Really? Because if that were even REMOTELY true do you not think that BB users would not have made as big a stink at RIM if an entire user base had the issue as bad as the iPhone seemed to have?
Yes I do think that is entirely true, not just remotely true. Why do I think this? Because no one gives a flying fuck about RIM. No one cares enough to try to pick them apart. No one cares enough to read story after story about them. There's 1,400 mentions of RIM on slashdot (according to google) and 2,840 of Blackberry. There's 5,200 of iPhone 4 (not iPhone's in general, not Apple, 5,200 mentions of "iPhone 4"). No one cares about RIM.
And where on earth do you get entire user base from? If you paid attention to the presentation roughly HALF OF A PERCENT of people reported the problem.
Because the data recorders can lose their information if disconnected from the car's battery or if the battery dies—as could happen after a crash—the agency is focusing only on recent accidents, said a person familiar with the situation.
What the hell? Who designs a black box that needs continuous power to properly log information, and retain it? That makes no sense at all.
It's not an accident recording black box, it's an engineering data collection black box. What makes no sense is that they wouldn't have pulled the data from all of them immediately after each accident.
> I could not see over 30 people all doing the same thing to play a game with toyota, especially putting their own lives in danger....just to see if they can fake an accident and get a new car....
Oh, I can see quite some people do that, easily, especially after it's been clear that there might be money in it.
My lack of faith is disturbing, I know. It's just that there's Darwin Awards out there for a reason.
It doesn't even need to be that sinister. Picture 30 people fucking up and then blaming someone else. Christ, that's just an average work week at some places.
Because its only Apple who seems to think that their products are flawless.
Can someone please point out where Apple (or any Apple fanboy, for that matter) has ever claimed their products were without flaw. Something in writing on the Apple website. A press release. A comment in an interview made by anyone in the company, at all (even the janitor will suffice). This straw-man argument keeps coming up "Apply says their products are flawless, but we found a flaw so they're total garbage!!11!" - but Apple has never claimed there products were without flaw.
Apple's defining characteristic has long been their hardware/software design and usability.
When they manage to fail at both of those missions in one item, it's a scandal.
Say 2 million people have an iPhone 4. Say 5,000 people are experiencing this problem (I have no clue what the number is, but it seems like the same few blog/people posting about all these problems and then the same people chiming in "me too!"). That is 0.25% of the user base having these problems. Say the number is much high, say that it's 20,000 people. Then we're finally at 1% of the user population (and that's down playing the user population, the 2 million was an estimate of first weekend sales). How is that a failure? How is that a scandal?
By contrast, 100% of the people I know with iPhone 4s are thoroughly satisfied and have experienced no problems. None. Anecdotal, sure, but I trust people I know much more than random blogger who gets income based on the number of people he draws to his site.
One generation doesn't have the right to determine the availability forever.
Like property rights, why should land only be able to be sold by those who got to it first (or bought it from those who did) - I wasn't able to compete with them and doesn't seem fair that my ancestors lack of ability to "win" should deprive me.
And the same thing for all the minerals that have already been mined from the earth. And in fact, every single thing on the entire planet, ever.
seems to me like a lucrative opportunity for delivering some checkmark software solutions at discount price.
I've got a state of the art anti-piracy solution. It's $500 per implementation + $0.10 per student. It's a sheet of printed paper with a Yes check box and a no Check box, with the following sentence written above them:
"Will you download things you don't have the copyright to using our network?" If the student checks Yes, my friend Boris here will punch them in the stomach, and hand them a new form. If they check No, we mind our own fucking business.
That's because the UK has sane laws. He was probably talking about the US. I can very much attest to the fact that letting someone of the opposite sex live with you for too long can fuck you over when they go crazy.
I disagree. If you read the comments on the trackers then you can pretty much avoid poor quality rips. To bittorrent something I have to spend about an hour to get it including finding a torrent and then the time to download it. With hulu I just go to hulu.com, type in "family guy", and click play. I have to watch about 2-5 minutes of ads, which is far less than downloading the torrent.
That said, if it's a movie then it's not worth it to go to hulu. The commercials ruin the mood and flow of the movie, whereas TV shows are actually designed with commercials in mind. If it's something that I want to watch more than once then I will torrent it because I'll have to watch the ads on hulu multiple times.
It's not a "bittorrent is always better" or a "hulu is always better".
Try swapping out bittorrent for Usenet. In the amount of time it will take you to watch your commercials once, I'll have the entire episode downloaded to my media server and stream-able to any device in my house. Ditto for movies.
This is just buying into the hype. Apple came out with a new phone that happens to have the highest pixel density yet (325 ppi). The next closest is the Motorola Droid at 265 ppi. About 20% higher than the competition... Not really a groundbreaking move by Apple, just them taking another step toward higher density displays. It's what any company would have done. Where was the news story when the Droid came out, besting Apples then best display on the 3GS (of 163ppi) by 40%?
Disclaimer: I don't have an Iphone, or a Droid, but I do have a brain and I tend to use it when I smell hype.
There probably wasn't a news story specifically on that feature, but there probably was a story that listed that as a feature. The reason the Retina Display (is | may be|) worth a story is that is surpasses an important threshold (they eye's ability to see distinct pixels). Similarly if when movies came out (this is totally made up, do not take this as a history lesson) they started at 10 FPS, an increase to 20 would be a 100% increase, but wouldn't be as interesting as the increase from 20 to 30 (which is only a 50% increase) when the flickering stopped.
Exactly. Heck, by their own admission it's speculation. From TFA: "It's unclear how many, if any, of the vulnerabilities patched this week affect Apple's iPad." Which is definitely a far cry from the horrors the article's title implies.
Exactly. Heck, by their own admission it's speculation. From TFA: "It's unclear how many, if any, of the vulnerabilities patched this week affect Apple's iPad." Which is definitely a far cry from the horrors the article's title implies.
This is the new journalism - don't give facts, give possibilities and raise questions - you can sound much scarier and it's not saying anything that's false because all you did was say something was possible.
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That may be the case, but I wouldn't bet on it. The rendering engine is the same, but everything else is different - Android is based on Linux, iPhoneOS is based on Darwin. Different platforms, different architectures, different builds.
Following that reasoning the bugs should also be in Chrome and Safari on Linux, MacOS, Windows...
Webkit is the rendering engine. If the bugs are in Webkit, then they are in all the products that use Webkit.
And indeed they were in Safari, which was patched earlier this month.
Hopefully the official iOS 4 release means the developers/QA people have some time to work on iOS 3 patching.
I'd hope that instead of spending that time patching iOS 3 they just try to release iOS 4 for iPad much sooner (that'd probably be the largest gain, after that if they really want they can work on porting the changes so the people with an original iPhone have security fixes, but I don't actually know the if the numbers would make it worthwhile).
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Really? Because if that were even REMOTELY true do you not think that BB users would not have made as big a stink at RIM if an entire user base had the issue as bad as the iPhone seemed to have?
Yes I do think that is entirely true, not just remotely true. Why do I think this? Because no one gives a flying fuck about RIM. No one cares enough to try to pick them apart. No one cares enough to read story after story about them. There's 1,400 mentions of RIM on slashdot (according to google) and 2,840 of Blackberry. There's 5,200 of iPhone 4 (not iPhone's in general, not Apple, 5,200 mentions of "iPhone 4"). No one cares about RIM.
And where on earth do you get entire user base from? If you paid attention to the presentation roughly HALF OF A PERCENT of people reported the problem.
Moreover, from a WSJ article, the following:
Because the data recorders can lose their information if disconnected from the car's battery or if the battery dies—as could happen after a crash—the agency is focusing only on recent accidents, said a person familiar with the situation.
What the hell? Who designs a black box that needs continuous power to properly log information, and retain it? That makes no sense at all.
It's not an accident recording black box, it's an engineering data collection black box. What makes no sense is that they wouldn't have pulled the data from all of them immediately after each accident.
> I could not see over 30 people all doing the same thing to play a game with toyota, especially putting their own lives in danger....just to see if they can fake an accident and get a new car.... Oh, I can see quite some people do that, easily, especially after it's been clear that there might be money in it. My lack of faith is disturbing, I know. It's just that there's Darwin Awards out there for a reason.
It doesn't even need to be that sinister. Picture 30 people fucking up and then blaming someone else. Christ, that's just an average work week at some places.
Because its only Apple who seems to think that their products are flawless.
Can someone please point out where Apple (or any Apple fanboy, for that matter) has ever claimed their products were without flaw. Something in writing on the Apple website. A press release. A comment in an interview made by anyone in the company, at all (even the janitor will suffice). This straw-man argument keeps coming up "Apply says their products are flawless, but we found a flaw so they're total garbage!!11!" - but Apple has never claimed there products were without flaw.
Apple's defining characteristic has long been their hardware/software design and usability. When they manage to fail at both of those missions in one item, it's a scandal.
Say 2 million people have an iPhone 4. Say 5,000 people are experiencing this problem (I have no clue what the number is, but it seems like the same few blog/people posting about all these problems and then the same people chiming in "me too!"). That is 0.25% of the user base having these problems. Say the number is much high, say that it's 20,000 people. Then we're finally at 1% of the user population (and that's down playing the user population, the 2 million was an estimate of first weekend sales). How is that a failure? How is that a scandal?
By contrast, 100% of the people I know with iPhone 4s are thoroughly satisfied and have experienced no problems. None. Anecdotal, sure, but I trust people I know much more than random blogger who gets income based on the number of people he draws to his site.
One generation doesn't have the right to determine the availability forever.
Like property rights, why should land only be able to be sold by those who got to it first (or bought it from those who did) - I wasn't able to compete with them and doesn't seem fair that my ancestors lack of ability to "win" should deprive me.
And the same thing for all the minerals that have already been mined from the earth. And in fact, every single thing on the entire planet, ever.
seems to me like a lucrative opportunity for delivering some checkmark software solutions at discount price.
I've got a state of the art anti-piracy solution. It's $500 per implementation + $0.10 per student. It's a sheet of printed paper with a Yes check box and a no Check box, with the following sentence written above them:
"Will you download things you don't have the copyright to using our network?"
If the student checks Yes, my friend Boris here will punch them in the stomach, and hand them a new form. If they check No, we mind our own fucking business.
I can actually study while my computer downloads stuff (irregardless of its legality).
Does yours require you to manually copy the bits or something? :)
How do you keep the punch cards from getting out of order while you're distracted studying?
If you write it with only one N, it would be derived from mille and anus, which would be "a thousand assholes".
Well, this is Slashdot...thought your estimate may be a little low.
And preview. Preview is your friend.
Yeah, it helps to make sure you
That's because the UK has sane laws. He was probably talking about the US. I can very much attest to the fact that letting someone of the opposite sex live with you for too long can fuck you over when they go crazy.
To completely disregard the historic context of any written work is to limit yourself to not understanding any of the deeper meaning.
Look, the word of God is timeless, now get back to stoning blasphemers to death!
I disagree. If you read the comments on the trackers then you can pretty much avoid poor quality rips. To bittorrent something I have to spend about an hour to get it including finding a torrent and then the time to download it. With hulu I just go to hulu.com, type in "family guy", and click play. I have to watch about 2-5 minutes of ads, which is far less than downloading the torrent. That said, if it's a movie then it's not worth it to go to hulu. The commercials ruin the mood and flow of the movie, whereas TV shows are actually designed with commercials in mind. If it's something that I want to watch more than once then I will torrent it because I'll have to watch the ads on hulu multiple times. It's not a "bittorrent is always better" or a "hulu is always better".
Try swapping out bittorrent for Usenet. In the amount of time it will take you to watch your commercials once, I'll have the entire episode downloaded to my media server and stream-able to any device in my house. Ditto for movies.
Torrents require you to finish your download and plan your watching ahead of time.
It requires five minutes of setup to have automatic downloads of shows you know you're going to watch.
Might be someone who microwaves a bunch of stuff
If someone is microwaving stuff for an hour and a half everyday you'll be able to spot them without using any signal detectors...
You do realise you're posting on slashdot?
Not everyone knows their mom as well as they should.
considering the time it's unlikely.
Microwave popcorn.
Exactly what volume of popcorn are we talking if it takes 1.5 hours to pop in the microwave?
So things only count as technologies when they're hardware and not when they're software?
This is just buying into the hype. Apple came out with a new phone that happens to have the highest pixel density yet (325 ppi). The next closest is the Motorola Droid at 265 ppi. About 20% higher than the competition... Not really a groundbreaking move by Apple, just them taking another step toward higher density displays. It's what any company would have done. Where was the news story when the Droid came out, besting Apples then best display on the 3GS (of 163ppi) by 40%?
Disclaimer: I don't have an Iphone, or a Droid, but I do have a brain and I tend to use it when I smell hype.
There probably wasn't a news story specifically on that feature, but there probably was a story that listed that as a feature. The reason the Retina Display (is | may be|) worth a story is that is surpasses an important threshold (they eye's ability to see distinct pixels). Similarly if when movies came out (this is totally made up, do not take this as a history lesson) they started at 10 FPS, an increase to 20 would be a 100% increase, but wouldn't be as interesting as the increase from 20 to 30 (which is only a 50% increase) when the flickering stopped.
2) Apple seems to prefer the "silent failure" route
What do you mean?
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for Malware on OS X and iOS specifically state not to inform the user of their presence.
Exactly. Heck, by their own admission it's speculation. From TFA: "It's unclear how many, if any, of the vulnerabilities patched this week affect Apple's iPad." Which is definitely a far cry from the horrors the article's title implies.
Exactly. Heck, by their own admission it's speculation. From TFA: "It's unclear how many, if any, of the vulnerabilities patched this week affect Apple's iPad." Which is definitely a far cry from the horrors the article's title implies.
This is the new journalism - don't give facts, give possibilities and raise questions - you can sound much scarier and it's not saying anything that's false because all you did was say something was possible.
New iPhone may be made from the bones of children! Does Steve Jobs drink the blood of 15 virgins before bed each night? Find out more after the page break!
they can sign up for a $20 /m Premium text club download high cost apps.
Hrm, that does remind me that I get unlimited texting for cheaper than their data plans...has anyone come up with an HTTP over SMS solution? :P
That may be the case, but I wouldn't bet on it. The rendering engine is the same, but everything else is different - Android is based on Linux, iPhoneOS is based on Darwin. Different platforms, different architectures, different builds.
Following that reasoning the bugs should also be in Chrome and Safari on Linux, MacOS, Windows...
Webkit is the rendering engine. If the bugs are in Webkit, then they are in all the products that use Webkit.
And indeed they were in Safari, which was patched earlier this month.
Hopefully the official iOS 4 release means the developers/QA people have some time to work on iOS 3 patching.
I'd hope that instead of spending that time patching iOS 3 they just try to release iOS 4 for iPad much sooner (that'd probably be the largest gain, after that if they really want they can work on porting the changes so the people with an original iPhone have security fixes, but I don't actually know the if the numbers would make it worthwhile).
That said ... it's surprising that a phone is so riddled with security flaws.
50 of the security flaws were in WebKit, so it's not so much that the phone is riddled with flaws, but that a web browser is.