Apple can Quattruple-AES-4096 encrypt the phone and close ALL Bugs including Jailbreak, if Paris uses "1234" as PIN, it won't matter (and i firmly belive that 1234 is too complex a password for her anyways...)
If your default locking mechanism recommends a four digit PIN code and you have no way (like a bank) of enforcing a retry limit since it is possible to do a memory clone of your device, who is to blame if the mechanism fails? The customer who used it as it seemed to be designed or the engineer who chose the mechanism? The person who just went to a shop and assumed that the system they bought was fit for being a personal mobile device or the engineer who failed to make it that way.
iPhone has a 4 digit PIN, and full pass phrase, complete with timed lockout after multiple bad passwords, and with the option of wiping the device. A six digit PIN would be nice, but would probably be birth dates too hohum.
Samsung has come up with ideas such as facial recognition.
I thought that was cool too. But once I had fooled it with a (bad) photo of me displayed from my iPhone I decided that it was a terrible idea. I'm sure it would have problems with my habit of growing a beard and shaving it off every month or so too.
It would be perfectly possible to sell an RFID bracelet with the phone and unlock when within a few CM of it.
Yes, because RFID and NFC tokens can't be hacked, cloned or masqueraded as... http://www.libnfc.org/ has a nice toolkit there.
Those are the ideas I can come up with in three seconds of thinking each of which is better than a PIN code.
And probably why you've not got a role in the IT security industry too, I'd wager?
I agree with your assertion that short PINs are a terrible idea, but biometrics are worse. However, there's a huge gap between what a user will accept and what's accepted as good practice. Users will undoubtably choose the lazy option.
Sure. But what he says is true. Linux has umpteen distros and you cannot move one binary to another without a lot of effort to (re)package your software. This however has been true since I started toying with Linux back in 1995. Eventually you'll want to just make sure the stuff you care about works.
So commercial stuff tends to run on Ubuntu LTS.
My only issue with OSX is that if you stay on an old version of the operating system, you'll get left behind quickly and find it more difficult to do things if you're more than 3 versions behind the latest, whereas you pretty much can support 16bit windows/dos/os2 binaries (well, maybe not after win7)
Horses for courses. He's reasonably well known in the community, THATS why it's news. Mr lower-id-than-me:)
Miguel has a massive track record of producing FOSS, way before Mono. He's (well, under his stewardship) actually done more with mono than I imagined he would.
He's also found ways to make the mono project profitable, and more importantly survive more than a few transitions over the past 12? years.
The trolls gotta be hating.
He's just moving to a platform that he prefers, I'd be saying the same thing if he had moved to windows 8 (hahaha) or (lol) Hurd.
In 1998, the United Kingdom incorporated the European Convention, and the guarantee of freedom of expression it contains in Article 10, into its domestic law under the Human Rights Act. However there is a broad sweep of exceptions including threatening, abusive, or insulting speech or behavior likely to cause a breach of the peace (which has been used to prohibit racist speech targeted at individuals),[61][62] incitement,[63] incitement to racial hatred,[64] incitement to religious hatred, incitement to terrorism including encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications,[63][65] glorifying terrorism,[66][67] collection or possession of information likely to be of use to a terrorist,[68][69] treason including imagining the death of the monarch,[70] sedition,[70] obscenity, indecency including corruption of public morals and outraging public decency,[71] defamation,[72] prior restraint, restrictions on court reporting including names of victims and evidence and prejudicing or interfering with court proceedings,[73][74] prohibition of post-trial interviews with jurors,[74] scandalising the court by criticising or murmuring judges,[74][75] time, manner, and place restrictions,[76] harassment, privileged communications, trade secrets, classified material, copyright, patents, military conduct, and limitations on commercial speech such as advertising
I wish I had kept the PCW bluesky issue in the late 80s(?)/early 90s it showed (essentially) a super slim iPad with haptic feedback with video tiles etc.
Of course framed tiles (icons) which updated were in RiscOS as I recall.
A computerized method of presenting information from a variety of sources on a display device. Specifically the present invention describes a graphical user interface for organizing the simultaneous display of information from a multitude of information sources. In particular, the present invention comprises a graphical user interface which organizes content from a variety of information sources into a grid of tiles, each of which can refresh its content independently of the others. The grid functionality manages the refresh rates of the multiple information sources. The present invention is intended to operate in a platform independent manner.
Seriously?
A) How was this even granted a patent in 2000? It's really obvious, to anyone with a computing degree.
B) How it wasn't picked up on a patent search.
C) Why didn't they sue two years ago when WP7 was released?
Android syncs nicely to their web based products with a load of immature^Wmaturing APIs
Apple syncs nicely to their cloud with immature APIs
Microsoft has a bunch of bizzaro APIs that have been around a while from Active sync to XNA.
What's common with all of these?
Yep incompatible APIs. There should be a decent OPEN standard for these services. I don't want to goto latitude on my iPhone to see where my google-based friends are and then manually request directions to them. I want to (say) ask siri, and have siri look them up and not say "I dunno where they are, they've not got iPhones"
The futures here, and it's full of shit to okay APIs with poor to next to little interop outside the fifedom of a product range. We should have put this shit to rest a decade or more ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Solved. Google Glass, and Microsoft Kinect, and that camera in your laptop (but I guess you have some control over that for now)
Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
-John Henry
You say this like it isn't happening already...
Apple can Quattruple-AES-4096 encrypt the phone and close ALL Bugs including Jailbreak, if Paris uses "1234" as PIN, it won't matter (and i firmly belive that 1234 is too complex a password for her anyways...)
And for most people it seems. Have you read: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/ ?
If your default locking mechanism recommends a four digit PIN code and you have no way (like a bank) of enforcing a retry limit since it is possible to do a memory clone of your device, who is to blame if the mechanism fails? The customer who used it as it seemed to be designed or the engineer who chose the mechanism? The person who just went to a shop and assumed that the system they bought was fit for being a personal mobile device or the engineer who failed to make it that way.
iPhone has a 4 digit PIN, and full pass phrase, complete with timed lockout after multiple bad passwords, and with the option of wiping the device.
A six digit PIN would be nice, but would probably be birth dates too hohum.
Samsung has come up with ideas such as facial recognition.
I thought that was cool too. But once I had fooled it with a (bad) photo of me displayed from my iPhone I decided that it was a terrible idea. I'm sure it would have problems with my habit of growing a beard and shaving it off every month or so too.
It would be perfectly possible to sell an RFID bracelet with the phone and unlock when within a few CM of it.
Yes, because RFID and NFC tokens can't be hacked, cloned or masqueraded as ... http://www.libnfc.org/ has a nice toolkit there.
Those are the ideas I can come up with in three seconds of thinking each of which is better than a PIN code.
And probably why you've not got a role in the IT security industry too, I'd wager?
I agree with your assertion that short PINs are a terrible idea, but biometrics are worse.
However, there's a huge gap between what a user will accept and what's accepted as good practice.
Users will undoubtably choose the lazy option.
So basically you have three, not-very-good biometric systems but putting them all together magically amplifies security?
It sounds like a pretty bad film ... Sneakers perhaps?
Google *ARE* the circle jerking nerds.
There, FTFY.
Go go go script kiddies.
Bugger off and stop clogging the intertubes!
Sure. But what he says is true. Linux has umpteen distros and you cannot move one binary to another without a lot of effort to (re)package your software. This however has been true since I started toying with Linux back in 1995. Eventually you'll want to just make sure the stuff you care about works.
So commercial stuff tends to run on Ubuntu LTS.
My only issue with OSX is that if you stay on an old version of the operating system, you'll get left behind quickly and find it more difficult to do things if you're more than 3 versions behind the latest, whereas you pretty much can support 16bit windows/dos/os2 binaries (well, maybe not after win7)
Horses for courses. He's reasonably well known in the community, THATS why it's news. Mr lower-id-than-me :)
Dang, I wish I had mod points.
Miguel has a massive track record of producing FOSS, way before Mono. He's (well, under his stewardship) actually done more with mono than I imagined he would.
He's also found ways to make the mono project profitable, and more importantly survive more than a few transitions over the past 12? years.
The trolls gotta be hating.
He's just moving to a platform that he prefers, I'd be saying the same thing if he had moved to windows 8 (hahaha) or (lol) Hurd.
I refer the MPAA to the response given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
I'm quite happy that this Judge thinks it's also a perfectly reasonable statement too.
I'm not sure how to answer that.
I'm not entirely sure you know what question you are asking, so I'll just smile and nod. :)
Emphatically NO
Horses per Submarine!
You have made my day. If I only had mod points this evening!
Nah, their stock levels appear to be accurate. Bought two from them recently*, and they're active on twitter.
Ah well you've missed the boat ... someone bought the last one!
*Just before the upgraded Sony units were released.
http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/raspberry-model-p-1032.html
one left, hurry!
Seriously, Element 14 is a good alternative. But RS were utter rubbish at it!
He probably thinks that Texas IS a country.
Well spotted my, erm, ironic misspelling. :p
I think you mean "break down".
Please hand in your geek card and make your way to the euthanization centre.
Solent Green Is People!
*BUZZ* Wrong. We do ... but it's not the same as "free speech" in the States.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#United_Kingdom
In 1998, the United Kingdom incorporated the European Convention, and the guarantee of freedom of expression it contains in Article 10, into its domestic law under the Human Rights Act. However there is a broad sweep of exceptions including threatening, abusive, or insulting speech or behavior likely to cause a breach of the peace (which has been used to prohibit racist speech targeted at individuals),[61][62] incitement,[63] incitement to racial hatred,[64] incitement to religious hatred, incitement to terrorism including encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications,[63][65] glorifying terrorism,[66][67] collection or possession of information likely to be of use to a terrorist,[68][69] treason including imagining the death of the monarch,[70] sedition,[70] obscenity, indecency including corruption of public morals and outraging public decency,[71] defamation,[72] prior restraint, restrictions on court reporting including names of victims and evidence and prejudicing or interfering with court proceedings,[73][74] prohibition of post-trial interviews with jurors,[74] scandalising the court by criticising or murmuring judges,[74][75] time, manner, and place restrictions,[76] harassment, privileged communications, trade secrets, classified material, copyright, patents, military conduct, and limitations on commercial speech such as advertising
So he was arrested by the SPELLING POLICE?
I wish I had kept the PCW bluesky issue in the late 80s(?)/early 90s it showed (essentially) a super slim iPad with haptic feedback with video tiles etc.
Of course framed tiles (icons) which updated were in RiscOS as I recall.
A computerized method of presenting information from a variety of sources on a display device. Specifically the present invention describes a graphical user interface for organizing the simultaneous display of information from a multitude of information sources. In particular, the present invention comprises a graphical user interface which organizes content from a variety of information sources into a grid of tiles, each of which can refresh its content independently of the others. The grid functionality manages the refresh rates of the multiple information sources. The present invention is intended to operate in a platform independent manner.
Seriously?
A) How was this even granted a patent in 2000? It's really obvious, to anyone with a computing degree.
B) How it wasn't picked up on a patent search.
C) Why didn't they sue two years ago when WP7 was released?
Software patents are fundamentally wrong :(
``your own personal terminator, follows you around and protects you'' :-)
Okay, I'll get right on it.
What size would you like? 4ft,5ft, 5ft 5", 6ft, 6ft6", or 7ft?
So let's have a look at the competition then:
Android syncs nicely to their web based products with a load of immature^Wmaturing APIs
Apple syncs nicely to their cloud with immature APIs
Microsoft has a bunch of bizzaro APIs that have been around a while from Active sync to XNA.
What's common with all of these?
Yep incompatible APIs. There should be a decent OPEN standard for these services. I don't want to goto latitude on my iPhone to see where my google-based friends are and then manually request directions to them. I want to (say) ask siri, and have siri look them up and not say "I dunno where they are, they've not got iPhones"
The futures here, and it's full of shit to okay APIs with poor to next to little interop outside the fifedom of a product range. We should have put this shit to rest a decade or more ago.
PSST, this is an API called marked in such a way that only GPL modules are allowed to call it.
It's a deliberate act of douchbaggery by kernel developers to force manufacturers to open source their drivers, not to steal code from the kernel.