Reading this made me wonder. What would happen if you had an important file you temprarly drop it in a public location then move it out. once the person downloaded it. Then someone goes and runs time machine on the public directory and picks up the file that you deleted.... Reading about Leopard made me wonder the exact opposite. What extent are time machine and spotlight integrated? Spotlight is supposed to now work seamlessly with Safari's cache.... What if the government drops something on the web and later decides to make it classified. Can you go into time machine, click the spotlight search, and find what you read yesterday, last week, last month? Sounds like a killer app to me. All you need to remember is a phrase or a few keywords and you would be able to find anything you've EVER read online. That would be a pretty awesome feature.
10 years is a LONG time in tech. I fully expect things to be quite different, online-wise, than they are now.
The global warming crowd is just as rediculous. They're making predictions of doom in 100 years time. We've come a long way from the Wright Brother's motorized glider, horse drawn plows, and not much else in the last 100 years. We've seen the invention/discovery of AM/FM radio, television, computers, atomic fission, and spaceships just to name a few things our great great grandparents could barely imagine.
I'm thinking multi-touch/accelerometer games, fax, barcode scanning, and file sharing until they improve the hardware a bit. Stick 3G, GPS, and a decent camera in the thing and then it will rock. Web cam on your blog, live on location wherever you are... Geo-gaming... by then maybe we'll have print drivers, bluetooth input devices. Drop it on an iPod docked to an HDTV and it's a Mac mini in your pocket. Of course, I'd like an unlocked phone with a battery door, but at least they're moving in the right direction now.
You may have been modded funny, but I don't think you were kidding. I think you're missing the bigger picture. Personally, I'm reserving judgement until I see it isn't another smack in the face like the first "SDK."
It's really not worth the time to encrypt my email.
It's free. It takes less time to get a key than it took you to respond to my post. Once you have a key, the email client encrypts for you automatically. Your time argument is extremely weak.
If anything, seeing that you email is encrypted might be enough to peak their interest to make you MORE watched, not less.
Terrorist this, al Qaeda that... you're using extremely tortured logic. (Pun intended)
They aren't supposed to be looking at my email unless I am a suspect.
If I'm not a suspect and they are looking when they aren't supposed to, then they are already wasting their time and resources. If I weren't encrypted, nothing found would be admissible in a court of law because the initial search was illegal. Shame on them for wasting time and resources when they are supposed to be trying to catch terrorists.
Terrorists use encryption. Pro basketball players are tall. It does not logically follow that using encryption indicates you are a terrorist any more than being tall indicates you are a professional basketball player. Encryption is not probable cause for a search warrant.
Suspects are innocent until proven guilty. Suspects are not compelled to provide evidence of guilt thanks to the 5th amendment, but that's beside the point. The 5th is just a common sense statement of fact. Expecting suspects to provide evidence of guilt on behalf of the police would be extremely naive. If your police force expects the suspects to do the police work for them, you need a new police force.
Regardless of you political opinions, I don't see how anyone could think that impeding these guys is a good thing.
If they are obeying the law, I'm not impeding anyone. Are you suggesting they are breaking the law? Encryption protects you from law breakers. Hackers can snoop on sensitive information you send via email if you don't encrypt.
There is nothing incriminating in my email
Who said email had to be incriminating in order to be worth protecting? S/Mime is to email what SSL is to the web. Would you suggest that using SSL makes you a criminal? Are you suggesting that buying goods from retailers online is a terrorist activity because the process uses encryption? You're argument is so ridiculous, it's difficult to refrain from ridiculing you for making it.
The El Camino guy, whatever he did, still only committed one act and probably didn't even intend do.
No, that's why I chose the El Camino guy. He's had that piece of shit car for years. It breaks down all the time. He should buy a roadworthy car, but he never does. He's constantly wasting thousands of people's time! So I can shoot him in the face next time, right? Huh? Huh? Can I? Please, can I? I wanna shoot him in the face jedidiah!!!
Spammers do what they do over and over again, to millions of people with the intent to abuse everybody for their own selfish gain.
Wow, this is sooo awesome! Not only can I shoot El Camino guy, but now I can waste a few tobacco farmers, abortion doctors.... is it ok if I mount a few human heads on my wall at home? I'll make a rug out of El Camino guy though, since I'm shooting him in the face.
You are in denial and need to admit you have a real problem. Just because slashdot mods are just as fucked up as you doesn't make you right.
I suppose you thought Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was serious?
Now you're trying to claim you weren't serious. It's pretty clear that you don't care if spammers are killed for no other reason than sending unsolicited email. You can either defend everyone's civil rights or you're no better than the ones taking them away. What's next Eric? Lynch mobs killing all disruptive advertisers? Going by your method of calculating damages, I'm sure it could be "justified."
nor am I inciting anyone to apply "vigilante justice" (though that's apparently already happening).
Fortunately, it was a fake. The rabid anti-spammers on slashdot, in their zeal to see spammers DIE, were duped by the spammers. It seems they've outsmarted you guys again. You're just like the anti-abortionists that cheer for clinic bombings or the anti-americans that cheered 9/11 in the streets of palestine. You're a sick person. Seek help.
In total, in the course of one year that one spammer has wasted 285 person-years of other people's lives. If someone kills him, he's gotten off lucky compared to a punishment that would truly fit the crime.
So the next time I get stuck in a traffic jam for hours with thousands of other people because some poor bastard in a beat up el Camino knocked off on the freeway, I'm free to shoot him? I don't think it works that way. I think you're just a sick fuck. No, really, you need help. People like you end up doing crazy shit like bombing olympic events and such. If unsolicited email advertising bothers you that much, you are in serious need of psychological evaluation and some kind of anxiety medication. You should see a shrink. Soon.
The point of even having a Constitution, laws, etc., is that we are supposed to abide by them. If we can ignore them whenever they happen to be inconvenient to our immediate needs (even the ill-defined "National Security"), then they are worthless.
That is too rich! All the assholes cheering on the murder of another human being are actually just being duped into viewing an ad supported web page! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Serves you right, you sick bastards. Ever heard of the 8th Amendment of the US Constitution?
How often do the police in your country accidentally shoot an innocent person?
I don't call tackling, pinning, and then shooting someone seven times execution style in the back of the head "accidental." If you do, that say something truly disturbing about you. To call the incident "accidental" is as profoundly stupid as saying "accidental gang rape." What happened in London was not in any way accidental. A man was murdered in cold blood, by the police, in front of at least one witness, and the state declared "insufficient evidence" for a murder trial. It's a horrendous miscarriage of justice, and YOU are defending it!!
firstly, what the hell are you talking about? plausible deniability of what?
Come on now Joe, everyone here understands the open wifi defense. "Your honor, my wifi was open. It could have been anybody."
But what really annoys me about your comment is the shear stupidity of it. Is the UK a nazi-esque state?
In free countries, if the police were to tackle, pin, and then shoot a suspect in the back of the head seven times execution style, those police would go to trial and be put away for murder. Did any of those police go to trial for murder? Of course not, the police state ruled there was insufficient evidence for a murder trial. The train driver was there with a gun shoved in his face, so I guess eye witness testimony is insufficient in the UK.
So tell me how many death camps does the UK have? I can count... none.
Nazi Germany didn't have death camps until the last couple of years of the war, when their plans for world domination started to sour. Nobody really knew of them until the war ended.
Calling the UK a Nazi state is an insult to all the people who died because of the Nazi regime.
No, what the UK has become is an insult to all the people who fought and died to protect it from the Nazi regime.
look very closely at your own system before attacking ours
My nationality is irrelevant. Just because you can point to another country and say "They're bad too" doesn't make yours any better. That's an appeal to common practice.
Step one is admitting you have a problem. You obviously haven't done that.
I don't guess plausible deniability is a problem in Great Britain. They can prove their charges simply by showing a lack of other suspects in the vicinity on video since cameras are ubiquitous. No people around? You're guilty. Sometimes they don't even have trials, they just shoot suspects. I wouldn't step foot in that Nazi police state if you paid me.
You asked how to make your product a disaster by selling a million units. I told you how. Units sold is about as effective as MHz as a measure of performance. It doesn't tell the whole story, and the story in Apple's case will be told in another week or so. Q4 conference call is due soon. AAPL is going to get murdered if their core business doesn't make up for the slack iPhone sales.
Do you think they even managed a million units this quarter? If they only moved 730,000 units in 72 days I'd be really surprised. It is looking like 900,000 in 90 days to me. Maybe they had some explosive demand for iPhones in the last half of the September, but I wouldn't bank on Apple having sold one million phones this quarter. Even if they do, it's still bad news. They did it at $399 per unit. Any way you look at it, it's a major revenue shortfall.
Bad news for a company hoping to sell 10 million in the first year. I'm sure Steve will dress it up though and say 1.2 Million since the debut, because 5-10% under one million is going to sound really bad for a company with a 51 PE ratio. The only way they can maintain numbers like that is to maintain the "growth stock" image. You do remember how Wall Street received the news about the cube don't you?
Over the last 10 years AAPL has been an unreal performer. They're a f'ing stock market superstar. Nobody can touch that record. But I believe they will be taking their lumps with the iPhone. No need to argue about it, we'll know in a few more days.
How can I make my next product a "disaster" like that?
First, you want to be obligated to buy twice as many as you actually need. This doubles your production cost. Apple was in negotiations to cut production in half just a month after the launch.
Next, you want to be forced to drop the price of your product to sell what you are contractually obligated to buy.... Let's say from $599 down to $399. With a raw materials cost of $250 per unit, you can totally blow the other $150 on packaging, shipping, advertising, support, and your fixed development expenses. If you do it right, you might even be able to loose money on each unit sold.
Finally, you really want to piss off the handful of people that do buy your product so they'll never buy anything from you again. Make sure you do things to really anger the most enthusiastic fans you have. Illegally void their warrantees, "brick" their product with an update, that sort of thing.
There, that should do it. And if your company depends on the success of the product, all the better. That way, when the numbers hit Wall Street, your stock will plummet and the investors will demand your head on a plate and start filing lawsuits.
According to TFA, the feature is off by default. To enable it, you must know the password. If someone else knows your password, you're screwed already. Why is this a big deal? I guess being undocumented makes it a bit shady, but the article doesn't say how long the feature has existed. It could simply be new. Anyone have better info?
Apple wants wireless for everyone. Let me guess, some greedy corporation (Sprint) wants to monopolize more public resources for their own gain. Why else would their competition oppose the move? What was open to everyone becomes closed thanks to a redundant "The long dormant, forgotten dormant frequency" rant on Slashdot frontpage...
Link please? Making it up? Do a little work of your own
That isn't how it works. I don't prove your unsubstantiated BS for you. You obviously don't have any links to back up what you are saying, so it remains unsubstantiated BS. I'll tell you why Apple is bricking unlockers: Apple makes a cut of each AT&T contract.
2) You are totally making this shit up. Link please!
3) The new firmware does not brick "hacked" phones. It does, however, brick "unlocked" phones. If you can't figure out the difference, then please turn in your nerd badge.
A bricked iPhone can be returned for a full switch... Correct me if I am wrong, but its not like they can tell the phone has been "unlocked", as I have not opened this phone in any way, and as such have not voided any warrenty on the hardware.
If you check the comments here, you see one particular comment of interest:
Check you IMEI number on the back against the one on the activation svreen (behind the "i"). If you see 004999010640000 on screen you are screwed (for now).
This is the problem. THe free sim unlock changed everyone's IMEI to 004999010640000 - so they are now checking the IMEI to when it was first activated to the SIM to ensure a match, and if you look on the back of your box, you'll notice your original IMEI #.
Which means: You're iScrewed if you update... and I TOLD YOU SO. A month ago, long before any announcement by Apple... Steve said no unlocking. Even though he's wrong this time, he's stubbornly sticking to his guns like always. Maybe you'd like to buy a real smartphone when you get that bad taste out of your mouth. For God's sake, whatever you do, don't say, "Thank you sir may I have another."
How does total bullshit like this get modded up? How much gold is there? Total: 145,000 tonnes.
145,000 tonnes * 1000 kgs/tonne * 2.2 lb/kg * 16 oz/lb = 5.1 Billion oz. At a current spot price of about $720/oz, that's $3.7 Trillion for all the gold ever mined on Earth. Not even enough to cover half of the US national debt.
If we actually started USING the 95% of the worlds gold that wastes away in vaults, the value of gold would be almost nothing due to inflation (19x increase in supply).
Wow... you are totally making this shit up as you go along. Fact check: How many tonnes of gold are in reserves? The sum of the top 40 government reserves around the world comes to 29,846.7 Tonnes. 29,846.7/145,000 = about 20%. This means about 80% of the world's gold is in private hands. If all the nations of the world dumped *all* their gold on the market tomorrow, it would be a 0.25 times increase in supply. Somehow, I don't see gold investors fleeing in terror from such action. Most of us would giggle in glee at the buying opportunity.
I'm sick of all the "money is a scam" articles on the internet recently.
Maybe you should try reading a few of them. You might learn something.
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The global warming crowd is just as rediculous. They're making predictions of doom in 100 years time. We've come a long way from the Wright Brother's motorized glider, horse drawn plows, and not much else in the last 100 years. We've seen the invention/discovery of AM/FM radio, television, computers, atomic fission, and spaceships just to name a few things our great great grandparents could barely imagine.
I'm thinking multi-touch/accelerometer games, fax, barcode scanning, and file sharing until they improve the hardware a bit. Stick 3G, GPS, and a decent camera in the thing and then it will rock. Web cam on your blog, live on location wherever you are... Geo-gaming... by then maybe we'll have print drivers, bluetooth input devices. Drop it on an iPod docked to an HDTV and it's a Mac mini in your pocket. Of course, I'd like an unlocked phone with a battery door, but at least they're moving in the right direction now.
You may have been modded funny, but I don't think you were kidding. I think you're missing the bigger picture. Personally, I'm reserving judgement until I see it isn't another smack in the face like the first "SDK."
It's really not worth the time to encrypt my email.
It's free. It takes less time to get a key than it took you to respond to my post. Once you have a key, the email client encrypts for you automatically. Your time argument is extremely weak.
If anything, seeing that you email is encrypted might be enough to peak their interest to make you MORE watched, not less.
Terrorist this, al Qaeda that... you're using extremely tortured logic. (Pun intended)
Regardless of you political opinions, I don't see how anyone could think that impeding these guys is a good thing.
If they are obeying the law, I'm not impeding anyone. Are you suggesting they are breaking the law? Encryption protects you from law breakers. Hackers can snoop on sensitive information you send via email if you don't encrypt.
There is nothing incriminating in my email
Who said email had to be incriminating in order to be worth protecting? S/Mime is to email what SSL is to the web. Would you suggest that using SSL makes you a criminal? Are you suggesting that buying goods from retailers online is a terrorist activity because the process uses encryption? You're argument is so ridiculous, it's difficult to refrain from ridiculing you for making it.
The law doesn't protect you. You protect you. Encrypt.
I'll trot this pony out one more time:
(Mac OS X 10.3+) http://www.joar.com/certificates/
(Windows) http://www.marknoble.com/tutorial/smime/smime.aspx
No, that's why I chose the El Camino guy. He's had that piece of shit car for years. It breaks down all the time. He should buy a roadworthy car, but he never does. He's constantly wasting thousands of people's time! So I can shoot him in the face next time, right? Huh? Huh? Can I? Please, can I? I wanna shoot him in the face jedidiah!!!
Spammers do what they do over and over again, to millions of people with the intent to abuse everybody for their own selfish gain.Wow, this is sooo awesome! Not only can I shoot El Camino guy, but now I can waste a few tobacco farmers, abortion doctors.... is it ok if I mount a few human heads on my wall at home? I'll make a rug out of El Camino guy though, since I'm shooting him in the face.
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You are in denial and need to admit you have a real problem. Just because slashdot mods are just as fucked up as you doesn't make you right.
I suppose you thought Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was serious?Now you're trying to claim you weren't serious. It's pretty clear that you don't care if spammers are killed for no other reason than sending unsolicited email. You can either defend everyone's civil rights or you're no better than the ones taking them away. What's next Eric? Lynch mobs killing all disruptive advertisers? Going by your method of calculating damages, I'm sure it could be "justified."
nor am I inciting anyone to apply "vigilante justice" (though that's apparently already happening).Fortunately, it was a fake. The rabid anti-spammers on slashdot, in their zeal to see spammers DIE, were duped by the spammers. It seems they've outsmarted you guys again. You're just like the anti-abortionists that cheer for clinic bombings or the anti-americans that cheered 9/11 in the streets of palestine. You're a sick person. Seek help.
So the next time I get stuck in a traffic jam for hours with thousands of other people because some poor bastard in a beat up el Camino knocked off on the freeway, I'm free to shoot him? I don't think it works that way. I think you're just a sick fuck. No, really, you need help. People like you end up doing crazy shit like bombing olympic events and such. If unsolicited email advertising bothers you that much, you are in serious need of psychological evaluation and some kind of anxiety medication. You should see a shrink. Soon.
But first, why don't you go read the 8th Amendment of the US Constitution while I quote a few words out of your own hypocritical mouth:
I'd like to buy a beer for whoever killed that parasite.
(We're using GFI for filtering if anybody cares, overall I'm pretty happy with them.)
Does anyone here see the irony?
That is too rich! All the assholes cheering on the murder of another human being are actually just being duped into viewing an ad supported web page! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Serves you right, you sick bastards. Ever heard of the 8th Amendment of the US Constitution?
It just works!(TM)
How often do the police in your country accidentally shoot an innocent person?
I don't call tackling, pinning, and then shooting someone seven times execution style in the back of the head "accidental." If you do, that say something truly disturbing about you. To call the incident "accidental" is as profoundly stupid as saying "accidental gang rape." What happened in London was not in any way accidental. A man was murdered in cold blood, by the police, in front of at least one witness, and the state declared "insufficient evidence" for a murder trial. It's a horrendous miscarriage of justice, and YOU are defending it!!
firstly, what the hell are you talking about? plausible deniability of what?
Come on now Joe, everyone here understands the open wifi defense. "Your honor, my wifi was open. It could have been anybody."
But what really annoys me about your comment is the shear stupidity of it. Is the UK a nazi-esque state?
In free countries, if the police were to tackle, pin, and then shoot a suspect in the back of the head seven times execution style, those police would go to trial and be put away for murder. Did any of those police go to trial for murder? Of course not, the police state ruled there was insufficient evidence for a murder trial. The train driver was there with a gun shoved in his face, so I guess eye witness testimony is insufficient in the UK.
So tell me how many death camps does the UK have? I can count... none.
Nazi Germany didn't have death camps until the last couple of years of the war, when their plans for world domination started to sour. Nobody really knew of them until the war ended.
Calling the UK a Nazi state is an insult to all the people who died because of the Nazi regime.
No, what the UK has become is an insult to all the people who fought and died to protect it from the Nazi regime.
look very closely at your own system before attacking ours
My nationality is irrelevant. Just because you can point to another country and say "They're bad too" doesn't make yours any better. That's an appeal to common practice.
Step one is admitting you have a problem. You obviously haven't done that.
I don't guess plausible deniability is a problem in Great Britain. They can prove their charges simply by showing a lack of other suspects in the vicinity on video since cameras are ubiquitous. No people around? You're guilty. Sometimes they don't even have trials, they just shoot suspects. I wouldn't step foot in that Nazi police state if you paid me.
You asked how to make your product a disaster by selling a million units. I told you how. Units sold is about as effective as MHz as a measure of performance. It doesn't tell the whole story, and the story in Apple's case will be told in another week or so. Q4 conference call is due soon. AAPL is going to get murdered if their core business doesn't make up for the slack iPhone sales.
Do you think they even managed a million units this quarter? If they only moved 730,000 units in 72 days I'd be really surprised. It is looking like 900,000 in 90 days to me. Maybe they had some explosive demand for iPhones in the last half of the September, but I wouldn't bank on Apple having sold one million phones this quarter. Even if they do, it's still bad news. They did it at $399 per unit. Any way you look at it, it's a major revenue shortfall.
Bad news for a company hoping to sell 10 million in the first year. I'm sure Steve will dress it up though and say 1.2 Million since the debut, because 5-10% under one million is going to sound really bad for a company with a 51 PE ratio. The only way they can maintain numbers like that is to maintain the "growth stock" image. You do remember how Wall Street received the news about the cube don't you?
Over the last 10 years AAPL has been an unreal performer. They're a f'ing stock market superstar. Nobody can touch that record. But I believe they will be taking their lumps with the iPhone. No need to argue about it, we'll know in a few more days.
How can I make my next product a "disaster" like that?
First, you want to be obligated to buy twice as many as you actually need. This doubles your production cost. Apple was in negotiations to cut production in half just a month after the launch.
Next, you want to be forced to drop the price of your product to sell what you are contractually obligated to buy.... Let's say from $599 down to $399. With a raw materials cost of $250 per unit, you can totally blow the other $150 on packaging, shipping, advertising, support, and your fixed development expenses. If you do it right, you might even be able to loose money on each unit sold.
Finally, you really want to piss off the handful of people that do buy your product so they'll never buy anything from you again. Make sure you do things to really anger the most enthusiastic fans you have. Illegally void their warrantees, "brick" their product with an update, that sort of thing.
There, that should do it. And if your company depends on the success of the product, all the better. That way, when the numbers hit Wall Street, your stock will plummet and the investors will demand your head on a plate and start filing lawsuits.
-fan
Boycott the RIAA. It's easy to do. Just check the RIAA Radar before purchasing any music. Encourage your friends to do the same.
According to TFA, the feature is off by default. To enable it, you must know the password. If someone else knows your password, you're screwed already. Why is this a big deal? I guess being undocumented makes it a bit shady, but the article doesn't say how long the feature has existed. It could simply be new. Anyone have better info?
But maybe I'm just jaded.
Link please? Making it up? Do a little work of your own
That isn't how it works. I don't prove your unsubstantiated BS for you. You obviously don't have any links to back up what you are saying, so it remains unsubstantiated BS. I'll tell you why Apple is bricking unlockers: Apple makes a cut of each AT&T contract.
1) Link please.
2) You are totally making this shit up. Link please!
3) The new firmware does not brick "hacked" phones. It does, however, brick "unlocked" phones. If you can't figure out the difference, then please turn in your nerd badge.
4) Tell us something we don't know.
A bricked iPhone can be returned for a full switch... Correct me if I am wrong, but its not like they can tell the phone has been "unlocked", as I have not opened this phone in any way, and as such have not voided any warrenty on the hardware.
If you check the comments here, you see one particular comment of interest:
You see, they can tell,
Which means: You're iScrewed if you update... and I TOLD YOU SO. A month ago, long before any announcement by Apple... Steve said no unlocking. Even though he's wrong this time, he's stubbornly sticking to his guns like always. Maybe you'd like to buy a real smartphone when you get that bad taste out of your mouth. For God's sake, whatever you do, don't say, "Thank you sir may I have another."How does total bullshit like this get modded up? How much gold is there? Total: 145,000 tonnes.
145,000 tonnes * 1000 kgs/tonne * 2.2 lb/kg * 16 oz/lb = 5.1 Billion oz. At a current spot price of about $720/oz, that's $3.7 Trillion for all the gold ever mined on Earth. Not even enough to cover half of the US national debt.
Wow... you are totally making this shit up as you go along. Fact check: How many tonnes of gold are in reserves? The sum of the top 40 government reserves around the world comes to 29,846.7 Tonnes. 29,846.7/145,000 = about 20%. This means about 80% of the world's gold is in private hands. If all the nations of the world dumped *all* their gold on the market tomorrow, it would be a 0.25 times increase in supply. Somehow, I don't see gold investors fleeing in terror from such action. Most of us would giggle in glee at the buying opportunity.
Maybe you should try reading a few of them. You might learn something.