...Betelgeuse is about to explode in a supernova. This rumor is almost certainly not true. First, it's posted on a doomsday forum. Second, it's three times removed...
Why WindowsCE doesn't do such things is a complete mystery.
It's built from a codebase that's from around 1995, when such concerns barely existed yet. And instead of building up something like UAC and privilege control, it looks like MS is just taking the easy way out and locking down the OS, which is kind of sad, considering extreme flexibility and relative open access is/was one of WM's (only?) major strengths.
Anybody that's ever administered GP will tell you that its security is a complete and utter joke. It's basically non-existent, or "security through obscurity" at best.
All users are granted full access to the data in SQL Server, and security restrictions are implemented entirely in the front-end application. There's no secure application tier whatsoever - just a client application connecting to a database that's being treated as a dumb shared persistence layer. I've used MS Access to create more secure applications than GP. (Little departmental things - nothing major.)
Anybody that you have set up with access to GP thus has the ability to download SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the database server using their GP credentials (it uses SQL Server logins), and carry out all manner of hell.
Finding out that they're also using shitty encryption increases my levels of surprise and disdain by roughly 0%. Any DBA that maintains GP databases will just shrug this off with, "Yeah, you think that's bad? Take a look at this."
It's not a debt if the store refuses to complete the sale. If a customer attempts to buy something with cash, and the store refuses, is there any outstanding debt on behalf of the (potential) customer? Nope, not if they haven't actually bought anything yet.
"Hopefully our officers are putting the cell phones in a Faraday bag that is shielded, pulling the battery [out] and turning them off [before] getting them into the shielded laboratory."
The initial release looks like a pretty straight port of the native Windows Mobile version, warts and all. To understand some of the weaknesses, you need to understand that Opera Mini was originally just a Java (J2ME) application, and smooth, arbitrary zooming is not something that would have worked well. Thus the Opera Mini proxy sends both a zoomed-in and a zoomed-out version of the page that the browser can jump between to allow the user to zoom in and out, even if it's only two zoom levels. With the greater CPU and graphical power offered by porting the application to Windows Mobile and the iPhone OS, I don't doubt that we'll eventually see an update that simply uses the zoomed-in version of the page and scales it accordingly to implement zooming, but these two ports are relatively new, and the developers obviously haven't yet had a chance to spruce up the rendering beyond what the Java version does already.
In summary, I'd recommend putting it on your iPhone/iPod Touch so that you'll be informed when an update becomes available. I'd wager it will be improved significantly.
If I'm understanding it correctly, the "listening for calls" is handled by the separate radio hardware (called the "baseband" in an iPhone for whatever reason), which then sends a "wake up" signal to the phone when a call or message is received.
Now, using Exchange Activesync on my phone definitely reduces battery life, but I'm not sure if it's because of the TCP connection it has to leave open while sleeping, or all the times it has to wake up to either reestablish the connection (every 30 minutes or so, I believe), or sync with the mail server because something was just received.
Whatever the case may be, it seems like it would be trivially simple for the iPhone to tell the kernel's scheduler to suspend any user-installed applications when it goes to sleep, regardless of whether or not it's truly powered down.
I'm guessing it would be an optional feature, and when enabled, pressing the Home button will only switch back to the launcher without closing the program. Pressing and holding the Home button for a second or two could actually close it. I'd certainly like to have this capability on my iPod Touch, in any case. It would be great for momentarily jumping out of a game to look up some info, then coming back to it, or leaving AIM running (and many other scenarios, of course).
I've never understood the battery life argument. When I press the power button on my Windows Mobile phone, it goes to sleep, and if a program was running, well it'll just have to wait until the phone gets turned back on if it wants more CPU cycles. Why would the iPhone/iPod Touch be any different?
Anybody have a link to the Darnette Disposable Toilet commercial from SNL? It seems rather appropriate at the moment, and my cursory Google searching isn't turning up anything.
That would work great until the freeway entrance ramps became littered with corpses. There aren't a whole lot of other options for getting up to 70 mph in as little as 100 yards or so.
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Sure do. It's quite contrary to my previous Windows Mobile phone - you could just about watch the battery gauge drop while on a wireless LAN.
Nice try, but I'm not falling for that one.
It's built from a codebase that's from around 1995, when such concerns barely existed yet. And instead of building up something like UAC and privilege control, it looks like MS is just taking the easy way out and locking down the OS, which is kind of sad, considering extreme flexibility and relative open access is/was one of WM's (only?) major strengths.
Anybody that's ever administered GP will tell you that its security is a complete and utter joke. It's basically non-existent, or "security through obscurity" at best.
All users are granted full access to the data in SQL Server, and security restrictions are implemented entirely in the front-end application. There's no secure application tier whatsoever - just a client application connecting to a database that's being treated as a dumb shared persistence layer. I've used MS Access to create more secure applications than GP. (Little departmental things - nothing major.)
Anybody that you have set up with access to GP thus has the ability to download SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the database server using their GP credentials (it uses SQL Server logins), and carry out all manner of hell.
Finding out that they're also using shitty encryption increases my levels of surprise and disdain by roughly 0%. Any DBA that maintains GP databases will just shrug this off with, "Yeah, you think that's bad? Take a look at this."
It's not a debt if the store refuses to complete the sale. If a customer attempts to buy something with cash, and the store refuses, is there any outstanding debt on behalf of the (potential) customer? Nope, not if they haven't actually bought anything yet.
They have one, apparently.
Right then, you know the rules, into the paddy wagon.
...You could run Crysis on about half a ton of iodine?
This strikes me as the sort of disease where you'd want to stay away from phrases like "viral load".
[Insert sunglasses here]
YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
That could really take the wind out of their sails.
Try the fish.
"Who would want it? The defense rests."
I know. All that lead isn't just going to just ship itself to the US.
The initial release looks like a pretty straight port of the native Windows Mobile version, warts and all. To understand some of the weaknesses, you need to understand that Opera Mini was originally just a Java (J2ME) application, and smooth, arbitrary zooming is not something that would have worked well. Thus the Opera Mini proxy sends both a zoomed-in and a zoomed-out version of the page that the browser can jump between to allow the user to zoom in and out, even if it's only two zoom levels. With the greater CPU and graphical power offered by porting the application to Windows Mobile and the iPhone OS, I don't doubt that we'll eventually see an update that simply uses the zoomed-in version of the page and scales it accordingly to implement zooming, but these two ports are relatively new, and the developers obviously haven't yet had a chance to spruce up the rendering beyond what the Java version does already.
In summary, I'd recommend putting it on your iPhone/iPod Touch so that you'll be informed when an update becomes available. I'd wager it will be improved significantly.
Same here. I am/was seriously considering a Pre Plus when it lands on AT&T, allegedly in a few months. The OS looks fantastic.
Use 2pt white Arial Narrow, and you'll not only reduce your ink usage by nearly 100%, but you'll save on paper too.
If I'm understanding it correctly, the "listening for calls" is handled by the separate radio hardware (called the "baseband" in an iPhone for whatever reason), which then sends a "wake up" signal to the phone when a call or message is received.
Now, using Exchange Activesync on my phone definitely reduces battery life, but I'm not sure if it's because of the TCP connection it has to leave open while sleeping, or all the times it has to wake up to either reestablish the connection (every 30 minutes or so, I believe), or sync with the mail server because something was just received.
Whatever the case may be, it seems like it would be trivially simple for the iPhone to tell the kernel's scheduler to suspend any user-installed applications when it goes to sleep, regardless of whether or not it's truly powered down.
I'm guessing it would be an optional feature, and when enabled, pressing the Home button will only switch back to the launcher without closing the program. Pressing and holding the Home button for a second or two could actually close it. I'd certainly like to have this capability on my iPod Touch, in any case. It would be great for momentarily jumping out of a game to look up some info, then coming back to it, or leaving AIM running (and many other scenarios, of course).
I've never understood the battery life argument. When I press the power button on my Windows Mobile phone, it goes to sleep, and if a program was running, well it'll just have to wait until the phone gets turned back on if it wants more CPU cycles. Why would the iPhone/iPod Touch be any different?
Anybody have a link to the Darnette Disposable Toilet commercial from SNL? It seems rather appropriate at the moment, and my cursory Google searching isn't turning up anything.
In related news, something about hacking some email accounts as well.
It was my understanding that there would be no math.
That would work great until the freeway entrance ramps became littered with corpses. There aren't a whole lot of other options for getting up to 70 mph in as little as 100 yards or so.
Spoken like somebody that hasn't used an HP 48GX or 50G. ;)
The TI-89 is nice in terms of software, but that OS was never designed for a system without a QWERTY keyboard. The 92 is much nicer to use.
But I'd still rather have my HP!
Their Magic API sucks. I always get a bunch of invalid cast exceptions.
Time to buy Apple and short AT&T.