Apparently the cryptome maintainer doesn't read Slashdot, because a thousand people commented on that one saying not to keep any money in Paypal.
Seriously, at this point if you use Paypal as a bank you're not paying attention or think "it could never happen to me". That doesn't excuse eBay, but it's fairly well-known.
Because then Apple would have sued them, probably under the theory that the EULA is a copyrighted document, and the EFF infringed said copyright by publishing it against the terms under which it was disclosed to them.
But contracts aren't subject to copyright protections, as they function as extensions of the Law, which cannot be copyrighted.
I guess Apple could still SLAPP them, though, maybe this is cheaper for EFF.
This is a National ID card. Call it what it is and be done with it, don't try to hide it as part of an immigration bill.
Several states already have laws on their books preventing their executive branches from servicing a National ID card. A few years ago they called it "REAL ID".
e.g. New Hampshire. Folks interested in these issues ought to come out and lend a hand.
So how exactly would you deal with an illegal alien that says "I don't need a work permit, I'm a US citizen and no, you can't see my birth certificate or anything else that proves that I am."
It's a hard problem to solve because it's not worth solving (not to mention unsolvable). Better questions would be, "is he committing crimes?", "is he working?", "is he paying his taxes?". If "No,Yes,Yes," count him and increment the headcount for his Congressional district.
Hot - one of the articles I read on this says they're in testing with manufacturers to (and I'm paraphrasing) see whether their technology burns up the engines or not.
I have to assume the gas to varnish myth was real at some point before I was born, based on some old refining processes. I've more than once found many-year-old gas in my shed and it's been fine. I sarcastically say, "the stuff is already 65 million years old, what's three more gonna do?" (while wondering just how much refining actually does contribute to instability). I'd guess gasoline is somewhat more unstable than kerosene due to the lower vapor temperatures.
The FOIA release of the agreement has made the agreement available to the general public, which includes the many millions who have never gone to Apple's developer site and tried to join the iPhone dev program. This of course means that the nature of its terms will become more general knowledge among the wider public, rather than just being a topic of conversation of that tiny minority who are Apple developers.
So why didn't EFF save themselves and the taxpayers some time and money and just go to the Apple developer site and hit ctrl-c?
Apple has always made a big thing of pointing its marketing at "creative types" who supposedly think outside the box. This just goes to confirm that what this really means is "You'll think outside the box in the way that WE tell you to, dammit".
You mean the creative types who are all trying to do their best to look like a scruffy Buddy Holly, living in the same urban centers, buying food and drink from the same mass-market 'alternative' venues, driving the same poor-value car, and constantly fiddling with their iPh... OK, you win.
If companies that distribute devices that come pre-loaded with malware were fined heavily for each instance
Nice try - we've invented class-action lawsuits to protect the corporations from this problem. And corporations, as currently constituted, make sure nobody is actually liable for anything* they do.
I mean, not 'we', but the corporations. Or, um, the government. Sorry I get so confused these days where the lines are.
I don't believe Bluetooth can handle more than 8 devices in a single PAN.
Yeah, you'd probably have to elect a controller node and it would have to park and unpark the nodes (your limit is 8 active nodes, 200 parked IIRC). That's sort of hackish, but it got Microsoft by for a decade or so ('master browsers').
IP would be easier with mDNS (or heck, AppleTalk would be nice) but I've read that that those WiFi radios eat batteries to fast to make it worth most people leaving them on. The other trick with WiFi is that buses and trains are starting to get Internet connections, and you probably don't want to give that up for 'toothing on the train (many AP's will forbid client-to-client traffic).
I dont' think Bluetooth would be a better transport as its range and bandwidth are inferior to Wifi.
I guess it depends on the requirements. The Dragon headset review has them working with an iPhone at about 85 feet - how long is the train in question? Could you relay on a mesh?
WiFi could go further, but getting ad-hoc mode to work might (or might not) be hard, and then you have to develop a comms protocol (use mDNS for discovery, I assume the iPhone has that), all of which is basically already done in bluetooth, just wrap your logic around it.
Realistically, Bluetooth EDR isn't going to do better than 2Mbps and 802.11 can do much faster. But, again, what do you need for bandwidth? Then figure in the power budget.
A good AP with tons of features.
Reviewed By: jafo on 2/24/2010
Rating + 4
Tech Level Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
Pros: Gigabit port, external antenna jacks, dual simultaneous 802.11n, Linux shell you can login on, Power over Ethernet. Tons of software features: multiple ESSIDs per radio (different authentication can connect you to different VLANs), logging to syslog server, WDS backhaul, easy to use configuration.
Cons: Oddly shaped AP, I have 16 of them and carrying them can be a bit troublesome. I had serious issues with WPA disconnecting me after 5 to 15 minutes but WEP and no security both worked very well. There is no SNMP MIB available, I was able to figure out some wireless SNMP information but I ended up having to build an SSH+expect script to pull wireless stats. You can login, but most of the root file-system is a read-only squashfs, not JFFS2, so you can't put SSH keys or custom scripts that start on boot on it. The firmware is not available for download, but that'll probably change when there's an update available. The web interface uses "clever" authentication so it's very hard to script access to grab stats from it. It only supports a max of 63 clients per radio.
Other Thoughts: I got 16 of these APs for a conference and they performed admirably. We had around 1,000 users hitting them pretty hard. There were very few APs that had simultaneous 802.11n, particularly with gigabit and PoE: I had choices between this, a 3Com that isn't out yet, and a $800+ Cisco. The limit of 63 clients per radio probably isn't that far off the max you'd want, but I would have liked the option of pushing that up (we did end up hitting that but only 1% of the time and only on 5.2GHz). For it's feature set, I'd say it's a reasonably priced AP with a good feature set. Search for "pycon wireless network" for the excruciating details, my 2010 review should be up in a few hours.
Why? The button that performs the more consequential / less reversible / potentially annoying action (=closing a window) must be separated from the ones that perform less serious ones (=resizing or hiding its content).
Some days I really wish my window manager was as good as System 7.
i.e. Can an IPhone/ITouch app (even a Jailbroken one?) let you communicate with the other 50 IPhone/ITouch users in the train you're on, without paying the cell companies?
Wouldn't bluetooth be the better transport for this?
I have no idea if Apple's chat program understands bluetooth, though, and you're probably not allowed to write a competing chat app.
I'm not sure why anyone would develop for the iPhone, apparently you not only face a capricious approval process, but they may revoke that approval on a whim.
Just make sure your app complies with all current and future rules and does not compete against any apps Apple plans to introduce down the line, and you'll be fine.
It does, but then pretty quickly it's just sitting in the middle of the floor beeping and blinking that it can't figure out how to get to the charging dock that's two feet away.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously, I'm encountering more and more 'deleted' articles when I search Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has to be careful not to fill up the Internet.
... didn't this just happen to Wikileaks?
Apparently the cryptome maintainer doesn't read Slashdot, because a thousand people commented on that one saying not to keep any money in Paypal.
Seriously, at this point if you use Paypal as a bank you're not paying attention or think "it could never happen to me". That doesn't excuse eBay, but it's fairly well-known.
Because then Apple would have sued them, probably under the theory that the EULA is a copyrighted document, and the EFF infringed said copyright by publishing it against the terms under which it was disclosed to them.
But contracts aren't subject to copyright protections, as they function as extensions of the Law, which cannot be copyrighted.
I guess Apple could still SLAPP them, though, maybe this is cheaper for EFF.
This is a National ID card. Call it what it is and be done with it, don't try to hide it as part of an immigration bill.
Several states already have laws on their books preventing their executive branches from servicing a National ID card. A few years ago they called it "REAL ID".
e.g. New Hampshire. Folks interested in these issues ought to come out and lend a hand.
So how exactly would you deal with an illegal alien that says "I don't need a work permit, I'm a US citizen and no, you can't see my birth certificate or anything else that proves that I am."
It's a hard problem to solve because it's not worth solving (not to mention unsolvable). Better questions would be, "is he committing crimes?", "is he working?", "is he paying his taxes?". If "No,Yes,Yes," count him and increment the headcount for his Congressional district.
There are privacy concerns here, but not civil liberties ones (well, no more than are raised by all the other "papers").
Congrats, you win the Appeal to Common Practice logical fallacy award!
Any government action that impedes an individual's natural rights without preventing harm to others is immoral.
somewhat more unstable than kerosene
err, diesel... I need to stop opening multiple replies in tabs, I confuse myself.
Hot - one of the articles I read on this says they're in testing with manufacturers to (and I'm paraphrasing) see whether their technology burns up the engines or not.
I have to assume the gas to varnish myth was real at some point before I was born, based on some old refining processes. I've more than once found many-year-old gas in my shed and it's been fine. I sarcastically say, "the stuff is already 65 million years old, what's three more gonna do?" (while wondering just how much refining actually does contribute to instability). I'd guess gasoline is somewhat more unstable than kerosene due to the lower vapor temperatures.
So now freetard will be redefined (newspeak) to include anyone that wants to install random non-blessed 3rd party apps on their Mac.
terrist!
The FOIA release of the agreement has made the agreement available to the general public, which includes the many millions who have never gone to Apple's developer site and tried to join the iPhone dev program. This of course means that the nature of its terms will become more general knowledge among the wider public, rather than just being a topic of conversation of that tiny minority who are Apple developers.
So why didn't EFF save themselves and the taxpayers some time and money and just go to the Apple developer site and hit ctrl-c?
Apple has always made a big thing of pointing its marketing at "creative types" who supposedly think outside the box. This just goes to confirm that what this really means is "You'll think outside the box in the way that WE tell you to, dammit".
You mean the creative types who are all trying to do their best to look like a scruffy Buddy Holly, living in the same urban centers, buying food and drink from the same mass-market 'alternative' venues, driving the same poor-value car, and constantly fiddling with their iPh... OK, you win.
If companies that distribute devices that come pre-loaded with malware were fined heavily for each instance
Nice try - we've invented class-action lawsuits to protect the corporations from this problem. And corporations, as currently constituted, make sure nobody is actually liable for anything* they do.
I mean, not 'we', but the corporations. Or, um, the government. Sorry I get so confused these days where the lines are.
* for very large values of 'anything'.
I don't believe Bluetooth can handle more than 8 devices in a single PAN.
Yeah, you'd probably have to elect a controller node and it would have to park and unpark the nodes (your limit is 8 active nodes, 200 parked IIRC). That's sort of hackish, but it got Microsoft by for a decade or so ('master browsers').
IP would be easier with mDNS (or heck, AppleTalk would be nice) but I've read that that those WiFi radios eat batteries to fast to make it worth most people leaving them on. The other trick with WiFi is that buses and trains are starting to get Internet connections, and you probably don't want to give that up for 'toothing on the train (many AP's will forbid client-to-client traffic).
no, I have no idea why iPhone OS doesn't include iChat
Ah, that was my assumption that it did. How very strange - perhaps AT&T wanted the SMS revenue.
I dont' think Bluetooth would be a better transport as its range and bandwidth are inferior to Wifi.
I guess it depends on the requirements. The Dragon headset review has them working with an iPhone at about 85 feet - how long is the train in question? Could you relay on a mesh?
WiFi could go further, but getting ad-hoc mode to work might (or might not) be hard, and then you have to develop a comms protocol (use mDNS for discovery, I assume the iPhone has that), all of which is basically already done in bluetooth, just wrap your logic around it.
Realistically, Bluetooth EDR isn't going to do better than 2Mbps and 802.11 can do much faster. But, again, what do you need for bandwidth? Then figure in the power budget.
That is VERY judgmental. Also wrong.
Hey, we can't let common sense get in the way of a good environut tongue-lashing.
I demand that all farmers start growing my food with Prius'es (and fairy dust)!
Why? The button that performs the more consequential / less reversible / potentially annoying action (=closing a window) must be separated from the ones that perform less serious ones (=resizing or hiding its content).
Some days I really wish my window manager was as good as System 7.
i.e. Can an IPhone/ITouch app (even a Jailbroken one?) let you communicate with the other 50 IPhone /ITouch users in the train you're on, without paying the cell companies?
Wouldn't bluetooth be the better transport for this?
I have no idea if Apple's chat program understands bluetooth, though, and you're probably not allowed to write a competing chat app.
I'm not sure why anyone would develop for the iPhone, apparently you not only face a capricious approval process, but they may revoke that approval on a whim.
Just make sure your app complies with all current and future rules and does not compete against any apps Apple plans to introduce down the line, and you'll be fine.
Want to invest in my iPhone dev business?
Also we need to know how many customers are part of the equation. 10 is a much different problem than 1000.
This way if there is a problem with a particular batch of drives it won't ruin everything.
Definitely, I've seen bad batches fail a year out in close clusters. Or at least order the drives in two batches from NewEgg at least a week apart.
Bet it goes rogue...
It does, but then pretty quickly it's just sitting in the middle of the floor beeping and blinking that it can't figure out how to get to the charging dock that's two feet away.
It's nice to see somebody understanding the true basis of software licenses. :)
* Make encryption illegal. No Secrets.
excepting State Secrets, of course.