If you read Apple's answer, you would see that the supposed threat of user breaking cell towers is only a very small part of the arguments. The answer is actually pretty well worded (easy enough to read) and repeatedly set in the context of Copyright (and not focused on a regulatory, FCC perspective).
They are not saying that jailbreak should be forbidden because terrorist could use it, but that it should be forbidden because it could harm Apple's business (and as such can not be considered under Fair Use)
Carrier lock and "jailbreak" are two different things though.... Apple already sell carrier-unlocked iPhone in countries where it is not legal to lock the phone to a carrier (I think Belgium is one of them)
And although Jailbreak maybe used to remove the carrier lock, it is a lot more than that. The main goal is that it is used to run modified and untrusted code.
The thing is I dont see why they still need carrier lock, since we are effectively locked to the carrier with contract. With phone being upgraded faster than contract expire, I dont think the carrier lock is actually having much of an effect on customer retention.
Its only the minority because it is still a legally gray area.
If Apple, or a Judge, were to officially say that jailbreaking is okay, you could see businesses being build around it, making it more accessible, and potentially offering many alternatives features that would appeal to many.
I cant connect Mrs Simpson optic nerves to youTube, thats a big difference...
Seriously, if there was no difference, people would not bother with this project... So there must be a difference, whether its a positive or negative difference is what the discussion is about...
- It increase the likelyhood of hitting NO key. - It decrease the likelyhood of hitting the WRONG key. - It decrease the likelyhood of hitting the RIGHT key.
So the design fails, since my goal is to hit the RIGHT key.
I dont follow any either because nobody can even agree on what they are.... Like password rotation.... The most stupid "best practice" I've ever seen.
So my wireless is wide-open, I never change my passwords... and because of that I have a good life.
That may change, but nothing I can do will significantly change the odd of it happening without making my life miserable with stupids annoyance to start with...
If you cant take the Elements (wind, hot sun, and possibly rain), then you just dont drive the convertible. Its kind of like going camping...
I'm definitely not stopping *before* it rains. If I get wet, too bad, but I'm not made of sugar, and my convertible has leather seats, specifically so that they can withstand the rain...
Well, its time for you to email Obama, the first "Internet President" to ask him for help.
I think that for less money that he is willing to spend on the white house internet presence, a Open Source Software Suite for Small Government could be funded.
In this time of economic crisis, there are certainly a few bright souls that would quite their unsafe and boring jobs and take government grants to start a business to develop such software and then make money supporting it.
I'm Google's customer because I give them money; not directly, but through their advertising. Of course, that depends on the definition that you use for customer,[...]
Rather, it depends which definition you use for "giving money"...
The problem with PGP as-is, is that there is no designated central party you can trust. Sure, theoretically I could create a web of trust with the CEO of yahoo, with less than N degrees of separations, but the link trust is going to be very weak... Trusted party such as a Notary Public solve this issue
Pay the fee to the Notary public once to verify your ID and sign your PGP key. Then send PGP signed request to Yahoo. Yahoo and others can automate that part.
Yahoo and other could have requirements on your key (eg: needs to be less than x year olds, signed by 1 Notary public or a 1000 other marginally trusted keys,etc...)
Unreliable Notary Public could be revoked. Yahoo and others could share database of trusted Notary Public etc....
Yeah, it seems he has been repeating the same things in his newsletters for a while. I guess they needs to be hammered down, but frankly, I think I got his point already, and if I didnt then I probably never will. So I'm tired of reading the same things over and over, and I'm mostly ignoring his newsletters now...
Ahem... No PC in your solution 2 does not make any sense.
The average consumer will likely need to do one or more of the following on the PC: - Browse a webpage with flash content, such as an ecard. - Look at stupid Powerpoints sent by his friends. - Edit word documents. - Manage a photos library - Manage a music library
Those are all things you cant do on the iPhone.
Also: - You cant tether with an iPhone (not the average consumer anyway) - The iPhone data plan is an extra $30 (in the US), not $15 as you suggest.
So iPhone is not a replacement for your PC... I use my PC a lot less since I have an iPhone, but its not a replacement.
We need the Oil and Defense Industry. The media industry however we can do without.
Sure, maybe, but what does this have to do with them having undue influence over the presidency ?
Usually, its considered better if some of the most important things are separated. Like Church and State. Or like Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers...
Checks and Balance I think its called...
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If you read Apple's answer, you would see that the supposed threat of user breaking cell towers is only a very small part of the arguments.
The answer is actually pretty well worded (easy enough to read) and repeatedly set in the context of Copyright (and not focused on a regulatory, FCC perspective).
They are not saying that jailbreak should be forbidden because terrorist could use it, but that it should be forbidden because it could harm Apple's business (and as such can not be considered under Fair Use)
Carrier lock and "jailbreak" are two different things though.... Apple already sell carrier-unlocked iPhone in countries where it is not legal to lock the phone to a carrier (I think Belgium is one of them)
And although Jailbreak maybe used to remove the carrier lock, it is a lot more than that. The main goal is that it is used to run modified and untrusted code.
The thing is I dont see why they still need carrier lock, since we are effectively locked to the carrier with contract. With phone being upgraded faster than contract expire, I dont think the carrier lock is actually having much of an effect on customer retention.
Its only the minority because it is still a legally gray area.
If Apple, or a Judge, were to officially say that jailbreaking is okay, you could see businesses being build around it, making it more accessible, and potentially offering many alternatives features that would appeal to many.
No mention of George W. Bush speech ?
Well, I'll assume he really was saying dumb things then !
Refutation: Crypto is indeed all about WHEN. WHEN is not pointless, it is the point.
The point of cryptography is to protect stuff for a sufficiently long amount of time.
So you are right, its all about WHEN. WHEN IS the point, and is not pointless.
Good for you, bad for Nepal and the Nepalese... You are the one perpetrating the bribe culture...
I cant connect Mrs Simpson optic nerves to youTube, thats a big difference...
Seriously, if there was no difference, people would not bother with this project... So there must be a difference, whether its a positive or negative difference is what the discussion is about...
So I guess:
- It increase the likelyhood of hitting NO key.
- It decrease the likelyhood of hitting the WRONG key.
- It decrease the likelyhood of hitting the RIGHT key.
So the design fails, since my goal is to hit the RIGHT key.
My ass!
I dont follow any either because nobody can even agree on what they are.... Like password rotation.... The most stupid "best practice" I've ever seen.
So my wireless is wide-open, I never change my passwords... and because of that I have a good life.
That may change, but nothing I can do will significantly change the odd of it happening without making my life miserable with stupids annoyance to start with...
Driving a convertible is a lifestyle choice.
If you cant take the Elements (wind, hot sun, and possibly rain), then you just dont drive the convertible.
Its kind of like going camping...
I'm definitely not stopping *before* it rains. If I get wet, too bad, but I'm not made of sugar, and my convertible has leather seats, specifically so that they can withstand the rain...
Well, its time for you to email Obama, the first "Internet President" to ask him for help.
I think that for less money that he is willing to spend on the white house internet presence, a Open Source Software Suite for Small Government could be funded.
In this time of economic crisis, there are certainly a few bright souls that would quite their unsafe and boring jobs and take government grants to start a business to develop such software and then make money supporting it.
This is typically the problems that Wolfram|Alpha is supposed to solve...
Unfortunately, they dont seem to have a price for Cocaine... they do have a bunch of numbers for Red Bull though...
No, your future is in embedded linux...
I'm Google's customer because I give them money; not directly, but through their advertising. Of course, that depends on the definition that you use for customer,[...]
Rather, it depends which definition you use for "giving money"...
Thats probably a better solution.
The problem with PGP as-is, is that there is no designated central party you can trust. Sure, theoretically I could create a web of trust with the CEO of yahoo, with less than N degrees of separations, but the link trust is going to be very weak... Trusted party such as a Notary Public solve this issue
Pay the fee to the Notary public once to verify your ID and sign your PGP key. Then send PGP signed request to Yahoo. Yahoo and others can automate that part.
Yahoo and other could have requirements on your key (eg: needs to be less than x year olds, signed by 1 Notary public or a 1000 other marginally trusted keys,etc...)
Unreliable Notary Public could be revoked. Yahoo and others could share database of trusted Notary Public etc....
Yeah, it seems he has been repeating the same things in his newsletters for a while. I guess they needs to be hammered down, but frankly, I think I got his point already, and if I didnt then I probably never will. So I'm tired of reading the same things over and over, and I'm mostly ignoring his newsletters now...
Too bad...
So Canadian dollars too ? That would account for a 20% difference...
Really ?
Care to give names of products who actually use GLIBC and not uClibc ?
Ahem... No PC in your solution 2 does not make any sense.
The average consumer will likely need to do one or more of the following on the PC:
- Browse a webpage with flash content, such as an ecard.
- Look at stupid Powerpoints sent by his friends.
- Edit word documents.
- Manage a photos library
- Manage a music library
Those are all things you cant do on the iPhone.
Also:
- You cant tether with an iPhone (not the average consumer anyway)
- The iPhone data plan is an extra $30 (in the US), not $15 as you suggest.
So iPhone is not a replacement for your PC... I use my PC a lot less since I have an iPhone, but its not a replacement.
We need the Oil and Defense Industry. The media industry however we can do without.
Sure, maybe, but what does this have to do with them having undue influence over the presidency ?
Usually, its considered better if some of the most important things are separated. Like Church and State. Or like Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers...
Checks and Balance I think its called...
Comparing a $300 HDTV screen to a Movie Theatre screen is just preposterous.
And what about the audio experience?
There are some movies that might not be really enhanced by the Big Screen, but I dont think Watchmen falls in that category...
If the choice is between having the president a puppet of
A) the Oil Industry and the Defense Industry
B) the RIAA and MPAA
Then I would definitely choose B.
Its relatively easy to fight the RIAA and MPAA on my own or just ignore them, compared to the Oil and Defense...
Your definitions are correct: a botnet needs 4 botpoints, and is composed of 4 botlinesegments, and 4 bottriangle.
Correction a botnet needs 4 botpoints, and is composed of 6 botlinesegments, and 4 bottriangles.
Not to be pedantic but, really, your calculation are off...
Your definitions are correct: a botnet needs 4 botpoints, and is composed of 4 botlinesegments, and 4 bottriangle.
However, its easy to see that by adding only 1 botpoint to the botnet you can create a 4 additionals botnets and as scuh create a 5-botnets.
So you can create a 5-botnet with 5 PCs (if they all connect to each other).
Now its easy to see that 1.9M PC can be used to create a 1 MegaBotnet, and potentially much more if they were all interconnected.
The maximum botnet value that can be created from N botpoints, is left as an exercise to the astute Slashdot read.
Finding an example of a N-botnet obtained from N botpoints is also left as an exercise, but I will give this hint: torus!