They didn't track the phone in this case either. They recorded the cell sites the SIM card was connected to when the device performed an action which would attract a charge. Extremely different things.
I see you seem to be infinitely more into the matter than I am. However, I understand the cell concept and that tracking -if you allow me to use this expression- essentially isn't that accurate. But this very rudimentary way of locating devices would maybe helpful in some way in solving device theft. Maybe certain patterns cam lead to a stolen device. Or even device concentrations may eventually lead to a dealer in stolen goods.
I also understand that not always the device can be located. But the effort the police and the carriers go through in most countries in order to solve phone theft is negligible. IMHO there's an element of letting it go because either 1) insurances or you yourself will pay for a new phone or 2) there's more serious crime to fight or 3) it's horribly tedious to track devices as nobody really tried in a structured way yet.
It's in any way very odd to find records of all your movements and to seeing virtually nothing good happening with them. I'd not be surprised that if it suits government agencies that then all of a sudden the gathered records can be used against you.
This is double taxation sort of. Most people pay fees for listening to music at home and then more fees need to be paid in order to listen to the same stuff somewhere else.
It seems to me that CMU's made the very obvious decision that today, OO is a tool for craftsmen, not for freshman computer scientists.
When I was studying compilers were the thing and now they aren't any more. Would that mean compiler theory should no longer be taught? And if we agree there is merit in teaching compiler building, what will be done in the lab?
Same goes for assembly, procedural languages and OO languages. In most OO languages you can program in a procedural way if you really really want to. However, a switch to the OO paradigm will almost certainly allow you to better divide your problems in sub-problems and separately solve these, a bit in a modular fashion. And thus you'll be able to solve whatever you want in a more structured way. Structure is not a bad by-product when science is studied.
The discussion of modularity and parallelism in OO is indeed a very academic one and should be fought the Dijkstra way with pencil, paper and eraser. But we should realise that most of us simply aren't Dijkstras and that modularity and parallelism lab exercises using OO languages would not irreversibly compromise the soul.
The irony is that after your phone is stolen both police and providers will claim they cannot track the device. That surely is a very comfortable way of lying your way out of doing some useful work.
By selling their domain they would be effectively destroying the brand and that would be utterly foolish. It would destroy much more capital than the million it's allegedly worth.
Bandwidth is increasing and disk space is getting cheaper so now we can afford this luxury. Pretty soon we will have formats like FLAI (Free Lossless Audio Inflated) whereby original tracks are bloated for no reason other than beauty of the ASCII art representation when run through od -x.
Don't laugh at me yet. We've had this since Emacs.
Sorry Rich. I know I drove a Buck knife in your back right now but I couldn't resist.
We here in the Northeast US are far enough east that during the winter, we go to work in the dark and we come home in the dark.
Think a bit harder and you'll find out that north is the cardinal direction that plays that nasty trick on you. I mean, you're on/. at the end of the day. (Pun got in but lucky coincidence.)
Texting is something we all do reluctantly. It's the way to reach older phones without data plans. And as long as data plans are too expensive to give to the whole family, texting will remain.
My wife and kids have smart phones without data plans, just plain prepaid service. Synchronising contacts and rearing mail can all be done near a wifi hotspot. Saves us tons of money.
There will be a time when data plans are cheap. But the time isn't now.
Great way to save the planet!! Now I can chuck away my PC even quicker.
Kidding aside, I usually first buy myself a case I can hold on to for longer and then I buy the internals. All 3 cases I have -and need- are well into their second life and in 1 to 2 years will go into their third life.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories but this smells like yet another way to get Julian into Norway where he will be kidnapped and brought to Sweden where the US forces will bring him to the world series court of justice.
How many lazy bum parents do not really give a toss about what their kids are up to?
How many think education is simply telling off?
How many try curb internet access mainly for legal reasons?
How many try curb internet access for so called moral reasons?
The basic of education in a civilized society is knowing good from bad. (Be good to others but don't be a fool. Others may not be all good. Porn will come your way eventually and you should know that in real life stuff doesn't go like that. Sexuality has a lot to do with respect and NOTHING with taking unfair advantage. Laws are to be respected. Etc...)
Teaching kids about these things takes patience and time. Watching Oprah or Doc Phil and nodding at the TV set is useless unless you get your arse and mind out of that comfy chair.
First get your arse into gear. And only when everything you really tried hard fails, then you start spying on your kids. And BTW, spying you will loose you the respect from your kids.
Paraphrasing Tom Hanks in some corny movie: I don't get it!
What's the exact rationale for this I ask myself?
Saudi women care for their privacy more than women of other nationalities. (Not very likely.)
Saudi women are more afraid of men than women of other nationalities. (Not very likely.)
Saudi men are more to be mistrusted than men of other nationalities. (Not very likely.)
Or maybe a certain religious movement in Saudi culture "induces" women to initiate such division. The "inducement" is enforced through sanctions whereby participation to the social network is rendered impossible.
I have given the subject a lot more thought than apparent here. In my opinion a free society should refrain from facilitating religious costumes that can be used to potentially enforce limitations on groups.
E.g. wearing clothes that facilitate or even portray submissiveness, segregation, exclusion, etc...
The argument that women want these limitations themselves is invalid as it most likely an outcome of peer pressure. Freedom comes at the price that you have to learn to deal with interactions with a large variety of people of mixed backgrounds and of mixed gender. Shame on the body facilitating this separation!
Thanks for the link. I couldn't see anyone being named personally. IMHO this is a humorous piece of work and does not accurately portray the true feelings towards the kids. I'm on the teacher's side here.
Those who have access to your password:
At the computer parts supplier: The email administrator of the outbound mail server, the application support team, the database administrator.
On your end: The email administrator, the spam filter administrator, anyone shoulder surfing.
I'd stop doing business with that company.
Well that's basically everyone and their dog. I know. The problem is their service otherwise is flawless and I'm willing to take the chance.
They basically gave themselves away by emailing passwords as a reminder. A very marginally less grave situation would be if they would store passwords but wouldn't email them to me (or anyone else.)
Ask yourself if the shops you are dealing with store your password as clear text. Done that? Are you completely sure they won't? Not very reassuring, is it?
It's not the crackers I fear but the idiots building web applications with crap security. I am not shitting you when I say that my computer parts supplier -whom I highly esteem- periodically sends me a clear text message containing my user name AND password. Just to keep me abreast. I've already emailed them that it is absolutely unacceptable that my password is saved as clear text but a sensible reply never came about.
I stopped imagining how the shop functions and who has access to my password and resolved to never use that password anywhere else, to refrain from storing any payment information on the site and to wire instead every purchase I make. Worst case here is that some joker logs in and orders a shit load of items and I have to explain to the supplier that they are idiots.
Generally speaking, when a node is compromised then password security is lost as there mostly will be a process reading your password in clear text. Using mechanisms with private and public keys will not expose your private key but the session on the server side is pretty much useless.
Then again, there isn't yet a generic system available whereby you own a private key in hardware which you yourself do not even know, which works on every conceivable operating system. If think you have already the answer then consider that storing your private key on a host you think will never be compromised is pretty endearing or actually incredibly pathetic.
There should be laws against storing clear text passwords and against organisations not being able to recognise if their systems are compromised. My take is this will take a few decades though.
Hell, there are cities where you get killed if you wind up in the wrong 'hood.
That'd be an interesting addition to urban GPS maps. "Do not drive through the red areas marked on the map at all. Enter your gang name to display additional safe and unsafe areas for you."
I once actually worked for a car navigator producing company. One problem they had was to navigate around dangerous 'hoods without being called racist.
On one side they didn't want to offend anyone and on the other side they didn't want to get anyone killed either.
Don't know how they solved this one.
I'm doing a skipper course where navigation and calculating water levels are the most stressed topics. I quickly realised that going to sea without training will get you killed pretty soon and very certainly. Same holds for deserts and wilderness in general. Hell, there are cities where you get killed if you wind up in the wrong 'hood.
The thing is that so many times all will be well with a car, a desert and a some navigation gadget. Taking care of the exceptions is the hard part. Very much like coding.
With great joy we consumed the full IPv4 address space and I feel like at the end of a bacchanal. I mesmerise the goodness we had.
In time, IPv6 will provide an inconceivably large address space and IPv4 will only be run for nostalgic reasons by a few bearded men and several pigeons. Inevitably, in mind, IPv4 will be parked along side the split baud rate modems we cherished so much.
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They didn't track the phone in this case either. They recorded the cell sites the SIM card was connected to when the device performed an action which would attract a charge. Extremely different things.
I see you seem to be infinitely more into the matter than I am. However, I understand the cell concept and that tracking -if you allow me to use this expression- essentially isn't that accurate. But this very rudimentary way of locating devices would maybe helpful in some way in solving device theft. Maybe certain patterns cam lead to a stolen device. Or even device concentrations may eventually lead to a dealer in stolen goods.
I also understand that not always the device can be located. But the effort the police and the carriers go through in most countries in order to solve phone theft is negligible. IMHO there's an element of letting it go because either 1) insurances or you yourself will pay for a new phone or 2) there's more serious crime to fight or 3) it's horribly tedious to track devices as nobody really tried in a structured way yet.
It's in any way very odd to find records of all your movements and to seeing virtually nothing good happening with them. I'd not be surprised that if it suits government agencies that then all of a sudden the gathered records can be used against you.
This is double taxation sort of. Most people pay fees for listening to music at home and then more fees need to be paid in order to listen to the same stuff somewhere else.
It seems to me that CMU's made the very obvious decision that today, OO is a tool for craftsmen, not for freshman computer scientists.
When I was studying compilers were the thing and now they aren't any more. Would that mean compiler theory should no longer be taught? And if we agree there is merit in teaching compiler building, what will be done in the lab?
Same goes for assembly, procedural languages and OO languages. In most OO languages you can program in a procedural way if you really really want to. However, a switch to the OO paradigm will almost certainly allow you to better divide your problems in sub-problems and separately solve these, a bit in a modular fashion. And thus you'll be able to solve whatever you want in a more structured way. Structure is not a bad by-product when science is studied.
The discussion of modularity and parallelism in OO is indeed a very academic one and should be fought the Dijkstra way with pencil, paper and eraser. But we should realise that most of us simply aren't Dijkstras and that modularity and parallelism lab exercises using OO languages would not irreversibly compromise the soul.
The irony is that after your phone is stolen both police and providers will claim they cannot track the device. That surely is a very comfortable way of lying your way out of doing some useful work.
By selling their domain they would be effectively destroying the brand and that would be utterly foolish. It would destroy much more capital than the million it's allegedly worth.
Hmmm,... I wonder,... Could there maybe be a market for a life size action figurine of Pamela Anderson?
A last moment request to the developers: Please make exiting of the reference client the key sequence ESC:wq\n and not Ctr-X Ctrl-C. Please?!
Copying successful competitor isn't something to be ashamed of.
Unless you fail that is... Twice potentially...
Bandwidth is increasing and disk space is getting cheaper so now we can afford this luxury. Pretty soon we will have formats like FLAI (Free Lossless Audio Inflated) whereby original tracks are bloated for no reason other than beauty of the ASCII art representation when run through od -x.
Don't laugh at me yet. We've had this since Emacs.
Sorry Rich. I know I drove a Buck knife in your back right now but I couldn't resist.
My name is BMO ...
I tried pronouncing that and had to give up.
We here in the Northeast US are far enough east that during the winter, we go to work in the dark and we come home in the dark.
Think a bit harder and you'll find out that north is the cardinal direction that plays that nasty trick on you. I mean, you're on /. at the end of the day. (Pun got in but lucky coincidence.)
Texting is something we all do reluctantly. It's the way to reach older phones without data plans. And as long as data plans are too expensive to give to the whole family, texting will remain.
My wife and kids have smart phones without data plans, just plain prepaid service. Synchronising contacts and rearing mail can all be done near a wifi hotspot. Saves us tons of money.
There will be a time when data plans are cheap. But the time isn't now.
No one wants to be ... second. (Pun half intended.)
Great way to save the planet!! Now I can chuck away my PC even quicker.
Kidding aside, I usually first buy myself a case I can hold on to for longer and then I buy the internals. All 3 cases I have -and need- are well into their second life and in 1 to 2 years will go into their third life.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories but this smells like yet another way to get Julian into Norway where he will be kidnapped and brought to Sweden where the US forces will bring him to the world series court of justice.
Nice code reviews. Way to go whac-a-mole!!!
When you have a tiny bit of quality, these things couldn't really happen and certainly the programmer could never be blamed.
But any which way I put it, the programmer in this case is a truly sorry character.
Sacrifice?!
How many lazy bum parents do not really give a toss about what their kids are up to?
How many think education is simply telling off?
How many try curb internet access mainly for legal reasons?
How many try curb internet access for so called moral reasons?
The basic of education in a civilized society is knowing good from bad. (Be good to others but don't be a fool. Others may not be all good. Porn will come your way eventually and you should know that in real life stuff doesn't go like that. Sexuality has a lot to do with respect and NOTHING with taking unfair advantage. Laws are to be respected. Etc...)
Teaching kids about these things takes patience and time. Watching Oprah or Doc Phil and nodding at the TV set is useless unless you get your arse and mind out of that comfy chair.
First get your arse into gear. And only when everything you really tried hard fails, then you start spying on your kids. And BTW, spying you will loose you the respect from your kids.
What's the exact rationale for this I ask myself?
I have given the subject a lot more thought than apparent here. In my opinion a free society should refrain from facilitating religious costumes that can be used to potentially enforce limitations on groups.
E.g. wearing clothes that facilitate or even portray submissiveness, segregation, exclusion, etc...
The argument that women want these limitations themselves is invalid as it most likely an outcome of peer pressure. Freedom comes at the price that you have to learn to deal with interactions with a large variety of people of mixed backgrounds and of mixed gender. Shame on the body facilitating this separation!
Thanks for the link. I couldn't see anyone being named personally. IMHO this is a humorous piece of work and does not accurately portray the true feelings towards the kids. I'm on the teacher's side here.
Those who have access to your password: At the computer parts supplier: The email administrator of the outbound mail server, the application support team, the database administrator.
On your end: The email administrator, the spam filter administrator, anyone shoulder surfing.
I'd stop doing business with that company.
Well that's basically everyone and their dog. I know. The problem is their service otherwise is flawless and I'm willing to take the chance.
They basically gave themselves away by emailing passwords as a reminder. A very marginally less grave situation would be if they would store passwords but wouldn't email them to me (or anyone else.)
Ask yourself if the shops you are dealing with store your password as clear text. Done that? Are you completely sure they won't? Not very reassuring, is it?
It's not the crackers I fear but the idiots building web applications with crap security. I am not shitting you when I say that my computer parts supplier -whom I highly esteem- periodically sends me a clear text message containing my user name AND password. Just to keep me abreast. I've already emailed them that it is absolutely unacceptable that my password is saved as clear text but a sensible reply never came about.
I stopped imagining how the shop functions and who has access to my password and resolved to never use that password anywhere else, to refrain from storing any payment information on the site and to wire instead every purchase I make. Worst case here is that some joker logs in and orders a shit load of items and I have to explain to the supplier that they are idiots.
Generally speaking, when a node is compromised then password security is lost as there mostly will be a process reading your password in clear text. Using mechanisms with private and public keys will not expose your private key but the session on the server side is pretty much useless.
Then again, there isn't yet a generic system available whereby you own a private key in hardware which you yourself do not even know, which works on every conceivable operating system. If think you have already the answer then consider that storing your private key on a host you think will never be compromised is pretty endearing or actually incredibly pathetic.
There should be laws against storing clear text passwords and against organisations not being able to recognise if their systems are compromised. My take is this will take a few decades though.
Hell, there are cities where you get killed if you wind up in the wrong 'hood.
That'd be an interesting addition to urban GPS maps. "Do not drive through the red areas marked on the map at all. Enter your gang name to display additional safe and unsafe areas for you."
I once actually worked for a car navigator producing company. One problem they had was to navigate around dangerous 'hoods without being called racist.
On one side they didn't want to offend anyone and on the other side they didn't want to get anyone killed either.
Don't know how they solved this one.
The law got my respect. And by all means a fine site if I may say so!
I've done that already the minute Hotmail was bought by Redmond.
Wouldn't want to repeat it.
I'm doing a skipper course where navigation and calculating water levels are the most stressed topics. I quickly realised that going to sea without training will get you killed pretty soon and very certainly. Same holds for deserts and wilderness in general. Hell, there are cities where you get killed if you wind up in the wrong 'hood.
The thing is that so many times all will be well with a car, a desert and a some navigation gadget. Taking care of the exceptions is the hard part. Very much like coding.
With great joy we consumed the full IPv4 address space and I feel like at the end of a bacchanal. I mesmerise the goodness we had.
In time, IPv6 will provide an inconceivably large address space and IPv4 will only be run for nostalgic reasons by a few bearded men and several pigeons. Inevitably, in mind, IPv4 will be parked along side the split baud rate modems we cherished so much.