As a linux system administrator I fully understand the purpose of jailing my apps as most of my processes on my linux servers are jailed and in some instances running in a VM inside of the OS.
Find my phone is a clone of iLocalis, not the other way around since iLocalis has been around since the 2.x days of iPhone. iLocalis provides enhanced features that Find My Phone does not, such as the ability to activate call forwarding, lock out the phone completely, backup the contents of the phone, wipe it out, record audio from where the phone is, be located of where your friends are (like Latitude), Share my location on my own website, etc...
I've never had a problem with Winterboard becoming slow or being buggy. It has always worked for me. Its the skins people develop that are the problem, simply remove the skin and problem solved.
I agree that openSSH doesn't need to be on the phone. And Rock and Cydia do not force you to install it. I installed it because as a geek I like to tinker.
I wouldn't be happier with a Windows Phone because there are not nearly as many apps for a Windows Phone, and I dislike the interface for Windows Mobile.
MyProfiles isn't a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. I can't remember the number of time when I've gone to a meeting, hospital, movie, or other even and forgot to silence my phone, and it rings. Or being woken up at 3AM by a buddy who's drunk off his ass being an idiot. I want to be able to receive calls from important people all hours, like my parents... But silence my phone to the rest of the world during certain times. MyProfiles just automates this for me instead of having to change multiple settings to accomplish the same thing that it can do for me.
The iPhone is a nice appliance. And one of the easiest manipulated, which is why I chose the iPhone. Sure I could have got an Android phone, but where is the fun in that? For those who want a nice polished piece of plastic, the iPhone does that too. For me, its a powerful tool I use to run my day.
I've had two iPhones, both of which were jailbroken within about 30 seconds of activation through iTunes. Why? Because... If I buy a computer from Dell, HP, Apple, etc I'm free to do as a please, install software as needed, patch stuff that needs patching, etc... When I buy a $700 iPhone(Not on contract, full price) I am essentially buying a tiny ass computer with all the capabilities of my desktop and laptops, just palm sized. So Why shouldn't I be able to develop for it and modify it as I see necessary? I'm not screwing with the Baseband, so I'm not going to take down a cell tower, I simply want to be able to run the apps I want to run.
I run
iLocalis - For real time tracking of my iPhones location and state of operation
Winterboard - To provide me with a much superior and insanely customizable UI
iSSH and openSSH - To allow me to get diagnostic files out of apps, setup firewall rules, etc.. I've actually sent app diagnostic files to developers of iTunes App Store Applications to help them figure out why their app has wierd quirks
IntelliScreen - To have a summary of my phone's e-mails, sms, calendar and news without having to unlock my phone
MyProfiles - To provide me with greater flexability and automatic profile changing based on time of day and location(Automatically goes in to Vibrate Mode when I enter my office building during work hours, goes to silent mode when I go to bed)
Misc tweaks to trick apps in to thinking they are always on WIFI so I'm not limited to the App Stores 10Mb GPRS Download Limits
Jail breaking is obviously not for everyone... IE, those who don't change the root password to their phone as per Rocks, Icy, and Cydia's warning when installing openSSH.
If Apple let people customize their phones like I detailed above, I'd really have no need for Jail Breaking. But I want specific features out of my phone, I'm ready to assume the risks, and lower battery life(which is why I have three chargers, 2 at home, 1 at the office because I only get a day and a half of battery life)
Yes, this is mildly off topic... But no, I do not think an Anti-virus for the iPhone will make things any better... Jailed phones don't need it, most jailbroken users are smart enough to not need it.
Most people who get arrested know what those statements mean, but probably don't actually understand them. Its kind of funny like that.
No one refers to lawyers as counsel, unless its a lawyer working internally for a company, then it is "in-house counsel". Lawyers refer to other lawyers as Counsel if they are referring to the other side... But a common person calls them Lawyers in Canada, Attorney's in the states and Barristers/Solicitors in the UK.
The statement needs to be redesigned... *scratches head...* here we go...
"You are being arrested for XXX. You have the right to call a lawyer as soon as we get to the station, and I suggest you do so. If you do not have a lawyer we will arrange one for you. Do you understand?"
There. That sums it up in idiot terms.
I have over 100 legally owned DVD's all backed up as ISO's on my personal hard drive just in case... I'm very bad for crushing crap, and my dog is bad for chewing on shiny things...
The real issue isn't how easy a languages command structure is, because memorizing function calls and syntax is easy. The real problem, IMHO, is people... People are not taught to think analytically and structurally. That is the problem. How can you code without analytical skills. When I learned programming 10 years ago I was taught to draw it out on paper.. Flow chart style. If the flow chart starts getting to big you need to split off a function, eventually creating a rough sketch of how your program will work. People with analytical skills can learn anything if explained how something works.
On another note, I don't want programming languages getting to the point where its like speaking english... Imagine the code... *shudder*
The problem of how this works is, the overlay(the alert) is added at the source(tv station) or the cable provider before it reaches your PVR. Your PVR would not have any way if removing the warnings from the recording. The only option would be for the PVR to throw out any recording where an alert tone is played. But some alerts are just scrolling bars and some are full scale take overs, so the PVR would not know whether the alert if taking over your recording or just being seriously annoying.
I'm all for the government being able to notify people in the event of a real emergency by any means necessary. They cal already forcefully take over all radio stations and TV stations with the flick of a switch (Well its a bit more complicated, but yes, its quite simple). This should be used for real emergencies, like "If you do not leave town now you will die" or "the dyke broke... so, unless you know how to swim, time to get out" not this crap of "OMG!!! Its snowing! Everyone panick" crap that we see now.
If they can take over all tv stations and radio stations in an area what good does that do for people like me who watch TV online and stream my music? If they could also work with ISP's to DNS Redirect all web requests from a specific region during an emergency that would be okay too, as long as the viewer could acknowledge they got the message and resume normal web surfing.. This is easily done with Squid Proxy and a few lines of config... If they could force text message every cell phone user in a specific region, that would be good too - "LOLZ, u got 2 leave... city is on fire... lolz".
Hell, if they decide that they want the phone companies to institute rolling automated outbound calls to let people know that would be fine too. Start with one exchange (XXX-XXX-YYYY), do all #'s, and move on to the next exchange so the phone system does not get over loaded.
Hell, Video Games, IM's and everyone else should be fair game too.
In an emergency(a real one, not a weather report) getting everyone's attention is hard... The more options they can use the better. If all the communication saves one extra persons life, some would say its worth it.
I agree with you on that point. I've been to Stockholm. Lots of side walks, bike paths and PEOPLE ONLY streets! I loved it. I was there in May 2007 and thought it had to be one of the most progressive cities in terms of this kind of stuff.
In my life, I own a car but won't take it if its faster to get there by Bike, Foot, or Public Transit. In some cases depending on where I go(for example, to work) I can bike there in 20 minutes but takes me over 30 to drive. I wish more people had this mentality so there would be more room on the seats on the bus for healthy sized individuals not to be squished between fatties. *sigh*
My whole media system will be under $300, vesa mounted to the back of my TV and controlled with my existing ATI/X10 Media remote.
All my cds/dvds have been backed up to my file server which has mountable network shares for XBMC to use.
My girlfriend had swine flu earlier this year, she was fine. Just sick for a week then back to her normal self. My aunt is a nurse at one of the largest hospitals in Winnipeg and she said she has never gotten the flu shot and refuses too. After she's seen all the complications with them over the years she figures she's safer without. I agree with her. Our bodies are designed to fight infections, we need to let our immune system do what it does best, figure out problems for itself. One would think that constant vaccine's, medications, antibiotics, etc just make the immune system lazy.
Back in the old days of dialup my provider offered an unlimited plan. Here is how it worked.
At the start of the month everyone started off with the same traffic priority. For the sake of argument, lets call that number 1.0 As you used more bandwidth your traffic priority dropped proportionately to other users on the system. Those who used less bandwidth got higher priority when they did decide to use the system. Those who used more got bumped aside on the network.
I agree... Pointless at best.
If I'm going to create a Twitter reader I'm going to buy Mimo 740 Touchscreen, hook it up to my existing computer and use a simple pre-existing app.
I already have a wireless version of this guys product which does more. It's called my iPhone. I get all my twitter updates in real time anywhere I am.
My bank does this. So does my cable company. $1.00 off if you don't get a bill.
$0.54 cents a stamp +Paper +Envelop +Ink +Big massive industrial printer(I've seen the one the cable company uses, size of a pick up truck... The thing is brand spanking new out of the box) +People to refill the equipment and move the bills to the loading docks for Canada Post to come get it.
This isn't South Park:-). It's more like Simpsons when Homer is apologizing to the Queen for America being a bad country and Canada being a good country.
As a non-American citizen I feel the reverse holds true. When I enter the USA from Canada I should bring a seperate bare-bones, no thrills cell phone and an empty laptop. Because if the TSA decides that they want to snoop through my electronics there is no telling what information they are pulling out, government created spyware being installed, or some sort of magical chip that transmits everything I am doing back to them.
See, Conspiracy theories work both ways... No more fear mongering, okay? Lets play nice kids.
Science would more attractive if a science lab wasn't like noodle soup. I used to watch Popular Mechanics for kids when I was in my teens because Elisha Cuthbert is hot. Really had nothing to do with the show, but I still learned stuff. All the science shows I watch on TV have relatively attractive women on them too(MythBusters, Daily Planet, MANSwers, etc).
But seriously, no one wants to work in a profession where you are surrounded by a bunch of socially inept guys all day(I know people in engineering, biology, computer sciences, etc and 9 times out of 10 they fit this description)
I support your position on this.
Same with any electronic device that can be remotely disabled. Wouldn't it be a bitch if I called onStar and said "Oooh, hey buddy. My car got stolen, here is my name, license plate # and my onStar ID(blah blah)" and they kill the car. But its not my car, its my ex's... I'm sure she would get a kick out of it
You are right. It is trivial for them to assist with tracking just one kindle. But if they do it for one person, why not the next? And the next? Until they have thousands of people asking for help finding their kindle, which is no longer a trivial task.
I mean, seriously. Why should companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, HP, or any manufacturer spend any amount of time helping to track down your stolen property to begin with. It is your responsibility to keep track of your property, not theres. Now, nice automated solutions like Apple's Mobile Me allows you to basically brick a stolen iPhone and track its position, but that was nice to have feature that they added but was in no way required too. If someone steals your car, do you call the car manufacturer and ask them to disable the car remotely so no one can drive it? No... you report it to police and call your insurance company. IMHO this applies to electronics as well.
It doesn't matter how many bells and whistles, security and user protection systems you put on a device. A dumb user is still a dumb user. Look at your typical computer user. Even though they are using the latest A/V software, their ISP scans for email viruses and spam, they are using Firefox which has anti-phishing protection, a firewall program or a router with SPI, and malware protection software they still manage to blow their computer out of the water on a regular basis requiring tech support to fix it, or fall victim to a phishing scheme. This is 10 years of doing consumer tech support talking. Most user's have the "Press Yes" mentality. The dialog could clearly state, press Yes to install this nice virus on your computer, and without reading it, they would hit yes.
The best solution out there is to actually train users of online devices to know how to spot problems or suspicious sites, programs, etc. Until the users are trained how to recognize problems they won't learn how to deal with them.
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I have one of these, flashed to DD-WRT. Gigabit router, QOS, and awesome.
As a linux system administrator I fully understand the purpose of jailing my apps as most of my processes on my linux servers are jailed and in some instances running in a VM inside of the OS.
Find my phone is a clone of iLocalis, not the other way around since iLocalis has been around since the 2.x days of iPhone. iLocalis provides enhanced features that Find My Phone does not, such as the ability to activate call forwarding, lock out the phone completely, backup the contents of the phone, wipe it out, record audio from where the phone is, be located of where your friends are (like Latitude), Share my location on my own website, etc...
I've never had a problem with Winterboard becoming slow or being buggy. It has always worked for me. Its the skins people develop that are the problem, simply remove the skin and problem solved.
I agree that openSSH doesn't need to be on the phone. And Rock and Cydia do not force you to install it. I installed it because as a geek I like to tinker.
I wouldn't be happier with a Windows Phone because there are not nearly as many apps for a Windows Phone, and I dislike the interface for Windows Mobile.
MyProfiles isn't a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. I can't remember the number of time when I've gone to a meeting, hospital, movie, or other even and forgot to silence my phone, and it rings. Or being woken up at 3AM by a buddy who's drunk off his ass being an idiot. I want to be able to receive calls from important people all hours, like my parents... But silence my phone to the rest of the world during certain times. MyProfiles just automates this for me instead of having to change multiple settings to accomplish the same thing that it can do for me.
The iPhone is a nice appliance. And one of the easiest manipulated, which is why I chose the iPhone. Sure I could have got an Android phone, but where is the fun in that? For those who want a nice polished piece of plastic, the iPhone does that too. For me, its a powerful tool I use to run my day.
Man, was she hot in that movie... *wont be standing up for at least 90 seconds*
I run
Jail breaking is obviously not for everyone... IE, those who don't change the root password to their phone as per Rocks, Icy, and Cydia's warning when installing openSSH.
If Apple let people customize their phones like I detailed above, I'd really have no need for Jail Breaking. But I want specific features out of my phone, I'm ready to assume the risks, and lower battery life(which is why I have three chargers, 2 at home, 1 at the office because I only get a day and a half of battery life)
Yes, this is mildly off topic... But no, I do not think an Anti-virus for the iPhone will make things any better... Jailed phones don't need it, most jailbroken users are smart enough to not need it.
Most people who get arrested know what those statements mean, but probably don't actually understand them. Its kind of funny like that. No one refers to lawyers as counsel, unless its a lawyer working internally for a company, then it is "in-house counsel". Lawyers refer to other lawyers as Counsel if they are referring to the other side... But a common person calls them Lawyers in Canada, Attorney's in the states and Barristers/Solicitors in the UK. The statement needs to be redesigned... *scratches head...* here we go... "You are being arrested for XXX. You have the right to call a lawyer as soon as we get to the station, and I suggest you do so. If you do not have a lawyer we will arrange one for you. Do you understand?" There. That sums it up in idiot terms.
Here ya go :-) http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
Fixes the "Region Lock" problem.
I have over 100 legally owned DVD's all backed up as ISO's on my personal hard drive just in case... I'm very bad for crushing crap, and my dog is bad for chewing on shiny things...
The real issue isn't how easy a languages command structure is, because memorizing function calls and syntax is easy. The real problem, IMHO, is people... People are not taught to think analytically and structurally. That is the problem. How can you code without analytical skills. When I learned programming 10 years ago I was taught to draw it out on paper.. Flow chart style. If the flow chart starts getting to big you need to split off a function, eventually creating a rough sketch of how your program will work. People with analytical skills can learn anything if explained how something works.
On another note, I don't want programming languages getting to the point where its like speaking english... Imagine the code... *shudder*
The problem of how this works is, the overlay(the alert) is added at the source(tv station) or the cable provider before it reaches your PVR. Your PVR would not have any way if removing the warnings from the recording. The only option would be for the PVR to throw out any recording where an alert tone is played. But some alerts are just scrolling bars and some are full scale take overs, so the PVR would not know whether the alert if taking over your recording or just being seriously annoying.
I'm all for the government being able to notify people in the event of a real emergency by any means necessary. They cal already forcefully take over all radio stations and TV stations with the flick of a switch (Well its a bit more complicated, but yes, its quite simple). This should be used for real emergencies, like "If you do not leave town now you will die" or "the dyke broke... so, unless you know how to swim, time to get out" not this crap of "OMG!!! Its snowing! Everyone panick" crap that we see now.
If they can take over all tv stations and radio stations in an area what good does that do for people like me who watch TV online and stream my music? If they could also work with ISP's to DNS Redirect all web requests from a specific region during an emergency that would be okay too, as long as the viewer could acknowledge they got the message and resume normal web surfing.. This is easily done with Squid Proxy and a few lines of config... If they could force text message every cell phone user in a specific region, that would be good too - "LOLZ, u got 2 leave... city is on fire... lolz".
Hell, if they decide that they want the phone companies to institute rolling automated outbound calls to let people know that would be fine too. Start with one exchange (XXX-XXX-YYYY), do all #'s, and move on to the next exchange so the phone system does not get over loaded.
Hell, Video Games, IM's and everyone else should be fair game too.
In an emergency(a real one, not a weather report) getting everyone's attention is hard... The more options they can use the better. If all the communication saves one extra persons life, some would say its worth it.
Slashdot got DDoS'd or Slashdotted?
I agree with you on that point. I've been to Stockholm. Lots of side walks, bike paths and PEOPLE ONLY streets! I loved it. I was there in May 2007 and thought it had to be one of the most progressive cities in terms of this kind of stuff.
In my life, I own a car but won't take it if its faster to get there by Bike, Foot, or Public Transit. In some cases depending on where I go(for example, to work) I can bike there in 20 minutes but takes me over 30 to drive. I wish more people had this mentality so there would be more room on the seats on the bus for healthy sized individuals not to be squished between fatties. *sigh*
The CDC is probably just using Google Flu Trends Data and making it look as their own.
I am building a system from them to do XBMC on my TV
The Board I am buying is this one here Zotac ION
Slap it in a vesa mounted cheap case with a laptop hard drive and I'm done.
My whole media system will be under $300, vesa mounted to the back of my TV and controlled with my existing ATI/X10 Media remote.
All my cds/dvds have been backed up to my file server which has mountable network shares for XBMC to use.
Long live XBMC!
My girlfriend had swine flu earlier this year, she was fine. Just sick for a week then back to her normal self.
My aunt is a nurse at one of the largest hospitals in Winnipeg and she said she has never gotten the flu shot and refuses too. After she's seen all the complications with them over the years she figures she's safer without. I agree with her. Our bodies are designed to fight infections, we need to let our immune system do what it does best, figure out problems for itself. One would think that constant vaccine's, medications, antibiotics, etc just make the immune system lazy.
Back in the old days of dialup my provider offered an unlimited plan. Here is how it worked.
At the start of the month everyone started off with the same traffic priority. For the sake of argument, lets call that number 1.0
As you used more bandwidth your traffic priority dropped proportionately to other users on the system.
Those who used less bandwidth got higher priority when they did decide to use the system. Those who used more got bumped aside on the network.
Why not do this here?
I agree... Pointless at best.
If I'm going to create a Twitter reader I'm going to buy Mimo 740 Touchscreen, hook it up to my existing computer and use a simple pre-existing app.
I already have a wireless version of this guys product which does more. It's called my iPhone. I get all my twitter updates in real time anywhere I am.
My bank does this. So does my cable company. $1.00 off if you don't get a bill.
$0.54 cents a stamp
+Paper
+Envelop
+Ink
+Big massive industrial printer(I've seen the one the cable company uses, size of a pick up truck... The thing is brand spanking new out of the box)
+People to refill the equipment and move the bills to the loading docks for Canada Post to come get it.
All adds up quite quickly.
I get the majority of my bills as PDF's now.
This isn't South Park :-).
It's more like Simpsons when Homer is apologizing to the Queen for America being a bad country and Canada being a good country.
As a non-American citizen I feel the reverse holds true. When I enter the USA from Canada I should bring a seperate bare-bones, no thrills cell phone and an empty laptop. Because if the TSA decides that they want to snoop through my electronics there is no telling what information they are pulling out, government created spyware being installed, or some sort of magical chip that transmits everything I am doing back to them.
See, Conspiracy theories work both ways... No more fear mongering, okay? Lets play nice kids.
Science would more attractive if a science lab wasn't like noodle soup. I used to watch Popular Mechanics for kids when I was in my teens because Elisha Cuthbert is hot. Really had nothing to do with the show, but I still learned stuff. All the science shows I watch on TV have relatively attractive women on them too(MythBusters, Daily Planet, MANSwers, etc).
But seriously, no one wants to work in a profession where you are surrounded by a bunch of socially inept guys all day(I know people in engineering, biology, computer sciences, etc and 9 times out of 10 they fit this description)
All these Oo.o's remind me of family guy
Peter: Oh my God, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets... it says Ooooo!
Brian: Peter those are Cheerios.
Sound Clip
I support your position on this.
Same with any electronic device that can be remotely disabled. Wouldn't it be a bitch if I called onStar and said "Oooh, hey buddy. My car got stolen, here is my name, license plate # and my onStar ID(blah blah)" and they kill the car. But its not my car, its my ex's... I'm sure she would get a kick out of it
You are right. It is trivial for them to assist with tracking just one kindle. But if they do it for one person, why not the next? And the next? Until they have thousands of people asking for help finding their kindle, which is no longer a trivial task.
I mean, seriously. Why should companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, HP, or any manufacturer spend any amount of time helping to track down your stolen property to begin with. It is your responsibility to keep track of your property, not theres. Now, nice automated solutions like Apple's Mobile Me allows you to basically brick a stolen iPhone and track its position, but that was nice to have feature that they added but was in no way required too. If someone steals your car, do you call the car manufacturer and ask them to disable the car remotely so no one can drive it? No... you report it to police and call your insurance company. IMHO this applies to electronics as well.
It doesn't matter how many bells and whistles, security and user protection systems you put on a device. A dumb user is still a dumb user. Look at your typical computer user. Even though they are using the latest A/V software, their ISP scans for email viruses and spam, they are using Firefox which has anti-phishing protection, a firewall program or a router with SPI, and malware protection software they still manage to blow their computer out of the water on a regular basis requiring tech support to fix it, or fall victim to a phishing scheme. This is 10 years of doing consumer tech support talking. Most user's have the "Press Yes" mentality. The dialog could clearly state, press Yes to install this nice virus on your computer, and without reading it, they would hit yes.
The best solution out there is to actually train users of online devices to know how to spot problems or suspicious sites, programs, etc. Until the users are trained how to recognize problems they won't learn how to deal with them.