Well, if your carrier won't unlock you (interestingly O2 UK will do at any point, for free, for pay-monthly customers!) then you *have* to jailbreak it to unlock it.
My jailbroken phone isn't unstable...
your post doesn't make sense. he's saying each user gets a clean build. seems a good idea to me. i don't want to inherit some install of uncertain provenance. what if i get blamed for pr0n or something?
Sure, it'd be unpleasant, but it'd a) let you continue to pay your mortgage in a recession, and b) give you breathing space to look for another job. Oh, and potentially c) a pay out to compensate you
THis is missing the point. The reason jailbreaking is allegedly unsafe is because once jailbroken, you can install SSH, and if you're dumb enough to not change the default root password, you can get owned. You get warned about this specifically when you install SSH anyway. If the phone were sold "open" and you installed SSH, you'd have the same issue. The point is that if someone goes out of their way to install SSH on their phone (which is a pretty hardcore geek activity anyway) and doesn't change the root password, then they're kind of asking for trouble.
The issue is: Dell and Moto's smartphone business in Asia is dependent on Android, and a big untapped market in China. Android is dependent in a big way on Google. If China decides they don't want the Big G playing within their borders, Android phones are unlikely to get sold. The phone manufacturers work to an incredibly tight schedule for build and release - even if China just delays things it'll put massive pressure on Dell/Moto and of course Google. If I were China, I'd be likely to use this as a strongarm tactic to pressure Google into doing things my way.
"A little known fact is that Netscape almost totally dominated the browser market before IE jumped into the fray. In fact, many sites were designed to work exclusively with Netscape, and even required a user agent string [wikipedia.org] beginning with "Mozilla" to run. In effect, if anyone had a monopoly, it was actually Netscape at the beginning, when they even had a monopoly on content. IE in the early days actually had to spoof the user agent string and pretend to be Mozilla just to get the site to work with it. IE was the underdog and fiercest competitor, which is why it won in the end. It had nothing to do with monopoly."
God, this makes me feel old. Netscape PRECEDED Internet Explorer, along with NCSA Mosaic. This is why sites were built to work with it. Microsoft came late to the party, and decided to make up for it by making IE an integral part of later versions of Windows, hence using their virtual monopoly on the desktop to kill Netscape. Netscape never had a monopoly - they were just quick to release an HTML browser. This is not the same thing.
...NYT announce paywalls, Murdoch and News International announce paywalls - and everyone thinks they'r eshooting themselves in the foot. These are not stupid companies. Well, not *that* stupid, anyway.
What if this coincides with the Apple Tablet bringing micropayment for enhanced content? An app store for print media, in essence.
Thanks for this post, I was about to write something very similar. In the end, it comes down to the simple fact that viruses and their effects on a population are not predictable. They mutate, and the result lies somewhere on the continuum from mild flu at one end, and full on Spanish flu at the other. It's completely plausible that H1N1 might have mutated into something very unpleasant indeed - it's *still* possible this will happen. What *really* irritates me is no-nothings who sit around saying "I told you it was hype" based on no insight into the issue. We lucked out. We could easily have not done.
Very low, I'd imagine. Let's try the converse: "I work in medical forensics and virus research. Thus I tend to have a few live viruses in my bag, very alive and ready to strike"
I'm sure along with the guidelines they'll have been issued with around what to check for, they'll also have some strict controls on what not to do with it - like keeping it airgapped.
Case in point: last year we had a server room outage here at a big retailer. UPS tripped, whole lot went down including 24/7 supply chain etc - millions lost per hour. Cue some phone calls to a few IT people who happened to be out on the beer that night who came in and eventually sorted it out after about 6 hours downtime. This was sold as a triumph of IT's dedication and professionalism - no one asked "why did the bloody DC only have a single UPS and single phase power?"
I'm sitting in adjoining building to that one now. It's a fairly magnificent project (the solar tiles on areas that don't catch the sun are fake, but the majority are real. Don't get the idea that The Co-op do sexy tech though: if I have to work with this sh1tty legacy code for another year I'm going to knaw my own arm off. Or someone elses'.
....and I wouldn't have a problem if some shipped with RAM made by Hynix, some by Micron - it's functionally the same. If it said "may contain one of more of the following: soybean oil, sunflower oil or boiled stoat" then I'd have an issue. Get my drift?
well, if you get consistent hardware at least you can cannibalise one machine that's died to fix a few others that have gone faulty. If you get random crap then you can't do this. $200 and standard hardware that you can swap out is probably better than $99 and you can't fix it.
it's because they're *cheap* - if you want guaranteed hardware for 3 years, you buy corporate desktops and laptops: case in point - Dell have the inspiron and lattitude range of laptops. Pretty much the same thing inside usually - but the latt's are slightly better at taking abuse, fit docking stations, and *guarantee hardware for a set period*. All big vendors do this: IBM, Fujitsu, etc.
Oh come on. For heaven's sake at least standardise on an architecture. I've no problem with some hardware variance (although god help you if you want to image the things) but completely different architectures? It's like feeding Africa by posting out half-eaten leftovers rather than aid parcels.
Good. Presumably your ISP had repeatedly ignored requests to bin the spammers, and eventually got themselves blacklisted. Their punishment for this is to get complained at / sued by irate customers such as yourself. Perhaps they won't be so dumb next time.
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Well, if your carrier won't unlock you (interestingly O2 UK will do at any point, for free, for pay-monthly customers!) then you *have* to jailbreak it to unlock it.
My jailbroken phone isn't unstable...
your post doesn't make sense. he's saying each user gets a clean build. seems a good idea to me. i don't want to inherit some install of uncertain provenance. what if i get blamed for pr0n or something?
Sure, it'd be unpleasant, but it'd a) let you continue to pay your mortgage in a recession, and b) give you breathing space to look for another job. Oh, and potentially c) a pay out to compensate you
THis is missing the point. The reason jailbreaking is allegedly unsafe is because once jailbroken, you can install SSH, and if you're dumb enough to not change the default root password, you can get owned. You get warned about this specifically when you install SSH anyway. If the phone were sold "open" and you installed SSH, you'd have the same issue. The point is that if someone goes out of their way to install SSH on their phone (which is a pretty hardcore geek activity anyway) and doesn't change the root password, then they're kind of asking for trouble.
The issue is: Dell and Moto's smartphone business in Asia is dependent on Android, and a big untapped market in China. Android is dependent in a big way on Google. If China decides they don't want the Big G playing within their borders, Android phones are unlikely to get sold. The phone manufacturers work to an incredibly tight schedule for build and release - even if China just delays things it'll put massive pressure on Dell/Moto and of course Google. If I were China, I'd be likely to use this as a strongarm tactic to pressure Google into doing things my way.
"A little known fact is that Netscape almost totally dominated the browser market before IE jumped into the fray. In fact, many sites were designed to work exclusively with Netscape, and even required a user agent string [wikipedia.org] beginning with "Mozilla" to run. In effect, if anyone had a monopoly, it was actually Netscape at the beginning, when they even had a monopoly on content. IE in the early days actually had to spoof the user agent string and pretend to be Mozilla just to get the site to work with it. IE was the underdog and fiercest competitor, which is why it won in the end. It had nothing to do with monopoly."
God, this makes me feel old. Netscape PRECEDED Internet Explorer, along with NCSA Mosaic. This is why sites were built to work with it. Microsoft came late to the party, and decided to make up for it by making IE an integral part of later versions of Windows, hence using their virtual monopoly on the desktop to kill Netscape. Netscape never had a monopoly - they were just quick to release an HTML browser. This is not the same thing.
...NYT announce paywalls, Murdoch and News International announce paywalls - and everyone thinks they'r eshooting themselves in the foot.
These are not stupid companies. Well, not *that* stupid, anyway.
What if this coincides with the Apple Tablet bringing micropayment for enhanced content? An app store for print media, in essence.
Loving your work there, dude
An EMP suitcase in a banking district would be a pretty effective weapon...
Thanks for this post, I was about to write something very similar. In the end, it comes down to the simple fact that viruses and their effects on a population are not predictable. They mutate, and the result lies somewhere on the continuum from mild flu at one end, and full on Spanish flu at the other. It's completely plausible that H1N1 might have mutated into something very unpleasant indeed - it's *still* possible this will happen. What *really* irritates me is no-nothings who sit around saying "I told you it was hype" based on no insight into the issue. We lucked out. We could easily have not done.
Same here. First task in a new job is usually taking a Leatherman to my desktop keyboard...
Very low, I'd imagine. Let's try the converse: "I work in medical forensics and virus research. Thus I tend to have a few live viruses in my bag, very alive and ready to strike"
I'm sure along with the guidelines they'll have been issued with around what to check for, they'll also have some strict controls on what not to do with it - like keeping it airgapped.
oooh, this is an interesting idea. There's been a recent Apple patent granted on 3D desktops, too.
that is *pure* 4chan. Nice find!
Best "you've been p0wned" slideshow set. Post URL when done.
Case in point: last year we had a server room outage here at a big retailer. UPS tripped, whole lot went down including 24/7 supply chain etc - millions lost per hour. Cue some phone calls to a few IT people who happened to be out on the beer that night who came in and eventually sorted it out after about 6 hours downtime. This was sold as a triumph of IT's dedication and professionalism - no one asked "why did the bloody DC only have a single UPS and single phase power?"
I'm sitting in adjoining building to that one now. It's a fairly magnificent project (the solar tiles on areas that don't catch the sun are fake, but the majority are real. Don't get the idea that The Co-op do sexy tech though: if I have to work with this sh1tty legacy code for another year I'm going to knaw my own arm off. Or someone elses'.
feel your pain, bro.
Seriously? You have nothing better to do than repeatedly install an OS on different hardware? I'd rather play with my arduino...
....and I wouldn't have a problem if some shipped with RAM made by Hynix, some by Micron - it's functionally the same. If it said "may contain one of more of the following: soybean oil, sunflower oil or boiled stoat" then I'd have an issue. Get my drift?
I'm sure you'd love the job of installing it on 50 of these at a time, all full of random crappy old hardware.
well, if you get consistent hardware at least you can cannibalise one machine that's died to fix a few others that have gone faulty. If you get random crap then you can't do this. $200 and standard hardware that you can swap out is probably better than $99 and you can't fix it.
it's because they're *cheap* - if you want guaranteed hardware for 3 years, you buy corporate desktops and laptops: case in point - Dell have the inspiron and lattitude range of laptops. Pretty much the same thing inside usually - but the latt's are slightly better at taking abuse, fit docking stations, and *guarantee hardware for a set period*. All big vendors do this: IBM, Fujitsu, etc.
Oh come on. For heaven's sake at least standardise on an architecture. I've no problem with some hardware variance (although god help you if you want to image the things) but completely different architectures? It's like feeding Africa by posting out half-eaten leftovers rather than aid parcels.
Good. Presumably your ISP had repeatedly ignored requests to bin the spammers, and eventually got themselves blacklisted. Their punishment for this is to get complained at / sued by irate customers such as yourself. Perhaps they won't be so dumb next time.