I've already been working on POC code to exploit that eFuse and make it so once activated you CAN'T possibly install anything on the phone any longer. Once it works, Motorola is going to suffer, hard.
But perhaps not as much as you:
"I've cut my lighting power by 70%. I design energy-efficient hydroponics systems. I'm working on low-energy solutions that make it possible for man to live in space." Re:Among all the "skeptics*" out there
Posts to a forum like Slashdot eventually expose more than enough of the truth about yourself to begin a serious inquiry.
Nicknames can point the way. Language can point the way.
If this was the iPhone they were talking about, there would be front page stories in all the major newspapers and websites saying what a crappy company Apple is for locking down their device.
No.
The iPhone targets the buyer who wants a stylish up-marker smart phone with all the latest conveniences and none of the hassle. The buyer who will - never - willingly crack out open the case or stray from the vetted online store.
That makes the lock-down a front page story only for the geek.
Ben Franklin didn't use his own name when using the newspaper as a forum. He wrote as Silence Dogood
Franklin was 16 years old at the time and apprenticed to the printer, his elder brother, James, something of a hell-raiser himself, and probably none too too pleased at being so casually out-done.
I prefer Firefox's way of offering a basic browser and moving extended or niche features to optional extensions
I've come to suspect that what a geek means by a "basic browser" is the browser that does everything he wants to do and nothing that others want to do - aka "bloat."
Plug-ins like Flash evolved because the browser was a convenient way to access online games, music, videos and so on. Integration of these features makes sense for a whole lot of reasons.
Seriously, I can understand your warranty being voided if you do unapproved modifications to a device, but designing the device so it blows up if you try to modify it is just wrong.
That I think depends on what your mod does.
The cell phone service - the cell phone network - is not the geek's private playground.
If your cell phone purchase is tied to your contract of service what you probably have is something that looks less like ownership and more like a lease.
They could just focus on bankrupting college students as a business, and not even bother to create an incentive to go to the theaters.
The student makes the choice.
The Red Box rental is $1.
Netflix plans start at $9 a month. HD streams at no extra charge.
The student has a theater on campus - which he subsidizes through his student union. His student ID translates to free admission and discounts elsewhere.
He has easily affordable access to a far broader range of live entertainment, film and video, than anyone living off campus.
It is laziness and greed that draws him to the P2P nets.
The government can run 50-fiber bundles under all the streets, and then lease each of those lines to a different company. The customers would be able to choose among multiple ISPs: Comcast, Cox, Time-warner, AppleTV, Verizon, Virgin, Mom&Pop Cable, whatever. If one ISP sucks or blocks a website you want, just switch to a different ISP. You'd have upto 50 to choose from.
Why would 50 ISPs enter a small rural or suburban market of say 500 households - something to be split 50 ways?
There is no profit in that for anyone.
Why should the government commit to such a ridiculously out-sized investment in infrastructure?
They test everything and historically have been fairly reliable since they don't accept advertising dollars from the manufacturers of the products they test, unlike most magazines and websites.
Consumer Reports doesn't run "outside" adds of any kind. Consumer Reports (first published 1936) doesn't accept product samples. Its staff buys retail.
For that reason, the products it tests are solidly middle class choices - easily accessible and broadly affordable.
DNA fingerprints are not as random as many think. The markers used were not designed for a nation wide database situation. Hence collisions could be a big problem. That is two people with the same fingerprint (at least at the very small parts of DNA we look at) can in fact be very likely with a database this size.
The collision is a problem only if both are plausible suspects:
The Korean War vet in a California hospice is almost certainly not the serial rapist and killer who has been stalking women in New Jersey the past six months.
I would guess that many home XP users have found their computer infected enough times to find that it was cheaper to buy a new one than it was to pay a shop three hours to clean it up.
The number of PC users is usually estimated at around 1 billion.
Call it 900 million users for versions of all versions of Windows and 600 million users for XP.
There are only three PC repair shops prosperous enough to afford a banner add in my suburban phone book - and eight in the metropolitan area, population 1.1 million. (Google Maps)
The Windows system isn't that hard to maintain.
The Windows user is - by definition - middle class and can be even more parsimonious - or budget-conscious, if you prefer - than the geek.
Contrary to geek fantasy, he does not trash aging PCs for no intelligible reason.
Money is money because people believe it is money. Gold-backed currency needs to have people believing that the government is actually going to turn the currency into gold (and not, say, end the gold standard).
Fort Know holds about 368,000 standard 400 troy ounce (12.4 kg) gold bars worth around $173 billion. United States Bullion Depository
In good times and bad, Microsoft alone rakes in around $60 billion a year. Revenues which are re-invested - not translated into treasure coins and stuffed under a mattress.
Really, just an honest question, if the bulk of humanity can't watch this in the manner it was designed for..why bother? Isn't this like driving around a 3 ton SUV to get to work in?
No.
It's more like the open air cinema projects that began in the silent era:
Aren't we supposed to be all doing our part to just stop wasting resources for the hell of it?
I am tempted to argue that the geek sees bandwidth as waste - any resource as a waste - only when someone else has it - uses it - and is willing to pay the price.
The argument is specious anyway.
The 4Kx2K movie can be stamped onto a cheap plastic disk. Delivered by mail or streamed off a satellite.
Bandwith is a problem only when you want instant gratification.
Does it really matter if the 4Kx2K Monsters vs Aliens takes two or three days to download in the background at very low priority?
It's actually the government's fault, Nixon's fault to be precise.
Corn syrup began replacing cane sugar in World War II - because of wartime rationing and losses of freighters to the U-Boats prowling the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
They'd have been better off releasing this at a hacker convention than to do it through university channels. Don't you think they (the Chinese) keep track of it?
The hacker convention - like most such affairs - might as well book the Holiday Inn at Fort Meade. The National Cryptologic Museum - a hop, skip and jump away from NSA Headquarters - is fun for older kids and they even have a gift shop.
I'm not interested enough to read details, but I'm pretty sure that folks did UUCP (including email) over HAM radio decades ago.
It doesn't matter what you think you remember. What matters is what is exposed in the body of the patent - not in the introduction and not in an abstract.
Some humans seem to be able to see a little further into UV, but nothing like chickens or certain insects.
In WWII the OSS recruited elderly volunteers with cataracts who could see into the UV range. They were posted as coast watchers for communication with submarines and landing parties.
One of the best reads around for the real world of spy tech is Stanley Lovell's Of Spies and Stratagems. Lovell was the OSS "Moriarty" - a later generation would see him "Q," and no less an enthusiastic, inventive and deadly prankster.
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I *do* like airborne assassinations....
But is that something you would say - or would enjoying explaining - to a less receptive audience than the gamer's forum on Slashdot?
I've already been working on POC code to exploit that eFuse and make it so once activated you CAN'T possibly install anything on the phone any longer. Once it works, Motorola is going to suffer, hard.
But perhaps not as much as you:
"I've cut my lighting power by 70%. I design energy-efficient hydroponics systems. I'm working on low-energy solutions that make it possible for man to live in space." Re:Among all the "skeptics*" out there
Posts to a forum like Slashdot eventually expose more than enough of the truth about yourself to begin a serious inquiry.
Nicknames can point the way. Language can point the way.
Honestly, while I realize that there are some people out there using IE, I almost never make it a priority in development.
I would be interested in knowing who your clients are.
IE's global market share is 60%. IE 8's share alone is 25%. Browser Version Market Share
The mobile platforms remain quite insignificant in terms of web browsing. Operating System Market Share
If this was the iPhone they were talking about, there would be front page stories in all the major newspapers and websites saying what a crappy company Apple is for locking down their device.
No.
The iPhone targets the buyer who wants a stylish up-marker smart phone with all the latest conveniences and none of the hassle. The buyer who will - never - willingly crack out open the case or stray from the vetted online store.
That makes the lock-down a front page story only for the geek.
but I will decide what software is "authorized" to run on my phone!
That would depend on what your software is intended to do. The cell phone service - the cell phone network - is not your private playground.
Ben Franklin didn't use his own name when using the newspaper as a forum. He wrote as Silence Dogood
Franklin was 16 years old at the time and apprenticed to the printer, his elder brother, James, something of a hell-raiser himself, and probably none too too pleased at being so casually out-done.
I prefer Firefox's way of offering a basic browser and moving extended or niche features to optional extensions
I've come to suspect that what a geek means by a "basic browser" is the browser that does everything he wants to do and nothing that others want to do - aka "bloat."
Plug-ins like Flash evolved because the browser was a convenient way to access online games, music, videos and so
on. Integration of these features makes sense for a whole lot of reasons.
Seriously, I can understand your warranty being voided if you do unapproved modifications to a device, but designing the device so it blows up if you try to modify it is just wrong.
That I think depends on what your mod does.
The cell phone service - the cell phone network - is not the geek's private playground.
If your cell phone purchase is tied to your contract of service what you probably have is something that looks less like ownership and more like a lease.
The problem is that what made the Android OS a serious competitor to Apple was that it wasn't locked.
That is the Android's appeal to the geek.
But is it really what sells the Android based phone in the larger cell phone market?
Whoopy fucking do. Booting foreign operating systems is out, 3D is in. Totally repositioned as a toy.
It's called a Playstation, remember?
Eliminating the OtherOS removes a distraction. It shifts focus back to the PS3's core markets.
It used to.
Pure rage on Slashdot.
The usual threats of lawsuits and boycotts - and as usual nothing ever comes of it.
The OtherOS is but a memory now.
They could just focus on bankrupting college students as a business, and not even bother to create an incentive to go to the theaters.
The student makes the choice.
The Red Box rental is $1.
Netflix plans start at $9 a month. HD streams at no extra charge.
The student has a theater on campus - which he subsidizes through his student union. His student ID translates to free admission and discounts elsewhere.
He has easily affordable access to a far broader range of live entertainment, film and video, than anyone living off campus.
It is laziness and greed that draws him to the P2P nets.
The government can run 50-fiber bundles under all the streets, and then lease each of those lines to a different company. The customers would be able to choose among multiple ISPs: Comcast, Cox, Time-warner, AppleTV, Verizon, Virgin, Mom&Pop Cable, whatever. If one ISP sucks or blocks a website you want, just switch to a different ISP. You'd have upto 50 to choose from.
Why would 50 ISPs enter a small rural or suburban market of say 500 households - something to be split 50 ways?
There is no profit in that for anyone.
Why should the government commit to such a ridiculously out-sized investment in infrastructure?
They test everything and historically have been fairly reliable since they don't accept advertising dollars from the manufacturers of the products they test, unlike most magazines and websites.
Consumer Reports doesn't run "outside" adds of any kind. Consumer Reports (first published 1936) doesn't accept product samples. Its staff buys retail.
For that reason, the products it tests are solidly middle class choices - easily accessible and broadly affordable.
DNA fingerprints are not as random as many think. The markers used were not designed for a nation wide database situation. Hence collisions could be a big problem. That is two people with the same fingerprint (at least at the very small parts of DNA we look at) can in fact be very likely with a database this size.
The collision is a problem only if both are plausible suspects:
The Korean War vet in a California hospice is almost certainly not the serial rapist and killer who has been stalking women in New Jersey the past six months.
That article states SP2 is still used on 50% of XP machines
That article - wait for it - was posted on a QualysGuard page.
Not a disinterested observer.
Think "enterprise-grade" security and compliance suites.
Think customers the size of DuPont.
The Jelly Belly Candy Company. The Florida Department of Health.
I would guess that many home XP users have found their computer infected enough times to find that it was cheaper to buy a new one than it was to pay a shop three hours to clean it up.
The number of PC users is usually estimated at around 1 billion.
Call it 900 million users for versions of all versions of Windows and 600 million users for XP.
There are only three PC repair shops prosperous enough to afford a banner add in my suburban phone book - and eight in the metropolitan area, population 1.1 million. (Google Maps)
The Windows system isn't that hard to maintain.
The Windows user is - by definition - middle class and can be even more parsimonious - or budget-conscious, if you prefer - than the geek.
Contrary to geek fantasy, he does not trash aging PCs for no intelligible reason.
Money is money because people believe it is money. Gold-backed currency needs to have people believing that the government is actually going to turn the currency into gold (and not, say, end the gold standard).
Fort Know holds about 368,000 standard 400 troy ounce (12.4 kg) gold bars worth around $173 billion. United States Bullion Depository
In good times and bad, Microsoft alone rakes in around $60 billion a year. Revenues which are re-invested - not translated into treasure coins and stuffed under a mattress.
Given that the gold standard is gone, I'd like to see those guarantees too. Your paper money is virtual as well.
So is your bank account. Your life insurance. Your retirement fund. Your line of credit. Nothing but entries in a ledger.
I wonder what Freud would say about such "extreme caving"?
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." A good smoke.
Who has a 25 foot screen at home?
Well, someone must be buying them, when even Walmart has them for sale:
Draper Cineflex Cineperm Fixed Frame Screen - 25' diagonal NTSC Format
Really, just an honest question, if the bulk of humanity can't watch this in the manner it was designed for..why bother? Isn't this like driving around a 3 ton SUV to get to work in?
No.
It's more like the open air cinema projects that began in the silent era:
Open Air Cinema, Open Air Cinema & Film Aid in Tanzania
FilmAid International
Aren't we supposed to be all doing our part to just stop wasting resources for the hell of it?
I am tempted to argue that the geek sees bandwidth as waste - any resource as a waste - only when someone else has it - uses it - and is willing to pay the price.
The argument is specious anyway.
The 4Kx2K movie can be stamped onto a cheap plastic disk. Delivered by mail or streamed off a satellite.
Bandwith is a problem only when you want instant gratification.
Does it really matter if the 4Kx2K Monsters vs Aliens takes two or three days to download in the background at very low priority?
Corn syrup began replacing cane sugar in World War II - because of wartime rationing and losses of freighters to the U-Boats prowling the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
They'd have been better off releasing this at a hacker convention than to do it through university channels. Don't you think they (the Chinese) keep track of it?
The hacker convention - like most such affairs - might as well book the Holiday Inn at Fort Meade. The National Cryptologic Museum - a hop, skip and jump away from NSA Headquarters - is fun for older kids and they even have a gift shop.
I'm not interested enough to read details, but I'm pretty sure that folks did UUCP (including email) over HAM radio decades ago.
It doesn't matter what you think you remember. What matters is what is exposed in the body of the patent - not in the introduction and not in an abstract.
Some humans seem to be able to see a little further into UV, but nothing like chickens or certain insects.
In WWII the OSS recruited elderly volunteers with cataracts who could see into the UV range. They were posted as coast watchers for communication with submarines and landing parties.
One of the best reads around for the real world of spy tech is Stanley Lovell's Of Spies and Stratagems. Lovell was the OSS "Moriarty" - a later generation would see him "Q," and no less an enthusiastic, inventive and deadly prankster.