I think so! Under my understanding of the UK Data Protection Act (IANAL), this would have to be an opt-in scheme via a tick box on the contract. It used to be opt-out but this was changed.
Under the terms of the law an organization may not share personal data to another party without your consent. It's a pretty decent law, I don't know how the hell it got passed.
The problem with that approach is that the objects are generated by a serialisation framework that normally uses it's own document writer. Writing my own might be an option, but it throws away part of the benefit of XML in that you can use standard libraries that do the dirty work and it also creates a dependency between my code and the schema generation.
What may work however is a writer that uses the serialisation framework at a node level to append it's output to an existing output stream. I may give that a go as CSV has it's limitations.
"Oh, enterprises like it that way, it means they can stay in crufty code land forever and never have to upgrade anything if they don't want to!" which I read as "We don't really want to actually spend any time trying to make our development process vaguely reasonable, we just want to toss code on the wall and wait for things to stick."
For very large systems it works well that way. You don't want to have to retest every module due to a library upgrade in one, the ideal situation is where you can unit test the module and it's interface and just know that the rest of the application works based off that. With a J2EE container you can easily deploy several related but abstracted services that use different versions of their libraries. Once written, a module can be left untouched as long as it meets your needs.
I use CSV and XML regularly. I only use CSV is when I encounter XMLs big weakness...the ability to cheaply append to a file several million times over a few hours.
If anyone knows a way to do this efficiently in XML I'd love to hear it. From what I understand, all of the document writers will recreate the whole file on each write.
What might also be a good idea would be to follow up each domain creation with random wget actions throughout the five days. I suspect that they will keep ones that actually generate unique hits. If everyone were to use a common naming, we could script hits on domains that others have "tasted" for them.
One of two things will happen...they will either have a human groking the "top" domains they've snatched, or it will be automatic. Either way it costs them money to deal with it.
Could be similar to the way cartographers sometimes include deliberate errors in maps such as misspelt streets or a small imaginary cul-de-sac. Helps spot the most obvious knock-offs.
Damn, that is clever. I spotted the little guy but never thought anything of it.
In the first Half Life 2 the training ball that you play with when you first get the gravity gun has a secret power; it's attracted to enemies and they are attracted to it. In Ravenholm you can just fire it into a corner and all the enemies will move out of your way and they pointlessly chase it down. You can keep it until the end of the Ravenholm section, but you absolutely cannot carry it beyond there. Unless someone has a solution I've not tried to get it over the fence on the bucket lift?
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I get the impression that there were LOTS of problems at MS, including really smart, stubborn people with really big egos.
Sounds like every IT shop on the planet that's been around for 5+ years.
This is great. I hope they get sued for every infingement, as that would only be fair. By infringment I mean every single IP address that they looked at. I'd say that based on their methods that's pretty much the entire p2p community.
Yes, they give you INTERNET but they do not give you the World Wide Web. They most especially do not give you Web 2.0 or the same rendering engine from a PC.
You are completely wrong. The web browsers on mobiles are fully functional. I use Opera myself, it renders as well as if not better than Safari. It's a mature product and the UI is good.
the new mobile apps being created specifically for iPhone using the Web 2.0 specifications.
There is no such thing as "Web 2.0 specifications". It's just a moniker for user-submitted content.
Can you give us the details of the hardware + software that you're currently using?
I've got an HTC Blue Angel, which is also known as a Orange SPV2000 or T-Mobile MDA2s. I think! The problem is that the company that makes them (HTC) has only recently began selling phones under it's own brand. The rebranding from telcos makes it complicated and has definitely killed brand recognition in their products. Don't bother with this one, it's not far off being three years old now and there are better ones available. My next one would be likely be the HTC TyTN as wifi is essential to me.
Quick feature rundown is: slide-out qwerty keyboard, wifi, bluetooth, 128meg storage (it's old), sd-card. Built in email supports imaps, which I waited years to get on a phone. SSL is essential IMHO and pop is useless for accessing mail from multiple locations. I just run my own mail server (courier-imaps on debian). Connection speed is GPRS but the one I linked is 3G. Keyboard is also essential IMHO, if you want to write anything longer than a 160-character text message. SSH on a touch-screen keyboard is horrible; the dictionary doesn't help obviously and using vi is a nightmare without a keyboard.
I also have OpenVNC set up to hook up to my router, meaning that on-the-road I get an IP on my LAN. This is handy for copying files and uploading data as you can just drag & drop onto windows shares etc. There is free software for the usual traceroute/dns queries, the one I use even has a basic port scanner.
One cool thing you can do is use it as a network access device. I've not tried it, but in theory you can use it to share a GPRS data connection over an ad-hoc wifi network. You can off course use it as a traditonal BT modem for retro dial-up fun. This is more of a novelty for me, if I had one of the 3G versions using the same platform it would likely be something I'd use all the time.
it's useless to me if I can't open an ssh connection from it.
He he, I'm sure I once saw a terminal server for mine once. There are several remote-management tools you can get; I use SSH and VNC a lot, though you can also use RDP. I mentioned the network analysis tools earlier. You can even get a serial cable so you can use it as a dumb-terminal. I heard someone suggest once that it could be used as a remote-access device hooked up to a server, giving you remote console.
How is it "freedom" if you have to go to certain places to enjoy it? Las Vegas as a city only exists as a city due to the law resulting in casinos. That is a very American thing, probably due to the State-system where there is a large degree of autonomy. I suppose I could compare it to here in Europe where I could pop into my car and drive a couple hundred miles to find a place where I could smoke weed, visit prostitutes or many other things that are banned in many countries. And these things are banned purely on moral grounds; prohibition of both industries has never stopped either of them in the past.
However, despite all this, I would not argue that my native country, Scotland, is more free than America. We aren't, for one we don't even rule our own country though we do have our own legal system which was instrumental in the foundation of generic civil liberties that we all take for granted nowadays.
My point here is that, sure there are places I can theoretically go to indulge in things I would not be able to do here, but I need to travel hundreds of miles to do so. You wouldn't say you had free speach if you you had to go to designated places to do so. (yes, that was a subtle zing...;-) So, IMHO it's not fair to say you have a freedom if it's highly restricted.
I bet there's more money lost gambling in the US than any other nation in the world.
Perhaps, but the Chinese might give you a fair run at that. The casinos in the UK are very popular among the Chinese communities.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was selling at near-cost at retail once you factored in the costs of activation on the network, the store supply chain, tax and so on. If Apple have a good deal with the telco then they may be getting a cut of the network fees. The exclusivity suggests this might be the case; even if it's not most phones on contract are effectively subsedised by the telco and they recoup this semi-loan over the term of the contract. And then there's iTunes, ring tones, accessories and what not. The after-sales market is where it's at with the iPhone IMHO.
...so many slashdot readers are praying for iPhone to go down in flames.
They are a vocal minority. The phrase I heard recently to describe everyone else was "circle-jerk". That's never something I'd ever even considered and I promised myself that I'd use the phrase again.
It's not that people like me want to see it go down in flames. Quite the contrary, I've been waiting for a device like the iPhone for many years. My problem is that I got that device two and a half years ago and I'm still happy with it. I welcome the competition in the market and I value Apple's UI design highly so hopefully they will drag the entire industry forward with them. I've been a mobile early adopter since GSM first came out, so to hear that another large, respected manufacturer has entered the industry is fantastic.
What annoys some of us is that it's being presented as revolutionary. It's not. It might be, if it takes off and in the future changes most peoples outlook on phones. It took the iPod to bring mp3 players to the masses but it wasn't really an evolution change in technology. It was more marketing and design, such as the white headphones serving as a constant "join us, it's great!" advertisement.
The iPhone seems to be advertised to be a leap forward. Now, it may not be Apple doing this, there is a lot of grassroots support for it as is clear based on the volume of news around it, and they may be generating this meme that it's all powerful. The problem is it's not. It would be a downgrade for me. From what I hear it has the same UI problems as the first smartphones. Having to write down numbers for example as there is no cut and paste or hyper-linking of phone numbers in text. Lot's of little quirks have been ironed out over the years; I've been running homebrew ROMs on my mine, so I've seen it at it's worst and at it's best. From reading about people using it, some of the UI is an improvement but it needs work in many places.
This is what annoys us. Sure, for most people the iPhone is a leap forward and it's sure silenced most of the "a phone is just a phone" crowd that I have discussed this with on many previous occasions on Slashdot whenever there is a story about new phone technology. So, for the majority of people, great! Enjoy it. Having the internet in your pocket is awesome, as is the lack of needing to carry around a separate media player. The integration of SMS and email is also very handy. Google maps is great, though personally I prefer things like TomTom that keep the data locally. And so on, there are so many things you can do with a device with this.
Just stop making it sound like you are the first to be doing it!:-)
Has society's attention span gotten so short that we are surprised when news reports on a high-profile new product spans past the Friday it was introduced through the weekend following its introduction?
What does attention span have to do with paid-for advertisements? The Apple marketing campaign for the iPhone has been stellar, it's a thing that they truly excel at.
security concern that's the fault of weak authentication in the AT&T/Cingular voicemail system
While it's interesting, it's no big deal. Voicemail is notoriously insecure. Most people don't even realise that it can usually be accessed from any line and therefore do not change the default password for this.
Several UK reporters were arrested a year or so ago for doing this to the Royal Families phones to hear their messages. Initially the story seemed to be about some hi-tech uber-hack but in the end it came down to that.
A baseball could cause the exact injuries that the pepper spray dispenser did to that poor girl.
As could a nightstick, it's all in the application of the weapon. The problem is that you occasionally get cops who think it is funny to hit people in the face and chest with these things.
unless it starts to shrink back into itself and form a singularity before the next Big Bang.
That theory has always appealed to me as it solves once of the major questions of the universe. What led up to the big bang? The idea that the universe expands and collapse suggests that before the big bang there was another universe.
To me, the idea that there needs to be a start-point for the universe seems a little too human. We have the start of our lives, the start of the day and ultimately it all ends for each of us. But the life of an inanimate object isn't quite like that. Why can't the universe have always existed? What is time anyway, other than an abstraction of counting how often something vibrates? Isn't the idea that "it's always been there" far easier to grasp than "once there was nothing, now there is everything"?
why doesn't moore focus his engery on the real rip off artists, like reflexologists who claim they can cure you by tapping your feet with a piece of wood.
Because they aren't killing people? I do agree with your sentiment, most alternative treatments are nonsense, but there are bigger fish to fry right now. If reflexologists weren't around, their customers would just be spending their cash on psychics and faith-healers.
If you build your own ROMs for your phone you can install some interesting software that persists. For example, you can install a text-sending application on MS phones that will send the SIM details to a predefined number whenever it changes from a pre-approved sim number. As this is in the base ROM it survives a hard-reset. Sure, you could reflash it, but unless the thief knows the platform well and has software development experience then that isn't going to happen. Even if it did, you just cost him 4-8 hours work, devaluing his crime.
Even if the thief sells it on, you could use social engineering to get it back or at least make it worthless. Just text the new owner "This phone is stolen, all phones and messages are being logged and sent to the police" every day. If you wanted to go the whole hog, use one of the services that allow you to spoof the from address and just send it from "911".
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I think so! Under my understanding of the UK Data Protection Act (IANAL), this would have to be an opt-in scheme via a tick box on the contract. It used to be opt-out but this was changed.
Under the terms of the law an organization may not share personal data to another party without your consent. It's a pretty decent law, I don't know how the hell it got passed.
Yes, the data is large amount of polling information that will be consolidated later offline.
-kyz also suggested that and I might give it a go, using what I mentioned in reply to his post.
Thanks for the replies!
The problem with that approach is that the objects are generated by a serialisation framework that normally uses it's own document writer. Writing my own might be an option, but it throws away part of the benefit of XML in that you can use standard libraries that do the dirty work and it also creates a dependency between my code and the schema generation.
What may work however is a writer that uses the serialisation framework at a node level to append it's output to an existing output stream. I may give that a go as CSV has it's limitations.
For very large systems it works well that way. You don't want to have to retest every module due to a library upgrade in one, the ideal situation is where you can unit test the module and it's interface and just know that the rest of the application works based off that. With a J2EE container you can easily deploy several related but abstracted services that use different versions of their libraries. Once written, a module can be left untouched as long as it meets your needs.
I use CSV and XML regularly. I only use CSV is when I encounter XMLs big weakness...the ability to cheaply append to a file several million times over a few hours.
If anyone knows a way to do this efficiently in XML I'd love to hear it. From what I understand, all of the document writers will recreate the whole file on each write.
One of two things will happen...they will either have a human groking the "top" domains they've snatched, or it will be automatic. Either way it costs them money to deal with it.
Could be similar to the way cartographers sometimes include deliberate errors in maps such as misspelt streets or a small imaginary cul-de-sac. Helps spot the most obvious knock-offs.
Damn, that is clever. I spotted the little guy but never thought anything of it.
In the first Half Life 2 the training ball that you play with when you first get the gravity gun has a secret power; it's attracted to enemies and they are attracted to it. In Ravenholm you can just fire it into a corner and all the enemies will move out of your way and they pointlessly chase it down. You can keep it until the end of the Ravenholm section, but you absolutely cannot carry it beyond there. Unless someone has a solution I've not tried to get it over the fence on the bucket lift?
Sounds like every IT shop on the planet that's been around for 5+ years.
This is great. I hope they get sued for every infingement, as that would only be fair. By infringment I mean every single IP address that they looked at. I'd say that based on their methods that's pretty much the entire p2p community.
You are completely wrong. The web browsers on mobiles are fully functional. I use Opera myself, it renders as well as if not better than Safari. It's a mature product and the UI is good.
There is no such thing as "Web 2.0 specifications". It's just a moniker for user-submitted content.
I've got an HTC Blue Angel, which is also known as a Orange SPV2000 or T-Mobile MDA2s. I think! The problem is that the company that makes them (HTC) has only recently began selling phones under it's own brand. The rebranding from telcos makes it complicated and has definitely killed brand recognition in their products. Don't bother with this one, it's not far off being three years old now and there are better ones available. My next one would be likely be the HTC TyTN as wifi is essential to me.
Quick feature rundown is: slide-out qwerty keyboard, wifi, bluetooth, 128meg storage (it's old), sd-card. Built in email supports imaps, which I waited years to get on a phone. SSL is essential IMHO and pop is useless for accessing mail from multiple locations. I just run my own mail server (courier-imaps on debian). Connection speed is GPRS but the one I linked is 3G. Keyboard is also essential IMHO, if you want to write anything longer than a 160-character text message. SSH on a touch-screen keyboard is horrible; the dictionary doesn't help obviously and using vi is a nightmare without a keyboard.
I also have OpenVNC set up to hook up to my router, meaning that on-the-road I get an IP on my LAN. This is handy for copying files and uploading data as you can just drag & drop onto windows shares etc. There is free software for the usual traceroute/dns queries, the one I use even has a basic port scanner.
One cool thing you can do is use it as a network access device. I've not tried it, but in theory you can use it to share a GPRS data connection over an ad-hoc wifi network. You can off course use it as a traditonal BT modem for retro dial-up fun. This is more of a novelty for me, if I had one of the 3G versions using the same platform it would likely be something I'd use all the time.
He he, I'm sure I once saw a terminal server for mine once. There are several remote-management tools you can get; I use SSH and VNC a lot, though you can also use RDP. I mentioned the network analysis tools earlier. You can even get a serial cable so you can use it as a dumb-terminal. I heard someone suggest once that it could be used as a remote-access device hooked up to a server, giving you remote console.
How is it "freedom" if you have to go to certain places to enjoy it? Las Vegas as a city only exists as a city due to the law resulting in casinos. That is a very American thing, probably due to the State-system where there is a large degree of autonomy. I suppose I could compare it to here in Europe where I could pop into my car and drive a couple hundred miles to find a place where I could smoke weed, visit prostitutes or many other things that are banned in many countries. And these things are banned purely on moral grounds; prohibition of both industries has never stopped either of them in the past.
However, despite all this, I would not argue that my native country, Scotland, is more free than America. We aren't, for one we don't even rule our own country though we do have our own legal system which was instrumental in the foundation of generic civil liberties that we all take for granted nowadays.
My point here is that, sure there are places I can theoretically go to indulge in things I would not be able to do here, but I need to travel hundreds of miles to do so. You wouldn't say you had free speach if you you had to go to designated places to do so. (yes, that was a subtle zing... ;-) So, IMHO it's not fair to say you have a freedom if it's highly restricted.
Perhaps, but the Chinese might give you a fair run at that. The casinos in the UK are very popular among the Chinese communities.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was selling at near-cost at retail once you factored in the costs of activation on the network, the store supply chain, tax and so on. If Apple have a good deal with the telco then they may be getting a cut of the network fees. The exclusivity suggests this might be the case; even if it's not most phones on contract are effectively subsedised by the telco and they recoup this semi-loan over the term of the contract. And then there's iTunes, ring tones, accessories and what not. The after-sales market is where it's at with the iPhone IMHO.
They are a vocal minority. The phrase I heard recently to describe everyone else was "circle-jerk". That's never something I'd ever even considered and I promised myself that I'd use the phrase again.
It's not that people like me want to see it go down in flames. Quite the contrary, I've been waiting for a device like the iPhone for many years. My problem is that I got that device two and a half years ago and I'm still happy with it. I welcome the competition in the market and I value Apple's UI design highly so hopefully they will drag the entire industry forward with them. I've been a mobile early adopter since GSM first came out, so to hear that another large, respected manufacturer has entered the industry is fantastic.
What annoys some of us is that it's being presented as revolutionary. It's not. It might be, if it takes off and in the future changes most peoples outlook on phones. It took the iPod to bring mp3 players to the masses but it wasn't really an evolution change in technology. It was more marketing and design, such as the white headphones serving as a constant "join us, it's great!" advertisement.
The iPhone seems to be advertised to be a leap forward. Now, it may not be Apple doing this, there is a lot of grassroots support for it as is clear based on the volume of news around it, and they may be generating this meme that it's all powerful. The problem is it's not. It would be a downgrade for me. From what I hear it has the same UI problems as the first smartphones. Having to write down numbers for example as there is no cut and paste or hyper-linking of phone numbers in text. Lot's of little quirks have been ironed out over the years; I've been running homebrew ROMs on my mine, so I've seen it at it's worst and at it's best. From reading about people using it, some of the UI is an improvement but it needs work in many places.
This is what annoys us. Sure, for most people the iPhone is a leap forward and it's sure silenced most of the "a phone is just a phone" crowd that I have discussed this with on many previous occasions on Slashdot whenever there is a story about new phone technology. So, for the majority of people, great! Enjoy it. Having the internet in your pocket is awesome, as is the lack of needing to carry around a separate media player. The integration of SMS and email is also very handy. Google maps is great, though personally I prefer things like TomTom that keep the data locally. And so on, there are so many things you can do with a device with this.
Just stop making it sound like you are the first to be doing it! :-)
What does attention span have to do with paid-for advertisements? The Apple marketing campaign for the iPhone has been stellar, it's a thing that they truly excel at.
While it's interesting, it's no big deal. Voicemail is notoriously insecure. Most people don't even realise that it can usually be accessed from any line and therefore do not change the default password for this.
Several UK reporters were arrested a year or so ago for doing this to the Royal Families phones to hear their messages. Initially the story seemed to be about some hi-tech uber-hack but in the end it came down to that.
Because we are Slashdotters, we have watched Star Trek and already own a device that does everything the iPhone does. :-)
Granted it doesn't have a cool logo and look as pretty, but as geeks we aren't supposed to care about such things!
As could a nightstick, it's all in the application of the weapon. The problem is that you occasionally get cops who think it is funny to hit people in the face and chest with these things.
Actually, on a personal freedom level it's a huge deal. If I want to grow a plant and smoke it at home, why should that be illegal?
Remember, you are trying to claim that the most free nation is the one that once banned alcohol. Where's the freedom in that?
I'd place a bet on that, but I believe that gambling is immoral and therefore illegal in the USA.
Has He looked down the back of the sofa? That's where I usually find things.
That theory has always appealed to me as it solves once of the major questions of the universe. What led up to the big bang? The idea that the universe expands and collapse suggests that before the big bang there was another universe.
To me, the idea that there needs to be a start-point for the universe seems a little too human. We have the start of our lives, the start of the day and ultimately it all ends for each of us. But the life of an inanimate object isn't quite like that. Why can't the universe have always existed? What is time anyway, other than an abstraction of counting how often something vibrates? Isn't the idea that "it's always been there" far easier to grasp than "once there was nothing, now there is everything"?
Because they aren't killing people? I do agree with your sentiment, most alternative treatments are nonsense, but there are bigger fish to fry right now. If reflexologists weren't around, their customers would just be spending their cash on psychics and faith-healers.
If you build your own ROMs for your phone you can install some interesting software that persists. For example, you can install a text-sending application on MS phones that will send the SIM details to a predefined number whenever it changes from a pre-approved sim number. As this is in the base ROM it survives a hard-reset. Sure, you could reflash it, but unless the thief knows the platform well and has software development experience then that isn't going to happen. Even if it did, you just cost him 4-8 hours work, devaluing his crime.
Even if the thief sells it on, you could use social engineering to get it back or at least make it worthless. Just text the new owner "This phone is stolen, all phones and messages are being logged and sent to the police" every day. If you wanted to go the whole hog, use one of the services that allow you to spoof the from address and just send it from "911".