The thing that annoys me the most about Android's permissions model is that it's all-or-nothing -- you either grant every single permission in the manifest or you grant none of them and then don't get to install the app.
I'd much much much prefer being able to say "no, this dumb widget does not need to access my location (ads) or know my phone number (ads)" or "no, this 'trojan' does not need to be able to send SMS". But, you can't - you eithe grant access to everything, or you can't install the app. I was very disappointed by that.
On what planet is stealing defined that way? Can you find one dictionary not authored by a content cartel member that actually defines stealing as "obtaining an item without giving the original author or owner the compensation requested"?
If you got it less than 30 days ago, you will almost definitely be eligible to switch to the 3GS by paying the restocking fee + price difference. This is what happened to people who bought 2G iPhones right before the announcement of the iPhone 3G.
Granted, that doesn't mean AT&T will behave exactly the same way again, but I can't see why they wouldn't, since you could just cancel your contract and start a new one when the 3GS is released instead, and this way looks better on their books (if you cancel & restart you've then created 'false churn' which does not make their investors happy.)
No, actually, it didn't. Eject Disk was almost always the *wrong* thing to click in classic Mac OS, because it would assume you wanted to keep it mounted, and would then start asking for the disk over and over again the next time you switched into another app. Instead, you were supposed to use "Put Away", or, like the GP said, drag the disk to the trash can.
You could work around this by generating some sort of really long hash of a secret cookie and the sending domain name, then providing that hash to the sending website. When sending mail, the sender could send it to you at youraddress+hash@yourisp.com -- Your ISP would then know that you'd granted that site permission to mail you for free and wouldn't charge them.
Ideally, you'd be able to go to a page on your ISP's site and revoke these revocations for free mail at some point if the site started abusing the privilege.
Alternately, you could just enter a list of domain names from which you'll accept mail without charge - combine this with SPF and you'd be a fair bit of the way there.
There are still several apps to which you can not attach DTrace, such as iTunes. The issue described in the first blog post hasn't been corrected, you can still set NOATTACH and your process is then untraceable. (Not that shitty movie, but you know what I mean.)
The issue isn't (really) that timer counts are wrong, but instead, the far more interesting thing is that there are "special" processes that you can't touch and everyone is now suddenly OK with that because the timers count correctly.
I definitely agree they were a good stopgap but would have been pretty miffed if they had left them as the only development option. I love my native apps and couldn't imagine replacing them all with web pages.
The initial page load required to load your fancy-dance web 3.5 JavaScript AJAX all-singing all-dancing magic app over EDGE is the problem, not the concept of incremental updates with AJAX.
Without AJAX the apps would basically be useless, now they're just merely ridiculously slow, especially if you haven't recently been using data. The time spent waiting for Safari to load, then for EDGE to activate, then the hostname to resolve, then the page to load, is all not insignificant, especially when compared to just waiting for the app to load delay with a native app.
Using AJAX is wonderful, but it doesn't fix the fact that EDGE sucks and that web "apps" are a pathetic excuse for not delivering on real applications.
Right, because everyotherplatform that lets you run your own applications has been subject to malware that has actually existed in the wild, right?
Oh, what? They haven't?
Sorry to say, but this story smells apocryphal, given that you explicitly mention she had a "high-end" Nokia, which would be running S60. No S60 "viruses" ever existed that sent MMS messages. If you can find one and identify it, I'd be interested in seeing it. The only S60 viruses that have ever been shown to exist in the wild propagated over bluetooth and did nothing but propagate.
The "Security" issue IS a red herring. The iPhone has been wide open to anyone who runs 3rd party software on it for nearly a year now, and yet there is NO iPhone malware. If the concern is over security, then implement a granular permissions system like S60, where you can decide what each app can do at install time, but keep in mind that no phone virus that causes monetary harm has ever been proven to exist, for any mobile platform.
The security handwaving is a bullshit reason for Apple to make damn sure they control exactly what you run on the phone. No VOIP, no SSH clients, nothing that will use too much data, nothing that might bite into a revenue stream Apple wants to create. They can couch it in terms of "it's for the security of the network!," yet somehow, every other network and every other device can run whatever apps you want on it and there's no problem.
eBay has long since decided to deputize any company that feels like signing papers with complete and unfettered access to eBay. Anyone that signs a "legally binding document" can then gain power to delete any auction from eBay for whatever reason they feel like. If it's because of counterfeit or provably stolen product, that's fine, but eBay's history of repudiating first sale has really gotten tiring.
Try reselling Weight Watchers program materials. They get deleted on a regular basis because Weight Watchers doesn't like it if you resell them. There's no legal basis for this, and if you push the issue with eBay, the response you get is "Well, they said they don't want you selling them, so too bad." They tell you to "take it up with Weight Watchers" who says "We say you can't sell them, and that's that."
VeRO is a bullshit program that lets eBay wash their hands of legitimate issues on the site and that gives companies ridiculously too much power. Do you think that if I set up a stand at a flea market reselling legally acquired materials, that the flea market owners would stand for the publisher of those materials walking around with a rubber hose and yanking the items away if I tried to sell them?
This isn't news, hopefully this just pushes VeRO into the public eye and convinces eBay to get rid of it, or to force "rights owners" (I wasn't aware that a "right to prevent resale" existed) to actually file individual complaints based on some sort of legal theory to delist an item, not just "We don't want these resold." Scn is abusing it like they abuse everything else, but this system seems to be made specifically to facilitate abuse.
It'll cost $150 and you'll have to buy two of them at once and only get one, right? And you'll only be able to buy it for a week. No, two. No, a month. No, 6 weeks. No, however long we say.
That seems like how the last "$100 laptop" program worked out for OLPC.
I don't get why Slashdot gives so much press to these people when they admit they can't maintain their own goals, the program is mired in political bullshit, and the very idea of giving kids a laptop and acting as if it will cure all their ills is idealistic at absolute best. OLPC is bust, Netcraft confirms.
Just so you know, it isn't compatible with _iSync_, it's only compatible with Palm Desktop which can kinda half-ass integrate with iSync. You still have to install and use the (STILL not Universal Binary) Palm Desktop and let 2 PPC watchdog apps run constantly on your system to use it.
Or, you can apply the standard software fix of the $ and buy Missing Sync, but at $40 for an iSync conduit, they are seriously overpriced.
That, and 'no box' isn't really a feature when to get the cablecards you have to pay the same (or MORE, in Insight territory) that you would have to pay to get a box.
There's also the matter of copyright to the data stored.
You can't copyright a directory, just the layout and other distinguishing features. The actual information inside is uncopyrightable as it does not meet the originality standard. See Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service (499 US 340.)
Yeah, that 89% idle and 1.3GB of free RAM definitely parallel Vista. Especially seeing how I'm running 72 processes, one of which is Firefox (which is a huge resource hog on any system.)
If you're going to troll, at least draw a proper comparison. Like KDE.
This might apply if EULAs actually had any sort of bearing or any legal grounds to bind you to them, but contracts of adhesion are unenforceable with respect to software (see Klocek v. Gateway.)
By reading this post, you hereby agree to pay me ten billion dollars. Paypal it to the address above.
What? You don't agree to that? Oh, then you don't have a 'license' to read my post. But you've already read it. You're in quite a conundrum now, aren't you?
The answer to this seems to be rather simple: tell people to not use accented characters in filenames for files they plan on storing on the server? People handled only being able to use 8.3 for years, I don't think asking them to drop the accents is going to be a horrible, machine-breaking failure like you're making it out to be.
"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair
use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in
copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that
section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use),
scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In
determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case
is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether
such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit
educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in
relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or
value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding
of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the
above factors."
To emphasize: "including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
Since "Making copies for my convience and/or time shifting" is not criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, it does NOT fall under Fair Use and the/. "FAIR USE FAIR USE WHAT OF MY RIGHTS" crowd really needs to stop using this argument.
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The thing that annoys me the most about Android's permissions model is that it's all-or-nothing -- you either grant every single permission in the manifest or you grant none of them and then don't get to install the app.
I'd much much much prefer being able to say "no, this dumb widget does not need to access my location (ads) or know my phone number (ads)" or "no, this 'trojan' does not need to be able to send SMS". But, you can't - you eithe grant access to everything, or you can't install the app. I was very disappointed by that.
Yes, and some people just willfully refuse to pay the illegal tax on interstate commerce that states do not have the power to levy.
Actually, it isn't. If you go to the URL of the friends list, you can view anybody's friends list.
See http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=zuck even though if you go to http://facebook.com/zuck, there's no way to view his friends list.
On what planet is stealing defined that way? Can you find one dictionary not authored by a content cartel member that actually defines stealing as "obtaining an item without giving the original author or owner the compensation requested"?
If you got it less than 30 days ago, you will almost definitely be eligible to switch to the 3GS by paying the restocking fee + price difference. This is what happened to people who bought 2G iPhones right before the announcement of the iPhone 3G.
Granted, that doesn't mean AT&T will behave exactly the same way again, but I can't see why they wouldn't, since you could just cancel your contract and start a new one when the 3GS is released instead, and this way looks better on their books (if you cancel & restart you've then created 'false churn' which does not make their investors happy.)
No, actually, it didn't. Eject Disk was almost always the *wrong* thing to click in classic Mac OS, because it would assume you wanted to keep it mounted, and would then start asking for the disk over and over again the next time you switched into another app. Instead, you were supposed to use "Put Away", or, like the GP said, drag the disk to the trash can.
How would this be a change from your regular posting?
You could work around this by generating some sort of really long hash of a secret cookie and the sending domain name, then providing that hash to the sending website. When sending mail, the sender could send it to you at youraddress+hash@yourisp.com -- Your ISP would then know that you'd granted that site permission to mail you for free and wouldn't charge them.
Ideally, you'd be able to go to a page on your ISP's site and revoke these revocations for free mail at some point if the site started abusing the privilege.
Alternately, you could just enter a list of domain names from which you'll accept mail without charge - combine this with SPF and you'd be a fair bit of the way there.
There are still several apps to which you can not attach DTrace, such as iTunes. The issue described in the first blog post hasn't been corrected, you can still set NOATTACH and your process is then untraceable. (Not that shitty movie, but you know what I mean.)
The issue isn't (really) that timer counts are wrong, but instead, the far more interesting thing is that there are "special" processes that you can't touch and everyone is now suddenly OK with that because the timers count correctly.
I definitely agree they were a good stopgap but would have been pretty miffed if they had left them as the only development option. I love my native apps and couldn't imagine replacing them all with web pages.
The initial page load required to load your fancy-dance web 3.5 JavaScript AJAX all-singing all-dancing magic app over EDGE is the problem, not the concept of incremental updates with AJAX.
Without AJAX the apps would basically be useless, now they're just merely ridiculously slow, especially if you haven't recently been using data. The time spent waiting for Safari to load, then for EDGE to activate, then the hostname to resolve, then the page to load, is all not insignificant, especially when compared to just waiting for the app to load delay with a native app.
Using AJAX is wonderful, but it doesn't fix the fact that EDGE sucks and that web "apps" are a pathetic excuse for not delivering on real applications.
Right, because every other platform that lets you run your own applications has been subject to malware that has actually existed in the wild, right?
Oh, what? They haven't?
Sorry to say, but this story smells apocryphal, given that you explicitly mention she had a "high-end" Nokia, which would be running S60. No S60 "viruses" ever existed that sent MMS messages. If you can find one and identify it, I'd be interested in seeing it. The only S60 viruses that have ever been shown to exist in the wild propagated over bluetooth and did nothing but propagate.
The "Security" issue IS a red herring. The iPhone has been wide open to anyone who runs 3rd party software on it for nearly a year now, and yet there is NO iPhone malware. If the concern is over security, then implement a granular permissions system like S60, where you can decide what each app can do at install time, but keep in mind that no phone virus that causes monetary harm has ever been proven to exist, for any mobile platform.
The security handwaving is a bullshit reason for Apple to make damn sure they control exactly what you run on the phone. No VOIP, no SSH clients, nothing that will use too much data, nothing that might bite into a revenue stream Apple wants to create. They can couch it in terms of "it's for the security of the network!," yet somehow, every other network and every other device can run whatever apps you want on it and there's no problem.
eBay has long since decided to deputize any company that feels like signing papers with complete and unfettered access to eBay. Anyone that signs a "legally binding document" can then gain power to delete any auction from eBay for whatever reason they feel like. If it's because of counterfeit or provably stolen product, that's fine, but eBay's history of repudiating first sale has really gotten tiring.
Try reselling Weight Watchers program materials. They get deleted on a regular basis because Weight Watchers doesn't like it if you resell them. There's no legal basis for this, and if you push the issue with eBay, the response you get is "Well, they said they don't want you selling them, so too bad." They tell you to "take it up with Weight Watchers" who says "We say you can't sell them, and that's that."
VeRO is a bullshit program that lets eBay wash their hands of legitimate issues on the site and that gives companies ridiculously too much power. Do you think that if I set up a stand at a flea market reselling legally acquired materials, that the flea market owners would stand for the publisher of those materials walking around with a rubber hose and yanking the items away if I tried to sell them?
This isn't news, hopefully this just pushes VeRO into the public eye and convinces eBay to get rid of it, or to force "rights owners" (I wasn't aware that a "right to prevent resale" existed) to actually file individual complaints based on some sort of legal theory to delist an item, not just "We don't want these resold." Scn is abusing it like they abuse everything else, but this system seems to be made specifically to facilitate abuse.
It'll cost $150 and you'll have to buy two of them at once and only get one, right? And you'll only be able to buy it for a week. No, two. No, a month. No, 6 weeks. No, however long we say.
That seems like how the last "$100 laptop" program worked out for OLPC.
I don't get why Slashdot gives so much press to these people when they admit they can't maintain their own goals, the program is mired in political bullshit, and the very idea of giving kids a laptop and acting as if it will cure all their ills is idealistic at absolute best. OLPC is bust, Netcraft confirms.
It's $30 including unlimited data. http://www.sprint.com/sero use e-mail address savings@sprintemi.com
Just so you know, it isn't compatible with _iSync_, it's only compatible with Palm Desktop which can kinda half-ass integrate with iSync. You still have to install and use the (STILL not Universal Binary) Palm Desktop and let 2 PPC watchdog apps run constantly on your system to use it.
Or, you can apply the standard software fix of the $ and buy Missing Sync, but at $40 for an iSync conduit, they are seriously overpriced.
That, and 'no box' isn't really a feature when to get the cablecards you have to pay the same (or MORE, in Insight territory) that you would have to pay to get a box.
Yeah, that 89% idle and 1.3GB of free RAM definitely parallel Vista. Especially seeing how I'm running 72 processes, one of which is Firefox (which is a huge resource hog on any system.)
If you're going to troll, at least draw a proper comparison. Like KDE.
Looks like I own my comments.
Learn 2 Read.
This might apply if EULAs actually had any sort of bearing or any legal grounds to bind you to them, but contracts of adhesion are unenforceable with respect to software (see Klocek v. Gateway.)
By reading this post, you hereby agree to pay me ten billion dollars. Paypal it to the address above.
What? You don't agree to that? Oh, then you don't have a 'license' to read my post. But you've already read it. You're in quite a conundrum now, aren't you?
The answer to this seems to be rather simple: tell people to not use accented characters in filenames for files they plan on storing on the server? People handled only being able to use 8.3 for years, I don't think asking them to drop the accents is going to be a horrible, machine-breaking failure like you're making it out to be.
Vista is XP with an ugly skin and a poor hack of Spotlight. Oh, and also a poor hack of Expose.
OS X isn't the most perfect OS in the world, but it sure is a lot better than Vista, because MS is playing a neverending game of catch-up.
Here is 17 USC 107:
/. "FAIR USE FAIR USE WHAT OF MY RIGHTS" crowd really needs to stop using this argument.
"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair
use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in
copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that
section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting,
teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use),
scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In
determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case
is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether
such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit
educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in
relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or
value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding
of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the
above factors."
To emphasize: "including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
Since "Making copies for my convience and/or time shifting" is not criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, it does NOT fall under Fair Use and the
Dumps stuff into index.dat that anyone can see on the machine. All IE browsers do this.