* And if a car is stolen, disabling the tracking chip is bound to be easier than filing out the serial number, which is common practice.
Tracker is a system that's been in use in the UK for years. Car owners choose to install them, and they are used when/if the car is stolen.
The reason car thieves don't tend to remove them is that the box is installed in a random hard to get at location in each car. It'd be a major undertaking to dismantle every part of the car where a tracker might be concealed.
The most common exploit seems to be to drive the stolen car into a shipping container, which prevents tracking. The car is then shipped to a foreign country that doesn't have tracker.
I also am dubious about the particular choice of pictures. But it would be stupid to do anything other than monochrome. RGB colour only works because of the biology of the human eye, that has receptors for these 3 particular wavelengths of light. Similarly CMYK and every other colour system depends on how human sight works.
Of course we can make no guarantees that the aliens would have something that that we can recognise as sight. Although for a race to make it to earth, some way of making sense of a scene by detecting some part(s) of the electromagnetic spectrum seems likely.
*IF* the aliens do have something that we recognise as sight and/or recognise the concept of a picture, it's much more likely that they'll be able to recognise monochrome ones than an arbitrary system of colour.
Sounds like there is an opportunity for a company that an be the "Google Search" or "Amazon" of reviews. A company that works out a way to have high quality reviews without shills, frauds and idiots. And which is trusted to not boost or hide reviews based on protection racket ("advertising") money. (Ahem, Yelp.)
And the trick will be how to make money from it whilst remaining impartial. Any attempt to make money from the reviewed businesses will be looked on as being corrupt. Some businesses have made it work by making the public pay: Consumer Reports, Which? and The Michelin Guide. But they originated in the paper publishing era. It's more difficult to get payments for information on the internet.
And the cost will be high. Those successful examples have professional reviewers, and only review a relatively small number of products. A general business review site would need orders of magnitude more reviews. User reviews are cheap, but open to all the problems of shilling, fraud and idiots.
Apple started doing it on the App Store after the first couple of months. If you haven't bought the app, you aren't allowed to review it. The quality of the reviews immediately improved.
you don't know how to use a search engine....I guess you struggle with reading as well, yes?
And still you have nothing but ad-hominems.
We both know perfectly well why you won't back up what you say. Because although RIM OS has some security features, it has nothing which will prevent this sort of spyware. And because BB is your favourite platform, you don't want to admit it.
austerity |É'ËstÉrÉti, É"Ë-| noun 1 sternness or severity of manner or attitude: 2 difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure: ( austerities )
The iPhone is the worst smartphone except for all the other ones. It gets more press about what few issues there are because the iPhone is just generally more news-worthy than the rest of the phones. Good stuff and bad stuff all gets more column inches.
Note that camera angle to light source is critical, to get the effect to show up on either phone. In your example comparison, if the photographer tried a bit more he could probably have found the angle to make the purple flare show on the 4S too.
This is a lot of fuss about nothing. But we're used to that with iPhone stories. No other phone gets this level of close examination for flaws. Not enough people care about other phones.
And yet it went without comment before. Why? It's a damn good camera for a phone, but it's not a DSLR. It's impossible to have DSLR level photography from phone that's 7.6 mm thick.
Lets be clear here, as well as not backing up what you say, you're name calling, and despite me pointing out you've given no name or feature or technology to Google, you're making this ridiculous claim that the problem is I don't know how to use Google. You're the one behaving badly here. I've been completely straight in what I've said. Let's face it we both know that.
Let's be even more clear. You like RIM, and you know that RIM (like other mobile platforms) has some security mechanisms. And you're impressed by that. But either those security mechanisms won't shop this particular kind of malware, or you don't know enough about the technicalities to know whether it does. You have nothing but bluff, bluster and name calling.
Sorry, but you don't get off the hook by claiming something, refusing to give any more detail or links, and then, making unjustified claims that your inability to back your words up is the other person's fault.
Perhaps, given that RIM is largely ignored on Slashdot and elsewhere, you're not used to people calling your bluff.
Damn, you're thick!...you're both argumentative and completely irrational...any idiot...irrationally... irrational and willfully-ignorant!
Ah, ad-hominem is all you have eh? It gets worse and worse for you.
The way a debate works, on slashdot or anywhere else: each people make their points, and when challenged back them up. Those that can't back up what they say lose.
can find with a simple google search that makes my point for me.
Telling other people to just google it is what people do when they've lost. Just before or just after resorting to insults.
There's nothing to Google, you haven't even been able to mention the name of a feature or technology that would prevent RIM devices being hit by spyware of this type. You have literally nothing.
Wait, so I'm wrong because you can't be bothered to do some reading?
No, you're just wrong. The fact that you can't back up what you said is a symptom of you being wrong. The fact that I did back up what I said is a result of what I said being true.
The difference between me and you: I back up what I say, and answer questions. You claim, then duck and dive when asked about them.
Imagine if I'd just stated that iOS was immune to this malware/spyware, and when challenged, I just said "you have to read more" then "Google it." That would be pathetic. But that's exactly what you've done with your RIM claim. And thus it's worthless.
Your bluff has been well and truly called. You claim something woolly and are incapable of backing it up as regards the case of this malware/spyware. Mirror Bonch you are.
"What extra security do you imagine RIM has that iOS doesn't?"
Really? LOL! You need to do some reading!
Really. Yes. I've explained why the described malware/spyware can't work on iOS. Now, what's to stop it on RIM? You claimed extra security, back it up.
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That's why it's still an opportunity. Because it's not obvious how to crack it.
* And if a car is stolen, disabling the tracking chip is bound to be easier than filing out the serial number, which is common practice.
Tracker is a system that's been in use in the UK for years. Car owners choose to install them, and they are used when/if the car is stolen.
The reason car thieves don't tend to remove them is that the box is installed in a random hard to get at location in each car. It'd be a major undertaking to dismantle every part of the car where a tracker might be concealed.
The most common exploit seems to be to drive the stolen car into a shipping container, which prevents tracking. The car is then shipped to a foreign country that doesn't have tracker.
http://www.tracker.co.uk/
I guess the clue is in his username.
I also am dubious about the particular choice of pictures. But it would be stupid to do anything other than monochrome. RGB colour only works because of the biology of the human eye, that has receptors for these 3 particular wavelengths of light. Similarly CMYK and every other colour system depends on how human sight works.
Of course we can make no guarantees that the aliens would have something that that we can recognise as sight. Although for a race to make it to earth, some way of making sense of a scene by detecting some part(s) of the electromagnetic spectrum seems likely.
*IF* the aliens do have something that we recognise as sight and/or recognise the concept of a picture, it's much more likely that they'll be able to recognise monochrome ones than an arbitrary system of colour.
As you say, keep it simple.
Sounds like there is an opportunity for a company that an be the "Google Search" or "Amazon" of reviews. A company that works out a way to have high quality reviews without shills, frauds and idiots. And which is trusted to not boost or hide reviews based on protection racket ("advertising") money. (Ahem, Yelp.)
And the trick will be how to make money from it whilst remaining impartial. Any attempt to make money from the reviewed businesses will be looked on as being corrupt. Some businesses have made it work by making the public pay: Consumer Reports, Which? and The Michelin Guide. But they originated in the paper publishing era. It's more difficult to get payments for information on the internet.
And the cost will be high. Those successful examples have professional reviewers, and only review a relatively small number of products. A general business review site would need orders of magnitude more reviews. User reviews are cheap, but open to all the problems of shilling, fraud and idiots.
Apple started doing it on the App Store after the first couple of months. If you haven't bought the app, you aren't allowed to review it. The quality of the reviews immediately improved.
This post was added due to Gullibility standards violations.
RTFS: "Sierra West received a call from"
you don't know how to use a search engine. ...I guess you struggle with reading as well, yes?
And still you have nothing but ad-hominems.
We both know perfectly well why you won't back up what you say. Because although RIM OS has some security features, it has nothing which will prevent this sort of spyware. And because BB is your favourite platform, you don't want to admit it.
austerity |É'ËstÉrÉti, É"Ë-| noun
1 sternness or severity of manner or attitude:
2 difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure: ( austerities )
Meanwhile I got a Google Galaxy Nexus , and a friend got the Galaxy SIII
Galaxy Nexus faults: Microphone cuts out. Poor barry life. Random reboots.
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/05/22/verizon-samsung-galaxy-nexus-problems-via-gottabemobile/
Samsung SIII faults: Build quality. Battery life. Overheating. Wi-Fi connection problems.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-remains-deaf-to-Galaxy-S-III-build-quality-issues_id33091
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/360123/20120706/samsung-galaxy-s3.htm#.UGxA3bTIBdw
The iPhone is the worst smartphone except for all the other ones. It gets more press about what few issues there are because the iPhone is just generally more news-worthy than the rest of the phones. Good stuff and bad stuff all gets more column inches.
There was no purple flare camera issue on the iPhone 4 / 4S
Not true. There was just no hysterical news vomit about it.
http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/
No phone can take photos as well as a DSLR.
When you buy a multi-function device, you expect all of its advertised functions to work as close to expected as possible.
It does. So long as your expectation is what a 7.6mm thick device with a good camera can do, and not what a DSLR can do.
Here are photo comparisons with the 4s that do show the 4s with purple fringing.
http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg [mshcdn.com]
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/ [thenextweb.com]
Note that camera angle to light source is critical, to get the effect to show up on either phone. In your example comparison, if the photographer tried a bit more he could probably have found the angle to make the purple flare show on the 4S too.
This is a lot of fuss about nothing. But we're used to that with iPhone stories. No other phone gets this level of close examination for flaws. Not enough people care about other phones.
The iPhone4 didn't do this.
The iPhone 4S did. Not sure about the iPhone 4.
http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/
And yet it went without comment before. Why? It's a damn good camera for a phone, but it's not a DSLR. It's impossible to have DSLR level photography from phone that's 7.6 mm thick.
You're behaving exactly as I predicted
Lets be clear here, as well as not backing up what you say, you're name calling, and despite me pointing out you've given no name or feature or technology to Google, you're making this ridiculous claim that the problem is I don't know how to use Google. You're the one behaving badly here. I've been completely straight in what I've said. Let's face it we both know that.
Let's be even more clear. You like RIM, and you know that RIM (like other mobile platforms) has some security mechanisms. And you're impressed by that. But either those security mechanisms won't shop this particular kind of malware, or you don't know enough about the technicalities to know whether it does. You have nothing but bluff, bluster and name calling.
Sorry, but you don't get off the hook by claiming something, refusing to give any more detail or links, and then, making unjustified claims that your inability to back your words up is the other person's fault.
Perhaps, given that RIM is largely ignored on Slashdot and elsewhere, you're not used to people calling your bluff.
Damn, you're thick!...you're both argumentative and completely irrational...any idiot ...irrationally... irrational and willfully-ignorant!
Ah, ad-hominem is all you have eh? It gets worse and worse for you.
The way a debate works, on slashdot or anywhere else: each people make their points, and when challenged back them up. Those that can't back up what they say lose.
can find with a simple google search that makes my point for me.
Telling other people to just google it is what people do when they've lost. Just before or just after resorting to insults.
There's nothing to Google, you haven't even been able to mention the name of a feature or technology that would prevent RIM devices being hit by spyware of this type. You have literally nothing.
Wait, so I'm wrong because you can't be bothered to do some reading?
No, you're just wrong. The fact that you can't back up what you said is a symptom of you being wrong. The fact that I did back up what I said is a result of what I said being true.
The difference between me and you: I back up what I say, and answer questions. You claim, then duck and dive when asked about them.
Imagine if I'd just stated that iOS was immune to this malware/spyware, and when challenged, I just said "you have to read more" then "Google it." That would be pathetic. But that's exactly what you've done with your RIM claim. And thus it's worthless.
Case closed.
Your bluff has been well and truly called. You claim something woolly and are incapable of backing it up as regards the case of this malware/spyware. Mirror Bonch you are.
It seems you're the mirror image of Bonch. Same attitude, different preferred platform.
What it says is that you like fanciful fairy-stories.
Sorry, you're right. I mistakenly repeated the word "punishment". It should have read:
"The three objectives of punishment in the criminal justice system are retribution, rehabilitation and deterrence."
Retribution is to fulfil whatever need there is in the victim or society to make the offender pay for what they did.
"What extra security do you imagine RIM has that iOS doesn't?"
Really? LOL! You need to do some reading!
Really. Yes. I've explained why the described malware/spyware can't work on iOS. Now, what's to stop it on RIM? You claimed extra security, back it up.