A tiny bit more complicated than that though. Apple has built a platform that is based on experience. Therefore the approval process, no multitasking (and what we have for now still isn't multitasking as per se, it's just addressing most commonly absent scenarios via services that apple takes responsibility to maintain), and a very much valid distrust at giving the world and the dog capability to throw something together in a 5 minutes quick-bang-buck way (Yes, I know there are lots of examples that prove the contrary, but we'll get there). You can manage xcode to actually build something from your code, get all the certificates sorted out and have bought a $2K platform for development? Good, there is a chance you might have something useful. You have ported your 8 years old JME game and 5 years old flash granny banger to our platform? Good (very, very good) chances it's shit. Alas the open android market has killed android devices for me. Perhaps when there's a Gold/Premium market with all the controls (and hopefully even more strict ones) that apple apply. It's FULL OF FUCKING STEAMY SMELLY RUNNY SHIT! There, I said it. Open market does no good when people out there have such low expectations for their experience on mobile devices. Apple does what it can to raise the bar. That's their differentiation. And even when it comes to fart applications there's a difference between fart application with misaligned button with misspelled label that fails to produce the fart when I poke the device and slick polished asshole I can look into and enjoy my piece of flying excrement action (tasteful brown-pinkish hue at that) at the slightest flick of a tongue*. And last I saw, their financial statements seems to justify it. Funny enough as a publicly traded company it is now their duty to defend this unique position in the market. Well, ether that or Steve just hates Adobes guts. But to be fair I personally thing its the former.
*Experiences and perceptions may differ, but criteria remains valid.
what leads to next advice - keep working area tidy and glass of water close by, but - in stable position. Also useful to tip up moisture for tip brush (I was truly amazed at the difference when I finally figured out how to look after a soldering iron properly - even a tiny 15w thing becomes a weapon of choice, unless there are ground planes involved). There is nothing like having exposed 220 leads nearby when you have just grabbed soldering iron and things are a bit in a motion for a moment.
I call that bullshit. Getting hit by CRT anode can be fun (damn crappy insulated screwdrivers), but camera flash capacitors will only make you jump at best. Unless you are dealing with studio flashes from soviet era in wool sandals freshly after a shower midstream under a bridge (I wish I had a story about that, bit alas no - the U shaped discharge tubes were devil to handle thou).
Disagree. Existing tablet computers were very happy to put the _computer_ first. Know what, this isn't what people want. Then comes apple and puts _content_ first. Know what? That's exactly what people want.
you know nothing. (sorry, too drunk to go further in detail. Let's just say that your laptop (you are sitting within two feet from) is probably emitting more actual RFI exposure than a cell tower at 20 feet. Logarithmic scale is a beautiful thing.:))
I am not. Android market is full of shit, really. 90% of applications are some topical 'xxx sounds' pieces of crap. There are quite few early gems like first tetris on appstore (got pulled due to copyright claim and replaced with a shitty super-duper-pumped-up version). AppStore isn't much better, but at least has some diversity.
Yes, you decided not to hire a person who would be quite likely to be putting in extra-extra hours and making things happen. And a geek at that. Go you!;)
P.S. Pepsi is... a product of undesirable quality.
95% confidence in understanding statistics when applied to business setting is often just as good as 95% confidence in actual measurements. Yes, the last 5% are the trickiest bit, but be sure if there will be slightest indication that a proper application is required I won't be afraid to ask someone who knows more. It's just that it is quite rare.
In example: Performance testing systems. You care way more about the degradation mode than statistical model of sustainable load.
Well, I haven't done it myself, but have researched the topic quite a lot (with a background on mobile applications and security): One - if you have anything that is actually sensitive to discuss, don't do it over your phone. Ever. It is trivial to pretend to be your base station (van in the alley scenario) and you'll be none the wiser. But phone will be talking via A5/0 (no encryption) and you'll be experiencing very nice and good battery life. Two - brute force attack on A5/1 is feasible, if enough incentive exists. If anything you discuss might cost more than 50K usd in three months time, don't do it ether. Wideband recording of anything where you might be and filtering out your phone conversations later is practical. Costs about 3K usd in equipment (outlay) + whatever you want to throw at key search. Three - as mentioned above in the comments - backbones are usually unencrypted. Not much can be done about it, and MITM or backlink eavesdropping is a project that would be practical (it still is) only for really determined subjects. Oh, and your local/office base station is probably on the roof of some semi-public building where gaining access again is not beyond practical attack. Or, if a tower with equipment container - trivial. --- Good (ish) things: GPRS and 3G security isn't broken (publicly, afaik) yet. OTOH - isn't peer reviewed ether (worked well for a5, didn't it?). Therefore what you browse around or talk via your _UMTS_ handset is perhaps still safe. Just make sure the handset is really in 3g mode. Don't have much know-how about pretending to be UMTS base station thou - still can be fully feasible. Perhaps a feasible attack will show up tomorrow, perhaps won't. Radio hopping pattern intercept and packet capture is feasible cheaply today thou.
All in all, okay, there might be a public attempt to generate open A5/1 rainbow table today, good. From what I recall target size for the table was rather laughable - 500gb or thereabouts? I can surely bet that there are fair few of them out there already. Perhaps inside usd300'000 equipment sold for law enforcement. Perhaps...
Actually NT4.0 or windows 95 would be a better choice. Lots of floppies to copy, but would run just fine. And in case of NT4.0 - probably much smoother than any linux distro (Ugh! X!)
Uhm? In essence you just described the existing system with the only difference being that current process, once we ignore the IT side of it, has been refined over the years and has proven to work. Might be more automated, but as far as keeping planes in the sky, not that much of an improvement could be expected. IIRC US has about 22ish traffic zones not accounting for local airport ones (nicely matching your 22mil to around 1m per site, suddenly it sounds on the low side) and the traffic as it actually moves is managed from them with hand-offs and whats not. National side is really more of a secondary link aggregating data for monitoring purposes. Isn't the actual congestion points around major hubs, and even then concerns more of a runway congestion (who will be given a green to touch-down first based on schedule, conditions and amount of fuel/celebrities onboard) rather than tracking the birds in the sky?
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A tiny bit more complicated than that though. Apple has built a platform that is based on experience. Therefore the approval process, no multitasking (and what we have for now still isn't multitasking as per se, it's just addressing most commonly absent scenarios via services that apple takes responsibility to maintain), and a very much valid distrust at giving the world and the dog capability to throw something together in a 5 minutes quick-bang-buck way (Yes, I know there are lots of examples that prove the contrary, but we'll get there).
You can manage xcode to actually build something from your code, get all the certificates sorted out and have bought a $2K platform for development? Good, there is a chance you might have something useful. You have ported your 8 years old JME game and 5 years old flash granny banger to our platform? Good (very, very good) chances it's shit.
Alas the open android market has killed android devices for me. Perhaps when there's a Gold/Premium market with all the controls (and hopefully even more strict ones) that apple apply. It's FULL OF FUCKING STEAMY SMELLY RUNNY SHIT! There, I said it. Open market does no good when people out there have such low expectations for their experience on mobile devices. Apple does what it can to raise the bar. That's their differentiation. And even when it comes to fart applications there's a difference between fart application with misaligned button with misspelled label that fails to produce the fart when I poke the device and slick polished asshole I can look into and enjoy my piece of flying excrement action (tasteful brown-pinkish hue at that) at the slightest flick of a tongue*. And last I saw, their financial statements seems to justify it. Funny enough as a publicly traded company it is now their duty to defend this unique position in the market. Well, ether that or Steve just hates Adobes guts. But to be fair I personally thing its the former.
*Experiences and perceptions may differ, but criteria remains valid.
All their platforms and know how currently hover around 240B range... ;)
what leads to next advice - keep working area tidy and glass of water close by, but - in stable position. Also useful to tip up moisture for tip brush (I was truly amazed at the difference when I finally figured out how to look after a soldering iron properly - even a tiny 15w thing becomes a weapon of choice, unless there are ground planes involved).
There is nothing like having exposed 220 leads nearby when you have just grabbed soldering iron and things are a bit in a motion for a moment.
I call that bullshit. Getting hit by CRT anode can be fun (damn crappy insulated screwdrivers), but camera flash capacitors will only make you jump at best. Unless you are dealing with studio flashes from soviet era in wool sandals freshly after a shower midstream under a bridge (I wish I had a story about that, bit alas no - the U shaped discharge tubes were devil to handle thou).
the piece of slow crap know as OO? To call it a major office suite is akin to call the lotus notes a quick and nippy e-mail client.
Disagree. Existing tablet computers were very happy to put the _computer_ first. Know what, this isn't what people want. Then comes apple and puts _content_ first. Know what? That's exactly what people want.
bad artists copy,
good artists steal
- pablo\ picasso
you know nothing. :))
(sorry, too drunk to go further in detail. Let's just say that your laptop (you are sitting within two feet from) is probably emitting more actual RFI exposure than a cell tower at 20 feet. Logarithmic scale is a beautiful thing.
I am not. Android market is full of shit, really. 90% of applications are some topical 'xxx sounds' pieces of crap. There are quite few early gems like first tetris on appstore (got pulled due to copyright claim and replaced with a shitty super-duper-pumped-up version).
AppStore isn't much better, but at least has some diversity.
You, sir, just won the internets!
Yes, you decided not to hire a person who would be quite likely to be putting in extra-extra hours and making things happen. And a geek at that. Go you! ;)
P.S. Pepsi is ... a product of undesirable quality.
in IT field any candidate (assuming a strong resume) with an AOL address would be a big++. He has sense of humor and the right kind of one.
three door problem? What about poker! ;)
95% confidence in understanding statistics when applied to business setting is often just as good as 95% confidence in actual measurements. Yes, the last 5% are the trickiest bit, but be sure if there will be slightest indication that a proper application is required I won't be afraid to ask someone who knows more. It's just that it is quite rare.
In example: Performance testing systems. You care way more about the degradation mode than statistical model of sustainable load.
doesn't always work. Same as fails to work if you want to prevent app you are playing around with posting stuff in your feed.
Wasn't. It is what is running out there.
it isn't 128PB to start with. Actual key length is 2^48 if I remember correctly - there are some rather huge issues with the A5/1.
Oh, forgot to mention - the above applies to gsm. CDMA security is nonexistent + tower coverage is larger (less geo targeting required).
Well, I haven't done it myself, but have researched the topic quite a lot (with a background on mobile applications and security):
One - if you have anything that is actually sensitive to discuss, don't do it over your phone. Ever. It is trivial to pretend to be your base station (van in the alley scenario) and you'll be none the wiser. But phone will be talking via A5/0 (no encryption) and you'll be experiencing very nice and good battery life.
Two - brute force attack on A5/1 is feasible, if enough incentive exists. If anything you discuss might cost more than 50K usd in three months time, don't do it ether. Wideband recording of anything where you might be and filtering out your phone conversations later is practical. Costs about 3K usd in equipment (outlay) + whatever you want to throw at key search.
Three - as mentioned above in the comments - backbones are usually unencrypted. Not much can be done about it, and MITM or backlink eavesdropping is a project that would be practical (it still is) only for really determined subjects. Oh, and your local/office base station is probably on the roof of some semi-public building where gaining access again is not beyond practical attack. Or, if a tower with equipment container - trivial.
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Good (ish) things:
GPRS and 3G security isn't broken (publicly, afaik) yet. OTOH - isn't peer reviewed ether (worked well for a5, didn't it?). Therefore what you browse around or talk via your _UMTS_ handset is perhaps still safe. Just make sure the handset is really in 3g mode. Don't have much know-how about pretending to be UMTS base station thou - still can be fully feasible. Perhaps a feasible attack will show up tomorrow, perhaps won't. Radio hopping pattern intercept and packet capture is feasible cheaply today thou.
All in all, okay, there might be a public attempt to generate open A5/1 rainbow table today, good. From what I recall target size for the table was rather laughable - 500gb or thereabouts? I can surely bet that there are fair few of them out there already. Perhaps inside usd300'000 equipment sold for law enforcement. Perhaps...
Sir, you managed to say it with a straight face. Hat off to you!
Actually NT4.0 or windows 95 would be a better choice. Lots of floppies to copy, but would run just fine. And in case of NT4.0 - probably much smoother than any linux distro (Ugh! X!)
In fact it was released a couple of days BEFORE the incident. Report states that it failed to be deployed due to logistics issues
Technically in some countries there are laws that only postman can operate your mailbox. Doesn't do much good thou...
Wasn't that regarding first release? 1.6 is out for at least a month already, and boy - does it fly!
Uhm? In essence you just described the existing system with the only difference being that current process, once we ignore the IT side of it, has been refined over the years and has proven to work. Might be more automated, but as far as keeping planes in the sky, not that much of an improvement could be expected.
IIRC US has about 22ish traffic zones not accounting for local airport ones (nicely matching your 22mil to around 1m per site, suddenly it sounds on the low side) and the traffic as it actually moves is managed from them with hand-offs and whats not. National side is really more of a secondary link aggregating data for monitoring purposes.
Isn't the actual congestion points around major hubs, and even then concerns more of a runway congestion (who will be given a green to touch-down first based on schedule, conditions and amount of fuel/celebrities onboard) rather than tracking the birds in the sky?