Now I wonder who thought that one up...
"You get the eBook for free saving you 5.00-10.00 encouraging you to read"
The fine print forgot the required iPad/Tablet/PC. Save 10.00... But spend the 500.00-3000.00 to read it.
Brilliant.
Apple knows they cannot allow a non-bootable OS. If your drive crashes, WTF are you going to do?
Anyways... lets get to the real deal. The downloadable version of Mac OS X lion has a bootable DMG in the Contents/Shared Resources directory.Its called InstallESD.dmg. Simply open DiskUtility and burn that to DVD, then you have a bootable disk.
Your biggest mistake is keeping a low profile online. Your best bet is to get yourself out there as much as possible to drown out those links (unless that text excerpt is a famous issue - then you have a challenge on your hand). The more you fill up the search engines with "you", the more those files go away. Good luck.
If you are through your 20s and have the experience under your belt, exiting college at 35, with many years of experience won't hurt you. You still bring knowlege and real work experience that your "younger" counterparts won't have. This immediately makes you more valuable. I also think the 'IT being a young mans game' is sincerely a misnomer. Although, you probably are right and would be at a loss if you were considered a "junior developer" at 35, having your experience should not put you in that realm. As you get older, your technical kungf00 leads you into bigger and better positions in IT, such as architecture and team leads. The older you get with more experience, your management kungf00 begins to show itself and you are given more responsibilities and teams to take care. I still have yet to run into 20-something architects whose management and technical/architectural skills are outstanding. That generally takes many years of experience to be able to get right. How many "real" CTOs and CIOs do you know who are in their 20s (or even early 30s). I mean real by folks who actually move up a big corporate ladder and rub elbows with some powerful folks. Stick with your path, do your best and build on your kungf00 and you will do fine.
I just went through the same thing as you in that my children as they are learning to read and write, are wanting their own email accounts. At the same time, I have found GMail to be quite good at trapping spam, the spam does end up going into the spam folder, and much of it is not the type of email I want my children to see (pr0n, member enlargement schemes, pharmaceutical recommendations).
Since GMail is one of the best around, I recommend you use that with Postini, which just so happens to be another Google company. Postini is a pretty good spam filter that you point your MX records to and it filters your emails and sends it on to your email provider. It costs just $3.00, per year, and I still have yet to get any offensive emails that I would not want my children to receive. I have to say that my gmail spam box is mostly empty. The nice thing here is that you can monitor a spam inbox on Postini that your children will never see, and you can ultimately decide what can and cannot go through to their GMail account.
Lay down the smack on the family...its the best traffic shaping you can do in the house. Who wears the pants? Not even ComCast can stop traffic like that!
You were legally obligated to tell them if you were planning on keeping the old one while you worked the new one.
Hmm...again you are inferring...how do you know they weren't informed and how do you know I kept the "job"? You don't...;-) Am I not making myself clear or did I say I did not work on the previous one while at IBM?
Doesn't matter. Read the contract you signed when you were hired (for future reference, its usually good to read things like this before you sign them). Most likely it was an industry standard employment contract, meaning it covers when you are not on the clock as well (in fact, unless you were a contractor or consultant, technically you were never off the clock; salaried employees do not get paid to just work 40 hours a week, we are paid to get a job done). Any business relevant work you did (regardless of whether you are in the office or at home) is property of your employer.
Didn't we just go through this? Didn't I just get done saying I did no business while at IBM? You clearly have issues with reading comprehension.
Its possible, just unlikely and hard to believe. Which means when you get sued, it won't be hard for IBM to convince the judge that you were pursuing it while you were still employed.
For the average IBM schmuck like yourself, yes it's hard to believe. If you knew my background, why IBM hired me, etc, you would probably find that its not hard to believe that I can pick up the phone and get offers for jobs and contracts immediately.
Besides, if you truly did do nothing wrong, the lawyer could help you file your own lawsuit
I truly did nothing wrong and probably a small chance a "wrongful termination" could stick, especially being from a state that has been known to "stick it to the man" for these types of situations. Its not worth my time nor energy.
But hey, if you don't want my help, fine. Get your ass (and your new company's ass) sued into a bankruptcy from which your life and reputation will never recover. See if I care.
Thanks but no thanks. Your help was not asked for nor requested. Especially if you work for IBM.;-) I'm certainly not concerned about my reputation getting damage. I think IBM suing me would cause them significantly more bad press than it would me;-) But assuming they do sue my "new" company...these seem to be able to fold overnight, don't they? Corporations are just perfect for that, aren't they;-)
Irrelevant, you were legally obligated to inform them.
LOL...it was on my resume! Think they were informed?
Get one, soon. Most offices will be closed tomorrow for New Years, so I would advise to you to start looking today.
LOL...whatever...
You signed an agreement with IBM that any work you do while you are employed with them is their property (and it doesn't matter if you didn't read that agreement before signing it like most employees, you are still bound to it). Thus any judge would be forced to side with IBM that a contract you pursued while employed by IBM is IBM's property. You need to get a lawyer now to protect yourself and your new company from any upcoming lawsuits.
Ummm...is this yet another troll comment? Where did I write that I did work on IBM's time? Where did I write that I pursued work on IBM's time - is it at all possible that on the day I split from IBM, that I got offered a contract?
You aren't a bright IBMer, now are you? Please read what I had written without making inferences.
If you read my original post...you would have seen that I explained that web page was up before I started with IBM and that I was not questioned about it. If they had questioned me about it, they would have found that it was a defunct old web page (proven by archive.org) which wasn't touched and could have been taken down. Hence, no breach of contract.... As for your comment about the new contract on the day they canned me and the IBM property, also invalid. IANAL, and I would bet neither are you. However, given that my state is a "right to work state", such a claim that I started a new job the day I was canned would be a tough sell.
I am a "semi-well-known" open source guy (name is being withheld to protect the innocent) and I was recently working for IBM on a well-known open source project for which they have taken over. They saw I had a web page up that listed me as a principal owner of my consulting company. The page wasn't changed since before I started with them - much over a year ago...and is even proven by an archive.org review. They now just "figured it out" and canned me...no questioning...no inquisition... They said they Googled me and found I was a CTO of this company...I was CTO before I started. What is funny is I was an outstanding employee for IBM and won 2 "Thank you" awards the Friday before the canning from different areas within IBM....go figure...
All worked out...started a contract the day the canned me...guess I'm better off w/o them.
Yep...they work peachy. The service is off your SIM, not the IMEI.
As for illegality...yep...I live in the USA...so no laws preventing it here. Yes...those who do this should probably examine their own countries' laws.
The Apple IMEI is TEA encrytped according to the phone's hardware ID and NOR ID. Both of these numbers can be found with a few tools found at iphone-elite.org. The IMEI lives at 0xA003FAB00 address. All you need to do is write out your seczone (0xA003FA000), TEA encrypt a nice Motorola RAZR IMEI number at offset 0xB00, and write it back to your NOR...and voila...your iPhone now looks like a Motorola RAZR.
RTFA. He plead it down to a 3 felony count. Other articles say the damages were worth 50 million. Lets have a look at his points here, shall we:
He falls under 2B5.3 (Criminal Infringement of Copyright or Trademark)
No criminal background. He gets an immediate 8 points out of the gate.
(1) If the infringement amount (A) exceeded $2,000 but did not exceed $5,000, increase by 1 level; or (B) exceeded $5,000, increase by the number of levels from the table in 2B1.1 (Theft, Property Destruction, and Fraud) corresponding to that amount.
So lets look at the table...50 million in damages...lets add another 24 points. He now has 32 points.
If the offense was not committed for commercial advantage or private financial gain, decrease by 2 levels. Ok...now he is at 30 points.
If the offense involved the manufacture, importation, or uploading of infringing items, increase by 2 levels. Back to 32.
He pled guilty...knock off 3 points. He has 29 as his number.
Now lets go to the sentencing table and look at his options here...
70-87 months in prison for each felony. However, luckily for the kid, he caps at 60 months per felony per the copyright law. We are back to a MINIMUM of 180 months in total for the sentencing. The judge *does* have the option to allow all three counts to be served consecutively...which would give him a 5 year sentence. Its really up to the judge.
Now...yes...if the prosecutors offer him a 5K1.1 (substantial assistance to the authorities), then the judge can depart downwards. Honestly, at the end of the day, the kid will likely get 4-5 years in the hoosegow (for consecutive sentencing). Take a look at the Drink or Die convictions...they are a reasonable benchmark.
However, make it very clear, the sentencing guidelines clearly state he is elegible for a 15 year sentence. I think this "moron" did his homework and showed the points reflect a 15 year sentence even *with* no criminal record. I suggest *you* read the guidelines before making the ridicules post as you did.
Wrong...this is not a state case, its federal. He will receive a nice chunk of the 15 years. Read the Federal Sentencing Guidlines. Judges usually and typically do not depart due to potential career ramifications. It has been done...but its not usual. However, if a judge truely believes that 15 years is excessive (and hopefully he/she will), they will depart. Cross your fingers for this kid.
What is amazing to see is this kid is facing the possibility of doing more time than your average homicide, rape or sexual assault criminal. According to the National Criminal Justice Reference System (NCJRS), the following sentences are listed as the average:
Homicide: Average sentence = 149 months.
Rape: Average sentence = 117 months.
Kidnapping: Average sentence = 104 months.
Robbery: Average sentence = 95 months.
Sexual assault: Average sentence = 72 months.
Assault: Average sentence = 61 months.
Make note this potential sentence exceeds the averages for violent crime, and exceeds the time given by the Department Of Justice to Andrew Fastow, the CFO of Enron convicted of bilking millions of dollars from employees and investors. This poor kid is looking at 180 months. We have a problem with our criminal justice system.
If you use tsocks or one of its clones, you can have the ip stack intercept all ip traffic and route it through tor. See the tor documentation for the howto on this.
Already done. SwitchProxy allows hot switch into Tor. You set up a new proxy set for localhost:9050. As long as you are running Tor already, your secure anonymizing session is ready to use by a single mouse click.
Tor supports something called a "hidden service" which allows you to serve something, such as a web site, ftp, or dare I say, a bittorent link.
The neat thing is, you can serve the service without anyone knowing your IP address. So you would share a link such as follows: http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ (which is the tor hidden service wiki BTW). The Tor servers "meet in the middle", thus hiding the originating serving ip address. Read here for more on this functionality.
This could really shut the door on XXAA type organizations looking to hunt down people for litigous purposes.
This is NOT a violation of the DMCA. They are not offering a tool to decrypt AAC...they are encrypting the music, just like Apple does. There is nothing in the DMCA that says they cannot encrypt files.
In addition, check out the verbage of the DMCA, which allows this:
1201(f)(2) -
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b), a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure, in order to enable the identification and analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.
Looks to me there is not much Apple can do about this one
Why spend all the money to stick this stuff in DSL and Cable modems, when they should be signing up ISPs to block the ports at the gateway. Then there is no need to have all these companies distribute a hardware option.
No...your comparison is "apples to oranges" and has no basis. MS did not compare it properly. They used stored procedures, etc, where the J2EE was an exercise of keeping the business logic in the beans and not in the database. The java blueprints were never meant to be an exercise of performance over different design pattern examples. See the real low down on the MS Petstore implementation. Its just another example of the FUD that is sold by M$.
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Now I wonder who thought that one up... "You get the eBook for free saving you 5.00-10.00 encouraging you to read" The fine print forgot the required iPad/Tablet/PC. Save 10.00... But spend the 500.00-3000.00 to read it. Brilliant.
The basementcoders interviewed Perry this week and Perry explained why he forked Growl and what happened: http://basementcoders.com/2011/10/episode-47-fork-you-growl-interview-with-perry-metzger/
Apple knows they cannot allow a non-bootable OS. If your drive crashes, WTF are you going to do? Anyways... lets get to the real deal. The downloadable version of Mac OS X lion has a bootable DMG in the Contents/Shared Resources directory.Its called InstallESD.dmg. Simply open DiskUtility and burn that to DVD, then you have a bootable disk.
Your biggest mistake is keeping a low profile online. Your best bet is to get yourself out there as much as possible to drown out those links (unless that text excerpt is a famous issue - then you have a challenge on your hand). The more you fill up the search engines with "you", the more those files go away. Good luck.
Have they tried Fairplay or Windows Media DRM? That seems to be effective with some pirates.
If you are through your 20s and have the experience under your belt, exiting college at 35, with many years of experience won't hurt you. You still bring knowlege and real work experience that your "younger" counterparts won't have. This immediately makes you more valuable. I also think the 'IT being a young mans game' is sincerely a misnomer. Although, you probably are right and would be at a loss if you were considered a "junior developer" at 35, having your experience should not put you in that realm. As you get older, your technical kungf00 leads you into bigger and better positions in IT, such as architecture and team leads. The older you get with more experience, your management kungf00 begins to show itself and you are given more responsibilities and teams to take care. I still have yet to run into 20-something architects whose management and technical/architectural skills are outstanding. That generally takes many years of experience to be able to get right. How many "real" CTOs and CIOs do you know who are in their 20s (or even early 30s). I mean real by folks who actually move up a big corporate ladder and rub elbows with some powerful folks. Stick with your path, do your best and build on your kungf00 and you will do fine.
:!sudo rm -rf /*
DOH! No really - don't do that.
I just went through the same thing as you in that my children as they are learning to read and write, are wanting their own email accounts. At the same time, I have found GMail to be quite good at trapping spam, the spam does end up going into the spam folder, and much of it is not the type of email I want my children to see (pr0n, member enlargement schemes, pharmaceutical recommendations).
Since GMail is one of the best around, I recommend you use that with Postini, which just so happens to be another Google company. Postini is a pretty good spam filter that you point your MX records to and it filters your emails and sends it on to your email provider. It costs just $3.00, per year, and I still have yet to get any offensive emails that I would not want my children to receive. I have to say that my gmail spam box is mostly empty. The nice thing here is that you can monitor a spam inbox on Postini that your children will never see, and you can ultimately decide what can and cannot go through to their GMail account.
Lay down the smack on the family...its the best traffic shaping you can do in the house. Who wears the pants? Not even ComCast can stop traffic like that!
Hmm...again you are inferring...how do you know they weren't informed and how do you know I kept the "job"? You don't... ;-) Am I not making myself clear or did I say I did not work on the previous one while at IBM?
Didn't we just go through this? Didn't I just get done saying I did no business while at IBM? You clearly have issues with reading comprehension.
For the average IBM schmuck like yourself, yes it's hard to believe. If you knew my background, why IBM hired me, etc, you would probably find that its not hard to believe that I can pick up the phone and get offers for jobs and contracts immediately.
I truly did nothing wrong and probably a small chance a "wrongful termination" could stick, especially being from a state that has been known to "stick it to the man" for these types of situations. Its not worth my time nor energy.
Thanks but no thanks. Your help was not asked for nor requested. Especially if you work for IBM. ;-) I'm certainly not concerned about my reputation getting damage. I think IBM suing me would cause them significantly more bad press than it would me ;-) But assuming they do sue my "new" company...these seem to be able to fold overnight, don't they? Corporations are just perfect for that, aren't they ;-)
LOL...it was on my resume! Think they were informed?
LOL...whatever...
Ummm...is this yet another troll comment? Where did I write that I did work on IBM's time? Where did I write that I pursued work on IBM's time - is it at all possible that on the day I split from IBM, that I got offered a contract?
You aren't a bright IBMer, now are you? Please read what I had written without making inferences.
Kind of a troll comment if you ask me...
If you read my original post...you would have seen that I explained that web page was up before I started with IBM and that I was not questioned about it. If they had questioned me about it, they would have found that it was a defunct old web page (proven by archive.org) which wasn't touched and could have been taken down. Hence, no breach of contract.... As for your comment about the new contract on the day they canned me and the IBM property, also invalid. IANAL, and I would bet neither are you. However, given that my state is a "right to work state", such a claim that I started a new job the day I was canned would be a tough sell.
I am a "semi-well-known" open source guy (name is being withheld to protect the innocent) and I was recently working for IBM on a well-known open source project for which they have taken over. They saw I had a web page up that listed me as a principal owner of my consulting company. The page wasn't changed since before I started with them - much over a year ago...and is even proven by an archive.org review. They now just "figured it out" and canned me...no questioning...no inquisition... They said they Googled me and found I was a CTO of this company...I was CTO before I started. What is funny is I was an outstanding employee for IBM and won 2 "Thank you" awards the Friday before the canning from different areas within IBM....go figure...
All worked out...started a contract the day the canned me...guess I'm better off w/o them.
Yep...they work peachy. The service is off your SIM, not the IMEI. As for illegality...yep...I live in the USA...so no laws preventing it here. Yes...those who do this should probably examine their own countries' laws.
The Apple IMEI is TEA encrytped according to the phone's hardware ID and NOR ID. Both of these numbers can be found with a few tools found at iphone-elite.org. The IMEI lives at 0xA003FAB00 address. All you need to do is write out your seczone (0xA003FA000), TEA encrypt a nice Motorola RAZR IMEI number at offset 0xB00, and write it back to your NOR...and voila...your iPhone now looks like a Motorola RAZR.
He falls under 2B5.3 (Criminal Infringement of Copyright or Trademark)
No criminal background. He gets an immediate 8 points out of the gate.
(1) If the infringement amount (A) exceeded $2,000 but did not exceed $5,000, increase by 1 level; or (B) exceeded $5,000, increase by the number of levels from the table in 2B1.1 (Theft, Property Destruction, and Fraud) corresponding to that amount.
So lets look at the table...50 million in damages...lets add another 24 points. He now has 32 points.
If the offense was not committed for commercial advantage or private financial gain, decrease by 2 levels. Ok...now he is at 30 points.
If the offense involved the manufacture, importation, or uploading of infringing items, increase by 2 levels. Back to 32.
He pled guilty...knock off 3 points. He has 29 as his number.
Now lets go to the sentencing table and look at his options here...
70-87 months in prison for each felony. However, luckily for the kid, he caps at 60 months per felony per the copyright law. We are back to a MINIMUM of 180 months in total for the sentencing. The judge *does* have the option to allow all three counts to be served consecutively...which would give him a 5 year sentence. Its really up to the judge.
Now...yes...if the prosecutors offer him a 5K1.1 (substantial assistance to the authorities), then the judge can depart downwards. Honestly, at the end of the day, the kid will likely get 4-5 years in the hoosegow (for consecutive sentencing). Take a look at the Drink or Die convictions...they are a reasonable benchmark.
However, make it very clear, the sentencing guidelines clearly state he is elegible for a 15 year sentence. I think this "moron" did his homework and showed the points reflect a 15 year sentence even *with* no criminal record. I suggest *you* read the guidelines before making the ridicules post as you did.
Wrong...this is not a state case, its federal. He will receive a nice chunk of the 15 years. Read the Federal Sentencing Guidlines. Judges usually and typically do not depart due to potential career ramifications. It has been done...but its not usual. However, if a judge truely believes that 15 years is excessive (and hopefully he/she will), they will depart. Cross your fingers for this kid.
What is amazing to see is this kid is facing the possibility of doing more time than your average homicide, rape or sexual assault criminal. According to the National Criminal Justice Reference System (NCJRS), the following sentences are listed as the average:
Make note this potential sentence exceeds the averages for violent crime, and exceeds the time given by the Department Of Justice to Andrew Fastow, the CFO of Enron convicted of bilking millions of dollars from employees and investors. This poor kid is looking at 180 months. We have a problem with our criminal justice system.
If you use tsocks or one of its clones, you can have the ip stack intercept all ip traffic and route it through tor. See the tor documentation for the howto on this.
Already done. SwitchProxy allows hot switch into Tor. You set up a new proxy set for localhost:9050. As long as you are running Tor already, your secure anonymizing session is ready to use by a single mouse click.
Tor supports something called a "hidden service" which allows you to serve something, such as a web site, ftp, or dare I say, a bittorent link.
The neat thing is, you can serve the service without anyone knowing your IP address. So you would share a link such as follows: http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ (which is the tor hidden service wiki BTW). The Tor servers "meet in the middle", thus hiding the originating serving ip address. Read here for more on this functionality.
This could really shut the door on XXAA type organizations looking to hunt down people for litigous purposes.
This is NOT a violation of the DMCA. They are not offering a tool to decrypt AAC...they are encrypting the music, just like Apple does. There is nothing in the DMCA that says they cannot encrypt files.
In addition, check out the verbage of the DMCA, which allows this:
1201(f)(2) - Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b), a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure, in order to enable the identification and analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.
Looks to me there is not much Apple can do about this one
Does anyone have any clue as to their method?
Yeah...probably ripped it off from Hymn.Why spend all the money to stick this stuff in DSL and Cable modems, when they should be signing up ISPs to block the ports at the gateway. Then there is no need to have all these companies distribute a hardware option.
The system can track where residents are anywhere in the campus...
Management speak: The system can track where inmates are anywhere in the cellblock...
No...your comparison is "apples to oranges" and has no basis. MS did not compare it properly. They used stored procedures, etc, where the J2EE was an exercise of keeping the business logic in the beans and not in the database. The java blueprints were never meant to be an exercise of performance over different design pattern examples. See the real low down on the MS Petstore implementation. Its just another example of the FUD that is sold by M$.