Does that mean I can finally root and upgrade my crappy Galaxy S1 with Android 2.1 yet? Fucking AT&T
Finally? There was no reason to wait, you could have rooted your Captivate last year I bet.
With Samsung Kies, you should be able to upgrade your AT&T Captivate all the way to 4.0. That being said, you should root to get Android 4.2 at least (4.0 may be laggy for you, that's why I'm recommending that you root your phone instead, and just jump all the way to whatever is currently available without going through Samsung Kies).
...has just launched a petition to Obama asking the President to declare the Flickr API a National Historic Landmark, thus (by Dave's reckoning) legally protected from arbitrary withdrawal or wholesale changes by its corporate masters."
The White House needs some better spam/troll detectors.
Starting fake petitions, so you can brag about it, may have been funny for the first guy who did it, but no one likes a copy cat. This Dave Spamer guy really needs to come up with something better.
They do business in EU, as do you. The solution should be obvious. Drag them into court.
That really depends. Did they completely absorb the start-up when they purchase it? Or are they still operating it as an independent entity? And is their European office part of the same corporation (Most likely, the answer is yes, but it's good be sure)?
Ideally, they should just hire a lawyer, or if the amount is too small, just sue in Small Claims court. In Europe, they can sue in Small Claims court up to a limit of 2000 Euros.
When it comes to manned space exploration, the US is lowering the bar lower and lower every day.
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: , born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov on April 27, 1942) is a former Russian cosmonaut. He is the holder of the record for the longest single spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip.[1] His combined space experience is more than 22 months.[2]
Hopefully, the Russians will help us. I don't think we'd be able to do this without their help anyway.
Looking at the screenshots of their app on the Google Play Store. It looks like they might be doing something with QR codes. Most likely, scanning QR codes requires access to the camera, hence the "Hardware Controls: take pictures and videos" permission.
It also does require "Storage: modify or delete the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your SD card" permission, which I'm less sure about. May be that one is a frivolous permission. In any case, I doubt very much that Delta is perusing all the travel pictures I have on my phone.
I wonder how Delta, a Georgia based company can be subject to California law with respect to online privacy?
Delta has hubs and employees in California. It does plenty of business in California, probably far more than they do in Georgia. The location of an HQ means less and less these days.
Thought, I do agree with your main point. Airline travel is so obviously an interstate issue, it should be regulated by the Federal government, not the State.
My suggestion was that we do wifi-pinging from student mobiles to cover most cases (as in you download an app and it checks you're in-range of our wifi)...
Then just one student needs to carry the phones of his friends, and the system is circumvented.
I don't imagine Newcastle will be doing fingerprint checks for long, personally...
I agree. With the students and even the staff strongly against it, those scanners will get vandalized within the first 24 hours. Whoever came up with this idea is a real idiot.
Let's not even get into the fact that the NRA and gun-lobby have effectively made the process of tracing how these weapons get distributed to the wrong hands is never questioned and the illicit channels aren't closed.
The last mass murder, the guns were purchased legally and we know who sold them to him. The one before the last mass murder, we know a girlfriend purchased the guns, so again, we know who was to blame (in addition to the shooter himself). So in both those cases, tracing the weapons wasn't of any use in preventing the murders in the first place. What makes you think this is any different this time?
This isn't to say that your suggestion wouldn't prevent some murders, it's just that your suggestion will have no effect on the worst cases where the shooter doesn't care about getting caught, or killing himself in the process.
The UK CPS declined to prosecute him originally and further decline to do so now.
And yet, McKinnon said he'd be willing to plead guilty if he was prosecuted in the UK.
By letter dated 5 June 2009, the Claimant made further representations and indicated that he would be willing to plead guilty to an offence under section 3 of the 1990 Act. Accordingly, the Director was invited to reconsider the decision not to prosecute, since the evidential test was now satisfied, having regard to the wider public interest which, it was asserted, pointed to a prosecution in the United Kingdom. The Director was further invited to "have full regard to Article 3 and Article 8 of the Convention".
Perhaps, it would have been too much of an embarrassment to the US if the guy had only received 6 months probation and a 1000 fine when what they really wanted was to set an example and have this autistic guy up-rooted from his own country/family, bullied and raped, and locked up in a Federal prison for the next 60 years.
Nobody is going to deported to a dictatorship from their home country thanks to any rules imposed by the UN or ITU.
That's a straw man argument.
Most people worry about their own home country, that's why they'll take great care to ssh into a foreign country that won't tattle-tell on them.
And we're not talking solely about so-called "dictatorships" either. If you're a whistle-blower, or if you are of the wrong religion, or if you like to sample music from P2P, or if you're married and are having an affair, there can be negative consequences for not selecting a foreign jurisdiction to ssh-in that's more likely to protect your anonymity.
Are Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime Video suddenly non-existent?
Hulu Plus likes to double-dip. They make you pay a subscription and at the same time they keep on increasing their number of commercials slowly but surely (which you must watch even if you're a paid subscriber). Soon, they'll have more commercials than the TV networks themselves.
Amazon Prime, I do not like their video selection. May be, I'd like them more if I had young kids, but right now I don't.
This isn't to say that I'm excited about RedBox entering this market. RedBox (their non-streaming service at least) seems to only have bargain-priced movies, the ones that most of us have already seen, or that were not that good to begin with. So I doubt that their streaming service will be an upgrade.
Right now, I'm so fed up with Hollywood, I'm mostly watching Korean Dramas on Viki.com. Occasionally, I go back to Netflix and Hulu for some shows, but I'm much less dependent on them. I suspect that once Viki becomes over-commercialized, like Hulu is right now, I'll probably leave them as well and look for a new source of streaming movies.
More critically: there is no independent software update capability, meaning that, barring a firmware update from Samsung, the exploitable hole can’t be patched without “voiding the device’s warranty and using other exploits,” ReVuln said.
In other words, there is a software update capability, it's just not an independent one (whatever that means).
Who should I root for when I want both sides to lose?
You should root for yourself. It's your right to have super-user access to your own device. Hopefully, Microsoft will offer you a 20% or 30% discount for evading the Apple taxed garden. And if not, there is always Google Docs/Drive.
One thing to remember: It is not actually the case that Apple gets 30% of the money, and the developer gets 70%.
That's right. It's not always 30%. Apple also gets 40% for any Apple accessory not even sold through an Apple store, otherwise it sues the accessory manufacturer/retailer.
There have been student offers where you could buy a Mac and get $100 for store purchases, which means Apple gets nothing and pays $70 to developers.
That's not exactly true. If a student buys a Mac, he probably has paid in upwards of $1,000 to Apple. So you could say that $100 of free store purchases is used as an incentive to entice the student to give that extra $1,000 to Apple.
I always manage to stock up with gift cards purchased with 20% rebate, so for £50 official price software, music or books that I buy, the developers get £35, I paid only £40, so I don't think that Apple keeps 30% of that.
Hopefully, that part is correct. Personally, I thought that the terms and services of Apple's app store were incredibly one-sided, always in favor of Apple. For instance, if a user gets refunded within 90 days, Apple will refund the full amount, but the developer is still on the hook for 30% commission that Apple wants to keep.
So again, I hope that what you're saying is correct. It's just that I am surprised Apple would do something like that, when its own terms and services for developers are generally regarded as even far worse than the ones offered by Amazon (which is already considered pretty bad).
This sounds reasonable to me - the telephone company has no business filtering phone calls, so it should not filter text messages either. Subscribers may choose to employ a spam-blocking service, which could be provided by other people than the phone company.
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree that carriers should be completely decoupled from text messaging (as carriers should be completely decoupled from email services, and also as carriers should completely be decoupled from the software on phones).
But moving in that direction will take time. And suddenly forbidding carriers to deal with sms spam on their network will suddenly make everything grind to a halt.
Also considering that the year is not over yet, and that a third of the money usually gets raised during the last month of the year, I'd say their fundraising effort is still going pretty smoothly.
For 2011, we set a fundraising goal of $400,000 with a spending budget of $350,000. As of this publication we have raised $210,000. By this time last year, we had raised $195,000, but ended the year raising a total of $325,000. We are hoping that you, the FreeBSD community, will help us finish the year strong by making a donation this month. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2011Dec-newsletter.shtml#Fundraising
Who wants to bet that this year, they'll have fundraised $400,000 by the deadline, and that for next year -- they'll raise the target to $650,000.
I have a Nexus 7. Would you recommend some free or free-trial games on Google Play Store that show the right way to control a character in a platformer?
I thought the entire point of the Wii was the fact that it didn't just use a d-pad and a joystick, but that it could tell some of the players' physical movements as well.
In any case, I agree with your basic premise. Not all console games transfer well to the tablet format. Some do, but many do not. And the same goes the other way around as well. Some phone games or tablet games don't transfer well to the console format either.
If you're on a Nexus 7, you shouldn't focus on platformer games so much, and instead try games like Beach Buggy Blitz, Jet Car Stunts, Dead Trigger, Six Guns, Death Rally, Tank Recon 3D, Tank Hero, and Piano Master. On an android phone, you should try games like Temple Run, Towers N' Trolls, Marble Saga, Pax Britannica, Words with Friends, Scramble with Friends, Jewels Legend, Jewels Star, and Osmos.
I don't think you'd call any of those games platformer games, but I really don't think that's important as long as that's what many people are playing these days instead of (or in addition to) their console games.
There's nothing wrong in demanding that the company using your patents pay the licensing fees that are due, and why people ascribe them ulterior motives when they have nothing to gain is beyond me.
Ascribing ulterior motives? May be, that's because they're playing hard ball and asking for an immediate import ban just before Christmas.
Besides built-to-order machines, the 21.5-inch iMacs are some of the first known examples of an Apple computer being assembled in the U.S., according to Fortune.
Also, Fortune is wrong.
The "Apple I" is actually the first known example of an Apple computer being assembled in the US.
I remember, Apple hired US housewives to assemble their first computers.
The XBox marketplace has had stuff like this for some time. I don't see how it's a big boon to Wii U when it's been done before.
And hopefully, the XBox marketplace is cheaper to participate in.
With the Wii, the last time I checked, it was $20,000 just to participate (assuming they'd accept you as a developer). I don't remember if this was a one-time fee, or a yearly subscription. Either way, seeing the price tag immediately put me off.
Most likely, these developers probably also had an extra $5,000 to pay a PR person, so they could spin the story enough -- so that they could be featured on Slashdot and other publications.
With these kinds of prices, no wonder even the non-console iOS and Android games are encroaching on their turf more and more.
" I'm not going to touch-type 70 words per minute on a touchscreen keyboard. But when I'm in the cramped quarters of a train, plane, or standing in a line — say, when the only thing standing between a critical email and its recipient is a few dozen words and a tap of the button marked "Send" — I can grab that Windows 8 laptop by its hinged section, one hand on either side of the screen, and tap out that message with my thumbs."
You have to be kidding me. That is the most ridiculous way to type anything on a laptop. Ever.
It's not that ridiculous. I've typed on my old Galaxy 10.1 that way.
That being said, if I'm really on a train, or in line somewhere. I'll often send my email directly from my phone, even if I have my tablet with me.
With my phone, I can easily type with one hand, and if the train is moving, hold onto something with my second hand. Plus, if I'm doing my email, I'd rather do it on my phone instead of a tablet because the people standing/sitting next to me don't get to see as much of my emails as they would see if I had them on my tablet.
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Does that mean I can finally root and upgrade my crappy Galaxy S1 with Android 2.1 yet? Fucking AT&T
Finally? There was no reason to wait, you could have rooted your Captivate last year I bet.
With Samsung Kies, you should be able to upgrade your AT&T Captivate all the way to 4.0. That being said, you should root to get Android 4.2 at least (4.0 may be laggy for you, that's why I'm recommending that you root your phone instead, and just jump all the way to whatever is currently available without going through Samsung Kies).
...has just launched a petition to Obama asking the President to declare the Flickr API a National Historic Landmark, thus (by Dave's reckoning) legally protected from arbitrary withdrawal or wholesale changes by its corporate masters."
The White House needs some better spam/troll detectors.
Starting fake petitions, so you can brag about it, may have been funny for the first guy who did it, but no one likes a copy cat. This Dave Spamer guy really needs to come up with something better.
They do business in EU, as do you. The solution should be obvious. Drag them into court.
That really depends. Did they completely absorb the start-up when they purchase it? Or are they still operating it as an independent entity? And is their European office part of the same corporation (Most likely, the answer is yes, but it's good be sure)?
Ideally, they should just hire a lawyer, or if the amount is too small, just sue in Small Claims court. In Europe, they can sue in Small Claims court up to a limit of 2000 Euros.
PS: Not a lawyer
Not seeing any sort of injections here. I do have DNS set to 8.8.8.8. though.
Can you receive email? If you can, you're probably not affected anyhow.
They probably meant unprecedented for the US.
When it comes to manned space exploration, the US is lowering the bar lower and lower every day.
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: , born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov on April 27, 1942) is a former Russian cosmonaut. He is the holder of the record for the longest single spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip.[1] His combined space experience is more than 22 months.[2]
Hopefully, the Russians will help us. I don't think we'd be able to do this without their help anyway.
Aside from the photos...
Looking at the screenshots of their app on the Google Play Store. It looks like they might be doing something with QR codes. Most likely, scanning QR codes requires access to the camera, hence the "Hardware Controls: take pictures and videos" permission.
It also does require "Storage: modify or delete the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your SD card" permission, which I'm less sure about. May be that one is a frivolous permission. In any case, I doubt very much that Delta is perusing all the travel pictures I have on my phone.
I wonder how Delta, a Georgia based company can be subject to California law with respect to online privacy?
Delta has hubs and employees in California. It does plenty of business in California, probably far more than they do in Georgia. The location of an HQ means less and less these days.
Thought, I do agree with your main point. Airline travel is so obviously an interstate issue, it should be regulated by the Federal government, not the State.
My suggestion was that we do wifi-pinging from student mobiles to cover most cases (as in you download an app and it checks you're in-range of our wifi)...
Then just one student needs to carry the phones of his friends, and the system is circumvented.
I don't imagine Newcastle will be doing fingerprint checks for long, personally...
I agree. With the students and even the staff strongly against it, those scanners will get vandalized within the first 24 hours. Whoever came up with this idea is a real idiot.
Let's not even get into the fact that the NRA and gun-lobby have effectively made the process of tracing how these weapons get distributed to the wrong hands is never questioned and the illicit channels aren't closed.
The last mass murder, the guns were purchased legally and we know who sold them to him. The one before the last mass murder, we know a girlfriend purchased the guns, so again, we know who was to blame (in addition to the shooter himself). So in both those cases, tracing the weapons wasn't of any use in preventing the murders in the first place. What makes you think this is any different this time?
This isn't to say that your suggestion wouldn't prevent some murders, it's just that your suggestion will have no effect on the worst cases where the shooter doesn't care about getting caught, or killing himself in the process.
The UK CPS declined to prosecute him originally and further decline to do so now.
And yet, McKinnon said he'd be willing to plead guilty if he was prosecuted in the UK.
By letter dated 5 June 2009, the Claimant made further representations and indicated that he would be willing to plead guilty to an offence under section 3 of the 1990 Act. Accordingly, the Director was invited to reconsider the decision not to prosecute, since the evidential test was now satisfied, having regard to the wider public interest which, it was asserted, pointed to a prosecution in the United Kingdom. The Director was further invited to "have full regard to Article 3 and Article 8 of the Convention".
Perhaps, it would have been too much of an embarrassment to the US if the guy had only received 6 months probation and a 1000 fine when what they really wanted was to set an example and have this autistic guy up-rooted from his own country/family, bullied and raped, and locked up in a Federal prison for the next 60 years.
Nobody is going to deported to a dictatorship from their home country thanks to any rules imposed by the UN or ITU.
That's a straw man argument.
Most people worry about their own home country, that's why they'll take great care to ssh into a foreign country that won't tattle-tell on them.
And we're not talking solely about so-called "dictatorships" either. If you're a whistle-blower, or if you are of the wrong religion, or if you like to sample music from P2P, or if you're married and are having an affair, there can be negative consequences for not selecting a foreign jurisdiction to ssh-in that's more likely to protect your anonymity.
Thus far, the score is 1 to 0
Secret US Space Drone: 1 and Flying Korean Unicorn: 0.
Are Hulu Plus and Amazon Prime Video suddenly non-existent?
Hulu Plus likes to double-dip. They make you pay a subscription and at the same time they keep on increasing their number of commercials slowly but surely (which you must watch even if you're a paid subscriber). Soon, they'll have more commercials than the TV networks themselves.
Amazon Prime, I do not like their video selection. May be, I'd like them more if I had young kids, but right now I don't.
This isn't to say that I'm excited about RedBox entering this market. RedBox (their non-streaming service at least) seems to only have bargain-priced movies, the ones that most of us have already seen, or that were not that good to begin with. So I doubt that their streaming service will be an upgrade.
Right now, I'm so fed up with Hollywood, I'm mostly watching Korean Dramas on Viki.com. Occasionally, I go back to Netflix and Hulu for some shows, but I'm much less dependent on them. I suspect that once Viki becomes over-commercialized, like Hulu is right now, I'll probably leave them as well and look for a new source of streaming movies.
"It's open source, just patch it yourself."
If you can patch the code yourself, there is probably a high chance nobody wants to watch you watching TV in your underwear anyway.
Nice misquote. Here is what he actually said.
More critically: there is no independent software update capability, meaning that, barring a firmware update from Samsung, the exploitable hole can’t be patched without “voiding the device’s warranty and using other exploits,” ReVuln said.
In other words, there is a software update capability, it's just not an independent one (whatever that means).
Who should I root for when I want both sides to lose?
You should root for yourself. It's your right to have super-user access to your own device. Hopefully, Microsoft will offer you a 20% or 30% discount for evading the Apple taxed garden. And if not, there is always Google Docs/Drive.
One thing to remember: It is not actually the case that Apple gets 30% of the money, and the developer gets 70%.
That's right. It's not always 30%. Apple also gets 40% for any Apple accessory not even sold through an Apple store, otherwise it sues the accessory manufacturer/retailer.
There have been student offers where you could buy a Mac and get $100 for store purchases, which means Apple gets nothing and pays $70 to developers.
That's not exactly true. If a student buys a Mac, he probably has paid in upwards of $1,000 to Apple. So you could say that $100 of free store purchases is used as an incentive to entice the student to give that extra $1,000 to Apple.
I always manage to stock up with gift cards purchased with 20% rebate, so for £50 official price software, music or books that I buy, the developers get £35, I paid only £40, so I don't think that Apple keeps 30% of that.
Hopefully, that part is correct. Personally, I thought that the terms and services of Apple's app store were incredibly one-sided, always in favor of Apple. For instance, if a user gets refunded within 90 days, Apple will refund the full amount, but the developer is still on the hook for 30% commission that Apple wants to keep.
So again, I hope that what you're saying is correct. It's just that I am surprised Apple would do something like that, when its own terms and services for developers are generally regarded as even far worse than the ones offered by Amazon (which is already considered pretty bad).
This sounds reasonable to me - the telephone company has no business filtering phone calls, so it should not filter text messages either. Subscribers may choose to employ a spam-blocking service, which could be provided by other people than the phone company.
Don't get me wrong, I completely agree that carriers should be completely decoupled from text messaging (as carriers should be completely decoupled from email services, and also as carriers should completely be decoupled from the software on phones).
But moving in that direction will take time. And suddenly forbidding carriers to deal with sms spam on their network will suddenly make everything grind to a halt.
The guy has sex with underage girls
Not that same BS again about Samantha being underage.
As much as some of you are repulsed by the idea of a 66 years old man with a 20 years old younger woman, that doesn't make her remotely underage.
Also considering that the year is not over yet, and that a third of the money usually gets raised during the last month of the year, I'd say their fundraising effort is still going pretty smoothly.
For 2011, we set a fundraising goal of $400,000 with a spending budget of $350,000. As of this publication we have raised $210,000. By this time last year, we had raised $195,000, but ended the year raising a total of $325,000. We are hoping that you, the FreeBSD community, will help us finish the year strong by making a donation this month. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2011Dec-newsletter.shtml#Fundraising
Who wants to bet that this year, they'll have fundraised $400,000 by the deadline, and that for next year -- they'll raise the target to $650,000.
I have a Nexus 7. Would you recommend some free or free-trial games on Google Play Store that show the right way to control a character in a platformer?
I thought the entire point of the Wii was the fact that it didn't just use a d-pad and a joystick, but that it could tell some of the players' physical movements as well.
In any case, I agree with your basic premise. Not all console games transfer well to the tablet format. Some do, but many do not. And the same goes the other way around as well. Some phone games or tablet games don't transfer well to the console format either.
If you're on a Nexus 7, you shouldn't focus on platformer games so much, and instead try games like Beach Buggy Blitz, Jet Car Stunts, Dead Trigger, Six Guns, Death Rally, Tank Recon 3D, Tank Hero, and Piano Master. On an android phone, you should try games like Temple Run, Towers N' Trolls, Marble Saga, Pax Britannica, Words with Friends, Scramble with Friends, Jewels Legend, Jewels Star, and Osmos.
I don't think you'd call any of those games platformer games, but I really don't think that's important as long as that's what many people are playing these days instead of (or in addition to) their console games.
There's nothing wrong in demanding that the company using your patents pay the licensing fees that are due, and why people ascribe them ulterior motives when they have nothing to gain is beyond me.
Ascribing ulterior motives? May be, that's because they're playing hard ball and asking for an immediate import ban just before Christmas.
Besides built-to-order machines, the 21.5-inch iMacs are some of the first known examples of an Apple computer being assembled in the U.S., according to Fortune.
Also, Fortune is wrong.
The "Apple I" is actually the first known example of an Apple computer being assembled in the US.
I remember, Apple hired US housewives to assemble their first computers.
The XBox marketplace has had stuff like this for some time. I don't see how it's a big boon to Wii U when it's been done before.
And hopefully, the XBox marketplace is cheaper to participate in.
With the Wii, the last time I checked, it was $20,000 just to participate (assuming they'd accept you as a developer). I don't remember if this was a one-time fee, or a yearly subscription. Either way, seeing the price tag immediately put me off.
Most likely, these developers probably also had an extra $5,000 to pay a PR person, so they could spin the story enough -- so that they could be featured on Slashdot and other publications.
With these kinds of prices, no wonder even the non-console iOS and Android games are encroaching on their turf more and more.
" I'm not going to touch-type 70 words per minute on a touchscreen keyboard. But when I'm in the cramped quarters of a train, plane, or standing in a line — say, when the only thing standing between a critical email and its recipient is a few dozen words and a tap of the button marked "Send" — I can grab that Windows 8 laptop by its hinged section, one hand on either side of the screen, and tap out that message with my thumbs."
You have to be kidding me. That is the most ridiculous way to type anything on a laptop. Ever.
It's not that ridiculous. I've typed on my old Galaxy 10.1 that way.
That being said, if I'm really on a train, or in line somewhere. I'll often send my email directly from my phone, even if I have my tablet with me.
With my phone, I can easily type with one hand, and if the train is moving, hold onto something with my second hand. Plus, if I'm doing my email, I'd rather do it on my phone instead of a tablet because the people standing/sitting next to me don't get to see as much of my emails as they would see if I had them on my tablet.