Very long time ago, I gave one of my C++ developers a simple task in ASP (before the.net era). He came back to me and argued he doesn't know anything about ASP, jscript or vbscript. To this I replied by smacking him in the head and telling him that a C++ developer can do this stuff with his eyes blindfolded. Sure enough, an hour later the ASP task was successfully completed.
Exactly what I did. I'm writing iOS apps for several clients. Turns out good developers are hard to come by. I never had to look for clients after my first app got published, and now I work from home, have loads of time with the kids and still have time to work on my own projects. After 3 years doing that - I happily turn down several job offers every month.
I really don't know this company or this guy, but I can assume he is on army reserve service, just like so many others after retiring from the army, meaning that he still retains his ranks and is called for service from time to time. I do the same, about once a year (in a combat unit, and for you trolls - I'm also a political anti occupation activist, and yes, the two roles don't collide). If you seriously believe the IDF is involved with Viber, I advise you to roll a good deal of aluminium foil around your head and never use any electronic device again.
a. Let's do this Nayman guy a favour and leave him out of this - you seem to like google - I'm not hiding, you can find me. I'm not posting as an anonymous user you know. BTW - Partner is a cellular operator, not a VoIP company (you can google this up). b. Company in Cyprus - Intel has a large facility in Israel, thanks to overwhelming tax benefits they got. I'm sure you can make the connection. c. If I had a nickel for every company that seems to be out there picking eye balls with no real money making solution... Like so many others, they believe that if they know everyone's address books, they are going to be rich. Not defending them, I'm not even using their services for that reason, but being an Israeli company has nothing to do with that - you can find companies from all over the world with the same not so smart agenda. d. This guy clumsily tried to hide the fact the company is Israeli: I didn't know it's a secret, everyone knows it's an Israeli company. Can you blame him though? reading your post reveals exactly why: Being an Israeli is bad for business, you can always find people like you that will not want to do business with Israelis. You can wrap it in any colour you'd like - the true reason for your post is not tech related, and your google espionage lead you to the conclusion you had before you even started looking into it.
Get an iPhone - so many Android apps require too many permissions. I don't defend viber - they are just as bad as the rest of them but unlike in iPhone - you need to either accept everything or else you can't use the app. On an iPhone - you simply allow or disallow specific permissions and the developers need to cope with it.
Since the army service in Israel is mandatory, this ridiculous claim is that every Israeli company is working for the army. Coming from another leading Israeli VoIP company myself - I can state that the only security forces ever approaching us were American - with their CALEA program. We refused to cooperate.
VOIP works fine on GRPS... My company has several products running voip on GPRS, so edge is more than enough for voip. AMR 515 and 475 are very cheap on bandwidth. Having VOIP running on edge would put apple in direct confilct with operators, especially considering the unlimited data programs.
This exploit has nothing to do with windows, firewalls or anti spyware software. If you run a piece of software on your computer by someone - what can you expect? This guy wrote a simple trojan, and was foolish enough to use it against the parents of his former wife... he posted some of their personal data on the web in order to hurt them, leading to his discovery and the exposure of the who deal. Not very clever... People with very little technical skills were hurt from his attacks - let's face it - almost everyone falls into that category. it's a new age, attacks like these are carried out all the time, most of the time undiscovered. People should learn how to live with it. paying for expensive security will not help. Linux or mac will not salvage anyone either.
Every gateway may have different timeouts for NAT UDP port binding, right? The PDF doesn't explain how it's done, but it's rather simple, and is explained in the STUN RFC: 1. Open a socket, and tell the server, hi, i'm here, reply to the same address you received this message from, and tell me what that address is (let's call this address REF_ADDRESS_A). 2. Sleep for some time... 3. Open a second socket, and say, hi, i'm here, reply to the same address you received this message from AND to the old address(REF_ADDRESS_A)
If the first opened socket receives the message as well, this means the binding is still valid. Increase the timeout and try again. Otherwise, decrease the timeout and try again.
Eventually, it finds the right timeout for the binding.
Having said that, a proper app should really run this routine periodically, because network elements may change.
The reason for certifying software is not to hurt developers. It's aim is to force the user to download only certified software the operator wants him to download. If a certificate costs money (and it does, any way you look at it) a free software vendor is not going to have one. Anyone knows an open source project not ran by a major company that can be freely downloaded to your smartphone? Block that freebies - and squeeze some $$$ from your customer. The Symbian move aims to lure operators into the growing market of cellular phones content sales.
As a system programmer (yes, some of us are still out there!) I think this is a good move. I don't like the idea of switching architectures, and maintaining the old sparc is what i'd like to see. Especially if it seems to yield better performance than the new chip. The AMD move was necessary, sun has to offer low end solutions, that's obvious. I think sun should focus on building better software, I really like solaris, it's a great OS for C developers, and solaris 10 is a big step in the right direction. All in all, i'd say that a careful analysis of these news should do good to sun's stock, but judging from the messages here - I think this will not be the case:-(
My trusty amd800 runs only software it compiled. Sure, everyone said it, and were right: source code takes longer to install, doesn't always work and is generally a pain in the neck. But still - it's fun;-)
How did this become an israel pro and against debate? This about a strategic move one of the governments of the world took. BTW, they financed the localization of open office, and still got it cheaper the ms office. It's about money, not religion or political views. Please stick to the point. The israeli arab conflict is an important issue, but it doesn't really concern microsoft...
It's very simple.
Apple has always been the first to bring technology to the home user, and the last to know how to sell it.
The only retailer that sells apple computers in israel charges twice (!) as much as in the US for many of the apple made products.
Down with yeda and apple's poor marketing!
Whenever someone sends me an ms-office document, I reply and ask to send a non-propriety format, even though there are several free solutions that can view these documents.
I also write angry complaints to sites that I as a tax payer pay for, and cannot be used by free software (the msn hosted galey tsahal site, for example).
It will not be true to say that hebrew is dealt properly by non microsoft systems (pango, mozilla and wine are not a good solutions, by any standard), and I'm afraid this issue will only be resolved in a few years.
The main problem is that people use the standards provided by microsoft, which can be used by microsft only systems.
Start resisting, so people will start thinking twice before they write content that will not be availabe to a growing community of viewers in israel.
Until hebrew is dealt properly by mozilla, the standard should be iso-8859-8 (visual hebrew).
Slashdot Mirror
The slashdot web server listens on port 80, that's a huge security risk!
Run home and wrap tin foil on your heads everyone!
These guys were hacked, meaning they have proved themselves as inadequate for shadowy IDF units.
But I'm going to buy the 7 while I wait.
Very long time ago, I gave one of my C++ developers a simple task in ASP (before the .net era).
He came back to me and argued he doesn't know anything about ASP, jscript or vbscript.
To this I replied by smacking him in the head and telling him that a C++ developer can do this stuff with his eyes blindfolded.
Sure enough, an hour later the ASP task was successfully completed.
Exactly what I did.
I'm writing iOS apps for several clients.
Turns out good developers are hard to come by.
I never had to look for clients after my first app got published, and now I work from home, have loads of time with the kids and still have time to work on my own projects.
After 3 years doing that - I happily turn down several job offers every month.
I really don't know this company or this guy, but I can assume he is on army reserve service, just like so many others after retiring from the army, meaning that he still retains his ranks and is called for service from time to time.
I do the same, about once a year (in a combat unit, and for you trolls - I'm also a political anti occupation activist, and yes, the two roles don't collide).
If you seriously believe the IDF is involved with Viber, I advise you to roll a good deal of aluminium foil around your head and never use any electronic device again.
Where do I begin..?
a. Let's do this Nayman guy a favour and leave him out of this - you seem to like google - I'm not hiding, you can find me.
I'm not posting as an anonymous user you know.
BTW - Partner is a cellular operator, not a VoIP company (you can google this up).
b. Company in Cyprus -
Intel has a large facility in Israel, thanks to overwhelming tax benefits they got. I'm sure you can make the connection.
c. If I had a nickel for every company that seems to be out there picking eye balls with no real money making solution...
Like so many others, they believe that if they know everyone's address books, they are going to be rich.
Not defending them, I'm not even using their services for that reason, but being an Israeli company has nothing to do with that - you can find companies from all over the world with the same not so smart agenda.
d. This guy clumsily tried to hide the fact the company is Israeli:
I didn't know it's a secret, everyone knows it's an Israeli company.
Can you blame him though? reading your post reveals exactly why:
Being an Israeli is bad for business, you can always find people like you that will not want to do business with Israelis.
You can wrap it in any colour you'd like - the true reason for your post is not tech related, and your google espionage lead you to the conclusion you had before you even started looking into it.
Get an iPhone - so many Android apps require too many permissions.
I don't defend viber - they are just as bad as the rest of them but unlike in iPhone - you need to either accept everything or else you can't use the app.
On an iPhone - you simply allow or disallow specific permissions and the developers need to cope with it.
Since the army service in Israel is mandatory, this ridiculous claim is that every Israeli company is working for the army.
Coming from another leading Israeli VoIP company myself - I can state that the only security forces ever approaching us were American - with their CALEA program.
We refused to cooperate.
VOIP works fine on GRPS...
My company has several products running voip on GPRS, so edge is more than enough for voip.
AMR 515 and 475 are very cheap on bandwidth.
Having VOIP running on edge would put apple in direct confilct with operators, especially considering the unlimited data programs.
It doesn't run well when running with root account, imagine what happens if you run it as a a regular user ;-)
nobody:*:-2:-2:MojoJojo:/:/usr/bin/false
This exploit has nothing to do with windows, firewalls or anti spyware software.
If you run a piece of software on your computer by someone - what can you expect?
This guy wrote a simple trojan, and was foolish enough to use it against the parents of his former wife...
he posted some of their personal data on the web in order to hurt them, leading to his discovery and the exposure of the who deal.
Not very clever...
People with very little technical skills were hurt from his attacks - let's face it - almost everyone falls into that category.
it's a new age, attacks like these are carried out all the time, most of the time undiscovered.
People should learn how to live with it.
paying for expensive security will not help.
Linux or mac will not salvage anyone either.
Every gateway may have different timeouts for NAT UDP port binding, right?
The PDF doesn't explain how it's done, but it's rather simple, and is explained in the STUN RFC:
1. Open a socket, and tell the server, hi, i'm here, reply to the same address you received this message from, and tell me what that address is (let's call this address REF_ADDRESS_A).
2. Sleep for some time...
3. Open a second socket, and say, hi, i'm here, reply to the same address you received this message from AND to the old address(REF_ADDRESS_A)
If the first opened socket receives the message as well, this means the binding is still valid.
Increase the timeout and try again.
Otherwise, decrease the timeout and try again.
Eventually, it finds the right timeout for the binding.
Having said that, a proper app should really run this routine periodically, because network elements may change.
The reason for certifying software is not to hurt developers.
It's aim is to force the user to download only certified software the operator wants him to download.
If a certificate costs money (and it does, any way you look at it) a free software vendor is not going to have one.
Anyone knows an open source project not ran by a major company that can be freely downloaded to your smartphone?
Block that freebies - and squeeze some $$$ from your customer.
The Symbian move aims to lure operators into the growing market of cellular phones content sales.
As a system programmer (yes, some of us are still out there!) I think this is a good move. :-(
I don't like the idea of switching architectures, and maintaining the old sparc is what i'd like to see.
Especially if it seems to yield better performance than the new chip.
The AMD move was necessary, sun has to offer low end solutions, that's obvious.
I think sun should focus on building better software, I really like solaris, it's a great OS for C developers, and solaris 10 is a big step in the right direction.
All in all, i'd say that a careful analysis of these news should do good to sun's stock, but judging from the messages here - I think this will not be the case
My trusty amd800 runs only software it compiled. ;-)
Sure, everyone said it, and were right:
source code takes longer to install, doesn't always work and is generally a pain in the neck.
But still - it's fun
How did this become an israel pro and against debate?
This about a strategic move one of the governments of the world took.
BTW, they financed the localization of open office, and still got it cheaper the ms office.
It's about money, not religion or political views.
Please stick to the point.
The israeli arab conflict is an important issue, but it doesn't really concern microsoft...
It's very simple. Apple has always been the first to bring technology to the home user, and the last to know how to sell it. The only retailer that sells apple computers in israel charges twice (!) as much as in the US for many of the apple made products. Down with yeda and apple's poor marketing!
Whenever someone sends me an ms-office document, I reply and ask to send a non-propriety format, even though there are several free solutions that can view these documents.
I also write angry complaints to sites that I as a tax payer pay for, and cannot be used by free software (the msn hosted galey tsahal site, for example).
It will not be true to say that hebrew is dealt properly by non microsoft systems (pango, mozilla and wine are not a good solutions, by any standard), and I'm afraid this issue will only be resolved in a few years.
The main problem is that people use the standards provided by microsoft, which can be used by microsft only systems.
Start resisting, so people will start thinking twice before they write content that will not be availabe to a growing community of viewers in israel.
Until hebrew is dealt properly by mozilla, the standard should be iso-8859-8 (visual hebrew).