surveyed the 3D cameras on the market, decided they were crap, and created his own. The downside is the cameraman and DP is now a very critical part of the process because the camera's convergence is controllable, and mistakes on that part mean a new take (you can't fix convergence issues in post).
Tron Legacy did it well because it was understated and the director managed to create very natural viewpoints.
Likewise, the 3D in Transformers Dark of the Moon is really good - this time Bay used the Cameron rig (and reshot everything in 3D - it meant throwing out a couple months of shots).
I think the same happens for IMAX 3D.
One of the big issues I have with 3D (and I've seen this with 3D camcorders) is for some reason, instead of trying to make the 3D go from the screen surface and back, they try to put some of the 3D in front of the screen. Which is fine for a movie theatre when you've got the screen filling the entire field of view, but for a TV, is awfully jarring once the "popped out" object hits the edge. Proper camera rigs turn the screen into a window to which the movie unfolds behind the screen, making for a very natural image.
One of my first demos with a 3DTV was a nature show with a polar bear walking across the screen. Cool, but when the head reached the end of the screen and continued walking off, the fact you had just the back end of a polar bear sticking out in your face - it appears someone chopped the front part away.
The 3DS doesn't do this (all imagery is behind the plane of the screen, so you're looking through a window), but I've seen 3D camcorders that do, the Sony one especially.
What if I had a really good dSLR with a really nice zoom lens? And you were walking around and I happened to click my shutter right when your face happened to be in frame? $3000 for a good lens isn't high-end (the ones you see at events that are massive can easily be in the 5 digits).
If I can derive your iris pattern from my photo, is that "in plain view"? At worse, it's just a camera with a really nice lens assembly. It's just the camera app happens to also be able to recognize irises.
Now, I will agree that stopping people to have photos taken of their irises is more of a questionable area. But casually taking photos, I'm not sure what to make of it.
It's the curse of being human.
Teen years - you're broke, but have oodles of time to play long winded games straight through, even.
Adult years - got money, but no time to play games.
And yes, we could play through the games, but there are many good ones that are interesting. I think the only games I every finished the campaigns for was the Halo series (I actually decided to play them through a couple of years back).
Doesn't mean there still isn't a pack of games I want to play - I'm trying to make my way through LA Noire. I finished Heavy Rain last year when I got it on sale (and it still ran on OtherOS-capable PCs). Plus I still have God of War 2 and 3 to play through. I've never finished a Final Fantasy, yet I've got FF12 and 13 still in shrinkwrap (7/8/9/X I've all started but not finished).
And no, I don't appreciate 2 hour games. Nor do I appreciate the shortness of even Halo's campaigns (and I really suck at multiplayer).
Of course, one of the bigger problems is games being artificially longer than they have to be. Some sections are just too painful to play so I end up quitting it because it's too tedious to continue. Then there are other games that love to punish you by giving extraordinarily hard bosses or rely on really twitchlike timing where you have to push the buttons as the developer planned it plus or minus 100ms or you won't make it. And oh, the save point is 10 minutes before.
And yeah, don't get me started on widely space save points.
Maybe that's why it took so long.
I believe part of the criterion for approval is it must work on the iPad (using 1x and 2x mode for non-iPad, non-Universal apps) and possibly iPod Touch as well (unless it uses features that are iPhone only - e.g., SMS, dialer). Perhaps most of the 2 weeks (which I thought was the average time for app approval - has Apple gotten the turnaround down to 1 week already?) was spent dicking around with Google on why their app only works on iPhone and nothing else.
Or has Google decided they needed everyone's phone number?
Alas, the feeling's not mutual, for astronauts are deathly afraid of visiting asteroids. Actually, people generally are, especially if said asteroid is larger than a certain size. But astronauts are very vary of any asteroids or meteroids, no matter how small.
I suppose the asteroids want to explore why astronauts have this phobia.
More like evidence was tampered.
First, listening to voicemail often clears the "new voicemail" flag, and unless you're really anal, no one listens to every voice mail they have daily.
Perhaps the bigger crime is the fact they destroyed evidence - the voice mailbox was full. They deleted voicemails to make room for more. Sure we can hope the reporters deleted the unimportant ones, but can you really be sure?
Lulzsec at least isn't tampering with these things - these emails exist, and they're releasing it. They haven't come in, deleted emails or read unread email (and fail to reset them so the recipient never notices they haven't actually read the email yet).
Yes, there were mistakes on all sides. But leaving my front door unlocked doesn't give anyone the right to enter my house, and especially not to go through my computer reading my email, answering machine/voice mail
Who cares about the guy's integrity? After all, NoScript is open-source and isn't that the important part?
If you don't trust the guy, take the latest revision (it's GPLv2+ and the source is in the XPI file), and fork it - isn't that the whole point of open source? Considering we've got LibreOffice forked when Oracle acquired Sun and OpenOffice. I don't see why we can't have FreeNoScript as well.
Don't trust it, fine, but when its usefulness is there and it's open-source, I don't see why a more trusted version can't be created. Heck, I'm surprised no one has created a malware version of NoScript.
You may jest, but it has happened in real life - not sure where I read the story (the daily wtf?) but it was basically a secretary named every file she created with a number. In a notebook, she noted the file number and what it was.
Naturally, disaster struck and she lost the notebook.
Must be a new policy. Archos was one of the worst. You could soft-root it, but it won't stick. They locked the hard drive to the bootloader (you can't replace the hard drive... it own't boot without it). Then everything's signed so you can't really replace Android on it.
The only thing you can do is run apps - everything else is pretty much locked down, at least the last time I checked out their 2.2-running devices.
At best you could get a soft root that was lost when you rebooted, but no kernel swaps (signed kernels) and no userland swaps (signed kernel checks signed userspace).
Of course, to be fair, the ancient Core2Duo still outruns the Atom processor, and the fact it has decent graphics instead of GMAcrap and SSD tend to make it more pleasant to use.
Then again, if a netbook is satisfying the OP just fine, then CPU horsepower and graphics probably aren't very high on the priority list, and neither is screen rAir's a 1366x768 on the 11" model, versus 1024x600 you get on most netbooks). Differing priorities, I suppose. Even 1366x768 I'd feel cramped (though maybe not as much - those $500 laptops with 15" 1366x768... )
No, you're correct. Jailbreaking gives you root. It refers to breaking out of the jail() that iOS puts on apps, and as a side effect, also gives you root.
However, iOS has a few more security protections that make it harder to KEEP root. After all, Cydia and the like must run as root in order to work (Cydia relies on apt and debs, and grants full access to the system - something only doable via root as the iOS sandbox has limits).
You see, a vulnerability in iOS (and most other OSes) is that you can patch the in-memory images of stuff. Tethered jailbreaks rely on just that - patching the kernel images and such in memory, AFTER the security check has taken place. If you patch the kernel or other executables on disk, they will fail their signature checks and won't be loaded.