.this can be used to Jailbreak/root an otherwise unrootsable phone?
(just re-rooted my Kindle Fire after Amazon kindly decided to lock it back
up for me through a forced OTA update. This time, I didn't foolishly neglect to disable all auto updating. Muhahahaha....)
It's time for Samsung to consider that phone model deader than a doornail. The bad press is widespread, the jokes about it are still
pouring out, people's confedence in the product is lost and never comming back no matter what their marketing droids do. What Samsung
needs to do is bury it, and their next product should not even
bear the "Galaxy Note" name, otherwise it's financial suicide.
Basic was my first programming language when I was about 6 years old. I spent about 5 minutes using it before I thought it was utter crap.#####
I'm just wondering how a six year old (who I presume had no prior programming experience whatsoever) would be able to determine that
"Basic was utter crap" after just 5 minutes of using it, and even
know to research other languages that could do better, supposedly. And
how many 6 year olds, even geeky ones, would have this kind of additude.
Sorry, but this sounds so far off the wall to me, it's looks rediculous.
I started programming in 1986, at 10 years old, with Basic, and enjoyed
every single moment of it, even when it was just stupid programs that
made irritating noises and drew little sprites on the screen.
Looks like the people who is in charge of these awards are a bunch of rich, snobbish, ignorant, heartless people with their heads so far up their asses they can see through their own mouths. They probaly would call the police on the homeless just for being within eye sight of their high and mighty selves. Am I accurate on this? Frankly, I don't give a shit what those kinds of people think, and the sooner a yacht packed full of them capsizes and they get eaten by sharks (I bet the meat on their bones are quite exquisite, heh heh), the better.
Looks like the people who is in charge of these awards are a bunch
of rich, snobbish, ignorant, heartless people with their heads so far
up their asses they can see through their own mouths. They probaly would call the police on the homeless just for being within eye sight of their high and mighty selves. Am I accurate on this?
Frankly, I don't give a shit what those kinds of people sink, and the
sooner a yacht packed full of them capsizes and they get eaten
by sharks (I bet the meat of their bones are quite exquisite, heh heh), the better.
I imagine the old 8" floppies mentioned in one of the linked Slashdot articles were quite sturdy and reliable, at least compared to the crap 3 1/2" floppies I had the (dis)pleasure of using,
right about the time CD-R drives started to become common on PCs.
Read errors, "Track 0 bad -Disk unusable" and other such shit being fairly common no matter what floppy disk brand or how good the floppy
drive in the computer was. Sometimes, after many tries, and some
physical manupulation of the disk I could get the disk to finaly
read the "bad" sector correctly, so I could copy the data off of it
before it went into the garbage. I rarely had these problems with the 5 1/4" disks I used years before.
Old computer equipmemt from 30+ years ago were built like tanks,
designed to last at least a decade, much more reliable due to the
primitive, simple OSes and software, the chips themselves had
bigger/thicker transistors runing at very low speeds, and most
used "hardwired" mask roms for the BIOS. Your tablet or phone probaly won't work 30 years from now due to the contents and BIOS data fading from the flash chips used for everything including system roms, but as long as the old antique hardware from the 80s back is kept in good condition, they will probaly still work fine centuries later, at least after the
capacitors are replaced (caps are rather volitile, even modern ones).
The sad part is, they will probaly do this. In about 10 years, expect
crap like:::clicks shutdown computer:::
"You are out of shutdown passes. You can pay $30 a year for unlimited shutdowns, or watch this 3 minute ad to shut down your computer
for 'free'."
Expect people to hook it up to their cable/media box with a composite video cable running at 480i, and setting it up so the picture is a bad case
of Stretch-O-Vision (even though the source is in widescreen/letterbox format) with much of the picture cropped out
(I've personaly seen way too many cases of this with todays media setups)
A theater's function is for someone to:
Sit down
Watch and (hopefuly) enjoy movie
What "innovation" is needed? 3D? (on and off fad done to death)?
Sensurround? (done with Earthquake but the bass was so powerful,
it caused some people's ribs to fracture) Smellovision? (a stupid novelty
plus allergy concerns) Imax? (exists) Change the tempature in sync with what's on the screen? (please God, no)
Sorry for my ignorance, but seems to me like the equivilant of someone trying to come up with a non powered hammer that does more than
drives and pulls out nails. Yeah, the ordinary hammer seems rather boring when you think about it, but I want my hammer to just be a hammer.
All the theaters need to do is make sure the equipment is in good, working condition, that the seats are comfortable, that the place is clean, and most
importantly, that it isn't overrun by selfish, disruptive idiots.
I bet they will work up the courage to remove the screen, like they did years back with the Ipod Nano, and all apps including games will be interfaced entirely with voice! Finaly, the blind can play Angry Birds!
Or if they really want to be brave, remove all of the components
and just sell a fancy lump of metal and plastic, and include hallucinigenic drugs
so they will have a bunch of iDiots thinking they are talking into a
real phone!
Until they make wireless charging (which is repackaged 100 year old
technology called a transformer with the primary coil in the charging pad and the secondary coil inside the phone) gets as fast as a direct wired connection, AND they somehow can beam it into my phone so I don't have to keep it flat and still on the pad and I can hold it naturaly, I want my phone to have both a wired charger AND a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. No weird USB/proprietary headphone connectors, no being forced to use battery draining Bluetooth, no having to chose between charging or listening, otherwise NO SALE.
I love my "ugly" fat Samsung Light thank you very much.
I am very reluctant to upgrade it because
1) It is hard to find a decent phone with the same screen size which
is small, because the larger now standard size is a pain in the
ass for me to carry in my pocket. Despite the age of the phone, the
hardware is quite good, and still works as well at running apps as my brand new tablet
2) I have it rooted and actualy use it as a pocket computer and I
even have compilers installed on it so I use it to program (as a hobby),
and have unfettered access to the underlying unix enviroment Android is built on
3) The battery is removeable/replaceable
4) It is quite sturdy and has been through some very rough handling
(no drops, but still has taken quite a bit of punishment).
Unfortunately, a single hairline crack developed in the glass last night, but it was because I accidently bumped up hard against something where my
phone was in my pocket. The LCD and digitizer is fine, and looking
dead on at the screen when it is on, I can't even see the crack, but I am
still a bit freaked about it.
Sorry, but I think I will be hanging on to my phone until scotch tape
and chewing gum can no longer hold it together.
Usb-C headphones... kind of like the bad old days where I had to buy a special
USB earphone (which broke pretty quick) to listen to MP3s on my
Motorola RAZR flip phone (nice phone back in the previous decade though my Sprint
version was plagued with shitty carrier-taylored software)
So everyone is yelling inside their own little bubble where no one else is hearing them.
Reminds me of the feeling I got when the endless glut of unrelated and isolated web forums for all intents and puroposes replaced Usenet. (Usenet was already highly balkanized at this point, but you could still find heavily trafficked groups)
Fragmenting a platform into millions of pieces is nearly as effective as
a full on ban of it in stopping people from being able to get an
idea out to a large amount of people.
This is a computer crime, bar none. No shades of grey here.
So why aren't companies that pull this shit getting raided by the
authorities and people being frog marched out of the offices
in handcuffs?
No too long ago, from what I heard, a student was facing serious prison
time for tampering with a school's master calendar, yet these companies
are damaging computer systems by the millions and at worst they face
a lame lawsuit that they just write off as the cost of doing business. I am sick of it. And these same companies want to lock down, SECUREBOOT,and drm and fucking mummify everything so there is zero freedom to do
anything without their blessing.
Fuck this shit. If they law does not apply to them, it should not apply to
me either. Maybe i should go and fuck their shit up, and get everyone else to do the same. Hak, crak and PIRATE! BANZAI!!!!!!!!
Another problem is that even so called mobile web pages are now fat bloated monsters. What is the average now, a litte over 2 megabytes PR PAGE on a site. That is
like downloading the shareware copy of Doom (1993) over and over again!
It feels real shitty having a mobile page take a long time to load on my 4G smartphone when 10 years ago, they loaded almost instantly on my
cheezy 2G flip phone.
You can be a luditte, but it's nice to watch some movies/tv/Youtube/whatever on my phone's screen once in
a while. I even have my phone rooted, have Dosbox setup on it, and
I actualy *program*/code on it (I write old school Dos programs as well as Linux scripts as a hobby)! Yeah, it took a while to get use to the awkward onscreen keyboard and touch mouse arrangement but it's actualy doable! On top of that, I back my written programs up online too!
Holy shit in a shoebox, yes, some of use are using our smartphones
as PORTABLE COMPUTERS instead of wasting time playing Candy Crush or Pokemon Go on them!
You may pick your jaw up off the floor now.
Slashdot Mirror
.this can be used to Jailbreak/root an otherwise unrootsable phone? (just re-rooted my Kindle Fire after Amazon kindly decided to lock it back up for me through a forced OTA update. This time, I didn't foolishly neglect to disable all auto updating. Muhahahaha....)
It's time for Samsung to consider that phone model deader than a doornail. The bad press is widespread, the jokes about it are still pouring out, people's confedence in the product is lost and never comming back no matter what their marketing droids do. What Samsung needs to do is bury it, and their next product should not even bear the "Galaxy Note" name, otherwise it's financial suicide.
Basic was my first programming language when I was about 6 years old. I spent about 5 minutes using it before I thought it was utter crap.##### I'm just wondering how a six year old (who I presume had no prior programming experience whatsoever) would be able to determine that "Basic was utter crap" after just 5 minutes of using it, and even know to research other languages that could do better, supposedly. And how many 6 year olds, even geeky ones, would have this kind of additude. Sorry, but this sounds so far off the wall to me, it's looks rediculous. I started programming in 1986, at 10 years old, with Basic, and enjoyed every single moment of it, even when it was just stupid programs that made irritating noises and drew little sprites on the screen.
Looks like the people who is in charge of these awards are a bunch of rich, snobbish, ignorant, heartless people with their heads so far up their asses they can see through their own mouths. They probaly would call the police on the homeless just for being within eye sight of their high and mighty selves. Am I accurate on this? Frankly, I don't give a shit what those kinds of people think, and the sooner a yacht packed full of them capsizes and they get eaten by sharks (I bet the meat on their bones are quite exquisite, heh heh), the better.
Looks like the people who is in charge of these awards are a bunch of rich, snobbish, ignorant, heartless people with their heads so far up their asses they can see through their own mouths. They probaly would call the police on the homeless just for being within eye sight of their high and mighty selves. Am I accurate on this? Frankly, I don't give a shit what those kinds of people sink, and the sooner a yacht packed full of them capsizes and they get eaten by sharks (I bet the meat of their bones are quite exquisite, heh heh), the better.
I imagine the old 8" floppies mentioned in one of the linked Slashdot articles were quite sturdy and reliable, at least compared to the crap 3 1/2" floppies I had the (dis)pleasure of using, right about the time CD-R drives started to become common on PCs. Read errors, "Track 0 bad -Disk unusable" and other such shit being fairly common no matter what floppy disk brand or how good the floppy drive in the computer was. Sometimes, after many tries, and some physical manupulation of the disk I could get the disk to finaly read the "bad" sector correctly, so I could copy the data off of it before it went into the garbage. I rarely had these problems with the 5 1/4" disks I used years before. Old computer equipmemt from 30+ years ago were built like tanks, designed to last at least a decade, much more reliable due to the primitive, simple OSes and software, the chips themselves had bigger/thicker transistors runing at very low speeds, and most used "hardwired" mask roms for the BIOS. Your tablet or phone probaly won't work 30 years from now due to the contents and BIOS data fading from the flash chips used for everything including system roms, but as long as the old antique hardware from the 80s back is kept in good condition, they will probaly still work fine centuries later, at least after the capacitors are replaced (caps are rather volitile, even modern ones).
The sad part is, they will probaly do this. In about 10 years, expect crap like :::clicks shutdown computer:::
"You are out of shutdown passes. You can pay $30 a year for unlimited shutdowns, or watch this 3 minute ad to shut down your computer
for 'free'."
Expect people to hook it up to their cable/media box with a composite video cable running at 480i, and setting it up so the picture is a bad case of Stretch-O-Vision (even though the source is in widescreen/letterbox format) with much of the picture cropped out (I've personaly seen way too many cases of this with todays media setups)
A theater's function is for someone to: Sit down Watch and (hopefuly) enjoy movie What "innovation" is needed? 3D? (on and off fad done to death)? Sensurround? (done with Earthquake but the bass was so powerful, it caused some people's ribs to fracture) Smellovision? (a stupid novelty plus allergy concerns) Imax? (exists) Change the tempature in sync with what's on the screen? (please God, no) Sorry for my ignorance, but seems to me like the equivilant of someone trying to come up with a non powered hammer that does more than drives and pulls out nails. Yeah, the ordinary hammer seems rather boring when you think about it, but I want my hammer to just be a hammer. All the theaters need to do is make sure the equipment is in good, working condition, that the seats are comfortable, that the place is clean, and most importantly, that it isn't overrun by selfish, disruptive idiots.
Cool, now it doubles as a lethal razor sharp throwing star! I always wanted to be a ninja!
I bet they will work up the courage to remove the screen, like they did years back with the Ipod Nano, and all apps including games will be interfaced entirely with voice! Finaly, the blind can play Angry Birds! Or if they really want to be brave, remove all of the components and just sell a fancy lump of metal and plastic, and include hallucinigenic drugs so they will have a bunch of iDiots thinking they are talking into a real phone!
Until they make wireless charging (which is repackaged 100 year old technology called a transformer with the primary coil in the charging pad and the secondary coil inside the phone) gets as fast as a direct wired connection, AND they somehow can beam it into my phone so I don't have to keep it flat and still on the pad and I can hold it naturaly, I want my phone to have both a wired charger AND a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. No weird USB/proprietary headphone connectors, no being forced to use battery draining Bluetooth, no having to chose between charging or listening, otherwise NO SALE.
I love my "ugly" fat Samsung Light thank you very much. I am very reluctant to upgrade it because 1) It is hard to find a decent phone with the same screen size which is small, because the larger now standard size is a pain in the ass for me to carry in my pocket. Despite the age of the phone, the hardware is quite good, and still works as well at running apps as my brand new tablet 2) I have it rooted and actualy use it as a pocket computer and I even have compilers installed on it so I use it to program (as a hobby), and have unfettered access to the underlying unix enviroment Android is built on 3) The battery is removeable/replaceable 4) It is quite sturdy and has been through some very rough handling (no drops, but still has taken quite a bit of punishment). Unfortunately, a single hairline crack developed in the glass last night, but it was because I accidently bumped up hard against something where my phone was in my pocket. The LCD and digitizer is fine, and looking dead on at the screen when it is on, I can't even see the crack, but I am still a bit freaked about it. Sorry, but I think I will be hanging on to my phone until scotch tape and chewing gum can no longer hold it together.
Usb-C headphones... kind of like the bad old days where I had to buy a special USB earphone (which broke pretty quick) to listen to MP3s on my Motorola RAZR flip phone (nice phone back in the previous decade though my Sprint version was plagued with shitty carrier-taylored software)
So everyone is yelling inside their own little bubble where no one else is hearing them. Reminds me of the feeling I got when the endless glut of unrelated and isolated web forums for all intents and puroposes replaced Usenet. (Usenet was already highly balkanized at this point, but you could still find heavily trafficked groups) Fragmenting a platform into millions of pieces is nearly as effective as a full on ban of it in stopping people from being able to get an idea out to a large amount of people.
I was born in 1976, but I remember taking typing class in HS back in 1991. With typewriters.
Because people remember fidothedog or maybe f1d0th3d0g better than 656&+fDs9()x/\-
I wonder if Apple will follow the DRUG companies' playbook and jack the cost of each watch to say $800,000?
This is a computer crime, bar none. No shades of grey here. So why aren't companies that pull this shit getting raided by the authorities and people being frog marched out of the offices in handcuffs? No too long ago, from what I heard, a student was facing serious prison time for tampering with a school's master calendar, yet these companies are damaging computer systems by the millions and at worst they face a lame lawsuit that they just write off as the cost of doing business. I am sick of it. And these same companies want to lock down, SECUREBOOT,and drm and fucking mummify everything so there is zero freedom to do anything without their blessing. Fuck this shit. If they law does not apply to them, it should not apply to me either. Maybe i should go and fuck their shit up, and get everyone else to do the same. Hak, crak and PIRATE! BANZAI!!!!!!!!
Another problem is that even so called mobile web pages are now fat bloated monsters. What is the average now, a litte over 2 megabytes PR PAGE on a site. That is like downloading the shareware copy of Doom (1993) over and over again! It feels real shitty having a mobile page take a long time to load on my 4G smartphone when 10 years ago, they loaded almost instantly on my cheezy 2G flip phone.
Take it easy on him. He is just saying those things to look "cool", I'm sure
You can be a luditte, but it's nice to watch some movies/tv/Youtube/whatever on my phone's screen once in a while. I even have my phone rooted, have Dosbox setup on it, and I actualy *program*/code on it (I write old school Dos programs as well as Linux scripts as a hobby)! Yeah, it took a while to get use to the awkward onscreen keyboard and touch mouse arrangement but it's actualy doable! On top of that, I back my written programs up online too! Holy shit in a shoebox, yes, some of use are using our smartphones as PORTABLE COMPUTERS instead of wasting time playing Candy Crush or Pokemon Go on them! You may pick your jaw up off the floor now.
Verizon does not need my money either so fuck 'em. (Still remember how they locked down their flip phones back in the day)
Better to just dump it in Philadelphia. Screw 'em
Sounds like a great vector to send a biological weapon into a country, or maybe even a suitcase nuke.