Again, it sounds like you're just assuming "Oh, they could never do something that stupid, of course that's allowed." When it looks like that's exactly why apple is rejecting apps.
I'm a registered developer with an app in the store. Which gives me access to the current rules and the forum. I'm not assuming anything. Again creating free accounts is common in Apps in the store. Always has been.
I'll give you another quote from the dropbox forums.
Not all posts on forums are to be relied upon as indicators of what the rules are. Individual reviewers can make mistakes. Individual developers can be confused about what reviewers have rejected for. Maybe an app reviewer was aware of the DropBox problem and didn't realise that app was using the previous SDK that didn't break the rules.
From the same page you'll see that Brian S a DropBox employee, and seems satisfied that whilst everything isn't OK yet, they have an SDK ready for release tomorrow that does remove all remaining issues.
Because I can honestly say it's improved my quality of life. Thanks to they dynamics of Facebook I've:
1) Had a change of career. 2) I went to live in a very desirable foreign country for 2 years. 3) I manage to keep in touch with many more friends than I could possibly do before. 4) I get invited to social events that I wouldn't have heard about before. 5) My professional network is wide, and I hear about a lot of things that are useful to me professionally. etc.
For sure it can be a time-sink. As can Slashdot. As can any web-site that keeps you engaged. If it wasn't useful and/or enjoyable it wouldn't be a time-sink.
Porn sites tend to use affiliate marketing. Which means Joe Spammer can make money from people following his links to xtube. Not hard to see why it would become a sign of spam in the Facebook filter.
No, it's not a strawman when it's just an accusation. It's more of an ad-hominem. Learn your fallacies.
I never said it was a strawman.
Yes that's right, you can't even win at pedantry.
The complete GUIs on Linux mean cross platform applications aren't different from other platforms. Libre/Open Office on Linux is identical to Libre/Open Office on Windows or OSX.
Cross platform apps are either equally shit on all platforms, or only any good on the primary development plaform. Libre/Open Office is shit on Linux, Windows and OSX. In fact worse on OSX because it digresses even further for platform standards.
In this day and age, if you cannot operate a Linux device, the problem isn't with Linux, but rather PEBKAC.
And now you make the mistake of confusing ease-of-use with able-to-use.
You're not clever enough for the ego you splurge around. I don't know what behavioural problem you have, but it's doing you no favours.
You seem to be confused between an admin user on OSX and admin or root on other OSs.
If you are a person that is trusted to have admin privileges on OSX, there is no recommendation to normally run as a second account which is not admin, nor does there need to be. Admin is not what you think it is. Is is not the same as root.
Admin doesn't have any extra privileges over a standard user except that that when elevated privileges are required, the admin password dialog you describe is presented. Contrary to your belief that dialog does not appear for non-admin users.
The whole point of admin accounts are they are given to people trusted to install and update software etc. So of course Software Update isn't intended to run for non-admin users. They cannot elevate permissions to install the software anyway. They are not trusted to do so.
You'd have to be specific. There were complaints that one particular point release of OSX didn't ship with the latest version of Flash. But the update to Flash had only happened 4 days before. i.e. It didn't arrive early enough to be in the GM.
4 days certainly isn't a "long, long time". But it does show what a snivelling whine fest the tech media has become.
My guess is that she heard about the facebook page opposing the action against the coach, and created a fake account to read it. Then curiosity got the better of her and she started friending the students to see what they were up to.
Maybe she didn't realise it was wrong. Maybe she did, but the curiosity and feeling of anonymity got the better of her.
What I mean by long gone is that it last worked on 4.3.3, which was superseded in July 2011. (We're on 5.1 now, and there has been several point releases in between). And it's never worked in any way, on any version, on latest hardware (iPhone 4S or new iPad).
Un-thethered exploits reportedly still exist
The use of the term "Untethered" is unintuitive and not quite what you think it is. "Tethered" means you need to connect to a computer every time the phone is rebooted. Untethered means it will reboot with the jailbreak still operative even if you're not connected to a computer.
Either way, you still need to be connected with a cable to a computer to do the actual jailbreaking. The jailbreaking software runs on the computer.
The days of being able to jailbreak by visiting a website are long gone. You have to physically connect the phone to a computer in order that it can be re-flashed.
It's not relevant to what downloaded software/websites/document malware could do.
That's a cute meme of false positions you've got there..I think I saw it over on the Warmite Talking Points Page.
If you did, they copied it from me. They're not false positions, I've seen 1-5 argued many times. From there on they are extrapolated positions because Republicans haven't got there yet.
There used to be widespread European consensus that the world was flat--that didn't make it so.
Interesting that the GP said "easy to use" and you changed that to "easy to install". Which of corse isn't the same thing at all. For sure, Linux is not easy to use. But lets quantify that - it's less easy to use than the other 2 mainstream desktop OSs.
Even now, I notice that Apple still doesn't automatically update software by default, so, the only people who tend to install the update are those who are security-minded anyway.
False. By default OSX automatically checks for updates on a weekly basis.
Additionally, your claims as to what sales staff say is hearsay. And given you're an AC and your one checkable claim was wrong, it's not worth much.
Android is a great example how malware just gets there, around the obstacles when the market share is right. It's even on their official store.
No. There is virtually no malware for the iOS, which is in the same ball park as far as market share is concerned. So it's not just market-share. Security, including walled gardens, make a huge difference.
Since most linux distros are using repositories for all the third-party software (vs non-tech users zooming around the web downloading "10,000 similies!") malware for linux is pretty darned rare -- much more so than windows or os x.
Of course most OSX third party software is coming from the Mac App Store these days, so the same applies.
Wow, with arguments like that, how could I have been so blind! Of course I was wrong, with such masterful debating from yourself illustrating how wrong I was!
Let me put it another way: You're full of shit. You might as well claim there are pink fairies and you've seen them. It's not for me to disprove it, but for you to prove it. And you can't.
Google better pull their app fast, because if you search for shit, you might get a results page including links to paid services, some of them even from Google!
Google aren't doing any in-app purchases on it's apps.
And PayPal better get rid of their app, and eBay.
Neither Paypal nor eBay offer in app purchases. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about, do you?
And all those online-banking apps better get pulled to. They all allow money to change hands without Apple getting any.
And an example right back at you. UK public health service costs 40% of what Americans pay, and yet everyone is covered. There is no fear that losing a job might lose you medical care for example.
I'm absolutely against security theatre. On that we agree. My point is that if it's privatised it'll be worse.
I'll give you another example. UK traffic wardens. They used to be public servants. If they saw you were about to park illegally, they'd tell you. If you asked them for where you could park they'd give you advice. If you were parked illegally but deserved some leeway - e.g. you were doing a difficult delivery, then they'd give you leeway. If you parked illegally they would give you a ticket of course.
Then they were privatised. Private companies employed people at minimum wage and incentivised them by the number of parking tickets they issue. Result - if they see someone about to park illegally, they hide round the corner and wait for the person to leave the car in order to issue a ticket. They spend all there time in places where they can issue the most tickets rather than the places where there are traffic problems. They lie, about wether your car was on a line or not. They lie about how long it was parked. Etc. Anything to issue more tickets and thus earn more money.
Privatisation of public services is always a bad idea. It either costs more, or is more user hostile, or both.
Whether it's you misinterpreting them, or them being put badly makes no difference. The fact is that there has never been an issue with apps creating free accounts on services. Thousands of apps do that. The rule is against in-app sales that don't use the official mechanism that gives Apple 30%. Including apps linking to web-site that do that. That's never been allowed.
He did do something. He entered into email correspondence with a terrorist organisation offering to carry out a terrorist act.
If he got in touch with a hit man asking for you to be killed do you think that should be illegal? Or would you want to wait until the hit-man has a gun to your head?
After all, by your concept of thought crime, having such a discussion with a hit-man would be thought crime, not real crime.
You probably want to re-read 1984. Thought crime is the crime of THINKING things contrary to the wishes of the state. It only takes one.
By the time you've involved someone else, then it's conspiracy. Winston Smith was caught due to his conspiracy, but the crime itself was the actual thought.
Bad comparison. If you hire a cheap and poor software developer, the unfinished or poor quality software is obvious. It's not so obvious the difference between a good screener and a bad one. They're actually more likely to demand screeners that are less thorough. Is that higher quality?
You can't talk about "actually committed the phyical crime" without defining the crime. There could be a law that makes it a crime to stuff a frozen chicken up one's jumper, something much more observable than what goes on inside someone's head.
And there could be a law that makes it a crime to engage in email correspondence with people you know to be in terrorist organisations, saying you are wanting to do a terrorist act. Which is equally observable.
a woman saying "I'm going to kill my husband" could be convicted of attempted murder.
Women who've tried to make arrangements with others to carry out the murder of their husbands have indeed been prosecuted.
In all these cases it's a step beyond thought crime, to early action. One can't wait for later action when people would die.
You know, with shoplifters, you can't arrest them until they leave the shop with the goods. And that's a good thing. There's always the outside chance that the frozen chicken they've stuffed up their jumper will be presented at the checkout before they leave.
With terrorists, it's not such a good idea to wait until they've actually committed the physical crime. That tends to cost a lot of lives.
Most routes are only served by a single airline. You can compromise by travelling further at one end or the other, but there's not a simple choice to switch airlines for the same route.
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Again, it sounds like you're just assuming "Oh, they could never do something that stupid, of course that's allowed." When it looks like that's exactly why apple is rejecting apps.
I'm a registered developer with an app in the store. Which gives me access to the current rules and the forum. I'm not assuming anything. Again creating free accounts is common in Apps in the store. Always has been.
I'll give you another quote from the dropbox forums.
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=59350&page=3&replies=72
Not all posts on forums are to be relied upon as indicators of what the rules are. Individual reviewers can make mistakes. Individual developers can be confused about what reviewers have rejected for. Maybe an app reviewer was aware of the DropBox problem and didn't realise that app was using the previous SDK that didn't break the rules.
From the same page you'll see that Brian S a DropBox employee, and seems satisfied that whilst everything isn't OK yet, they have an SDK ready for release tomorrow that does remove all remaining issues.
Because I can honestly say it's improved my quality of life. Thanks to they dynamics of Facebook I've:
1) Had a change of career.
2) I went to live in a very desirable foreign country for 2 years.
3) I manage to keep in touch with many more friends than I could possibly do before.
4) I get invited to social events that I wouldn't have heard about before.
5) My professional network is wide, and I hear about a lot of things that are useful to me professionally.
etc.
For sure it can be a time-sink. As can Slashdot. As can any web-site that keeps you engaged. If it wasn't useful and/or enjoyable it wouldn't be a time-sink.
Porn sites tend to use affiliate marketing. Which means Joe Spammer can make money from people following his links to xtube. Not hard to see why it would become a sign of spam in the Facebook filter.
No, it's not a strawman when it's just an accusation.
It's more of an ad-hominem.
Learn your fallacies.
I never said it was a strawman.
Yes that's right, you can't even win at pedantry.
The complete GUIs on Linux mean cross platform applications aren't different from other platforms. Libre/Open Office on Linux is identical to Libre/Open Office on Windows or OSX.
Cross platform apps are either equally shit on all platforms, or only any good on the primary development plaform. Libre/Open Office is shit on Linux, Windows and OSX. In fact worse on OSX because it digresses even further for platform standards.
In this day and age, if you cannot operate a Linux device, the problem isn't with Linux, but rather PEBKAC.
And now you make the mistake of confusing ease-of-use with able-to-use.
You're not clever enough for the ego you splurge around. I don't know what behavioural problem you have, but it's doing you no favours.
You seem to be confused between an admin user on OSX and admin or root on other OSs.
If you are a person that is trusted to have admin privileges on OSX, there is no recommendation to normally run as a second account which is not admin, nor does there need to be. Admin is not what you think it is. Is is not the same as root.
Admin doesn't have any extra privileges over a standard user except that that when elevated privileges are required, the admin password dialog you describe is presented. Contrary to your belief that dialog does not appear for non-admin users.
The whole point of admin accounts are they are given to people trusted to install and update software etc. So of course Software Update isn't intended to run for non-admin users. They cannot elevate permissions to install the software anyway. They are not trusted to do so.
Artie MacStrawman.
You read like someone who hasn't got a real argument.
You'd have to be specific. There were complaints that one particular point release of OSX didn't ship with the latest version of Flash. But the update to Flash had only happened 4 days before. i.e. It didn't arrive early enough to be in the GM.
4 days certainly isn't a "long, long time". But it does show what a snivelling whine fest the tech media has become.
My guess is that she heard about the facebook page opposing the action against the coach, and created a fake account to read it. Then curiosity got the better of her and she started friending the students to see what they were up to.
Maybe she didn't realise it was wrong. Maybe she did, but the curiosity and feeling of anonymity got the better of her.
What I mean by long gone is that it last worked on 4.3.3, which was superseded in July 2011. (We're on 5.1 now, and there has been several point releases in between). And it's never worked in any way, on any version, on latest hardware (iPhone 4S or new iPad).
Un-thethered exploits reportedly still exist
The use of the term "Untethered" is unintuitive and not quite what you think it is. "Tethered" means you need to connect to a computer every time the phone is rebooted. Untethered means it will reboot with the jailbreak still operative even if you're not connected to a computer.
Either way, you still need to be connected with a cable to a computer to do the actual jailbreaking. The jailbreaking software runs on the computer.
The days of being able to jailbreak by visiting a website are long gone. You have to physically connect the phone to a computer in order that it can be re-flashed.
It's not relevant to what downloaded software/websites/document malware could do.
The existence and completeness of a GUI does not make it easy to use.
That's a cute meme of false positions you've got there..I think I saw it over on the Warmite Talking Points Page.
If you did, they copied it from me. They're not false positions, I've seen 1-5 argued many times. From there on they are extrapolated positions because Republicans haven't got there yet.
There used to be widespread European consensus that the world was flat--that didn't make it so.
That's another thing you're wrong about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
Maybe we should gather data before we start ripping apart our economy over an unproven theory.
It's amusing that right at the end there, you give away that you are very much one of the people playing through this 9 step plan of denial. :-)
Interesting that the GP said "easy to use" and you changed that to "easy to install". Which of corse isn't the same thing at all. For sure, Linux is not easy to use. But lets quantify that - it's less easy to use than the other 2 mainstream desktop OSs.
Even now, I notice that Apple still doesn't automatically update software by default, so, the only people who tend to install the update are those who are security-minded anyway.
False. By default OSX automatically checks for updates on a weekly basis.
Additionally, your claims as to what sales staff say is hearsay. And given you're an AC and your one checkable claim was wrong, it's not worth much.
Android is a great example how malware just gets there, around the obstacles when the market share is right. It's even on their official store.
No. There is virtually no malware for the iOS, which is in the same ball park as far as market share is concerned. So it's not just market-share. Security, including walled gardens, make a huge difference.
Since most linux distros are using repositories for all the third-party software (vs non-tech users zooming around the web downloading "10,000 similies!") malware for linux is pretty darned rare -- much more so than windows or os x.
Of course most OSX third party software is coming from the Mac App Store these days, so the same applies.
Wow, with arguments like that, how could I have been so blind! Of course I was wrong, with such masterful debating from yourself illustrating how wrong I was!
Let me put it another way: You're full of shit. You might as well claim there are pink fairies and you've seen them. It's not for me to disprove it, but for you to prove it. And you can't.
Google better pull their app fast, because if you search for shit, you might get a results page including links to paid services, some of them even from Google!
Google aren't doing any in-app purchases on it's apps.
And PayPal better get rid of their app, and eBay.
Neither Paypal nor eBay offer in app purchases. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about, do you?
And all those online-banking apps better get pulled to. They all allow money to change hands without Apple getting any.
Idiot. Money changing hands doesn't imply in-app purchase.
These aren't exceptions. Apple has two sets of rules, and everyone knows it.
You're full of shit and everyone knows it.
The only reason Amazon got clobbered is because they actually are an Apple competitor. Kindle's store button was never a problem before iBooks.
More shit. They were never allowed in-app purchases without Apple getting a cut.
There are steps in between thinking about something and doing it.
Yes, and he took some of them. Thus making it more than a "thought crime".
And an example right back at you. UK public health service costs 40% of what Americans pay, and yet everyone is covered. There is no fear that losing a job might lose you medical care for example.
I'm absolutely against security theatre. On that we agree. My point is that if it's privatised it'll be worse.
I'll give you another example. UK traffic wardens. They used to be public servants. If they saw you were about to park illegally, they'd tell you. If you asked them for where you could park they'd give you advice. If you were parked illegally but deserved some leeway - e.g. you were doing a difficult delivery, then they'd give you leeway. If you parked illegally they would give you a ticket of course.
Then they were privatised. Private companies employed people at minimum wage and incentivised them by the number of parking tickets they issue. Result - if they see someone about to park illegally, they hide round the corner and wait for the person to leave the car in order to issue a ticket. They spend all there time in places where they can issue the most tickets rather than the places where there are traffic problems. They lie, about wether your car was on a line or not. They lie about how long it was parked. Etc. Anything to issue more tickets and thus earn more money.
Privatisation of public services is always a bad idea. It either costs more, or is more user hostile, or both.
Whether it's you misinterpreting them, or them being put badly makes no difference. The fact is that there has never been an issue with apps creating free accounts on services. Thousands of apps do that. The rule is against in-app sales that don't use the official mechanism that gives Apple 30%. Including apps linking to web-site that do that. That's never been allowed.
He did do something. He entered into email correspondence with a terrorist organisation offering to carry out a terrorist act.
If he got in touch with a hit man asking for you to be killed do you think that should be illegal? Or would you want to wait until the hit-man has a gun to your head?
After all, by your concept of thought crime, having such a discussion with a hit-man would be thought crime, not real crime.
You probably want to re-read 1984. Thought crime is the crime of THINKING things contrary to the wishes of the state. It only takes one.
By the time you've involved someone else, then it's conspiracy. Winston Smith was caught due to his conspiracy, but the crime itself was the actual thought.
Bad comparison. If you hire a cheap and poor software developer, the unfinished or poor quality software is obvious. It's not so obvious the difference between a good screener and a bad one. They're actually more likely to demand screeners that are less thorough. Is that higher quality?
You can't talk about "actually committed the phyical crime" without defining the crime. There could be a law that makes it a crime to stuff a frozen chicken up one's jumper, something much more observable than what goes on inside someone's head.
And there could be a law that makes it a crime to engage in email correspondence with people you know to be in terrorist organisations, saying you are wanting to do a terrorist act. Which is equally observable.
a woman saying "I'm going to kill my husband" could be convicted of attempted murder.
Women who've tried to make arrangements with others to carry out the murder of their husbands have indeed been prosecuted.
In all these cases it's a step beyond thought crime, to early action. One can't wait for later action when people would die.
You know, with shoplifters, you can't arrest them until they leave the shop with the goods. And that's a good thing. There's always the outside chance that the frozen chicken they've stuffed up their jumper will be presented at the checkout before they leave.
With terrorists, it's not such a good idea to wait until they've actually committed the physical crime. That tends to cost a lot of lives.
Most routes are only served by a single airline. You can compromise by travelling further at one end or the other, but there's not a simple choice to switch airlines for the same route.