Theres a difference between 'looking like a tablet in general' and 'looking like an iPad'. The difference is much like the difference between a Chevy Impala and a Fiero as a Ferrarri kit car. One is just a fact of design, the other is a blantant attempt to look exactly the same as the superior product.
Your statement seems odd for a joke considering that the iPad sells a order of magnitude or 3 more units than the tab, so what did I miss? You got something funny or are you just an ignorant fanboy?
'open the code' is pretty stupid here. The data is what MAKES buzz, not the code. The code is nothing impressive and has been done 9 times over, 15 years ago. Anyone could recreate buzz with trivial effort
The data is easy to export from your Google profile as an XML file with everything in there easy to parse.
Its universally accepted that no where near 800M people use facebook, and its more likely to be somewhere well below 400M actual people have signed up, significantly lower still for people who actually use the site. Their population explosion happened as games started giving bonuses for friends playing and crap.
Yea, and a friend of mine who does development at google on one of the services/reasons that its not part of apps told me the same thing about buzz, 2 years ago.
I should add, that 'unauthorized' means any sort of access you aren't allowed to do, regardless to how you do it. Doesn't matter if I say 'The password to my account is fifty7', unless you are specifically authorized to use it, its still illegal for you to do so, just like its illegal for you to enter my home even if you found a key without my authorization.
IF they make Digital trespass, I.E. cracking into any company's servers and DDOS attacks legal activity.
In America thats already true.
Any Unauthorized access to a computer system is prohibited by law and punishable by large fines and jail time, has been since Mitnick's time at the least.
No, it shows that you have a really childish view of the world and you need to grow up.
I effect Verizon EVERY FUCKING DAY by not paying them a god damn dime. There are legitimate ways to deal with businesses, and there are childish, obnoxious and criminal ways to deal with someone. I choose the former, and you're too ignorant to know the difference between it and the latter. The thing is, Verizon ISN'T THAT BAD, because people still give them business BY CHOICE.
The difference is, the issue thats got your panties half a meter up your twat isn't really that big of an issue to those of us who actually have shit to do other than rage against the machine and fuck up shit for other people.
You'll figure it out sometime after you get out of school and actually have to function in the real world where this kind of childish bullshit does nothing but get in your way. Anonymous has yet to affect ANY CHANGE AT ALL. The best they've done is bring attention to their douche-bagged-ness. They didn't hurt Amazon, they didn't hurt Visa, they haven't hurt anyone, if anything, they've given free advertising to these companies. You're just too young and ignorant to realize they are experiencing the Streisand effect.
Every mature person in the world sees it, just not angsty teenagers. As I said, after you grow up a bit, you'll get it, until then, no one will convince you otherwise.
That way, they can still nuke botnet command & control domains, but somebody whose domain has been around for more than a year (OR who has completed the more time-consuming registration procedure) could sleep at night knowing that Metaphorical Judge Dredd isn't allowed to touch THEIR domain.
Yea, and so can the spammers who have been planning for this to go into effect and have had thousands of names registered for over a year now through various individual names and companies.
They can use one a day and even if it gets cut off within a few minutes of the spam starting, they'll still be making a fortune off of them.
Spammers are more than willing to play be any technical rules you want to throw at them. More spammers use SPF and Domain Keys to prevent getting marked as spam then normal mail servers.
You can not show any single system that is entirely distributed, even all P2P crap that is 'distributed' ends up with a central starting point in order for it to be useful.
Bittorrent? Useless without trackers and torrent sharing websites... the trackers clearly can go away, but still need the central directory for sharing files.
P2P file sharing... guess what? Same thing, still need a central starting point to find everyone else.
Anarchy doesn't work for anything other than Anarchy. What happens when you want my domain name, in a true P2P system there is no viable authoritative way to resolve the issue of who gets the name.
You can not name a single functioning completely distributed system in the world that has no authoritative systems involved in it once you get above single celled organisms. The fact that you think such systems exist shows you have absolutely no clue how the world works.
Seriously, when you speak and do things in public, people are going to analyze you.
A friend of mine wrote an IRC bot to monitor channels and then derive information from it.
Later, I rewrote it with lessons learned included from the previous version.
By the time it was done, pretty much no one was capable of fooling the bot regardless of how you tried, it could identify any user any the channel based on about 20 to 30 sentences minimum of conversation with them, regardless of how they tried to fake their identity, (nick/host/server changes meant essentially nothing to the bot, and it was trained fairly well on detecting based on conversation after we got around 10 million lines of conversation or so recorded.
It was SIMPLE by any standard, and it was fun as shit to see new ways to pick out patterns in conversations, made it easy to find sleeper agents as well (bots or relays to others used for nefarious purposes). Sometimes lurking gives more information than talking;)
Anyway, this isn't new, its just on a larger scale due to being able to computerize the process. People, ALL PEOPLE, do this very thing naturally all the time subconsciously, like it or not. We've evolved to constantly analyze events in our lives, especially people. Slashdot's Friend/Foe system? Same thing, except you give it direct feedback.
If you don't like people knowing something, don't tell them about, which you know, is kind of THE FUCKING POINT BEHIND SOCIAL NETWORKING. The whole damn concept behind these sites, and THEY TELL YOU WHEN YOU SIGN UP is to associate yourself and your actions with others like you and your associates. How do you think Facebook, MySpace and Google+ come up with 'new friends'... ITS THE SAME DAMN THING.
The POINT of social networking is so that YOU and OTHERS can do this sort of thing SPECIFICALLY.
Sure it is Sparky. Nothing funnier than some guy with computer courage telling people on the Internet how he's going to beat other people up. You do realize it makes your Neapoleon complex obvious, right?
Its less like that he's fallen for the 'obama is the cause of everything' and more likely he's doing the 'obama is doing the exact same shit as all the fuckers before him that he was supposed to be different from'.
The only change Obama brought was skin color, which pisses a lot of people off. (not the skin color change, the lack of anything else).
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Really, in a year my iPhone will be all laggy, slow and unintuitive as an Android phone? Guess I'll have to switch to something better by then.
You can talk like Android is bad ass, but anyone who's used both knows your just being a fanboy. Its one thing to prefer one over the other, but when you go off and do things like this everyone knows your nothing more than a mouthy fanboy and you get blown off by everyone except other rabid fanboys.
People completely forget that because it didnt' actually happen.
No one anywhere I'm aware off lost service on their iphones or androids. Perhaps there were some over loaded phone circuits so calls and connectivity fluxuated because of carrier load that we just didn't notice and so maybe there was something you could call 'an outage' that lasted a few minutes, but there was nothing that happened for 3 days, and I'll call bullshit that RIM was working when iPhones don't. My iPhone talks directly to my mail server, Apple has no part in the process, as long as I have a network connection and my server in my datacenter is connected and online, I can get my mail.
I don't think you understand how mail works for EVERYONE OTHER THAN BLACKBERRY USERS.
I was going to give you a long list of reasons why you're wrong, but I've already done it for several other idiots like you.
If you think BB's methodology is 'secure' then you simply have no clue what you're talking about. It is inherintly less secure BY DESIGN than any standard iPhone or Android configuration. It is the definition of MITM problem.
I won't argue how the iPhone fits in, but your implying that the blackberry is different and more secure which is exactly opposite of reality.
He would have been Okay if Rogers stepped up to the plate and gave him some info, but it is RIM's problem and they should be the one telling him... but since their shit is down, they can't... they could also ask Rogers to send some SMS on their behalf, and they haven't.
He was providing alternate possibilities that might have resulted in him not being as upset, that doesn't change who's at fault.
Uhm, the problem before was that you were effectively shorting the two antennas... which means... there were already two. Its not an issue that you are 'covering' them, its that you are shorting them together, changing their functional parameters due to the inductance, capacitance and resistance of your body.
Apple was aware, but completely unconcerned with the 'death grip' because internal and real world tests show that even when held in a way that gave the phone THE WORST POSSIBLE SIGNAL STRENGTH, it was still an order of magnitude better than all but a handful of phones as far as signal strength and reliability. Yes, even on its worst day with the worst 'death grip' you could put on it, it still probably out performed EVERY PHONE YOU'VE EVER OWNED.
You truly have absolutely no clue what the issue was.
No, they don't. This is an Apple requirement as they want to ensure they get recurring monthly revenue more than they care about the $450 subsidy.
No phones will be unlocked until at least november, sold directly from apple initially.
Second, nor Verizon or Sprint are GSM.
Of course the real problem is that even when 'unlocked' the phone's OS is configured to use a specific upstream provider for several functions... i.e. your sprint iphone is never going to get visual voicemail on AT&Ts network, intentionally.
This is all well documented, most of it on Apples website.
No its not, you are ignorant of the reasons for the ban.
They threaten to ban it because the data center holding the messages is not in their country so they can't just take the messages. Its sitting here, in America (or maybe Europe or Asia depending on where you are geographically). The government in those countries can get at your messages.
America on the other hand CAN get to those messages because the servers are in our country. Guess what, we can also get at the messages of Indian blackberry users too!
Guess what else, someone can hack Blackberry.com's servers and get at your messages. Or a blackberry employee can compromise your account. Or the US government can just seize the equipment or data on demand.
India can't do that, but lots of other people can. India simply wanted to be able to do the same thing America could do. They won too.
On the contrary, unless someone gains physical access to my iPhone or my mail servers, OR breaks SSL to the point that a 2048bit key is crackable, there is no way in hell they are getting my mail. And even if they get my mail server, they still have to decrypt the messages there.
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You can, 99% of the population, probably not as the rest of the population doesn't know what 'aspect ratio' even MEANS for the most part.
Theres a difference between 'looking like a tablet in general' and 'looking like an iPad'. The difference is much like the difference between a Chevy Impala and a Fiero as a Ferrarri kit car. One is just a fact of design, the other is a blantant attempt to look exactly the same as the superior product.
I'm sorry, I missed the joke. What is it exactly?
Your statement seems odd for a joke considering that the iPad sells a order of magnitude or 3 more units than the tab, so what did I miss? You got something funny or are you just an ignorant fanboy?
'open the code' is pretty stupid here. The data is what MAKES buzz, not the code. The code is nothing impressive and has been done 9 times over, 15 years ago. Anyone could recreate buzz with trivial effort
The data is easy to export from your Google profile as an XML file with everything in there easy to parse.
Uhm, you could not be more wrong.
Its universally accepted that no where near 800M people use facebook, and its more likely to be somewhere well below 400M actual people have signed up, significantly lower still for people who actually use the site. Their population explosion happened as games started giving bonuses for friends playing and crap.
Yea, and a friend of mine who does development at google on one of the services/reasons that its not part of apps told me the same thing about buzz, 2 years ago.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting.
I can choose to use a TLD other than .com, making this another one of your angsty yet utterly ignorant posts.
I should add, that 'unauthorized' means any sort of access you aren't allowed to do, regardless to how you do it. Doesn't matter if I say 'The password to my account is fifty7', unless you are specifically authorized to use it, its still illegal for you to do so, just like its illegal for you to enter my home even if you found a key without my authorization.
IF they make Digital trespass, I.E. cracking into any company's servers and DDOS attacks legal activity.
In America thats already true.
Any Unauthorized access to a computer system is prohibited by law and punishable by large fines and jail time, has been since Mitnick's time at the least.
No, it shows that you have a really childish view of the world and you need to grow up.
I effect Verizon EVERY FUCKING DAY by not paying them a god damn dime. There are legitimate ways to deal with businesses, and there are childish, obnoxious and criminal ways to deal with someone. I choose the former, and you're too ignorant to know the difference between it and the latter. The thing is, Verizon ISN'T THAT BAD, because people still give them business BY CHOICE.
The difference is, the issue thats got your panties half a meter up your twat isn't really that big of an issue to those of us who actually have shit to do other than rage against the machine and fuck up shit for other people.
You'll figure it out sometime after you get out of school and actually have to function in the real world where this kind of childish bullshit does nothing but get in your way. Anonymous has yet to affect ANY CHANGE AT ALL. The best they've done is bring attention to their douche-bagged-ness. They didn't hurt Amazon, they didn't hurt Visa, they haven't hurt anyone, if anything, they've given free advertising to these companies. You're just too young and ignorant to realize they are experiencing the Streisand effect.
Every mature person in the world sees it, just not angsty teenagers. As I said, after you grow up a bit, you'll get it, until then, no one will convince you otherwise.
Its funny that he throws Planned Parenthood into a group with others that are confirmed criminal by any sane person on the planet.
That way, they can still nuke botnet command & control domains, but somebody whose domain has been around for more than a year (OR who has completed the more time-consuming registration procedure) could sleep at night knowing that Metaphorical Judge Dredd isn't allowed to touch THEIR domain.
Yea, and so can the spammers who have been planning for this to go into effect and have had thousands of names registered for over a year now through various individual names and companies.
They can use one a day and even if it gets cut off within a few minutes of the spam starting, they'll still be making a fortune off of them.
Spammers are more than willing to play be any technical rules you want to throw at them. More spammers use SPF and Domain Keys to prevent getting marked as spam then normal mail servers.
You can not show any single system that is entirely distributed, even all P2P crap that is 'distributed' ends up with a central starting point in order for it to be useful.
Bittorrent? Useless without trackers and torrent sharing websites ... the trackers clearly can go away, but still need the central directory for sharing files.
P2P file sharing ... guess what? Same thing, still need a central starting point to find everyone else.
Anarchy doesn't work for anything other than Anarchy. What happens when you want my domain name, in a true P2P system there is no viable authoritative way to resolve the issue of who gets the name.
You can not name a single functioning completely distributed system in the world that has no authoritative systems involved in it once you get above single celled organisms. The fact that you think such systems exist shows you have absolutely no clue how the world works.
Seriously, when you speak and do things in public, people are going to analyze you.
A friend of mine wrote an IRC bot to monitor channels and then derive information from it.
Later, I rewrote it with lessons learned included from the previous version.
By the time it was done, pretty much no one was capable of fooling the bot regardless of how you tried, it could identify any user any the channel based on about 20 to 30 sentences minimum of conversation with them, regardless of how they tried to fake their identity, (nick/host/server changes meant essentially nothing to the bot, and it was trained fairly well on detecting based on conversation after we got around 10 million lines of conversation or so recorded.
It was SIMPLE by any standard, and it was fun as shit to see new ways to pick out patterns in conversations, made it easy to find sleeper agents as well (bots or relays to others used for nefarious purposes). Sometimes lurking gives more information than talking ;)
Anyway, this isn't new, its just on a larger scale due to being able to computerize the process. People, ALL PEOPLE, do this very thing naturally all the time subconsciously, like it or not. We've evolved to constantly analyze events in our lives, especially people. Slashdot's Friend/Foe system? Same thing, except you give it direct feedback.
If you don't like people knowing something, don't tell them about, which you know, is kind of THE FUCKING POINT BEHIND SOCIAL NETWORKING. The whole damn concept behind these sites, and THEY TELL YOU WHEN YOU SIGN UP is to associate yourself and your actions with others like you and your associates. How do you think Facebook, MySpace and Google+ come up with 'new friends' ... ITS THE SAME DAMN THING.
The POINT of social networking is so that YOU and OTHERS can do this sort of thing SPECIFICALLY.
If they come to your door, trust me, they don't knock.
it's going to come to blows.
Sure it is Sparky. Nothing funnier than some guy with computer courage telling people on the Internet how he's going to beat other people up. You do realize it makes your Neapoleon complex obvious, right?
Its less like that he's fallen for the 'obama is the cause of everything' and more likely he's doing the 'obama is doing the exact same shit as all the fuckers before him that he was supposed to be different from'.
The only change Obama brought was skin color, which pisses a lot of people off. (not the skin color change, the lack of anything else).
Really, in a year my iPhone will be all laggy, slow and unintuitive as an Android phone? Guess I'll have to switch to something better by then.
You can talk like Android is bad ass, but anyone who's used both knows your just being a fanboy. Its one thing to prefer one over the other, but when you go off and do things like this everyone knows your nothing more than a mouthy fanboy and you get blown off by everyone except other rabid fanboys.
People completely forget that because it didnt' actually happen.
No one anywhere I'm aware off lost service on their iphones or androids. Perhaps there were some over loaded phone circuits so calls and connectivity fluxuated because of carrier load that we just didn't notice and so maybe there was something you could call 'an outage' that lasted a few minutes, but there was nothing that happened for 3 days, and I'll call bullshit that RIM was working when iPhones don't. My iPhone talks directly to my mail server, Apple has no part in the process, as long as I have a network connection and my server in my datacenter is connected and online, I can get my mail.
I don't think you understand how mail works for EVERYONE OTHER THAN BLACKBERRY USERS.
I was going to give you a long list of reasons why you're wrong, but I've already done it for several other idiots like you.
If you think BB's methodology is 'secure' then you simply have no clue what you're talking about. It is inherintly less secure BY DESIGN than any standard iPhone or Android configuration. It is the definition of MITM problem.
I won't argue how the iPhone fits in, but your implying that the blackberry is different and more secure which is exactly opposite of reality.
Atleast your nick is fitting.
He would have been Okay if Rogers stepped up to the plate and gave him some info, but it is RIM's problem and they should be the one telling him ... but since their shit is down, they can't ... they could also ask Rogers to send some SMS on their behalf, and they haven't.
He was providing alternate possibilities that might have resulted in him not being as upset, that doesn't change who's at fault.
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Uhm, the problem before was that you were effectively shorting the two antennas ... which means ... there were already two. Its not an issue that you are 'covering' them, its that you are shorting them together, changing their functional parameters due to the inductance, capacitance and resistance of your body.
Apple was aware, but completely unconcerned with the 'death grip' because internal and real world tests show that even when held in a way that gave the phone THE WORST POSSIBLE SIGNAL STRENGTH, it was still an order of magnitude better than all but a handful of phones as far as signal strength and reliability. Yes, even on its worst day with the worst 'death grip' you could put on it, it still probably out performed EVERY PHONE YOU'VE EVER OWNED.
You truly have absolutely no clue what the issue was.
No, they don't. This is an Apple requirement as they want to ensure they get recurring monthly revenue more than they care about the $450 subsidy.
No phones will be unlocked until at least november, sold directly from apple initially.
Second, nor Verizon or Sprint are GSM.
Of course the real problem is that even when 'unlocked' the phone's OS is configured to use a specific upstream provider for several functions ... i.e. your sprint iphone is never going to get visual voicemail on AT&Ts network, intentionally.
This is all well documented, most of it on Apples website.
No its not, you are ignorant of the reasons for the ban.
They threaten to ban it because the data center holding the messages is not in their country so they can't just take the messages. Its sitting here, in America (or maybe Europe or Asia depending on where you are geographically). The government in those countries can get at your messages.
America on the other hand CAN get to those messages because the servers are in our country. Guess what, we can also get at the messages of Indian blackberry users too!
Guess what else, someone can hack Blackberry.com's servers and get at your messages. Or a blackberry employee can compromise your account. Or the US government can just seize the equipment or data on demand.
India can't do that, but lots of other people can. India simply wanted to be able to do the same thing America could do. They won too.
On the contrary, unless someone gains physical access to my iPhone or my mail servers, OR breaks SSL to the point that a 2048bit key is crackable, there is no way in hell they are getting my mail. And even if they get my mail server, they still have to decrypt the messages there.