HTTPS isn't "not more secure than your ISP." It's not more secure than the worst trusted root CA. In the absence of a CA compromise, your ISP cannot MitM HTTPS or other SSL-based protocols without your browser/client warning you about it.
Yeah, I'm familiar with SAT solvers and the fact that they aren't REALLY full brute force; I oversimplified it a bit for the Slashdot crowd. Might have gone a little too far on the "lies to children" scale, mea culpa.
My point was that anyone with high school level math experience can understand the basic problem of boolean satisfiability; I was trying to draw a distinction between problems that are beyond human comprehension and those that are merely beyond human time and ability, with huge SAT instances falling into the latter category. Shouldn't have glossed over the details quite as badly as I did.
I'd hesitate to call one big for loop "AI." The interesting part of the proof is the reduction to SAT, and that's easily understood by mathematicians. The computer part is a straightforward and dull brute force search.
"Root" is something you have or do not have within Android. ROMs aren't flashed from within Android, they're flashed from either recovery or the bootloader. (Usually recovery.) GP is correct, you're misunderstanding either the terminology or the roles played by the OS/bootloader/recovery.
All Ethernet standard speeds (10M/100M/1G/10G/40G/100G) are in mega/gigabits per second, not bytes. So are wireless Ethernet speeds (11M/54M/300M/1.69G).
You've got it backward, I'm afraid. Watts are a measure of power, while watt-hours are a measure of energy (power times time.) A device that uses one kW of power while operating uses 24 kWh of energy per day of operation
For example, dumbphone plans on Virgin Mobile (a Sprint MVNO) start at $5 per month
Virgin Mobile's $5 plan seems to be gone. The cheapest payLo plan I see is $20/mo.
Ting is one of the better Sprint MVNO choices for light users and especially families of light users; they have a $6/line/month charge and buckets based on usage. You can share buckets on multiple lines on the same account, bring your own devices (subject to restrictions), and there are no surcharges for smartphones. They also have voice and text (but not data) roaming to VZW, unlike the Sprint-owned VM USA and Boost.
I'd assumed they meant a pull in the Git sense, i.e. fetching a changeset from a remote repository (Igno's) and merging it into the current repository (Linus's). Sloppiness is a possibility too, though.
You really don't need to wipe and reinstall as often as they say you do. I recently upgraded from CM7 to a CM9 kang without wiping anything except cache and only had to reinstall a few apps. (That said, sometimes you'll end up with a non-working mess and will have to wipe anyway...but it's very rarely necessary for point release or nightly upgrades.)
Seriously, if people want computer functionality on phones, they're going to have to deal with the associated tradeoffs. A lot of people stick with feature phones for just this reason; I did too until recently. Nothing wrong with either choice as long as it comes from an informed decision.
You can include the FSF in the list of authors of GPL programs who disagree with your interpretation. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation for information on aggregation; bundling GPL and proprietary parts and having proprietary parts execute GPL parts in an automated fashion is permitted. A common example would be the way many proprietary router web interfaces execute GPL utilities and receive their output via pipes or similar mechanisms.
I'm not sure how you define "aggregation", but it seems clear that it differs from the FSF's definition.
You can reproduce the binary for the Linux kernel, the binary for busybox, the binary for ncurses, etc. Those are the components covered by the GPL. The GPL does not prohibit the distribution of GPL and non-GPL components on the same device or in the same distribution, nor does it have anything to say about components covered by another license.
It's just a minimal GPL drop. No application level source. Unlike (for example) Netgear or Linksys, they don't even provide the object code and build tools to let you build your own usable device ROM image from a combination of proprietary and OSS components.
DD-WRT is very stable on my Netgear WNDR3300, but the CPU reaches 100% usage at relatively low throughput. See here for some benchmarks recorded by another user.
I'm looking to get a better router and to OpenWRT in the near future. (The amount of writable flash on my router is too small to have a usable OpenWRT install with a JFFS2 partition.)
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't understand rather than assuming you're trolling, so:
Times in the quarter mile are measured from a standing start, not a moving start. A 12.5 second quarter mile does not in any way imply a top speed of 6/5 miles per minute (72 mph). That's the average speed over the 1/4 mile distance, and the initial speed was 0.
Just closed my account as well. (It would've renewed on the 15th.) I tried to e-mail them to explain why (there's no free text field in their survey), but I couldn't find an e-mail address or contact form.
Yes, I could've waited til September; this was one of those voting-with-my-wallet decisions.
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HTTPS isn't "not more secure than your ISP." It's not more secure than the worst trusted root CA. In the absence of a CA compromise, your ISP cannot MitM HTTPS or other SSL-based protocols without your browser/client warning you about it.
Yeah, I'm familiar with SAT solvers and the fact that they aren't REALLY full brute force; I oversimplified it a bit for the Slashdot crowd. Might have gone a little too far on the "lies to children" scale, mea culpa.
My point was that anyone with high school level math experience can understand the basic problem of boolean satisfiability; I was trying to draw a distinction between problems that are beyond human comprehension and those that are merely beyond human time and ability, with huge SAT instances falling into the latter category. Shouldn't have glossed over the details quite as badly as I did.
I'd hesitate to call one big for loop "AI." The interesting part of the proof is the reduction to SAT, and that's easily understood by mathematicians. The computer part is a straightforward and dull brute force search.
I understand not reading the article, but you didn't even read the line you quoted. Congratulations!
Yes.. Note that that's an off-contract price and that it ships with a user-unlockable bootloader.
(I have no interest in a flame war. It's an answer to the question the parent asked, not an attempt to start an Android vs. iOS argument.)
No, it ends tomorrow.
"Root" is something you have or do not have within Android. ROMs aren't flashed from within Android, they're flashed from either recovery or the bootloader. (Usually recovery.)
GP is correct, you're misunderstanding either the terminology or the roles played by the OS/bootloader/recovery.
All Ethernet standard speeds (10M/100M/1G/10G/40G/100G) are in mega/gigabits per second, not bytes. So are wireless Ethernet speeds (11M/54M/300M/1.69G).
I live in upstate NY and I use face unlock. If I have a scarf on and need to use my phone, I just cancel out of it and punch in my PIN.
(Also, if I have a scarf on, I probably have gloves on, and therefore probably wouldn't be using my phone at the moment anyway.)
You've got it backward, I'm afraid. Watts are a measure of power, while watt-hours are a measure of energy (power times time.) A device that uses one kW of power while operating uses 24 kWh of energy per day of operation
Hats go on your head. Jokes, evidently, go right over it.
For example, dumbphone plans on Virgin Mobile (a Sprint MVNO) start at $5 per month
Virgin Mobile's $5 plan seems to be gone. The cheapest payLo plan I see is $20/mo.
Ting is one of the better Sprint MVNO choices for light users and especially families of light users; they have a $6/line/month charge and buckets based on usage. You can share buckets on multiple lines on the same account, bring your own devices (subject to restrictions), and there are no surcharges for smartphones. They also have voice and text (but not data) roaming to VZW, unlike the Sprint-owned VM USA and Boost.
I'd assumed they meant a pull in the Git sense, i.e. fetching a changeset from a remote repository (Igno's) and merging it into the current repository (Linus's). Sloppiness is a possibility too, though.
You really don't need to wipe and reinstall as often as they say you do. I recently upgraded from CM7 to a CM9 kang without wiping anything except cache and only had to reinstall a few apps. (That said, sometimes you'll end up with a non-working mess and will have to wipe anyway...but it's very rarely necessary for point release or nightly upgrades.)
To be fair, the troll who made the videos did claim that motors were providing 95% of the net power. That made it a good bit more plausible.
Here you go.
Seriously, if people want computer functionality on phones, they're going to have to deal with the associated tradeoffs. A lot of people stick with feature phones for just this reason; I did too until recently. Nothing wrong with either choice as long as it comes from an informed decision.
You can include the FSF in the list of authors of GPL programs who disagree with your interpretation. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation for information on aggregation; bundling GPL and proprietary parts and having proprietary parts execute GPL parts in an automated fashion is permitted. A common example would be the way many proprietary router web interfaces execute GPL utilities and receive their output via pipes or similar mechanisms.
I'm not sure how you define "aggregation", but it seems clear that it differs from the FSF's definition.
Whoops. ncurses is MIT licensed, not BSD. Bad example, but what I said still applies to the components that ARE licensed under the GPL.
You can reproduce the binary for the Linux kernel, the binary for busybox, the binary for ncurses, etc. Those are the components covered by the GPL. The GPL does not prohibit the distribution of GPL and non-GPL components on the same device or in the same distribution, nor does it have anything to say about components covered by another license.
It's just a minimal GPL drop. No application level source. Unlike (for example) Netgear or Linksys, they don't even provide the object code and build tools to let you build your own usable device ROM image from a combination of proprietary and OSS components.
DD-WRT is very stable on my Netgear WNDR3300, but the CPU reaches 100% usage at relatively low throughput. See here for some benchmarks recorded by another user.
I'm looking to get a better router and to OpenWRT in the near future. (The amount of writable flash on my router is too small to have a usable OpenWRT install with a JFFS2 partition.)
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't understand rather than assuming you're trolling, so:
Times in the quarter mile are measured from a standing start, not a moving start. A 12.5 second quarter mile does not in any way imply a top speed of 6/5 miles per minute (72 mph). That's the average speed over the 1/4 mile distance, and the initial speed was 0.
Just closed my account as well. (It would've renewed on the 15th.) I tried to e-mail them to explain why (there's no free text field in their survey), but I couldn't find an e-mail address or contact form.
Yes, I could've waited til September; this was one of those voting-with-my-wallet decisions.
They're currently on 3.0 RC4. So I imagine that what will and won't be in the release has pretty much solidified by this point.
Sounds more like the Year of the Jackpot to me.