Another "solution" is to release software that is so bad or that does something so useless that no one will bother to crack it.
Or you can embarrass the cracker. In the prehistoric Apple II+ days, we released "Text-Res Tic-Tac-Toe" and marked it "Cracked by Mr. Crackman" (he was a typical name on cracked software).
And the Lord sayeth, "sucketh the horse's cocketh, and drink the milk of the stallion. Feel now, the stallion's fruits, roll them around in your hands. You shalleth be granteth eternal life"
So PA is making a mistake because the boom from Fracking may only last a decade or two? Isn't that like feeling sorry for someone because their massive lottery payments only run 30 years and then they'll have no income?
Unfortunately, no. PA is made up of many individuals and they do not all benefit equally. Those that don't benefit enough will still need income later, when their water wells are all polluted and suddenly they have to truck water in from out of state. The water wars are next.
My Address Book information is personal data. This is less an Apple problem than an Evil Developer problem: they're the ones stealing contacts without asking.
Hell, why does Angry Birds need my Location Services info?
No shit your Address Book is personal data and any Dev stealing that is evil. My point was that the article says 21% "steal" the UDID, which is just a serial number, not personal data. My guess on Angry Birds is they have a geography-based leaderboard you can check out (I know an air-traffic controller game that does).
if you track a 'serial number' of a device enough, you can easily map the tracked to particular persons after you amass a certain size of data. this is what websites are doing.
Perhaps if the application is a web browser, that would mean something, but I can't imagine too many people using an alternate web browser. With any other app, you get the fact that they used your own app only - perhaps multiple apps if you make them. If no OTHER data is leaked, you get nothing else.
I'm not so sure about UDID giving away no more privacy than IP.
IP doesn't identify a single device, thanks to NATs and dynamic pools and conversely same device isn't bound to single IP, it's many to many relation. To track someone specific you need more than his IP, like a cookie, for example. And many indeed disable browser cookies for this very reason, just as you propose.
UDID, on the other hand, is a strict one to one relation, it's unchangeable, linked to single device and can't be disabled. UDID is much better suitable for tracking and collating info across different sources. Add a little bit more, and you're tracking a user even after a new phone purchase.
If only a UDID is extracted, you are tracking a SERIAL NUMBER only - not a person.
I wish I had mod points to bump you up. The UDID is nothing more than a device serial number. That is not personal data. Of course all the haters will scream, "See, Apple is evil!" Over-hyped nonsense.
In addition, the UDID is not a big threat in terms of "personal data." It is nothing more than a serial number of the device. Big-fucking-whoop. So you got my serial number; I couldn't care less. The number leaking actual personal data is more like 0.0000001%.
Frankly, twits who complain about over-population, and pollution, and want to see the human race be declinded are annoying.
If it is something you feel so intensely about, you can always improve matters through suicide. But no, sir, you don't have the right to make that decision for another individual.
There's no reason to start name-calling. The fact is, we have pretty much screwed up this planet. I didn't complain about over-population and I didn't say I wanted the human race to decline. I merely state that perhaps it's better if we stay put so we don't screw up other parts of the universe.
No, they wouldn't. The introduction of that much Platinum would make Platinum cheaper than Copper. Too much supply + too little demand = worthless. They can only truly profit by keeping supplies scarce. The same reason the corporations oppose sustainable fuels and support intellectual property rules.
That might be the case if we're talking about Norway, but the U.S. safety net system is a pretty shitty hammock. Someone living on welfare is doing well if they can scrape together enough to: 1) live; and 2) maintain things like "a working automobile", which in most of the U.S. is a prerequisite to ever finding a job.
No, it is not. One asteroid full of titanium ore would pay for itself in cost and content with margins like Wall Street whores only dream if finding. It is a sad thing that we are still refusing to see what has helped mankind progress. Adventure always provides better return that stagnant culture(s).
I think not. How would you get that titanium from the asteroid to the earth? If it would pay for itself like you claim, believe me businesses would be doing it.
This. Rational debate, disagreement without demonizing our opponents, and the spirit of compromise and consensus building all seem to be dead, dead, dead. I for one have been proclaiming to everyone I know, that come election time, every incumbent on my ballot is out, no matter what stripe they are. It can't be any worse than the losers we're stuck with now.
When you vote out an incumbent, you end up with the other career politician who was voted out as an incumbent last cycle. Rinse and repeat.
Um... it's a well known fact that everyone well knows that all Apple users are Penny-farthing riding hipsters with handlebar mustaches who don't even know how to turn on their Apple stuff and in fact most of them never even open the boxes, they just like walking around showing them off to the other Apple hipsters on their bikes and so they never even know that inside there's not even an electronical device but just a piece of clay because Apple doesn't even know how to make anything; they're just marketers.
We also wear berets and have cup-holders on our penny-farthings to hold our Starbucks lattes.
The vast majority of people searching for santorum are searching for info about the candidate, not obscene material. If Google wants to provide useful search results, they will change the policy.
Actually, I think the vast majority of people searching for "santorum" are looking to see if the top result is still the neologism.
You're the second person to post something like this, where your example is asking for some kind of esoteric technical knowledge. Do you really not see that you don't represent the mainstream? How do you not see that the shrinking demand for search is why Google is so forcefully integrating Google+ everywhere? Facebook is replacing the web for many people.
Yes, my example required esoteric knowledge just to illustrate the point. Bullshit, I don't represent the mainstream. Google search isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Facebook is not a place to search - it is a place to look at your friends' stupid pictures and dumb-ass updates.
Utter nonsense. When I need an obscure part for a broken appliance, I will not be asking my facebook friends. I will always use Google (or other search engine). It is just too instantaneous to ignore.
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Anyone who is still buying a device separate from their phone to listen to music needs to have their head examined.
No. Some of us don't see the need for a smart phone. I get a new shiny basic phone free from Verizon every two years.
Another "solution" is to release software that is so bad or that does something so useless that no one will bother to crack it.
Or you can embarrass the cracker. In the prehistoric Apple II+ days, we released "Text-Res Tic-Tac-Toe" and marked it "Cracked by Mr. Crackman" (he was a typical name on cracked software).
So now you have an asteroid full of titanium. To use it, you have to move all kinds of stuff out to its orbit. Sounds financially sound.
Do you propose bringing into Earth orbit? Yeah, that wouldn't be cheap. Or controversial. Or dangerous.
And the Lord sayeth, "sucketh the horse's cocketh, and drink the milk of the stallion. Feel now, the stallion's fruits, roll them around in your hands. You shalleth be granteth eternal life"
-- Neuteronomy 69:420
So that's why no one is granted eternal life.
So PA is making a mistake because the boom from Fracking may only last a decade or two? Isn't that like feeling sorry for someone because their massive lottery payments only run 30 years and then they'll have no income?
Unfortunately, no. PA is made up of many individuals and they do not all benefit equally. Those that don't benefit enough will still need income later, when their water wells are all polluted and suddenly they have to truck water in from out of state. The water wars are next.
My Address Book information is personal data. This is less an Apple problem than an Evil Developer problem: they're the ones stealing contacts without asking.
Hell, why does Angry Birds need my Location Services info?
No shit your Address Book is personal data and any Dev stealing that is evil. My point was that the article says 21% "steal" the UDID, which is just a serial number, not personal data. My guess on Angry Birds is they have a geography-based leaderboard you can check out (I know an air-traffic controller game that does).
if you track a 'serial number' of a device enough, you can easily map the tracked to particular persons after you amass a certain size of data. this is what websites are doing.
Perhaps if the application is a web browser, that would mean something, but I can't imagine too many people using an alternate web browser. With any other app, you get the fact that they used your own app only - perhaps multiple apps if you make them. If no OTHER data is leaked, you get nothing else.
I'm not so sure about UDID giving away no more privacy than IP.
IP doesn't identify a single device, thanks to NATs and dynamic pools and conversely same device isn't bound to single IP, it's many to many relation. To track someone specific you need more than his IP, like a cookie, for example. And many indeed disable browser cookies for this very reason, just as you propose.
UDID, on the other hand, is a strict one to one relation, it's unchangeable, linked to single device and can't be disabled. UDID is much better suitable for tracking and collating info across different sources. Add a little bit more, and you're tracking a user even after a new phone purchase.
If only a UDID is extracted, you are tracking a SERIAL NUMBER only - not a person.
I wish I had mod points to bump you up. The UDID is nothing more than a device serial number. That is not personal data. Of course all the haters will scream, "See, Apple is evil!" Over-hyped nonsense.
In addition, the UDID is not a big threat in terms of "personal data." It is nothing more than a serial number of the device. Big-fucking-whoop. So you got my serial number; I couldn't care less. The number leaking actual personal data is more like 0.0000001%.
Only if you want to be shot dead first.
Frankly, twits who complain about over-population, and pollution, and want to see the human race be declinded are annoying.
If it is something you feel so intensely about, you can always improve matters through suicide. But no, sir, you don't have the right to make that decision for another individual.
There's no reason to start name-calling. The fact is, we have pretty much screwed up this planet. I didn't complain about over-population and I didn't say I wanted the human race to decline. I merely state that perhaps it's better if we stay put so we don't screw up other parts of the universe.
No, they wouldn't. The introduction of that much Platinum would make Platinum cheaper than Copper. Too much supply + too little demand = worthless. They can only truly profit by keeping supplies scarce. The same reason the corporations oppose sustainable fuels and support intellectual property rules.
Then it wouldn't pay for itself, would it?
Well, you always have the ability to reduce the contamination of this planet by one.
Just saying....
Great idea. May I come over to your house and kill you?
We need to get off this planet...
Seriously, if we moved most of industry to the Moon. We wouldn't have the environmental poisoning we have now.
If we had small colonies elsewhere, we could re-populate the earth in case of a cataclysmic impact.
We spend trillions on welfare and war, and how meaningless will those expenditures be if the human race goes *poof*
Just saying...
Oh, it's not a matter of if, only of "when" a big asteroid will hit the earth. Our excuse is "it only happens xxxxx number of years....so we're safe".
Well, it could happen tomorrow. And in truth, we're probably closer to the end of that xxxxx number of years.
I disagree. If we are allowed to contaminate the rest of the universe, it will be a major shame.
That might be the case if we're talking about Norway, but the U.S. safety net system is a pretty shitty hammock. Someone living on welfare is doing well if they can scrape together enough to: 1) live; and 2) maintain things like "a working automobile", which in most of the U.S. is a prerequisite to ever finding a job.
Please do not confuse the tea-tards with facts.
No, it is not. One asteroid full of titanium ore would pay for itself in cost and content with margins like Wall Street whores only dream if finding. It is a sad thing that we are still refusing to see what has helped mankind progress. Adventure always provides better return that stagnant culture(s).
I think not. How would you get that titanium from the asteroid to the earth? If it would pay for itself like you claim, believe me businesses would be doing it.
This. Rational debate, disagreement without demonizing our opponents, and the spirit of compromise and consensus building all seem to be dead, dead, dead. I for one have been proclaiming to everyone I know, that come election time, every incumbent on my ballot is out, no matter what stripe they are. It can't be any worse than the losers we're stuck with now.
When you vote out an incumbent, you end up with the other career politician who was voted out as an incumbent last cycle. Rinse and repeat.
You think those with NO income should pay income tax?
Um... it's a well known fact that everyone well knows that all Apple users are Penny-farthing riding hipsters with handlebar mustaches who don't even know how to turn on their Apple stuff and in fact most of them never even open the boxes, they just like walking around showing them off to the other Apple hipsters on their bikes and so they never even know that inside there's not even an electronical device but just a piece of clay because Apple doesn't even know how to make anything; they're just marketers.
We also wear berets and have cup-holders on our penny-farthings to hold our Starbucks lattes.
The vast majority of people searching for santorum are searching for info about the candidate, not obscene material. If Google wants to provide useful search results, they will change the policy.
Actually, I think the vast majority of people searching for "santorum" are looking to see if the top result is still the neologism.
You're the second person to post something like this, where your example is asking for some kind of esoteric technical knowledge. Do you really not see that you don't represent the mainstream? How do you not see that the shrinking demand for search is why Google is so forcefully integrating Google+ everywhere? Facebook is replacing the web for many people.
Yes, my example required esoteric knowledge just to illustrate the point. Bullshit, I don't represent the mainstream. Google search isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Facebook is not a place to search - it is a place to look at your friends' stupid pictures and dumb-ass updates.
No man is a nano-island!
Utter nonsense. When I need an obscure part for a broken appliance, I will not be asking my facebook friends. I will always use Google (or other search engine). It is just too instantaneous to ignore.
People who write [citation required] are the second lowest form of Slashdot Scum...
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