iOS is mostly closed and analysis tools can't be installed without jailbreaking, how do we know what's going on in there?
Uhm... Its been jailbroken so we can just look, just like you would on a rooted android device?
Besides, does nobody remember the iPhone location privacy fiasco?
No, cause there wasn't one. It wasn't anything even slightly malicious. The only person with direct access to it was the phone owner and the person with unencrypted backups of the phone, which was also likely the owner. I'm pretty sure the owner knew where the phone was anyway, which makes the whole thing a nonpoint.
It's just idiots like you who keep pretending it was some big deal because your to ignorant to realize it wasn't a threat.
And again, I fail to care about yet another silly reason why we should throw common sense out the window and make a retarded decision based on the possibility that some bigoted ass would get hurt.
And you opt in to the world mapping your SSID location the instant you start broadcasting it. You have the option of using a wire rather than wireless if you don't want to broadcast.
Anyone who knows your name can find your address via simple public records searches.
If you own your house, your tax records are public, most states have these online and search able now. Own a car? All sorts of ways to get your address from that.
You're name is already on hundreds of big maps, with the names of millions of other people.
The fact that you're on the Internet almost guaranties that your name is on a public map somewhere thats easy to find by anyone who knows what they are looking for.
Get this though... NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR HOUSE OVER THE OTHER 6 BILLION PEOPLE'S HOMES.
Well, the simplest solution to not be tracked by facebook is to not use their service.
This is very trivial, don't create a facebook account and don't visit any of their websites.
In order for facebook to track you, you have to take some action that facebook can track.
Likewise, the simple solution to avoid Google tracking you is to not use G+ or any other Google service. If you expect them not to track you internally, you're an idiot, every creditcard company, bank, insurance company, and any other firm that handles large sums of money has been tracking you since before you were born anyway, you're just too stupid to realize it.
If you don't want Google to know your wifi info, the simple solution is to not give it to them. They aren't coming onto your property to get it. They are able to obtain the information from the street without using any special equipment because you actively made a choice to broadcast a wireless signal that could be heard by any machine anywhere in the universe (those waves propagate forever).
Stop broadcasting your signal. If you stand in your front yard and yell at the top of your lung do you still not expect anyone to hear it?
Your home AP is accessible to maybe 2 or 3 houses.
Unless of course the signal reaches a public street... which of course it did, which is why Google knows anything about it in the first place.
You don't broadcast your website to people, people make a request from your website to get data. You can say no with trivial effort.
Wifi is BROADCAST. People get bombarded with your signal like it or not. I would like to opt out of being bombarded with your signal, but I can't. I can't opt out of receiving it, you really have no right to bitch when I use it for my own means.
When you give Google the ability to not be forced to listen to your signal as they travel down a public street, then you can bitch about them 'taking' it from you.
No one is coming into your home and taking anything, they're standing on the street just recording what you throw at them CONSTANTLY.
If your wifi signal was private, random people on the streets wouldn't hear it.
There have been combat plugins for X-Plane for several years. I'm not sure what the state of the current built-in combat handling is, but there were sufficiently complex add ons available from a simulation perspective, not all that visually appealing granted.
Does everything this 'simulator' talks about being impressive... oh, and it did it several years ago.
3D, multiple renderer PCs, carrier landings, air-to-air refueling, formation flying, forest fire water pickups, space shuttle re-entrys (that one is hell btw, do a full reentry and survive)
Its also FAA certified for training, though you do have to pay a small fortune to get the USB key that 'enables certification'
X-Plane has been capable of this for as long as I've known about it. Several versions at a minimum. Has all the settings built in to simulate 3d in multiple ways, goggles being the simplest, with some other people building in other neat systems like head positioning sensing instead of goggles (think Jason Lee's Wii demos).
If you went the goggle route and X-Plane you could use multiple machines to render a full sphere around you (X-Plane has all the settings to do it already as well as people who have built 360 degree faux cockpits already using multiple renderers (havent' seen full 360 cd yet)
Its a shame these guys went through all that effort to make software that they could buy for $100. Are developers THAT cheap in Russia?
And yes, X-Plane is high enough quality, its FAA certified for training already.
This is just another typical attempt to take users away from the iPad by being cheaper. The problem is... people don't ACTUALLY WANT CHEAPER if it means bad experience. There are plenty of posts on this page saying 'people don't care that its laggy!'... yet... you're missing the FACT that... EVERYONE IS BITCHING ABOUT IT BEING LAGGY. From a technical stand point it doesn't stop you from doing anything, but every single time it happens it stands out in your mind and it takes away from the experience. It doesn't take too long before that makes you loath the device. Watch older generation iPhone owners as they upgrade to new versions of iOS that require more CPU and thus start to run noticeably slower on 3G and 3GS devices. They will use them less and less just due to the little bits of lag that ruin the feel of it.
Why is it that on slashdot someone says 'I don't like YYY about XXX' that the response is universally 'Well, people don't actually care about YYY about XXX'... someone says 'i don't like it' and you guys respond 'you don't know what you're talking about!'
Listen too me again... People aren't willing to pay less for less in this case. It is NOT UNIVERSALLY TRUE that people want the cheapest price. There is a minimum acceptable level of performance that is required in order for something to be comfortable and usable, when you fall below that level, price won't save you. You guys can sit around and discuss all these reasons why 'the reality distortion field' keeps people buying Apple products, but the fact of the matter is, its you that lives in a reality distortion field. No other rational reason for so many people hear to be so oblivious to the world around them.
You could measure room wall lengths close enough for basic estimates on how much paint to buy or fence length estimates and such where you don't need cut to fit accuracy.
The person holding the pen would be dead before they could sign it.
Do you seriously think the Zeta's would allow that? Are you fucking stupid? They aren't. They'll see to it that law will never pass, because that law passing would ruin their entire business.
Have you not seen what the pot growers of Northern California have done when legalization of pot comes up? They aren't the Zeta's but they sure as hell will play dirty to ensure it doesn't get legalized.
Legalization means destroying the income for a LOT of people, and ALL of those people have a vested interest in seeing that not happen. You're more likely to shut down Exxon than drug smuggling.
Actually, in America... where we do Common Law... that is INDEED exactly how it happens for the majority of the 'law' out there. Thats what 'setting precedent' means.
But in this case, there is actual legislation in place, the judge doesn't need to make anything up. Contrary to popular belief from single morons on slashdot who still don't even know what vagina smells like, divorce and people trying to cheat their way through it are not new to the legal system, neither are any of the silly little 'tricks' this guy thinks he's invented.
Uhm, thats all pretty much standard operating procedure during a divorce case.
See the thing is, when you get married, you're legally saying 'its okay for my spouse to know everything about me and act on my behalf'. So when you get divorced, nothing is off limits, and trying to prevent the other person from getting access to stuff just makes you look guilty of SOMETHING that would be bad for you in the courts eyes, so they're going to hold it against you either way.
If you don't want this person knowing every detail of your life and being able to use it against you... don't get married.
There is no 'personal' in a divorce, you gave that up when you got married. You don't get it back until WELL after a divorce.
Facebook can act according to their policy until the court tells them otherwise OR the become obviously aware of the need to do something different.
Where facebook would get in trouble is if they did not follow their own internal established policy for data retention.
If facebook is not aware of the court case (and lets safely assume they aren't), and the guy deletes his account, and facebook really DOES delete it in 2 weeks, then Facebook is not in the wrong, the guy deleting his account is.
If facebook knew about this court case, and then purged the guy's data the data AFTER he clicked delete rather than at the standard 2 week time, then Facebook would be in trouble..
If facebook was aware that the account was going to part of a court case it gets a little muddy, and really depends on Facebook's own internal policies on how it goes. As long as they are consistent with their policy, and the policies are objective not subjective, they'll probably be fine. If the policy is subjective, it gets risky, which is why they have policies like 'deletes in 2 weeks' and automated systems to do it so its consistent.
And all that goes out the window when you start talking about deleting your account to avoid court issues... on a public website...
Deleting it now will count as destroying evidence regardless, he's made it clear the reason he's deleting it is to destroy evidence, doesn't matter that its not evidence yet, he's still trying to cover up some sort of activity.
The only way he could have done this without any concern for the law is if he would have just not told anyone and deleted his account.
He lost all hope when he decided to tell the Internet that he was going to destroy evidence cause it may be used against him in a future divorce.
You can only claim 'I didn't know it was evidence' before you tell everyone you're going to destroy evidence.
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iOS is mostly closed and analysis tools can't be installed without jailbreaking, how do we know what's going on in there?
Uhm ... Its been jailbroken so we can just look, just like you would on a rooted android device?
Besides, does nobody remember the iPhone location privacy fiasco?
No, cause there wasn't one. It wasn't anything even slightly malicious. The only person with direct access to it was the phone owner and the person with unencrypted backups of the phone, which was also likely the owner. I'm pretty sure the owner knew where the phone was anyway, which makes the whole thing a nonpoint.
It's just idiots like you who keep pretending it was some big deal because your to ignorant to realize it wasn't a threat.
And again, I fail to care about yet another silly reason why we should throw common sense out the window and make a retarded decision based on the possibility that some bigoted ass would get hurt.
And you opt in to the world mapping your SSID location the instant you start broadcasting it. You have the option of using a wire rather than wireless if you don't want to broadcast.
You'd be funny if you ... well, no it wouldn't, you need to have a clue to be funny.
F is the last digit in hex.
You're an ignorant fool.
Anyone who knows your name can find your address via simple public records searches.
If you own your house, your tax records are public, most states have these online and search able now. Own a car? All sorts of ways to get your address from that.
You're name is already on hundreds of big maps, with the names of millions of other people.
The fact that you're on the Internet almost guaranties that your name is on a public map somewhere thats easy to find by anyone who knows what they are looking for.
Get this though ... NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR HOUSE OVER THE OTHER 6 BILLION PEOPLE'S HOMES.
Well, the simplest solution to not be tracked by facebook is to not use their service.
This is very trivial, don't create a facebook account and don't visit any of their websites.
In order for facebook to track you, you have to take some action that facebook can track.
Likewise, the simple solution to avoid Google tracking you is to not use G+ or any other Google service. If you expect them not to track you internally, you're an idiot, every creditcard company, bank, insurance company, and any other firm that handles large sums of money has been tracking you since before you were born anyway, you're just too stupid to realize it.
If you don't want Google to know your wifi info, the simple solution is to not give it to them. They aren't coming onto your property to get it. They are able to obtain the information from the street without using any special equipment because you actively made a choice to broadcast a wireless signal that could be heard by any machine anywhere in the universe (those waves propagate forever).
Stop broadcasting your signal. If you stand in your front yard and yell at the top of your lung do you still not expect anyone to hear it?
TV guide is copyrighted, the list of shows is factual information and in and of itself is not copyrightable.
Your home AP is accessible to maybe 2 or 3 houses.
Unless of course the signal reaches a public street ... which of course it did, which is why Google knows anything about it in the first place.
You don't broadcast your website to people, people make a request from your website to get data. You can say no with trivial effort.
Wifi is BROADCAST. People get bombarded with your signal like it or not. I would like to opt out of being bombarded with your signal, but I can't. I can't opt out of receiving it, you really have no right to bitch when I use it for my own means.
When you give Google the ability to not be forced to listen to your signal as they travel down a public street, then you can bitch about them 'taking' it from you.
No one is coming into your home and taking anything, they're standing on the street just recording what you throw at them CONSTANTLY.
If your wifi signal was private, random people on the streets wouldn't hear it.
Or just not broadcasting your data to everyone driving down the street.
Lets remember, you opt-in by openly broadcasting. If you don't want people to know about your signal, don't broadcast for them to listen to.
There have been combat plugins for X-Plane for several years. I'm not sure what the state of the current built-in combat handling is, but there were sufficiently complex add ons available from a simulation perspective, not all that visually appealing granted.
http://www.x-plane.com/
Does everything this 'simulator' talks about being impressive ... oh, and it did it several years ago.
3D, multiple renderer PCs, carrier landings, air-to-air refueling, formation flying, forest fire water pickups, space shuttle re-entrys (that one is hell btw, do a full reentry and survive)
Its also FAA certified for training, though you do have to pay a small fortune to get the USB key that 'enables certification'
So whats the big deal?
X-Plane has been capable of this for as long as I've known about it. Several versions at a minimum. Has all the settings built in to simulate 3d in multiple ways, goggles being the simplest, with some other people building in other neat systems like head positioning sensing instead of goggles (think Jason Lee's Wii demos).
If you went the goggle route and X-Plane you could use multiple machines to render a full sphere around you (X-Plane has all the settings to do it already as well as people who have built 360 degree faux cockpits already using multiple renderers (havent' seen full 360 cd yet)
Its a shame these guys went through all that effort to make software that they could buy for $100. Are developers THAT cheap in Russia?
And yes, X-Plane is high enough quality, its FAA certified for training already.
While I can read that just fine, that doesn't make it any less obnoxious when people do it thinking they are cute.
No, the brain is rather good at filtering out trivial information ... hence why you can ready letters regardless of which font they are in.
Do you have a problem reading a letter in different fonts? No? Why would you assume its any different?
Oprah had a guy on TV so long ago that I can't remember who said this very thing ... he was some super speed reader guy.
How do I get paid to 'research' things people already know? I'm jealous
They are universally disappointing.
This is just another typical attempt to take users away from the iPad by being cheaper. The problem is ... people don't ACTUALLY WANT CHEAPER if it means bad experience. There are plenty of posts on this page saying 'people don't care that its laggy!' ... yet ... you're missing the FACT that ... EVERYONE IS BITCHING ABOUT IT BEING LAGGY. From a technical stand point it doesn't stop you from doing anything, but every single time it happens it stands out in your mind and it takes away from the experience. It doesn't take too long before that makes you loath the device. Watch older generation iPhone owners as they upgrade to new versions of iOS that require more CPU and thus start to run noticeably slower on 3G and 3GS devices. They will use them less and less just due to the little bits of lag that ruin the feel of it.
Why is it that on slashdot someone says 'I don't like YYY about XXX' that the response is universally 'Well, people don't actually care about YYY about XXX' ... someone says 'i don't like it' and you guys respond 'you don't know what you're talking about!'
Listen too me again ... People aren't willing to pay less for less in this case. It is NOT UNIVERSALLY TRUE that people want the cheapest price. There is a minimum acceptable level of performance that is required in order for something to be comfortable and usable, when you fall below that level, price won't save you. You guys can sit around and discuss all these reasons why 'the reality distortion field' keeps people buying Apple products, but the fact of the matter is, its you that lives in a reality distortion field. No other rational reason for so many people hear to be so oblivious to the world around them.
Yet for some reason you feel the need to tell us that you don't care.
From the psychoanalyst side of me I hear a little voice screaming 'awe look at the jealous baby throwing a tantrum.'
If you actual didn't like it, you wouldn't have needed to tell us so you could project your faux dislike.
It's like your in elementary school pulling the hair of the girl you like.
especially as big as it's selling.
... It's not selling. It's not on sale yet. You can't just go buy it today ... Tomorrow is another story.
So are John Titor from the future or just another douche talking out his ass On slashdot?
You could measure room wall lengths close enough for basic estimates on how much paint to buy or fence length estimates and such where you don't need cut to fit accuracy.
Silly pothead, real drug dealers sell drugs that come in powdered form which are far easier to ship and don't degrade over time.
And most of the 'mexican dirt weed' you bought probably came from a guys closet down the street, you just didn't realize you were being duped.
The person holding the pen would be dead before they could sign it.
Do you seriously think the Zeta's would allow that? Are you fucking stupid? They aren't. They'll see to it that law will never pass, because that law passing would ruin their entire business.
Have you not seen what the pot growers of Northern California have done when legalization of pot comes up? They aren't the Zeta's but they sure as hell will play dirty to ensure it doesn't get legalized.
Legalization means destroying the income for a LOT of people, and ALL of those people have a vested interest in seeing that not happen. You're more likely to shut down Exxon than drug smuggling.
Actually, in America ... where we do Common Law ... that is INDEED exactly how it happens for the majority of the 'law' out there. Thats what 'setting precedent' means.
But in this case, there is actual legislation in place, the judge doesn't need to make anything up. Contrary to popular belief from single morons on slashdot who still don't even know what vagina smells like, divorce and people trying to cheat their way through it are not new to the legal system, neither are any of the silly little 'tricks' this guy thinks he's invented.
Uhm, thats all pretty much standard operating procedure during a divorce case.
See the thing is, when you get married, you're legally saying 'its okay for my spouse to know everything about me and act on my behalf'. So when you get divorced, nothing is off limits, and trying to prevent the other person from getting access to stuff just makes you look guilty of SOMETHING that would be bad for you in the courts eyes, so they're going to hold it against you either way.
If you don't want this person knowing every detail of your life and being able to use it against you ... don't get married.
There is no 'personal' in a divorce, you gave that up when you got married. You don't get it back until WELL after a divorce.
No.
Facebook can act according to their policy until the court tells them otherwise OR the become obviously aware of the need to do something different.
Where facebook would get in trouble is if they did not follow their own internal established policy for data retention.
If facebook is not aware of the court case (and lets safely assume they aren't), and the guy deletes his account, and facebook really DOES delete it in 2 weeks, then Facebook is not in the wrong, the guy deleting his account is.
If facebook knew about this court case, and then purged the guy's data the data AFTER he clicked delete rather than at the standard 2 week time, then Facebook would be in trouble..
If facebook was aware that the account was going to part of a court case it gets a little muddy, and really depends on Facebook's own internal policies on how it goes. As long as they are consistent with their policy, and the policies are objective not subjective, they'll probably be fine. If the policy is subjective, it gets risky, which is why they have policies like 'deletes in 2 weeks' and automated systems to do it so its consistent.
And all that goes out the window when you start talking about deleting your account to avoid court issues ... on a public website ...
Deleting it now will count as destroying evidence regardless, he's made it clear the reason he's deleting it is to destroy evidence, doesn't matter that its not evidence yet, he's still trying to cover up some sort of activity.
The only way he could have done this without any concern for the law is if he would have just not told anyone and deleted his account.
He lost all hope when he decided to tell the Internet that he was going to destroy evidence cause it may be used against him in a future divorce.
You can only claim 'I didn't know it was evidence' before you tell everyone you're going to destroy evidence.