Speaking of consequences, I'm sure it was all high 5's, parades, hugs, and an extra sack of rice for the NK boys that sank the Cheonan - they'll live happily ever after. What are the consequences for a government that routinely threatens various countries with annihilation if they don't get food aid or money?
Freedom of action does not always end with consequences.
Ctrl + alt and cursor keys to get where you want to go. OLVWM - it was so much more than pretty eyecandy:-)
If microsoft had included a functional virtual desktop I think it might have actually been possible to pry Unix from my still living hands back in the day. Windows seems to make me much less productive, everything feels tedious to accomplish.
From the article and summary my own conclusion is that this is somewhat of an astroturf for Coverity and more than likely lacks any solid foundation. Certainly there may be bugs, but many are probably of the "Meh" kind.
Walls are not always just accessible to people in your friends list - A good many people (I guess most) have their wall set to public, random strangers that have absolutely no relationship at all can easily trawl through and gain access to entire albums and all kinds of chatter.
Friendster also has a similar kind of "feature" - Private Profiles you would ordinarily think are locked down - these can still be accessed, at least the albums can be anyway - click on the profile picture, it then gives you a link above the full sized image to view all their public albums. Simple as that. I don't know if this is intentional or a bug...
You don't quite know the reality of privacy, Nokia, and asking. These days they don't ask. They make it compulsory. While they may not openly use the data they collect in ways that are immediately obvious, they absolutely do collect data that most would consider even more private than the stuff they hand over to google.
One Word (okay technically two) "MyNokia" - on Symbian and Maemo handsets the OS forces you to send a text message back to Nokia the first time you turn it on - the payload - IMEI and a bunch of other handset specific information. The Maemo community reacted quite badly to this - The response from Nokia was to suck it up because everyone loves to sell their soul in return for daily text spam.
Android already runs on the N900, a few rough edges, but it's almost good enough to use as a replacement OS.
MeeGo - everyone forgets about Maemo - it exists right now, it is good. MeeGo is an arse about face rewrite to fit somewhere between Android and iOS. Obviously Nokia was a little bit smug and now has to play catchup for a few years. It's not like the writing wasn't on the wall though.
The right decision? You actually support carriers that drip feed you bandwidth because they've long since gotten used to twisting every last cent from your wallet - just so you can have the pleasure of consuming ever decreasing amounts of a service that is active 24/7 regardless of actual use.
Understand the tech behind the scenes and you'll be outraged - think executive golden parachutes rather than infrastructure upgrades.
I live in some random Asian country, over 3.5G I routinely see 200+ kilobytes per second. No caps, unlimited, all for about $27 USD per month. Technology is not the problem here.
My understanding, other than encrypting the search terms, nothing much else has changed - sure this prevents GoogleSharing from knowing what kind of porn I like (not that I care), but as the article says, they still get the IP addresses. What does this mean for the truly paranoid? GoogleSharing and Google could easily exchange a bit of motivational cash, maybe the NSA has a box jammed on the incoming side of GoogleSharing to siphon off the IP addresses, with another in Google itself to get the actual search terms. What is Moxie Marlinspike getting from all this? Warm fuzzy feelings don't keep the lights on and food on the table.
I gather you don't really quite understand how society works. "Stupid You" if you take the drugs right? I think we both agree. But, how many stupids are there in the world? How many people exist that are too immature and not evolved enough to have the sense not to swallow the entire content? Who pays to clean up that mess? I can understand moderation - but our newspapers are littered with stories of people who don't do moderation.
Which is cheaper - the army surrounding the bottle, or paying to have a support net to catch the stupid when they fall?
For as long as I exist, I have to depend on others doing the right thing just to stay alive, all of us do. Mostly this works out pretty well given average life spans and such. You are honestly suggesting we legalize all drugs? No controls at all? What about the medical profession, prescriptions exist for good reason, far more than just limiting supply to drug users.
I'll side with you as soon as you can eliminate society from your equation.
I remember way back being taught about trellis code modulation - 8am - squeaky white board marker - "Right, today we'll cover a very simple 2 bit trellis code modulation scheme' - I thought I was a frigging rocket scientist back then, 2 bits, heh, some kind of noob joke?! I have to say after 2 minutes I'd actually glazed over, just like everybody else... : )
Who dreams this stuff up! Seriously! These guys and girls don't actually think like the rest of us.
As a former ELINT / EW drone, I'd like to make a correction good sir. I can tell you that the GPS spread spectrum transmissions (actually, all spread spectrum transmissions) are not below the 'noise level' - or noise floor. They are quite distinctive on a spectrum analyzer and the link you posted does show this. I say this sitting at the back end of several 20+ meter satellite dishes and do acknowledge that for some receive systems, the transmissions may indeed be below their noise floor - but, to qualify this, if something is below the noise floor, by extension this means it simply cannot be received. Including spread spectrum.
You are right about the technology having been around for a long time though - decades : )
>>> Why would you bother? That's a completely different class of gear.
Different in what way? Both use pretty much the same Cortex A8 processor and share many similar specifications - in that regard both units are just 'sub-notebook' type computers with different operating systems. Your argument would perhaps be better defined as "one has better applications for telephony than the other" - these things could be fixed on the N900 but...
Most of those tacked on phone capabilities are a half-arsed attempt, obviously Nokia has tagged the whole lot with "Wont Fix", though many requests have been made to open source it all so developers can hammer out the rough edges themselves. Reading Maemo and MeeGo forums, there is much talk of Nokia doing just this, so there is hope I guess.
There is indeed a ton of prior art. There are quite a few Symbian applications that enable the 'owner' to do pretty much what the apple patent describes. Also my N900 has a fairly sophisticated script that sets up a reverse tunnel over 3G automatically if the SIM card is changed - once logged in I can do sudo rm -rf/* if I feel destructive - though in reality I'd grab a few good GPS fixes and then retrieve my property.
Are you some kind of buzzword factory? Seriously, enough with the corporate babble. : )
If you turn the key, you have responsibilities.
I would suggest anyone not familiar with how badly people drive in general - without alcohol - throw their leg over a motorbike seat and spend a month riding around. This is not to say all motorcycle riders are good, they obviously aren't, just that the point gets driven home real quick when yet another driver doesn't see you for the 80th time by 8:30am on Monday morning. I also acknowledge that I might be sub par as well - but I take safety courses for refresher, bury myself in accident reports in hopes I can avoid mistakes.
A bit of a generalization, but I think any rational person would conclude that mind altering substances and driving simply do not belong together. Myself as just one dot in the sheer mass of road users you see everyday (I'm only population filler, don't mind me, move along) - every one of you with a key and a license (or no license) - I endeavor to keep you safe at all times - I absolutely do expect the same in return. Surely a little bit of concentration is not too much to ask?
>>> Echelon was used similarly, I guess to spy on foreign firms.
Although I am nobody special, just some text on a screen for you, as a disgruntled ex-secret 3 letter agency worker drone formerly living in Australia, I can confirm that your musings never happened on my watch for a decade or so very late last century. I only wanted to know if UFO's existed anyway - I even managed to mention this during my interview. Indeed I was as surprised as anyone when they said "Okay, you can work for us, here's a box of cornflakes, your TS security clearance is in the bottom somewhere" - I'm quite sure the Navy still have a copy of my passing interest for things unidentified in their psych evaluation - as does the Defence Security Branch and the DSD:-)
How evil are the shareholders? Will google become evil over the apparent need to make a few extra billion every year? Why is it not okay just to coast along when you're on a good thing already? How much money is enough?
It'll be in freefall around the planet even if it is in low-Jupiter orbit, so the only problem will be getting its teeth X-rayed a hundred million times or so. Weightless and happy, it pretty much will only be as complex as any other mission to orbit another planet. That bit about diving it in to the surface though, that'll be a tad on the damaging side like you say.
Another more simplistic possibility is perhaps this: Clearly the US government know exactly what has been leaked so far, they know the document pile it came from, so it's not much of a stretch to figure out what else is very probably also there that has yet to be leaked.
So include both the iPod touch and iPad, does apple sell roughly 90 million units each year of all their iOS stuff combined? If the answer is no, then they are smaller than Symbian.
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Thanks for the links. I'm wondering why it would be so dirty (burn marks?) on the upper part - on what I assume are the cargo bay doors?
Speaking of consequences, I'm sure it was all high 5's, parades, hugs, and an extra sack of rice for the NK boys that sank the Cheonan - they'll live happily ever after.
What are the consequences for a government that routinely threatens various countries with annihilation if they don't get food aid or money?
Freedom of action does not always end with consequences.
More than two? Virtual Desktops.
Ctrl + alt and cursor keys to get where you want to go. OLVWM - it was so much more than pretty eyecandy :-)
If microsoft had included a functional virtual desktop I think it might have actually been possible to pry Unix from my still living hands back in the day. Windows seems to make me much less productive, everything feels tedious to accomplish.
Technically you are correct : ) I have updated my definition of 'astroturf'
From the article and summary my own conclusion is that this is somewhat of an astroturf for Coverity and more than likely lacks any solid foundation. Certainly there may be bugs, but many are probably of the "Meh" kind.
I take it you've never read uncyclopedia entries about whatever country it is you come from. Lighten up a little, we are all human on the inside.
Walls are not always just accessible to people in your friends list - A good many people (I guess most) have their wall set to public, random strangers that have absolutely no relationship at all can easily trawl through and gain access to entire albums and all kinds of chatter.
Friendster also has a similar kind of "feature" - Private Profiles you would ordinarily think are locked down - these can still be accessed, at least the albums can be anyway - click on the profile picture, it then gives you a link above the full sized image to view all their public albums. Simple as that. I don't know if this is intentional or a bug...
You don't quite know the reality of privacy, Nokia, and asking. These days they don't ask. They make it compulsory. While they may not openly use the data they collect in ways that are immediately obvious, they absolutely do collect data that most would consider even more private than the stuff they hand over to google.
One Word (okay technically two) "MyNokia" - on Symbian and Maemo handsets the OS forces you to send a text message back to Nokia the first time you turn it on - the payload - IMEI and a bunch of other handset specific information. The Maemo community reacted quite badly to this - The response from Nokia was to suck it up because everyone loves to sell their soul in return for daily text spam.
Android already runs on the N900, a few rough edges, but it's almost good enough to use as a replacement OS.
MeeGo - everyone forgets about Maemo - it exists right now, it is good. MeeGo is an arse about face rewrite to fit somewhere between Android and iOS. Obviously Nokia was a little bit smug and now has to play catchup for a few years. It's not like the writing wasn't on the wall though.
The right decision? You actually support carriers that drip feed you bandwidth because they've long since gotten used to twisting every last cent from your wallet - just so you can have the pleasure of consuming ever decreasing amounts of a service that is active 24/7 regardless of actual use.
Understand the tech behind the scenes and you'll be outraged - think executive golden parachutes rather than infrastructure upgrades.
I live in some random Asian country, over 3.5G I routinely see 200+ kilobytes per second. No caps, unlimited, all for about $27 USD per month. Technology is not the problem here.
My understanding, other than encrypting the search terms, nothing much else has changed - sure this prevents GoogleSharing from knowing what kind of porn I like (not that I care), but as the article says, they still get the IP addresses. What does this mean for the truly paranoid? GoogleSharing and Google could easily exchange a bit of motivational cash, maybe the NSA has a box jammed on the incoming side of GoogleSharing to siphon off the IP addresses, with another in Google itself to get the actual search terms. What is Moxie Marlinspike getting from all this? Warm fuzzy feelings don't keep the lights on and food on the table.
I gather you don't really quite understand how society works. "Stupid You" if you take the drugs right? I think we both agree. But, how many stupids are there in the world? How many people exist that are too immature and not evolved enough to have the sense not to swallow the entire content? Who pays to clean up that mess? I can understand moderation - but our newspapers are littered with stories of people who don't do moderation.
Which is cheaper - the army surrounding the bottle, or paying to have a support net to catch the stupid when they fall?
For as long as I exist, I have to depend on others doing the right thing just to stay alive, all of us do. Mostly this works out pretty well given average life spans and such. You are honestly suggesting we legalize all drugs? No controls at all? What about the medical profession, prescriptions exist for good reason, far more than just limiting supply to drug users.
I'll side with you as soon as you can eliminate society from your equation.
I remember way back being taught about trellis code modulation - 8am - squeaky white board marker - "Right, today we'll cover a very simple 2 bit trellis code modulation scheme' - I thought I was a frigging rocket scientist back then, 2 bits, heh, some kind of noob joke?! I have to say after 2 minutes I'd actually glazed over, just like everybody else... : )
Who dreams this stuff up! Seriously! These guys and girls don't actually think like the rest of us.
As a former ELINT / EW drone, I'd like to make a correction good sir. I can tell you that the GPS spread spectrum transmissions (actually, all spread spectrum transmissions) are not below the 'noise level' - or noise floor. They are quite distinctive on a spectrum analyzer and the link you posted does show this. I say this sitting at the back end of several 20+ meter satellite dishes and do acknowledge that for some receive systems, the transmissions may indeed be below their noise floor - but, to qualify this, if something is below the noise floor, by extension this means it simply cannot be received. Including spread spectrum.
You are right about the technology having been around for a long time though - decades : )
They switch the laser diode on and off in the same order as the 0's and 1's coming down the chute. : ) Transistors. Is there anything they can't do?
>>> Why would you bother? That's a completely different class of gear.
Different in what way? Both use pretty much the same Cortex A8 processor and share many similar specifications - in that regard both units are just 'sub-notebook' type computers with different operating systems. Your argument would perhaps be better defined as "one has better applications for telephony than the other" - these things could be fixed on the N900 but...
Most of those tacked on phone capabilities are a half-arsed attempt, obviously Nokia has tagged the whole lot with "Wont Fix", though many requests have been made to open source it all so developers can hammer out the rough edges themselves. Reading Maemo and MeeGo forums, there is much talk of Nokia doing just this, so there is hope I guess.
There is indeed a ton of prior art. There are quite a few Symbian applications that enable the 'owner' to do pretty much what the apple patent describes. Also my N900 has a fairly sophisticated script that sets up a reverse tunnel over 3G automatically if the SIM card is changed - once logged in I can do sudo rm -rf /* if I feel destructive - though in reality I'd grab a few good GPS fixes and then retrieve my property.
And I'd argue that while the candy may very well come in a million different wrappers, it's still the same old candy underneath. : )
I'm not sure what my post is advocating, so I'll leave that for the readers moral guidance unit to interpret.
Are you some kind of buzzword factory? Seriously, enough with the corporate babble. : )
If you turn the key, you have responsibilities.
I would suggest anyone not familiar with how badly people drive in general - without alcohol - throw their leg over a motorbike seat and spend a month riding around. This is not to say all motorcycle riders are good, they obviously aren't, just that the point gets driven home real quick when yet another driver doesn't see you for the 80th time by 8:30am on Monday morning. I also acknowledge that I might be sub par as well - but I take safety courses for refresher, bury myself in accident reports in hopes I can avoid mistakes.
A bit of a generalization, but I think any rational person would conclude that mind altering substances and driving simply do not belong together. Myself as just one dot in the sheer mass of road users you see everyday (I'm only population filler, don't mind me, move along) - every one of you with a key and a license (or no license) - I endeavor to keep you safe at all times - I absolutely do expect the same in return. Surely a little bit of concentration is not too much to ask?
I live in hope I guess...
>>> Echelon was used similarly, I guess to spy on foreign firms.
Although I am nobody special, just some text on a screen for you, as a disgruntled ex-secret 3 letter agency worker drone formerly living in Australia, I can confirm that your musings never happened on my watch for a decade or so very late last century. I only wanted to know if UFO's existed anyway - I even managed to mention this during my interview. Indeed I was as surprised as anyone when they said "Okay, you can work for us, here's a box of cornflakes, your TS security clearance is in the bottom somewhere" - I'm quite sure the Navy still have a copy of my passing interest for things unidentified in their psych evaluation - as does the Defence Security Branch and the DSD :-)
(Alien feeding duty sucked, the buggers bite)
Ted Stevens died, Sean O'Keefe survived along with his son.
How evil are the shareholders? Will google become evil over the apparent need to make a few extra billion every year? Why is it not okay just to coast along when you're on a good thing already? How much money is enough?
It'll be in freefall around the planet even if it is in low-Jupiter orbit, so the only problem will be getting its teeth X-rayed a hundred million times or so. Weightless and happy, it pretty much will only be as complex as any other mission to orbit another planet. That bit about diving it in to the surface though, that'll be a tad on the damaging side like you say.
Another more simplistic possibility is perhaps this: Clearly the US government know exactly what has been leaked so far, they know the document pile it came from, so it's not much of a stretch to figure out what else is very probably also there that has yet to be leaked.
So include both the iPod touch and iPad, does apple sell roughly 90 million units each year of all their iOS stuff combined? If the answer is no, then they are smaller than Symbian.