I'm just a beginner bb developer, but I think it's even HARDER than is sounds to write Blackberry worm.
Even if you DO write a program that reads/sends email or connects to the internet. And then pay the money and SIGN your malicious app-- and then somehow get somebody to INSTALL it..
Well on the BB releases I use - you will also get WARNINGS when you execute the program. When the program first tries to access your email folder - it will pop up a warning asking you "do you want to allow this program to acesss your email folder?"
First time the application tries to open a TCP/IP connection to the outside world - same thing: "The application is attempting to open a conneciton to X.X.X.X - do you wish to allow it?". You can type "Allow" or "Deny" or "Allow always".
So BE WARNED: A person can a malicous program, that is signed with his name on it (RIM takes your info before they give you the keys), which you MIGHT install and then you MIGHT accidentally give it access to your emails, and address book, and access to internet. If all those things happen - then it would be bad!
I actually bothered to read the entire article, and the supreme court decision here was basically no decision.
What the lower court stated, was that the plaintiff (the artist) had actually failed to show cause. She failed to actually demonstrate that she was actually being effected or restricted by the current laws of the land. While it was certainly true that the there could be constitutional conflicts in the decency,free speech, and federal child protection laws, the court always fails to intervene in the laws until somebody can show ACTUAL damage (not perceived damage). Often the standards of this don't have to TOO high, but the court needs to have some belief that a law passed by congress or a state actually DOES conflict with a constitutionally protected right of an living and breathing individual person before they will even CONSIDER the case. The plaintiff failed to this in the eyes of the lower court, and the supreme court agreed with that decision.
So while it's TRUE that it still leaves the actual decision wide open, it DOESN'T mean that the court has made a decision in either direction in this case. So people who think they have are responding to more legal FUD.
If there was an ACTUAL artist, who posted something on a NYC website that was legally protected, was then prosecuted by a local community somewhere else, then we would suddenly have a case that the courts might rule on. And then everybody on both sides would have a real case to argue about. The plaintiff failed to show whether this had even happened yet, so the court dismissed the case. The Supreme court agreed with the lower court's reason for dismissing the case. 'Nuff said.
Don't confuse patent applications with product annoucements. I don't see a product arriving soon that does everything their patent says. Patents are filed to protect intellectual work that may have been performed, but doesn't mean that Tivo will ever ship anything like it is described in the patent. Companies think up great stuff and patent it to protect those intellectual assets - sort of staking a "claim" on the idea. Doesn't mean they plan to develop anything yet.
Could be that the pre-orders for the Mini mac are exceeding expectations.
That means that Apple can put more parts in the pipeline, and get better prices.
It may also be that Apple is starting to look at the mini-Mac as a market grown opportunity, more than a cash opportunity. It may make more sense to drop the prices closer to cost, if it means selling more boxes.
I think that there is a real resistance on a part of many sites to add RSS feeds, because it causes people to eat up their bandwidth, but without a way to sell advertisements. Also RSS feeds can cause your bandwidth to go up, since now there are automated process that will constantly PING your feed over and over again. It changes your network load. I would expect that the next generation of webservers will be doing all sorts of optimzations for RSS feeds.
I have heard of companies that will "mix in" advertisements to your RSS feed. Of course, I think if I added advertisements to my blog's RSS feed, than I would definetly get nobody to look at it.
The other strategy is to use OTHER people's RSS feeds so that you can organize the data on your home page. (my.yahoo.com is doing this..)
I think that MOSTLY, some companies are doing RSS feeds that have "teaser" titles without full text. That way, if you want to read the full article, you have to click through and catch the adds. I would expect this to become more and more the trend for news and other corporate RSS feeds.
Meanwhile, all the bloggers don't care about add revenue (well, at least most of them don't). They just want social interaction. I think the primary force behind blogging is social, not economic. That will drive the direction of the technology.
These seems logical.
I've actually used almost every RSS reader on the market and come to a simple answer.
There is no great RSS aggreatator on the market.
There are some okay ones, but I think many of them miss the social interaction at the heart of most RSS feeds. Your reading a PERSON's report, not some company's new feed.
There is no easy way to "add a feed" to your aggreator. Most aggreator's are really just lists of feeds. Only a few allow you to mix and filter.
The company that puts out the first great RSS aggreator will probably make a million.
Now I can't comment on Rojo, cause I don't have a invite... (Do I sound like I'm begging, maybe I am...)
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I'm just a beginner bb developer, but I think it's even HARDER than is sounds to write Blackberry worm.
Even if you DO write a program that reads/sends email or connects to the internet.
And then pay the money and SIGN your malicious app--
and then somehow get somebody to INSTALL it..
Well on the BB releases I use - you will also get WARNINGS when you execute the program.
When the program first tries to access your email folder - it will pop up a warning asking you "do you want to allow this program to acesss your email folder?"
First time the application tries to open a TCP/IP connection to the outside world - same thing: "The application is attempting to open a conneciton to X.X.X.X - do you wish to allow it?". You can type "Allow" or "Deny" or "Allow always".
So BE WARNED: A person can a malicous program, that is signed with his name on it (RIM takes your info before they give you the keys), which you MIGHT install and then you MIGHT accidentally give it access to your emails, and address book, and access to internet. If all those things happen - then it would be bad!
I actually bothered to read the entire article, and the supreme court decision here was basically no decision. What the lower court stated, was that the plaintiff (the artist) had actually failed to show cause. She failed to actually demonstrate that she was actually being effected or restricted by the current laws of the land. While it was certainly true that the there could be constitutional conflicts in the decency,free speech, and federal child protection laws, the court always fails to intervene in the laws until somebody can show ACTUAL damage (not perceived damage). Often the standards of this don't have to TOO high, but the court needs to have some belief that a law passed by congress or a state actually DOES conflict with a constitutionally protected right of an living and breathing individual person before they will even CONSIDER the case. The plaintiff failed to this in the eyes of the lower court, and the supreme court agreed with that decision. So while it's TRUE that it still leaves the actual decision wide open, it DOESN'T mean that the court has made a decision in either direction in this case. So people who think they have are responding to more legal FUD. If there was an ACTUAL artist, who posted something on a NYC website that was legally protected, was then prosecuted by a local community somewhere else, then we would suddenly have a case that the courts might rule on. And then everybody on both sides would have a real case to argue about. The plaintiff failed to show whether this had even happened yet, so the court dismissed the case. The Supreme court agreed with the lower court's reason for dismissing the case. 'Nuff said.
Don't confuse patent applications with product annoucements. I don't see a product arriving soon that does everything their patent says. Patents are filed to protect intellectual work that may have been performed, but doesn't mean that Tivo will ever ship anything like it is described in the patent. Companies think up great stuff and patent it to protect those intellectual assets - sort of staking a "claim" on the idea. Doesn't mean they plan to develop anything yet.
Could be that the pre-orders for the Mini mac are exceeding expectations.
That means that Apple can put more parts in the pipeline, and get better prices.
It may also be that Apple is starting to look at the mini-Mac as a market grown opportunity, more than a cash opportunity. It may make more sense to drop the prices closer to cost, if it means selling more boxes.
I think that there is a real resistance on a part of many sites to add RSS feeds, because it causes people to eat up their bandwidth, but without a way to sell advertisements. Also RSS feeds can cause your bandwidth to go up, since now there are automated process that will constantly PING your feed over and over again. It changes your network load. I would expect that the next generation of webservers will be doing all sorts of optimzations for RSS feeds. I have heard of companies that will "mix in" advertisements to your RSS feed. Of course, I think if I added advertisements to my blog's RSS feed, than I would definetly get nobody to look at it. The other strategy is to use OTHER people's RSS feeds so that you can organize the data on your home page. (my.yahoo.com is doing this..) I think that MOSTLY, some companies are doing RSS feeds that have "teaser" titles without full text. That way, if you want to read the full article, you have to click through and catch the adds. I would expect this to become more and more the trend for news and other corporate RSS feeds. Meanwhile, all the bloggers don't care about add revenue (well, at least most of them don't). They just want social interaction. I think the primary force behind blogging is social, not economic. That will drive the direction of the technology.
These seems logical. I've actually used almost every RSS reader on the market and come to a simple answer. There is no great RSS aggreatator on the market. There are some okay ones, but I think many of them miss the social interaction at the heart of most RSS feeds. Your reading a PERSON's report, not some company's new feed. There is no easy way to "add a feed" to your aggreator. Most aggreator's are really just lists of feeds. Only a few allow you to mix and filter. The company that puts out the first great RSS aggreator will probably make a million. Now I can't comment on Rojo, cause I don't have a invite... (Do I sound like I'm begging, maybe I am...)
680MB of DATA! Wow. We don't need any more than that do we? That's like... infinite!