No. Even a mobile-to-mobile call has to go through the network. When you call someone using a cell phone, you're not calling their phone directly, your call goes to an antenna, goes through a network, sometimes goes to another network if you're roaming, goes to another antenna, goes to the person you're calling.
You could get a seperate unit for you and the person you're calling like this one, but betting odds are that if someone really wants to know what you're talking about then it's going to be hacked anyway.
If they mean the pilots can't hack the controls, this *might* be a possibility.
I think the real danger is in the other half of the equasion being hacked...the part that tells the planes where they can't fly.
F**k flying into a building, just tell the central system that *all* GPS coordinates are part of the no-fly zone. Bingo, everybody in the sky spins out of control and crashes to the ground, unable to over-ride the "safety measure"
-or-
The process used to update the database on the plane is hacked, someone finds a way to fake a legitimate communication to a plane and blocks off a huge part of the flight plan as forbidden space.
2.1 Eligibility
For a Certificate Authority (CA) to use
IPP, the CA must incorporate the U.S.
Postal Service In-Person Proofing Policy
into their Certificate Policy.
Conformance to the Postal policy
includes:
1. Use of a Patriot Act compliant
database vetting process to gain initial
assurance of an applicant's identity
before sending the applicant to the
Postal Office for IPP.
Yay, more data to shove into the Patriot Act machine. What a bargin!
This guy is being charged the rather reasonable amount of $500. If that means his device ends up being used by one new Dish or DirecTV customer every month, they will break even.
Reasonable? I think not. DirecTV will lose zero customers because of him every month because he was caught before he could distribute his product to anyone. By punishing him for customers that *are* lost to piracy, you are punishing him for crimes that other people committed.
Is an option in the menu of a DVD that will allow a user to choose their rating. Choose the PG version to watch with the squeamish girlfriend, The G version to watch with the kids, the unrated version to watch with other people who live sex and violence.
At least then, future SLC residents will have the *choice* to watch whatever version they want...and the studios don't need to worry about juggling inventory levels for dual-release movies.
I'm not sold, it jumping to even one rash decision is one too many.
I drive on the NJ Turnpike to and from work. Drivers there are always moving at high speed, making sudden lane changes and/or tailgating.
If it thinks someone suddenly pulling in front of me is good enough reason to hit my brakes, there's going to be a thirty car pile-up behind me as all of the tailgaters come smashing into me at 90 MPH.
Although this letter will come to you as a surprise from someone you do not know before but it was based on recommendation from a friend who advised me to invest in your country that I decided to contact you and introduce myself . My name is Hassan Adedeji, I was a special steward to the late CEO of the Open Source Group in South Africa, Chairman Sanni Abacha who died some time in 2003 while in power. I have worked in this organization for the six years. It was a great opportunity for me to achieved what I got today which I believe God is asking me to write to you for your utmost assistance. I also believe that the same God will bind my words with you on trust. Amen.
To be explicit, I have secured from Microsoft the sum of US$18.5million dollars and sent it out of the country during the time of the sudden death of the late CEO Chairman Sanni Abacha. The said amount was kept in the executive guesthouse for security logistics because of how the Open Source was at war with the SCO.
At that point, there was power struggle in the country in which people in better and strategic positions made away with substantial amount of money which I was also lucky to secure what I declared to you with confidence that, you will not allow anybody to know or hear about it because it is highly confidential.
I have a percentage for you in this transaction when you give me your words indicating your interest. I will also disclose more information to you such as the particulars of where the said money is kept and the certificate of deposit which shall be sent to you as well as other relevant document.
I have inform the security company that I have a partner who will call to confirm the safety of the deposit. Please send a reply through the above e-mail box.
Easy: By pulling IE support on the Mac platform, all they have to do to kill Apple is to somehow ensure that a big enough chunk of the Net is only accessibly through IE.
They would be killing linux's chances at desktop users too. Which is why I think they'll never get away with making the Net MS-only. The geeks will not let that happen.
It's an interesting strategy, reminds me of how they made IIS non-standards-compliant so IE would load pages faster than the competition. Same type of thinking.
I don't really understand the "too far from society" bit in the original article or in your comment.
Couldn't you move? I've been near broke and always found a way to go someplace else if that's what it took to get a better job/life/whatever.
Unless it is just an excuse...because it seems like taking a few weeks to move would be more rewarding than spending hundreds of hours creating a substitute for living and interacting with other people.
Sure, but Bob in Marketing swears it's the craziest thing and all the tweens will go crazy and buy one, and tell people on internet forums that it is SO much better than the gamecube controller, then they can release it in 6 see through colors and different sizes for the holidays and these desperate children will buy SEVERAL of them, just to be the k3w| kid on the block (Bob spelled out the k3w| part on a whiteboard during his pitch).
Really, it looked great in powerpoint. There was a spreadsheet too. We're all going to retire at 40.
There are others.. it seems to be nearly 50% of Apple's products (not including iPod) are announced one month, and start shipping at least the following month, or even longer.
People will always find something to complain about. If Apple didn't announce in advance, people would bitch that the PowerBook they just bought is obsolete and be pissed about that instead when the new ones come out.
You're bringing back bad dreams about GOTO statements, BASIC was always bad.
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If I had to upload all my new data for the day to Apple, the upload wouldn't finish in time for my next day's upload to start.
Oh, I can use.mac to make a CD backup? I can do that for free now. All I need to do is search for files that have changed since a certain date and OS X's Finder makes that trivial.
Anti-virus? Do you hear about mac virii? Have you ever seen one? Do you know anyone who caught a virus on their mac? Do you hear about them running in the wild? If things change, this might be of value...but right now it's next to useless.
iDisk and web serving....OK I admit these are kind of useful...but there are alternatives that offer cheaper or free hosting. Still not enough to convince me I need to shell out $8.33 a month.
That leaves iSync and iCal access. Kind of cool, but if there's a way for me to roll this at home, I'm gonna' save my $100 for better things.
Those who want to steal will always steal. The students in your example would have never bought online to begin with...they would rather have want they want for free.
Apple charges way too much for their RAM. You're almost always better off buying an Apple system with whatever RAM it ships with, then buying more from someone else and installing it yourself.
Ugh, feature creep. No offense, but most of the appeal of the iPod is that it is small, lightweight, has decent battery life, and does one thing really well.
By the time all that was added, you wouldn't have an iPod anymore, you would have a sub-notebook.
The bizarre removal of the capacity for me to have a heirarchal list of more rarely used applications (the Applications Apple menu in prior versions/a Windows Start menu/A KDE/Gnome start panel menu) is not user-centered.
Drag your "Applications" folder into the dock.
Click-and-hold for a second
Blammo, instant "Start Menu"...and you can do it for any folder you want.
Nope, not backwards, you're only telling part of the story.
From the beginning of the ordeal, SST expected Negativland to pay for any damages incurred to both parties as a result of the Island lawsuit, regardless of the fact that SST was financially backing the single and bore as much responsibility for it's release as the band did. SST was ready to reap any reward that would have come from Negativland's work, but wasn't willing to accept responsibility for the risks involved. This is hardly fair.
The matter was eventually settled, but SST was quick to call in the lawyers for a company that pretends to be anti-corporate rock. SST knew what they were getting into when "U2" was released, they just refused to be responsible for their contribution and tried to screw their artist in court instead.
Check out the amusing "The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2" to see SST act like the big record company they pretend that they're not....and for an (unrelated) read on copyright law and fair use on the edge:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0964 349604/qid=1050966027/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-410446 6-2132759?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Except for the stuff from SST from old Post punk bands of the time I hate the idea of funding the people that made the mantra Corporate Rock still Sucks so true and sad.
SST? The same SST that sued Negativland over the U2 single?
Corporate rock sucks twice as bad when it hides behind slogans it refuses to live up to.
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...my guess is they have a need for a sense of drama in their lives.
No. Even a mobile-to-mobile call has to go through the network. When you call someone using a cell phone, you're not calling their phone directly, your call goes to an antenna, goes through a network, sometimes goes to another network if you're roaming, goes to another antenna, goes to the person you're calling.
You could get a seperate unit for you and the person you're calling like this one, but betting odds are that if someone really wants to know what you're talking about then it's going to be hacked anyway.
Unhackable how?
If they mean the pilots can't hack the controls, this *might* be a possibility.
I think the real danger is in the other half of the equasion being hacked...the part that tells the planes where they can't fly.
F**k flying into a building, just tell the central system that *all* GPS coordinates are part of the no-fly zone. Bingo, everybody in the sky spins out of control and crashes to the ground, unable to over-ride the "safety measure"
-or-
The process used to update the database on the plane is hacked, someone finds a way to fake a legitimate communication to a plane and blocks off a huge part of the flight plan as forbidden space.
Bad idea, IMO.
2.1 Eligibility For a Certificate Authority (CA) to use IPP, the CA must incorporate the U.S. Postal Service In-Person Proofing Policy into their Certificate Policy. Conformance to the Postal policy includes: 1. Use of a Patriot Act compliant database vetting process to gain initial assurance of an applicant's identity before sending the applicant to the Postal Office for IPP.
Yay, more data to shove into the Patriot Act machine. What a bargin!
This guy is being charged the rather reasonable amount of $500. If that means his device ends up being used by one new Dish or DirecTV customer every month, they will break even.
Reasonable? I think not. DirecTV will lose zero customers because of him every month because he was caught before he could distribute his product to anyone. By punishing him for customers that *are* lost to piracy, you are punishing him for crimes that other people committed.
Not Fair.
Is an option in the menu of a DVD that will allow a user to choose their rating. Choose the PG version to watch with the squeamish girlfriend, The G version to watch with the kids, the unrated version to watch with other people who live sex and violence.
At least then, future SLC residents will have the *choice* to watch whatever version they want...and the studios don't need to worry about juggling inventory levels for dual-release movies.
I doubt it will jump to any rash decisions.
I'm not sold, it jumping to even one rash decision is one too many.
I drive on the NJ Turnpike to and from work. Drivers there are always moving at high speed, making sudden lane changes and/or tailgating.
If it thinks someone suddenly pulling in front of me is good enough reason to hit my brakes, there's going to be a thirty car pile-up behind me as all of the tailgaters come smashing into me at 90 MPH.
No thanks.
Dear Sir,
Although this letter will come to you as a surprise from someone you do not know before but it was based on recommendation from a friend who advised me to invest in your country that I decided to contact you and introduce myself . My name is Hassan Adedeji, I was a special steward to the late CEO of the Open Source Group in South Africa, Chairman Sanni Abacha who died some time in 2003 while in power. I have worked in this organization for the six years. It was a great opportunity for me to achieved what I got today which I believe God is asking me to write to you for your utmost assistance. I also believe that the same God will bind my words with you on trust. Amen.
To be explicit, I have secured from Microsoft the sum of US$18.5million dollars and sent it out of the country during the time of the sudden death of the late CEO Chairman Sanni Abacha. The said amount was kept in the executive guesthouse for security logistics because of how the Open Source was at war with the SCO.
At that point, there was power struggle in the country in which people in better and strategic positions made away with substantial amount of money which I was also lucky to secure what I declared to you with confidence that, you will not allow anybody to know or hear about it because it is highly confidential.
I have a percentage for you in this transaction when you give me your words indicating your interest. I will also disclose more information to you such as the particulars of where the said money is kept and the certificate of deposit which shall be sent to you as well as other relevant document.
I have inform the security company that I have a partner who will call to confirm the safety of the deposit. Please send a reply through the above e-mail box.
Yours truly.
Hassan Adedeji
They would be killing linux's chances at desktop users too. Which is why I think they'll never get away with making the Net MS-only. The geeks will not let that happen.
It's an interesting strategy, reminds me of how they made IIS non-standards-compliant so IE would load pages faster than the competition. Same type of thinking.
I don't really understand the "too far from society" bit in the original article or in your comment.
Couldn't you move? I've been near broke and always found a way to go someplace else if that's what it took to get a better job/life/whatever.
Unless it is just an excuse...because it seems like taking a few weeks to move would be more rewarding than spending hundreds of hours creating a substitute for living and interacting with other people.
Sure, but Bob in Marketing swears it's the craziest thing and all the tweens will go crazy and buy one, and tell people on internet forums that it is SO much better than the gamecube controller, then they can release it in 6 see through colors and different sizes for the holidays and these desperate children will buy SEVERAL of them, just to be the k3w| kid on the block (Bob spelled out the k3w| part on a whiteboard during his pitch).
Really, it looked great in powerpoint. There was a spreadsheet too. We're all going to retire at 40.
Strange, but it almost makes sense.
If I'm a musician and I throw out the master recordings from an album I've been working on, I would still own the IP to that material...wouldn't I?
Of course, that would be stupid of me, but there's no law against doing something stupid.
There are others.. it seems to be nearly 50% of Apple's products (not including iPod) are announced one month, and start shipping at least the following month, or even longer.
People will always find something to complain about. If Apple didn't announce in advance, people would bitch that the PowerBook they just bought is obsolete and be pissed about that instead when the new ones come out.
You're bringing back bad dreams about GOTO statements, BASIC was always bad.
If I had to upload all my new data for the day to Apple, the upload wouldn't finish in time for my next day's upload to start.
.mac to make a CD backup? I can do that for free now. All I need to do is search for files that have changed since a certain date and OS X's Finder makes that trivial.
.mac was to keep their email address. Great for them, but an email address that shows the world that I "Think Different"© isn't worth $8.33 a month to me. There are still many free webmail sources that don't try to charge you extra for having more than an arbitrary number of accounts.
Oh, I can use
The only reason a lot of people signed up for
Anti-virus? Do you hear about mac virii? Have you ever seen one? Do you know anyone who caught a virus on their mac? Do you hear about them running in the wild? If things change, this might be of value...but right now it's next to useless.
iDisk and web serving....OK I admit these are kind of useful...but there are alternatives that offer cheaper or free hosting. Still not enough to convince me I need to shell out $8.33 a month.
That leaves iSync and iCal access. Kind of cool, but if there's a way for me to roll this at home, I'm gonna' save my $100 for better things.
Does that mean they're gonna' take the PP out of Apple too?
Those who want to steal will always steal. The students in your example would have never bought online to begin with...they would rather have want they want for free.
Apple charges way too much for their RAM. You're almost always better off buying an Apple system with whatever RAM it ships with, then buying more from someone else and installing it yourself.
Why give away something for free when you can get everyone back in the store in a few months for their "iRecorder" ?
The new iPods can record, but the feature is hidden away in the diagnostic menu...
Linkage:
Diagnostic mode with mention of line-in recording
Mono recording short clips with diagnostic mode and earbuds
Maybe something Apple has planned for the next software update?
Ugh, feature creep. No offense, but most of the appeal of the iPod is that it is small, lightweight, has decent battery life, and does one thing really well.
By the time all that was added, you wouldn't have an iPod anymore, you would have a sub-notebook.
Or save yourself a disc and use an app like audio hijack to rip the iTunes file as it plays.
Ditto with the networked sharing, you stream to me...I rip as I listen.
Apple DRM, with a nod and a wink to what their customers really want.
The bizarre removal of the capacity for me to have a heirarchal list of more rarely used applications (the Applications Apple menu in prior versions/a Windows Start menu/A KDE/Gnome start panel menu) is not user-centered.
Drag your "Applications" folder into the dock.
Click-and-hold for a second
Blammo, instant "Start Menu"...and you can do it for any folder you want.
Nope, not backwards, you're only telling part of the story.
4 349604/qid=1050966027/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-410446 6-2132759?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
From the beginning of the ordeal, SST expected Negativland to pay for any damages incurred to both parties as a result of the Island lawsuit, regardless of the fact that SST was financially backing the single and bore as much responsibility for it's release as the band did. SST was ready to reap any reward that would have come from Negativland's work, but wasn't willing to accept responsibility for the risks involved. This is hardly fair.
The matter was eventually settled, but SST was quick to call in the lawyers for a company that pretends to be anti-corporate rock. SST knew what they were getting into when "U2" was released, they just refused to be responsible for their contribution and tried to screw their artist in court instead.
Check out the amusing "The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2" to see SST act like the big record company they pretend that they're not....and for an (unrelated) read on copyright law and fair use on the edge:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/096
Except for the stuff from SST from old Post punk bands of the time I hate the idea of funding the people that made the mantra Corporate Rock still Sucks so true and sad.
SST? The same SST that sued Negativland over the U2 single?
Corporate rock sucks twice as bad when it hides behind slogans it refuses to live up to.