I know cause we make such an application right now, and during development we're screwed, as we can't get around these limitations even on our development devices. It's no good.
Write for the iPhone -- good or bad, at least it's proven itself to be beautifully easily crackable, so that 3rd party apps can be installed.
Sorry, I'm not apt to trust anything said by a rep of the company that makes the abomination known as Norton Internet Security. NIS itself should be classed as a virus!
If his parents would have raised him properly to respect authority when he was little, maybe with even giving him the occasional spanking when he got out of line, he wouldn't be acting like a spoiled little 3 year old brat when he's 21.
You mean, raised him to be a good little goose-stepping German...
The honest truth is that while America is a terrible place with no respect for individual rights, etc. people still want to live here. Why is that? Maybe America being America is just enough reason for you, dear readers, to overlook all of its flaws no matter how bad it is.
I never said that, and America does have a lot of respect for individual rights, at least on paper. There have just been periods where zealotry took the place of good sense. The McCarthy Era. The Red Scare in 1918-1925 or so. Etc. Fortunately there's always been a backlash and the Terror Scare will be no exception.
Why have use WiFi that consumes battery, and have a manual sync, when instead you could sync automatically with no user intervention during the 2 hour charge cycle?
Because I don't want to keep the dock near a computer all the time. Also, I may want to pull tunes from more than one source -- get music off a friend's box for example without having to carry a cable around all the time.
Not to mention if you could sync OTHER things like contacts and calendar over WiFi or EDGE, that would solve one of the main problems of business usage -- how to sync everything over the air for mobile users. Just set up a VPN and have a protected share containing contact and calendar data. Over the air sync is a big deal in the business world, and why not have the iPhone be sellable to as many people as possible? It's not like the code for air sync would be difficult to write.
can this be used to make a loader that'll load songs on the iPhone from a SMB share or play them directly from the share via WiFi? Having to use iTunes to manage something as powerful as the iPhone is really a pain in the butt, and it should only have to be plugged in to charge it, not to sync data. After all, it has a perfectly good WiFi link -- why not use it?!?
The Poland of today has come a very long ways from what it was in the 60's, 70's or even the 80's. It's even a very good European vacation destination for an American traveler since it is not a very high-priced place to visit and your money goes farther there.
Agreed -- it's ~3 zlotys to the dollar, but prices on a lot of goods are about the same number of zlotys at they would cost in dollars in the USA. So about 2.5-3x less expensive for a lot of things. Those cities that weren't wrecked during WW II are beautiful, as are parts of the mountains if you're into hiking or sport.
I'm considering it -- plenty of opportunities in technology and engineering since the country is developing rapidly, and I'm a citizen by parentage so I'd have no problem getting a work permit or establishing a corporation there.
BTW: I never quite understood the sentiment that if someone says that a place has some good points over the USA, they're somehow not worthy of being an American. Having a citizenry that acknowledges its country's faults makes that country a better and stronger place, since they talk about the faults and strive to correct them. Blind acceptance serves no one.
This may be the case for NYC, but to be fair, NYC is hardly representative of the States at large. And NYC has ten times the population of Krakow.
DC is just as bad as far as obtrusive police (actually worse), and has just about the population of Krakow.
The domestic flight ID matter is a point, but it's also worth noting that the US is a lot bigger than Poland, so "domestic" flights aren't quiite the same thing. As for intercity rail, I've never tried Amtrak - their web page seems to say you'll need ID - but gaaak, who'd want to bother with Amtrak anyway?
The flight I was on was Krakow to Warsaw, basically equivalent to the NYC-DC shuttle. If you think that they aren't super-strict with security on THAT flight, you'd be surprised:) Remember, no getting out of your seat within 1/2 hour flight time of National Airport.
Amtrak doesn't always check ID, especially if the ticket is bought with a credit card, but the ticket machines have CAMERAS in them. Gah. As far as who would bother, I do. Train time from NYC to Washington is about 3:15, and the train is generally on time. Try driving the same route in under that time, especially on a high traffic weekend or when rush hour is involved. No thanks, and I can read or sleep on the train. As to flying; no thanks -- getting out to the airports and back plus security will make it take just longer than the train.
Indeed. Thoughtcrime at its best. And best turn yourself in if you had a bad thought, they might show some mercy then.
BTW, Poland and Czech were pretty tame as far as the communist regimes went, at least after the mid-1950s. Not like Russia or Romania, where a lot of people just "disappeared" to be sent to labor camps or were shot without trial.
In Poland, some people went to prison, and others became unemployable (and they did send in the Army to crush demonstrations), but the secret police weren't nearly as nasty as other places.
Maybe, just maybe, ubiquitous surveillance will be the thing that saves humankind from the antisocial forces that currently plague us. When anybody can have their actions exposed on YouTube (or whatever the equivalent is in the future), people will be shamed into behaving in decent, harmonious way. It will be like some kind of techno-buddhist utopia.
As long at the surveillance data is truly public, and all citizens are on a level playing field as far as access, it MAY be a good thing. But this article talks more about GOVERNMENT surveillance -- the scary part is that you don't know what they have on you, and how some twisted desk-sitter may choose to (mis)interpret the data somewhere down the line.
It's impossible to get the masses (in the US) to actually get out and do something about this right now, I just don't think they care enough. Mass opinion is that if you don't have anything to worry about the government finding then don't worry about them watching you.
The more I hear about this garbage, the more I sympathize with the various "militia" groups that were doing their thing in the mid-90s. Shame that McVeigh had to give all of them a bad name by killing civilians senselessly.
Harm you because their heart rate is raised? They could be overdosing on caffeine. They could be on meth. They might be some teenager on Ritalin or its relatives. They might be masturbating. They might just have physiological tachycardia.
Or they could be justifiably afraid/pissed off that someone is prowling around their place. Could be a cop; could be a burglar after all.
I grew up in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s. This is the sort of shit we dealt with each day.
And it's funny, I was just in Poland (Krakow) two months ago. The place felt *worlds* more free than NYC or London. Fewer cameras around. No constant babble about how bags are subject to search because of terrorism. Able to buy an intercity train ticket for cash without ID (same went for a domestic plane ticket, though they did glance at my passport when I boarded). Fewer police swarming about, unlike in NYC where they seem to be out in force near Penn Station or driving in cavalcades, lights flashing to an unknown destination.
I love the USA, but Poland definitely has its good points...
As a SMB manager who manages mostly a WinXP network, I believe it will be when management of a entire network of Apple's from a single group policy (accounts,fileshare profiles, network profiles, mail accounts all from a single utility).
Not sure about mail account info, but you can push all the other stuff you're talking about (and more) to Apple clients via LDAP. An OS X server is useful for this, but not strictly necessary -- you can run the management utilities on any OS X box connected to an LDAP directory.
When the next mac goes the way of the iphone and itouch, then it will beat Vista.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I have an iPhone and actually _like_ its touch screen interface. It's not appropriate for a desktop, but it's perfect for a phone -- for one, it's easy to keep clean, unlike dozens of buttons and it's almost infinitely configurable. iPhone + 3rd party software:)
Another thing(coming from a 100+ user all Apple/Linux shop) that Apple does that doesn't work well with corporate environments is that they make it impossible to go back to previous OS X versions once a new one has been released.
OTOH, there are few enough Mac types that the same image will work on multiple machines. And no STUPID licensing and activation CRAP like a certain company based a few states north of Apple sees fit to foist upon consumers.
Plus, those big ships'll have a shorter route on which to belch their nasty so-called "greenhouse gasses" (and will, therefore, not pollute as much!); this could be the best thing to happen to the environment in 30 years!!
If we wanted to do good things for the environment, we'd have an mostly-nuclear merchant shipping fleet by now. That and producing more goods locally rather than schlepping them over from China. As far as environmental effects, I'm sure the saving in energy for heat and transport will be more than offset by increased cooling costs in other regions.
Windows Update files are signed by Microsoft, so a potential hacker would have to first steal the private key from Microsoft before they could send out malicious updates.
All it takes are some disgruntled employees. Stuff leaks -- scary...
Is this coincidental with Reduced Functionality Mode being turned on in Vista? Maybe MS is trying to install the same thing on XP, using SP1 machines as testers and eventually moving up through all boxes.
If computers can be patched involuntarily, what's to stop people from spoofing the MS servers, possibly through DNS poisoning, and pushing malware. Any authentication system can be broken, and you DON'T want to be in the situation that something is spreading via the Update functionality and you're powerless to turn it off. Maybe the best solution is to use a 3rd party firewall to block any and all MS addresses from communicating until you happen to choose to allow them.
Perhaps eminent domain should just be declared and the island depopulated.
Cape Cod isn't an island, BTW, it's a cape/peninsula with some islands surrounding it. As far as eminent domain -- ain't gonna happen -- the Cape is vacation home to some of the wealthiest and influential people in the US. I think the wind farms will have to be built off shore; it's the lesser of the two evils, and there'll be less opposition than to stealing people's homes away!
Eminent domain, while useful in some cases, is nothing but theft organized by society.
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Write for the iPhone -- good or bad, at least it's proven itself to be beautifully easily crackable, so that 3rd party apps can be installed.
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And hose business users who VPN in, for example? I doubt it -- this would reduce the Internet's utility about tenfold.
Sorry, I'm not apt to trust anything said by a rep of the company that makes the abomination known as Norton Internet Security. NIS itself should be classed as a virus!
You mean, raised him to be a good little goose-stepping German...
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Don't update the device using iTunes and the hack won't be undone, since the firmware will stay the same unless you replace it.
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I never said that, and America does have a lot of respect for individual rights, at least on paper. There have just been periods where zealotry took the place of good sense. The McCarthy Era. The Red Scare in 1918-1925 or so. Etc. Fortunately there's always been a backlash and the Terror Scare will be no exception.
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Because I don't want to keep the dock near a computer all the time. Also, I may want to pull tunes from more than one source -- get music off a friend's box for example without having to carry a cable around all the time.
Not to mention if you could sync OTHER things like contacts and calendar over WiFi or EDGE, that would solve one of the main problems of business usage -- how to sync everything over the air for mobile users. Just set up a VPN and have a protected share containing contact and calendar data. Over the air sync is a big deal in the business world, and why not have the iPhone be sellable to as many people as possible? It's not like the code for air sync would be difficult to write.
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Agreed -- it's ~3 zlotys to the dollar, but prices on a lot of goods are about the same number of zlotys at they would cost in dollars in the USA. So about 2.5-3x less expensive for a lot of things. Those cities that weren't wrecked during WW II are beautiful, as are parts of the mountains if you're into hiking or sport.
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Girls should learns at least some of those things too, BTW, and some would even enjoy learning them!
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I'm considering it -- plenty of opportunities in technology and engineering since the country is developing rapidly, and I'm a citizen by parentage so I'd have no problem getting a work permit or establishing a corporation there.
BTW: I never quite understood the sentiment that if someone says that a place has some good points over the USA, they're somehow not worthy of being an American. Having a citizenry that acknowledges its country's faults makes that country a better and stronger place, since they talk about the faults and strive to correct them. Blind acceptance serves no one.
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DC is just as bad as far as obtrusive police (actually worse), and has just about the population of Krakow.
The domestic flight ID matter is a point, but it's also worth noting that the US is a lot bigger than Poland, so "domestic" flights aren't quiite the same thing. As for intercity rail, I've never tried Amtrak - their web page seems to say you'll need ID - but gaaak, who'd want to bother with Amtrak anyway?
The flight I was on was Krakow to Warsaw, basically equivalent to the NYC-DC shuttle. If you think that they aren't super-strict with security on THAT flight, you'd be surprised :) Remember, no getting out of your seat within 1/2 hour flight time of National Airport.
Amtrak doesn't always check ID, especially if the ticket is bought with a credit card, but the ticket machines have CAMERAS in them. Gah. As far as who would bother, I do. Train time from NYC to Washington is about 3:15, and the train is generally on time. Try driving the same route in under that time, especially on a high traffic weekend or when rush hour is involved. No thanks, and I can read or sleep on the train. As to flying; no thanks -- getting out to the airports and back plus security will make it take just longer than the train.
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BTW, Poland and Czech were pretty tame as far as the communist regimes went, at least after the mid-1950s. Not like Russia or Romania, where a lot of people just "disappeared" to be sent to labor camps or were shot without trial.
In Poland, some people went to prison, and others became unemployable (and they did send in the Army to crush demonstrations), but the secret police weren't nearly as nasty as other places.
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As long at the surveillance data is truly public, and all citizens are on a level playing field as far as access, it MAY be a good thing. But this article talks more about GOVERNMENT surveillance -- the scary part is that you don't know what they have on you, and how some twisted desk-sitter may choose to (mis)interpret the data somewhere down the line.
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The more I hear about this garbage, the more I sympathize with the various "militia" groups that were doing their thing in the mid-90s. Shame that McVeigh had to give all of them a bad name by killing civilians senselessly.
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Or they could be justifiably afraid/pissed off that someone is prowling around their place. Could be a cop; could be a burglar after all.
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And it's funny, I was just in Poland (Krakow) two months ago. The place felt *worlds* more free than NYC or London. Fewer cameras around. No constant babble about how bags are subject to search because of terrorism. Able to buy an intercity train ticket for cash without ID (same went for a domestic plane ticket, though they did glance at my passport when I boarded). Fewer police swarming about, unlike in NYC where they seem to be out in force near Penn Station or driving in cavalcades, lights flashing to an unknown destination.
I love the USA, but Poland definitely has its good points...
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Not sure about mail account info, but you can push all the other stuff you're talking about (and more) to Apple clients via LDAP. An OS X server is useful for this, but not strictly necessary -- you can run the management utilities on any OS X box connected to an LDAP directory.
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I know you're being sarcastic, but I have an iPhone and actually _like_ its touch screen interface. It's not appropriate for a desktop, but it's perfect for a phone -- for one, it's easy to keep clean, unlike dozens of buttons and it's almost infinitely configurable. iPhone + 3rd party software :)
OTOH, there are few enough Mac types that the same image will work on multiple machines. And no STUPID licensing and activation CRAP like a certain company based a few states north of Apple sees fit to foist upon consumers.
If we wanted to do good things for the environment, we'd have an mostly-nuclear merchant shipping fleet by now. That and producing more goods locally rather than schlepping them over from China. As far as environmental effects, I'm sure the saving in energy for heat and transport will be more than offset by increased cooling costs in other regions.
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All it takes are some disgruntled employees. Stuff leaks -- scary...
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This is basically a backdoor.
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Cape Cod isn't an island, BTW, it's a cape/peninsula with some islands surrounding it. As far as eminent domain -- ain't gonna happen -- the Cape is vacation home to some of the wealthiest and influential people in the US. I think the wind farms will have to be built off shore; it's the lesser of the two evils, and there'll be less opposition than to stealing people's homes away!
Eminent domain, while useful in some cases, is nothing but theft organized by society.
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