The COO of his organization asked for the passwords.
If the COO of your organization can't get the passwords who can?
You're talking about a boss of bosses here, there is one man higher on the good chain than the man that asked for the passwords in his organization, to go any higher than that you have to outside the organization to its parent... i.e. the mayor.
You guys really need to get over this 'he was right' bullshit.
You REALLY think they took him to jail because he said 'I'm not giving them to anyone but my boss'?... rather than just getting his boss?
Seriously? Are you that retarded? I have several ocean front properties in Arizona I'd love to sell you. 150 acres, $1 each, beautiful ocean view. You can take them all for... hell, for you... $100. I'm doing a sale for gullible morons this week.
oh get over yourself, he's calling out a douche bag for being a douche bag, its well known.
99.99999% of the stories kdawson posts are retarded, flat out bogus, or common knowledge to anyone with have a clue about technology. It really is as if he/she lives in a box.
Now, should he/she start posting the best stories every day for the next yet, people are STILL going to give'em shit about it because of all the crappy stories posted previously.
Poking fun at people is acceptable to any well adjusted person. If a little name calling bothers you, please see a therapist, you have personal issues that need to be resolved. They're just word.
While discovering life would be great, any one with any clue about the environment will tell you its a REALLY REALLY bad idea to transport an organism from its current environment to a new one, far far away, that it has never seen before.
Bad things happen when species on Earth get transplanted by humans a 100 kilometers across land.
I suspect the danger from even pulling the probe back to Earth orbit is not worth risk at this time due to the possibility of potential contamination should it accidental or maliciously re-enter the atmosphere.
Why does it seem to me like people dealing with probes in space always pull Scotty's?
'Oh capt'n, she can not take it, I'll need at least 2 days to repair it'
Six hours later
'Its ready capt'n'
EVERY ONE of these missions either fails right off the start (understandable, this is rocket science after all) or... gets extended. Why are we not planning better to start with rather than getting there and saying...
'oh gee, our probe can live longer, but we'll have to 'figure out how' since we didn't plan on actually doing anything for any length of time once we got here.'
It just doesn't make sense. They're padding the numbers to make themselves look good, I'm sure of it.
Well, they probably did and really knew about it for a long time, but geeks being geeks, these minor details probably didn't come out because they were so proud of what they had accomplished, and rightfully so. Even a cloak that works head on is freaking impressive to the point of becoming magic. I know they are just wave guides, but its still freaking impressive.
With that in mind, someone comes a long and notices it a long time later and points it out and the scientists are like 'yea well, we haven't got to that part yet' and we get to here.
Either way, they didn't say 'it only works from head on', they said something entirely different. Technically it doesn't appear to work 'head on' by certain definitions.
They'll probably be lots of gotcha's for a while. Its new tech.
Either way, if I can get one of these things so my son can have it when he's in high school it would be awesome. Muahahahahahaha
Not if it realizes you're likely behind a cloak and just adjusts itself with some nifty math.
But... that was my first thought as well.
Okay, so I'm not invisible, but you still don't actually know where I'm at so its close enough for a lot of neat things.
I suspect however, that much like in the fantasy of StarTrek (sorry to burst some of your bubbles:) and root kit detection, theres always a way to detect the target, but knowing the right way to look for it is half the battle.
In general, Stealth aircraft just hide from radar. Sure they are difficult to see in general due to paint scheme and normal hours of operation and all that, but its biggest threat is from radar, and its very stealthy against that. But if you put any of the known stealth aircraft out in the middle of the clear sky, you can pick it up visually from a good distance during the day.
You don't have to be invisible from every method of detection, just the one being used to detect you.
Having said that, if Apple says that doing such-and-such may wreck the machines, you've been warned.
Nuff said. You knew the risk, you did it anyway, and continued to do risky things by Applying an Apple update.
Jesus, even all the jailbreakers knew it was going to happen. The only people who didn't were idiots who ran some script/app that the jailbreakers made without having any understanding what so ever of what was going on.
Making it easy to Jailbreak phones isn't a good thing, just means you end up with a lot of morons who jailbreak because... they can... not because they have a reason to, who then proceed to do stupid shit like apply updates that aren't known to be safe or are known to be unsafe or getting raped because their retarded ass installed SSH and left the default password.
If you jailbreak and you update and it breaks, accidentally or on purpose, you still have no room to complain, sorry. If you didn't expect it to break, you are an ignorant fool indeed.
You do realize before you can buy an iPhone (at least in america) you've already agreed and signed away everything... right?
Before they take your money, you've already been presented with and agreed to their terms.
This isn't bait and switch, its laid out before the purchase is made, before any exchange is made. They are rather clear and ask on more than one occasion if you understand the terms of the agreement.
Ignorance is no excuse what so ever in this case.
Don't get me wrong, I'll do whatever the fuck I want with the phone itself. Its mine, and I'll treat it as such. I'll jailbreak it if I want to (I don't, theres no real reason to jailbreak except tethering and sim unlocking... which I run 3.0 so I get tethering and AT&T is my carrier so no point to unlock it).
I won't call Apple for support after I do. I won't expect their software to ever work right again on the device. I will accept that I may brick the device (which is pretty difficult to actually do without physically smashing it) and Apple won't help me a bit.
I agreed to Apples terms, and so did every other iPhone owner out there... BEFORE they bought it, assuming they bought it through a normal retailer. If you bought it used from someone else, its really hard to blame Apple because someone sold you something without explaining the situation, don't you think?
The difference is your friends are willing to work for the wage offered.
There is a supply of workers that are as qualified as they need to be that will work for far less.
For people who are supposed to be intelligent, it never ceases to amaze me that developers are amazingly ignorant of the way the economy really works.
Supply and demand. There is far more supply than demand at the moment and for a while to come. The Internet has put a lot of people in the world on an equal footing meaning that you aren't special anymore and theres a guy half way around the world thats more than happy to work for a year on what you make in a week because that still means he can feed his entire family.
Get some perspective you arrogant self entitled fuck.
All of this isolationist shit should have died along with the 20th century.
You are utterly ignorant.
I suggest before you start talking about how 'isolationist' America is, you get a few facts about how many people legally immigrate to America every year.
If we just grant everyone in the entire world who asks for it citizen ship then we'll effectively turn America into the worst of 3rd world nations over night.
We can help other people, no argument there, but we can't be fucking retarded like you suggest or we won't do anything but hurt EVERYONE, them AND us.
If we just grant these people citizenships, then we won't have to worry about the ethical ramifications of having multiple legal classes of workers in the country.
What? Why? What logic did you use to establish that? If we make them 'legal' they'll still be the exact same workers as before doing the exact same jobs.
If they want to work, they'll still work under the table. You can report people for paying under the table but a lot of times the company that 'pays' you will just disappear and you'll be unemployed.
In whatever Utopina fantasy universe you imagine it may be possible for America to support the entire world, but in case you haven't noticed, supporting our own internal population growth isn't sustainable, let alone taking in others.
Here is an even better idea:
No, thats a thoughtless idiotic idea spit out by some idealist with no actual connection to reality what so ever.
We are not all equal. We never will be. We never have been. There will always be members of our species that do better in some situations than in others. If you want to live in a world with no classes you'll find the only thing you accomplish is getting run over by someone with far fewer delusions.
Click the link in the summary... it draws you a pretty picture. If you live within 500 miles of the runway, ask your neighbor, every Floridian has probably seen at least one reentry.
Just for reference, iTunes and WMA DRM are easily defeated by using a virtual machine with modified drivers to steal the digital bits on the way to 'the hardware'.
Not your typical definition of 'cracking' it, and technically it isn't broken imo, but its certainly been bypassed.
Hulu and something else I can't think off are being ripped this way as well.
For the last 10 years there have been 2 things happening in the Linux community.
A small (compared the next group) group of very dedicated developers have been beating the living shit out of each other to make a pretty awesome kernel.
A very large group of people sat around screaming 'This is the year of the Linux desktop!!!!@$!@#^@3$^@#$&$%*$' rather than actually fixing the shit that preventing the year of the Linux desktop the year before, rinse repeat.
What that really means is 'all those young kernel developers' you're referencing weren't actually a bunch of young kernel developers who were working on the kernel itself. They were just a bunch of fad followers who weren't actually useful and have sinse moved on. During that time, Linux lost its edge and reason for running it.
When Linux was started, that winter long long ago... Your choices were Mac OS 8 (was it 7 still?) and Win95. You were more likely to step out your back door, pick up a rock, and throw it hard enough to hit the space shuttle as it orbitted than to have a stable Mac or Windows machine at that point.
Within a few years, Linux was big enough to be useful for the basics so a bunch of geeks jumped on the fanboy wagon (I was there too). But no one really contributed. I mean yes, some people did obviously, but the majority didn't.
The people who did contribute... still are. The people who didn't, moved on.
Now those young fad followers are iDevice or Android developers this week. Its far easier for them to make their mark getting posted to the Android market place than getting committed to the Linux kernel. Todays need for instant confidence reenforcement in kids means they are going to go for that rather than actually making a contribution that takes effort.
Its not really any different today than it was then, except Linux has grown up considerably and isn't the fad anymore.
BeOS did the same thing, although much smaller and much much much shorter lived, and it died (okay, technically its not dead, but it might as well be). Not expecting Linux to die, but its time in the spotlight is long over, now its just one of the boys and will have to act like one if it wants to stay relevant.
Just for reference, the Q3 server ran fine under Linux. If you think the game itself ran great, you and I have different ideas of what great is. Lets not forget that the state of 3d accel in Linux today is STILL relatively shitty. Do you remember what it was like back then?
Don't confuse your mom not wanting you to feel bad with her actually liking it.
And if you're going to use someone as an example 'just learned how to use her mouse a year ago' is not a good way to start off.
You can argue that 'if someone had put a bunch of work into it would have been better' but the reality of it is, he didn't have to put a bunch of work into something else and it was better.
If you can't recognize the Linux distros have seriously shitty usability, you're just a blind fanboy.
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Yes, because its hard to point out a few mistakes inside millions of correct assumptions.
Perhaps you should learn to read. He said:
The COO of his organization asked for the passwords.
If the COO of your organization can't get the passwords who can?
You're talking about a boss of bosses here, there is one man higher on the good chain than the man that asked for the passwords in his organization, to go any higher than that you have to outside the organization to its parent ... i.e. the mayor.
You guys really need to get over this 'he was right' bullshit.
You REALLY think they took him to jail because he said 'I'm not giving them to anyone but my boss'? ... rather than just getting his boss?
Seriously? Are you that retarded? I have several ocean front properties in Arizona I'd love to sell you. 150 acres, $1 each, beautiful ocean view. You can take them all for ... hell, for you ... $100. I'm doing a sale for gullible morons this week.
oh get over yourself, he's calling out a douche bag for being a douche bag, its well known.
99.99999% of the stories kdawson posts are retarded, flat out bogus, or common knowledge to anyone with have a clue about technology. It really is as if he /she lives in a box.
Now, should he/she start posting the best stories every day for the next yet, people are STILL going to give'em shit about it because of all the crappy stories posted previously.
Poking fun at people is acceptable to any well adjusted person. If a little name calling bothers you, please see a therapist, you have personal issues that need to be resolved. They're just word.
While discovering life would be great, any one with any clue about the environment will tell you its a REALLY REALLY bad idea to transport an organism from its current environment to a new one, far far away, that it has never seen before.
Bad things happen when species on Earth get transplanted by humans a 100 kilometers across land.
I suspect the danger from even pulling the probe back to Earth orbit is not worth risk at this time due to the possibility of potential contamination should it accidental or maliciously re-enter the atmosphere.
Why does it seem to me like people dealing with probes in space always pull Scotty's?
'Oh capt'n, she can not take it, I'll need at least 2 days to repair it'
Six hours later
'Its ready capt'n'
EVERY ONE of these missions either fails right off the start (understandable, this is rocket science after all) or ... gets extended. Why are we not planning better to start with rather than getting there and saying ...
'oh gee, our probe can live longer, but we'll have to 'figure out how' since we didn't plan on actually doing anything for any length of time once we got here.'
It just doesn't make sense. They're padding the numbers to make themselves look good, I'm sure of it.
I'm surprised Checkpoint didn't write a front end for their stuff as a gimmick
Well, they probably did and really knew about it for a long time, but geeks being geeks, these minor details probably didn't come out because they were so proud of what they had accomplished, and rightfully so. Even a cloak that works head on is freaking impressive to the point of becoming magic. I know they are just wave guides, but its still freaking impressive.
With that in mind, someone comes a long and notices it a long time later and points it out and the scientists are like 'yea well, we haven't got to that part yet' and we get to here.
Either way, they didn't say 'it only works from head on', they said something entirely different. Technically it doesn't appear to work 'head on' by certain definitions.
They'll probably be lots of gotcha's for a while. Its new tech.
Either way, if I can get one of these things so my son can have it when he's in high school it would be awesome. Muahahahahahaha
Not if it realizes you're likely behind a cloak and just adjusts itself with some nifty math.
But ... that was my first thought as well.
Okay, so I'm not invisible, but you still don't actually know where I'm at so its close enough for a lot of neat things.
I suspect however, that much like in the fantasy of StarTrek (sorry to burst some of your bubbles :) and root kit detection, theres always a way to detect the target, but knowing the right way to look for it is half the battle.
In general, Stealth aircraft just hide from radar. Sure they are difficult to see in general due to paint scheme and normal hours of operation and all that, but its biggest threat is from radar, and its very stealthy against that. But if you put any of the known stealth aircraft out in the middle of the clear sky, you can pick it up visually from a good distance during the day.
You don't have to be invisible from every method of detection, just the one being used to detect you.
Nuff said. You knew the risk, you did it anyway, and continued to do risky things by Applying an Apple update.
Jesus, even all the jailbreakers knew it was going to happen. The only people who didn't were idiots who ran some script/app that the jailbreakers made without having any understanding what so ever of what was going on.
Making it easy to Jailbreak phones isn't a good thing, just means you end up with a lot of morons who jailbreak because ... they can ... not because they have a reason to, who then proceed to do stupid shit like apply updates that aren't known to be safe or are known to be unsafe or getting raped because their retarded ass installed SSH and left the default password.
If you jailbreak and you update and it breaks, accidentally or on purpose, you still have no room to complain, sorry. If you didn't expect it to break, you are an ignorant fool indeed.
You do realize before you can buy an iPhone (at least in america) you've already agreed and signed away everything ... right?
Before they take your money, you've already been presented with and agreed to their terms.
This isn't bait and switch, its laid out before the purchase is made, before any exchange is made. They are rather clear and ask on more than one occasion if you understand the terms of the agreement.
Ignorance is no excuse what so ever in this case.
Don't get me wrong, I'll do whatever the fuck I want with the phone itself. Its mine, and I'll treat it as such. I'll jailbreak it if I want to (I don't, theres no real reason to jailbreak except tethering and sim unlocking ... which I run 3.0 so I get tethering and AT&T is my carrier so no point to unlock it).
I won't call Apple for support after I do. I won't expect their software to ever work right again on the device. I will accept that I may brick the device (which is pretty difficult to actually do without physically smashing it) and Apple won't help me a bit.
I agreed to Apples terms, and so did every other iPhone owner out there ... BEFORE they bought it, assuming they bought it through a normal retailer. If you bought it used from someone else, its really hard to blame Apple because someone sold you something without explaining the situation, don't you think?
Not when it sounds like it starts with a vowel, it an is used exclusively when the next word starts with a vowel, A is when it doesn't.
Any deviation from this isn't 'proper', regardless of how common it may be.
The difference is your friends are willing to work for the wage offered.
There is a supply of workers that are as qualified as they need to be that will work for far less.
For people who are supposed to be intelligent, it never ceases to amaze me that developers are amazingly ignorant of the way the economy really works.
Supply and demand. There is far more supply than demand at the moment and for a while to come. The Internet has put a lot of people in the world on an equal footing meaning that you aren't special anymore and theres a guy half way around the world thats more than happy to work for a year on what you make in a week because that still means he can feed his entire family.
Get some perspective you arrogant self entitled fuck.
You are utterly ignorant.
I suggest before you start talking about how 'isolationist' America is, you get a few facts about how many people legally immigrate to America every year.
If we just grant everyone in the entire world who asks for it citizen ship then we'll effectively turn America into the worst of 3rd world nations over night.
We can help other people, no argument there, but we can't be fucking retarded like you suggest or we won't do anything but hurt EVERYONE, them AND us.
What? Why? What logic did you use to establish that? If we make them 'legal' they'll still be the exact same workers as before doing the exact same jobs.
If they want to work, they'll still work under the table. You can report people for paying under the table but a lot of times the company that 'pays' you will just disappear and you'll be unemployed.
In whatever Utopina fantasy universe you imagine it may be possible for America to support the entire world, but in case you haven't noticed, supporting our own internal population growth isn't sustainable, let alone taking in others.
No, thats a thoughtless idiotic idea spit out by some idealist with no actual connection to reality what so ever.
We are not all equal. We never will be. We never have been. There will always be members of our species that do better in some situations than in others. If you want to live in a world with no classes you'll find the only thing you accomplish is getting run over by someone with far fewer delusions.
Contrary to what you might think, she could leave if she wanted to. You should stop worrying about other peoples plights so much, you'll live longer.
Click the link in the summary ... it draws you a pretty picture. If you live within 500 miles of the runway, ask your neighbor, every Floridian has probably seen at least one reentry.
Its supposed to catch as much air as possible, thats how it slows down from Mach 22 to 250 knots in 35 minutes.
Did it ever occur to you that those crashes could be related to DRM issues?
Define successful?
As in 'people are okay with using it'
or 'it protects the content from being copied'
The first may be true, the second couldn't be further from the truth.
Just for reference, iTunes and WMA DRM are easily defeated by using a virtual machine with modified drivers to steal the digital bits on the way to 'the hardware'.
Not your typical definition of 'cracking' it, and technically it isn't broken imo, but its certainly been bypassed.
Hulu and something else I can't think off are being ripped this way as well.
The resolution was simply not to by their shit. The resolution was in fact there before the problem.
I guess technically it was Mac OS 6 and Win3.1 to the public, I started futzing with Linux during the Chicago Betas I think, my mistake.
Ahhh spoken like someone who has never developed anything professionally in their lives.
For the last 10 years there have been 2 things happening in the Linux community.
A small (compared the next group) group of very dedicated developers have been beating the living shit out of each other to make a pretty awesome kernel.
A very large group of people sat around screaming 'This is the year of the Linux desktop!!!!@$!@#^@3$^@#$&$%*$' rather than actually fixing the shit that preventing the year of the Linux desktop the year before, rinse repeat.
What that really means is 'all those young kernel developers' you're referencing weren't actually a bunch of young kernel developers who were working on the kernel itself. They were just a bunch of fad followers who weren't actually useful and have sinse moved on. During that time, Linux lost its edge and reason for running it.
When Linux was started, that winter long long ago ... Your choices were Mac OS 8 (was it 7 still?) and Win95. You were more likely to step out your back door, pick up a rock, and throw it hard enough to hit the space shuttle as it orbitted than to have a stable Mac or Windows machine at that point.
Within a few years, Linux was big enough to be useful for the basics so a bunch of geeks jumped on the fanboy wagon (I was there too). But no one really contributed. I mean yes, some people did obviously, but the majority didn't.
The people who did contribute ... still are. The people who didn't, moved on.
Now those young fad followers are iDevice or Android developers this week. Its far easier for them to make their mark getting posted to the Android market place than getting committed to the Linux kernel. Todays need for instant confidence reenforcement in kids means they are going to go for that rather than actually making a contribution that takes effort.
Its not really any different today than it was then, except Linux has grown up considerably and isn't the fad anymore.
BeOS did the same thing, although much smaller and much much much shorter lived, and it died (okay, technically its not dead, but it might as well be). Not expecting Linux to die, but its time in the spotlight is long over, now its just one of the boys and will have to act like one if it wants to stay relevant.
Just for reference, the Q3 server ran fine under Linux. If you think the game itself ran great, you and I have different ideas of what great is. Lets not forget that the state of 3d accel in Linux today is STILL relatively shitty. Do you remember what it was like back then?
Don't confuse your mom not wanting you to feel bad with her actually liking it.
And if you're going to use someone as an example 'just learned how to use her mouse a year ago' is not a good way to start off.
You can argue that 'if someone had put a bunch of work into it would have been better' but the reality of it is, he didn't have to put a bunch of work into something else and it was better.
If you can't recognize the Linux distros have seriously shitty usability, you're just a blind fanboy.