seams to be right now, if anything apple would have been acting to protect customers who tampered with the devices by refusing to allow upgrading.
Protecting all customers == good PR
Bricking customers' iPhones, warranty or not == bad PR
As to what ATT thinks, they can get screwed -- the market potential of unlocked iPhones is greater than the amount of money Apple can hope to get from ATT. Enough said.
But telling someone that I won't tolerate the iPhone's built-in defects and I'm waiting for something that's cool and does what I want doesn't get me laid.
Showing a cracked iphone with most of the defects fixed (and iBrate installed) may very well get you laid.
also after seeing this trial would any other company ever waste money paying to make a phone 'only available on their network'?
That would be a GOOD thing -- people would pay full price for a phone and get lower monthly rates, rather than subsidizing others' phones even if they bought one from outside the phone company. For those who can't afford up front, I'm sure the phone cos will have leased or installment plans. This would be a big win for consumers, especially in the GSM market!
Automotive diagnostic tools, printer refills, and "the exclusive jet engine provider" found on the 737 and 787 are a form of technology lock.
Actually car diagnostics are already required to be somewhat unlocked -- error codes were standardized to some extent by the OBD II standard in the 1990s. Personally, I think that car makers should be required to provide a USB interface and complete diagnostic software with the sale of every car, but that's just me:)
But why not sue Blackberry for only allowing the Curve 8830 on the TMobile network? I want an 8830, but on AT&T. Should I buy it, sign up for TMobile, then sue RIM? Or TMobile? Or both?
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8830 is a Verizon/Sprint device that's CDMA and GSM. It only supports the non-USA CDMA bands, so it won't work on either AT&T or Tmobile USA, but it DOES come unlocked from Sprint so you can use any SIM you want in Europe.
f you ride a train without a ticket: in the UK they will ask you to buy a ticket, in Canada they will fine you, in the USA they will arrest you.
What trains are you riding? On Amtrak reserved trains, they'll check tickets before boarding, so they won't let you buy on the train. On other Amtrak, you can buy on the train. On commuter trains, there's a ticket collector that goes around and checks tickets -- if you don't have one, they'll sell you one for like $3 or $5 more than if you bought it in the station. Assuming you don't have money or something, they'll kick you off at the next stop at worst.
Apple has *everything* to gain from an open phone. A large application ecosystem would drive business sales through the roof, since this is basically a handheld computer that's easy to use, not simply a phone. And don't even compare it to "point and pray" Windows Mobile/PocketPC!
Apple has the potential of crushing RIM and Microsoft in the handheld market if the full capabilities of the device are unleashed.
Um, the government is already meddling by requiring a change in DST. How are tax incentives any *more* meddlesome? And what does building highways through urban blight have to do with anything?
Of course now with all the screening software, a bad credit rating will get you a second look by the TSA.
I thought that NO credit data would be more worrisome to them -- evidence of a manufactured identity. I suppose bad credit would make you more likely to help terrorists for money, but in the case of suicide attackers, it's pretty doubtful any sane person would.
Therefore it is obvious that the sane thing to do is spend less instead of dealing with this stuff as if it was a simple cash flow problem.
The same thing can be accomplished by shifting working/school hours as by fucking with what should be a constant frame of reference. Besides, if you want to save energy, there are better things to mandate -- CFL usage, tax all cars that make less than 30 mpg average at 100%, etc...
So give tax breaks to employers who change their working hours for the summer. Time is an important point of reference, and altering it is the height of stupidity and self-delusion.
Well, I guess they could hire PEs and work under them while still being their boss in some way...
Yep, legal in all states to have a PE as one of the managing partners of the company and have non-PEs as the other managers. Not sure about just hiring PEs, but I'm sure that there are some who don't want to be arsed to deal with the business side of things, and would be perfectly happy as chief of engineering or something.
Besides, not all design work requires a PE. You just can't represent yourself as an engineer, work in fields that are legally controlled like building or highway design, or probably testify as an expert witness in court. This still leaves a lot of opportunity open.
abolish DST! It was silly in the early 1900s when the majority of workers worked in factories, mills, or on farms. It's sillier in 2007. Get rid of that stupidity once and for all.
I'm sure I scared them but I didn't look beyond my initiate glimpse and I never told anyone about it.
And you did exactly the right thing -- if they're both consenting, I don't see the problem as long as there weren't any other pressing jobs at the moment. People are too Puritanical...
To my defense she told me that she loved me in an email.
Why is any defense needed? You spend about 1/3 of your waking hours at work -- you're bound to meet people who are interesting and compatible with you. As long as it doesn't interfere with your work, if both people are cool with it, and neither person uses it to exact favors, I'd say it's all good. The modern paranoia about sexual harassment has really gone too far.
Actually, the connections come in when you start looking at feeding operating data into the business processes.....or when you want to monitor the state of the machine to automatically trigger preventative maintenance
Business processes: they're usually not required to be instantaneous. You could do just as well logging data to a removable HDD or other media of choice and then physically reconnecting it.
Monitoring: the link doesn't have to be two way -- the monitoring system could just spit data out over an RS-232 one-way link with no inbound communication.
If you're sufficiently paranoid, there's always a way.
ne day my boss told me that a lot of our customers didn't use SSL encryption, either because they couldn't be bothered with it, or because they couldn't figure out how to install the server software or certificate correctly.
Maybe there's a market for a prepackaged OpenVPN appliance/router that'll spit out a self-installing.exe file with appropriate client certificates, the OpenVPN program, and the GUI client, so even a newb at a remote site can install it if given to him on a USB key.
Throw OpenVPN on the network gateway and make that subnet only accessable via VPN. OpenVPN is SSL/key based, so it's more secure than passwords (and can be combined with passwords). Plus, it's free, and there's a Windows GUI client that's simple enough for even a developmentally challenged chimp to use. No key file; no access.
(1) There are some things you CAN'T ditch. Guns, ammo, and body armor for one. Basically this replaces a field radio with more and heavier gear.
(2) As far as Iraqis (not foreign fighters) there's something to be said for knowing the neighborhood in urban warfare, knowing the language, and actually having local friends. That's why guerilla war works. And remember that the death of an Iraqi can be used to recruit more fighters there, while a US death will work *against* recruiting.
on the systems that I manage, no Web/telnet/ssh admin ports get opened to the outside world. If you want in, you'd better have a valid VPN key as well as a password, and VPN logs get checked regularly to prevent abuse. Good defence is multilayered.
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Protecting all customers == good PR
Bricking customers' iPhones, warranty or not == bad PR
As to what ATT thinks, they can get screwed -- the market potential of unlocked iPhones is greater than the amount of money Apple can hope to get from ATT. Enough said.
Showing a cracked iphone with most of the defects fixed (and iBrate installed) may very well get you laid.
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That would be a GOOD thing -- people would pay full price for a phone and get lower monthly rates, rather than subsidizing others' phones even if they bought one from outside the phone company. For those who can't afford up front, I'm sure the phone cos will have leased or installment plans. This would be a big win for consumers, especially in the GSM market!
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Actually car diagnostics are already required to be somewhat unlocked -- error codes were standardized to some extent by the OBD II standard in the 1990s. Personally, I think that car makers should be required to provide a USB interface and complete diagnostic software with the sale of every car, but that's just me :)
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8830 is a Verizon/Sprint device that's CDMA and GSM. It only supports the non-USA CDMA bands, so it won't work on either AT&T or Tmobile USA, but it DOES come unlocked from Sprint so you can use any SIM you want in Europe.
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What trains are you riding? On Amtrak reserved trains, they'll check tickets before boarding, so they won't let you buy on the train. On other Amtrak, you can buy on the train. On commuter trains, there's a ticket collector that goes around and checks tickets -- if you don't have one, they'll sell you one for like $3 or $5 more than if you bought it in the station. Assuming you don't have money or something, they'll kick you off at the next stop at worst.
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Legal -- AFAIK, they have to be legal in HOV lanes by Federal law if the state/city is to get funding for highway construction.
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So you only host stuff that's either illegal or interferes with other clients? Great business model you have, no?
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Apple has the potential of crushing RIM and Microsoft in the handheld market if the full capabilities of the device are unleashed.
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Um, the government is already meddling by requiring a change in DST. How are tax incentives any *more* meddlesome? And what does building highways through urban blight have to do with anything?
I thought that NO credit data would be more worrisome to them -- evidence of a manufactured identity. I suppose bad credit would make you more likely to help terrorists for money, but in the case of suicide attackers, it's pretty doubtful any sane person would.
-b.
The same thing can be accomplished by shifting working/school hours as by fucking with what should be a constant frame of reference. Besides, if you want to save energy, there are better things to mandate -- CFL usage, tax all cars that make less than 30 mpg average at 100%, etc ...
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But if women ever go topless outside of mosquito season, watching them should be rewarding (.Y.)
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Yep, legal in all states to have a PE as one of the managing partners of the company and have non-PEs as the other managers. Not sure about just hiring PEs, but I'm sure that there are some who don't want to be arsed to deal with the business side of things, and would be perfectly happy as chief of engineering or something.
Besides, not all design work requires a PE. You just can't represent yourself as an engineer, work in fields that are legally controlled like building or highway design, or probably testify as an expert witness in court. This still leaves a lot of opportunity open.
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Well, it helped me tell someone higher up that the bridge he approved would collapse.
abolish DST! It was silly in the early 1900s when the majority of workers worked in factories, mills, or on farms. It's sillier in 2007. Get rid of that stupidity once and for all.
... or the males are engaging in more cross-departmental kissing of non IT workers than he females.
And you did exactly the right thing -- if they're both consenting, I don't see the problem as long as there weren't any other pressing jobs at the moment. People are too Puritanical ...
Why is any defense needed? You spend about 1/3 of your waking hours at work -- you're bound to meet people who are interesting and compatible with you. As long as it doesn't interfere with your work, if both people are cool with it, and neither person uses it to exact favors, I'd say it's all good. The modern paranoia about sexual harassment has really gone too far.
Business processes: they're usually not required to be instantaneous. You could do just as well logging data to a removable HDD or other media of choice and then physically reconnecting it.
Monitoring: the link doesn't have to be two way -- the monitoring system could just spit data out over an RS-232 one-way link with no inbound communication.
If you're sufficiently paranoid, there's always a way.
Maybe there's a market for a prepackaged OpenVPN appliance/router that'll spit out a self-installing .exe file with appropriate client certificates, the OpenVPN program, and the GUI client, so even a newb at a remote site can install it if given to him on a USB key.
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(2) As far as Iraqis (not foreign fighters) there's something to be said for knowing the neighborhood in urban warfare, knowing the language, and actually having local friends. That's why guerilla war works. And remember that the death of an Iraqi can be used to recruit more fighters there, while a US death will work *against* recruiting.
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