They seem to all add this stuff in lockstep though, so there doesn't seem to be a way to vote with your feet on some things short of the nuclear option. If the advertising networks demand it, you're not really going to get some app deciding to buck the trend to get more downloads if it means they lose all their ads. There are so many monopolies, duopolies, and cartels (RIAA/MPAA) upstream of the consumer these days that competitive pressures aren't doing what they should.
I've seen more and more apps adding "Change Wi-Fi State" permissions, and i wondered why that was. I assume they do it because otherwise you can install the app, but then turn off GPS and/or coarse GPS system-wide and they get nothing. This way they can get it regardless.
I actually uninstalled Pandora when I saw that it had access to my contacts and calendar. I think that would have stuck out to me when I installed it, but I think it came pre-installed on my phone. A month later they updated it, and I saw that crazy list of permissions and uninstalled it
It looks like you're overstating that quite a bit, from that Wikipedia link you posted:
Inactive telephones
In the U.S., FCC rules require every telephone that can access the network to be able to dial 9-1-1, regardless of any reason that normal service may have been disconnected (including non-payment) (This only applies to states with a Do Not Disconnect policy in place. Those states must provide a "soft" dial tone service, details can be found at http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/IAD/pntris99.pdf)
if you read the PDF you see that the states without Do Not Disconnect policies outnumber the ones with them 32 to 18.
It is definitely subjective, and how that subjectivity translates to ticket sales is the point of this article. If they had titled this article "Hollywood isn't going to pay more money to make a movie than they can possibly make back selling tickets", we'd all just say "that makes sense." Fantasy is a niche, and R-Rated movies are a niche (and not one that overlaps well). It just happens that a niche-of-a-niche is not enough of a market to justify the $100M+ budgets that fantasy movies are carrying these days
What you could do, perhaps, is store all the originals (including folders) in a single universal folder as a globally-unique identifier
Windows Explorer (and maybe other file browsers) can actually have problems opening folders that have too many items in them, since the time it takes to display the items seems to increase non-linearly. That bleeds over to the file-save dialog when you try to save new items into the folder too
I've thought of putting together something that will encode tags into the folder heirarchy, so that something with the tags "programming" and "Python" will end up in/programming/Python/ and something tagged "programming" and "Ruby" would end up in/programming/Ruby/ (the tags are ordered alphabetically so that the files don't get split between this and/Python/programming/). That would make the list of tags and their assignments easily discoverable from walking the directory tree in the event that you lost your tag database, but saved the actual tree of items. And it should also do a good job of splitting things up, so that hopefully no single folder is packed with items. The biggest problem would be the need for a custom navigator, so that when you search on "Perl" it is able to look in multiple places like/examples/Perl/ and/programming/Perl/ and if you search on "programming" it can list the contents of/programming/Python/ and/programming/Ruby/ and any other subdirectory of programming.
All we have to do is add a fake entry into the database describing how killing all humans wouldn't work, and they'll assume that lesson was already learned
Google's 24-hour refund policy, and Apple's lack of it, has a lot to do with my buying habits. I've returned a few things to Google's market, but with Apple it's impossible.
The refund period is now 15 minutes though which is sometimes barely enough time to download and try it. I understand that they don't want someone to download an app for one-time use and then take a refund, but I've had apps that failed to download the first try and the second try would have been outside the 15-minute window
Netflix is the obvious first example of a missing app on Android, but honestly the gap in quality in just simple games is the most frustrating thing to me (iPhone owner for 3 years, Samsung Tab owner for 2 months, Nexus S owner for 1 week). I wish developers like Pop Cap would bring their games to Android, but they're taking their sweet time. I'm not even talking about fantastically powerful games like Infinity Blade or the latest ID whatchamacalit, just simple puzzle/tower-defense/match-3 type games on Android can be pretty rough.
I think the real problem with Android might be that the users are not as likely to open their wallets, and so developers don't see as much reason to make Android apps. If nothing else Apple is really good at making it easy and seductive to throw down a couple bucks on an app. Ultimately it seems like the strongest voices in the Apple community are marketers (including Apple themselves), and the strongest forces in Android are do-it-yourselfers and modders who would rather write their own unpolished game than pay someone else for a polished one.
Two things that I think would be huge would be support for gifting apps and gift cards, because they both make it easy for people to buy apps for friends and they just build the market in general. The fact that they were missing those two items during the most recent Christmas season seems like a huge oversight to me.
I also suspect they've found the entire exercise to be awkward, exhausting (and not in the good way), inconvenient to arrange around all the monitoring that's done, difficult to keep private in those cramped quarters, and generally an awful lot of work for a lot less reward than you'd expect.
Most of those statements could be made about "The Mile High Club" and yet people do it just to say that they've done it.
He should have quoted more of the story, because it wasn't brightness or volume that was the issue:
The pair, according to police, had knowledge of a software glitch in one of the high-bet slot machines. In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. Such perks aren't unusual for high-rollers, who can wager anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars in one day.
One Meadows employee, who was not criminally charged or accused of wrongdoing, agreed to enable the double-up feature on the machine with the glitch.
Normally, such a feature would allow a player to risk doubling his winnings or potentially losing them all. The double-up feature isn't usually enabled on the machines in part because it's unpopular with most gamblers, who are unwilling to risk large amounts of money.
Read the story and you'll see that there's a lot more to it then just his preferences. For instance he was using a third-party to cash in winnings that he knew would raise eyebrows.
There are lots of diseases that can't be pinned to a cause, and no one's happy about that. What's more important here is that medical science can say what can happen to kids without vaccinations and they have tested the safety of the vaccinations, but people are ignoring that
It will also be tested by Apple before they allow it on the app store.
"I finished my app, but they won't let me sell it" is not a feature from the developer's point of view. And I doubt most companies would let Apple's submission process be any kind of replacement for their own testing process because A. it's not going to be as thorough as you'd want and B. test failures may or may not require a new submission meaning you'd have a really slow turn-around
They're not "moving" to anything since they're still showing ads. They're charging subscription fees to cable companies because they can, because they know that the cable company would rather not have to tell their own subscribers that they need to watch their regular channels with an antenna. And they'd do it whether they lost money or made money, because they see money on the table and they're grabbing it.
The point is that when someone steals 1.5 million passwords from Gawker, the hacker is more likely to spend the.1 seconds per account hacking the people that used the exact same password on every site than he is to spend 10 minutes looking at any one person's email address and password to try to divine how it could be changed to make a different password on other sites. This is "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" principle that underlies a lot of security decisions, but you're right that it doesn't help you much if someone is deliberately targeting you.
The recent Gawker hack where the entire username/password table was leaked is exactly the kind of "unrealistic attack" that you're calling "practically impossible to pull off". You don't need physical access to the system with the passwords, you just need a copy of the encypted passwords from the system to be moved onto a system that you have physical access to.
Want to try yourself? Ok fire up your favourite rainbow table program and have a go at this: f01889f696f2b20192b8ba7522481a98. I'll even give you the parameters: It is an MD5 hash, no salt, the password is an English phrase, any human can read it no problem. It is more than 20 but less than 30 characters in length.
I can't believe you use BeSureToDrinkYourOvaltine as a password
I think you're intending this as a way to secure the password to one really important site, but I wanted to point out that this solution still breaks down when 140 different websites require their own credentials (where the guy with the Ferrari key starts to look like a building superintendent). You'd need either a separate laminated password portion for every site, or a separate memorized portion for every site, or some mixed-in factor that is based on the site to combine with the other two pieces. And after all that you still end up with problems like one of the other posts on this thread mentions: some sites have arbitrary requirements like "the password has to be 8-12 characters" that kill a 14-character password scheme.
Unfortunately the requirements "easy to remember" and "not trivial to guess" are somewhat at odds, and the tension between "different for every account" and "not written down" just adds to the overall problem
The insurance companies DO have to cover a lot of people who either didn't have coverage, couldn't get coverage, or were no longer on their parents plans (but now can be). I really don't see how this is debatable?
The insurance companies love covering a lot of the new people, because most of them are young and won't need much in the way of services. There are definitely a lot of people who wanted to buy and use insurance in the past who now will be able to. But there were even more people who didn't buy insurance because they didn't use the services enough and were willing to take the risk of not having it. Those people will have to buy it now or a penalty will cost them enough money that economically they would have been better off buying it.
It should also be obvious that the passage of this bill offered the perfect excuse for insurance companies to raise their rates and pass off blame to someone else. The number of things that have changed in health care due to this law (lifetime caps, pre-existing conditions, no copay on yearly physicals) doesn't necessitate a 20-30% increase.
He's a male model that no one has ever heard of. I'm sure he's doing this to get the publicity that can get him out of the business of selling hot coffee (or "hot coffee")
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They seem to all add this stuff in lockstep though, so there doesn't seem to be a way to vote with your feet on some things short of the nuclear option. If the advertising networks demand it, you're not really going to get some app deciding to buck the trend to get more downloads if it means they lose all their ads. There are so many monopolies, duopolies, and cartels (RIAA/MPAA) upstream of the consumer these days that competitive pressures aren't doing what they should.
I've seen more and more apps adding "Change Wi-Fi State" permissions, and i wondered why that was. I assume they do it because otherwise you can install the app, but then turn off GPS and/or coarse GPS system-wide and they get nothing. This way they can get it regardless.
I actually uninstalled Pandora when I saw that it had access to my contacts and calendar. I think that would have stuck out to me when I installed it, but I think it came pre-installed on my phone. A month later they updated it, and I saw that crazy list of permissions and uninstalled it
if you read the PDF you see that the states without Do Not Disconnect policies outnumber the ones with them 32 to 18.
It is definitely subjective, and how that subjectivity translates to ticket sales is the point of this article. If they had titled this article "Hollywood isn't going to pay more money to make a movie than they can possibly make back selling tickets", we'd all just say "that makes sense." Fantasy is a niche, and R-Rated movies are a niche (and not one that overlaps well). It just happens that a niche-of-a-niche is not enough of a market to justify the $100M+ budgets that fantasy movies are carrying these days
What you could do, perhaps, is store all the originals (including folders) in a single universal folder as a globally-unique identifier
Windows Explorer (and maybe other file browsers) can actually have problems opening folders that have too many items in them, since the time it takes to display the items seems to increase non-linearly. That bleeds over to the file-save dialog when you try to save new items into the folder too
I've thought of putting together something that will encode tags into the folder heirarchy, so that something with the tags "programming" and "Python" will end up in /programming/Python/ and something tagged "programming" and "Ruby" would end up in /programming/Ruby/ (the tags are ordered alphabetically so that the files don't get split between this and /Python/programming/). That would make the list of tags and their assignments easily discoverable from walking the directory tree in the event that you lost your tag database, but saved the actual tree of items. And it should also do a good job of splitting things up, so that hopefully no single folder is packed with items. The biggest problem would be the need for a custom navigator, so that when you search on "Perl" it is able to look in multiple places like /examples/Perl/ and /programming/Perl/ and if you search on "programming" it can list the contents of /programming/Python/ and /programming/Ruby/ and any other subdirectory of programming.
This is about new routers. It's right in the summary
He says right in that post that she was using Lithium and stopped, though he doesn't say if she stopped before or after he filed for divorce
All we have to do is add a fake entry into the database describing how killing all humans wouldn't work, and they'll assume that lesson was already learned
Google's 24-hour refund policy, and Apple's lack of it, has a lot to do with my buying habits. I've returned a few things to Google's market, but with Apple it's impossible.
The refund period is now 15 minutes though which is sometimes barely enough time to download and try it. I understand that they don't want someone to download an app for one-time use and then take a refund, but I've had apps that failed to download the first try and the second try would have been outside the 15-minute window
Netflix is the obvious first example of a missing app on Android, but honestly the gap in quality in just simple games is the most frustrating thing to me (iPhone owner for 3 years, Samsung Tab owner for 2 months, Nexus S owner for 1 week). I wish developers like Pop Cap would bring their games to Android, but they're taking their sweet time. I'm not even talking about fantastically powerful games like Infinity Blade or the latest ID whatchamacalit, just simple puzzle/tower-defense/match-3 type games on Android can be pretty rough.
I think the real problem with Android might be that the users are not as likely to open their wallets, and so developers don't see as much reason to make Android apps. If nothing else Apple is really good at making it easy and seductive to throw down a couple bucks on an app. Ultimately it seems like the strongest voices in the Apple community are marketers (including Apple themselves), and the strongest forces in Android are do-it-yourselfers and modders who would rather write their own unpolished game than pay someone else for a polished one.
Two things that I think would be huge would be support for gifting apps and gift cards, because they both make it easy for people to buy apps for friends and they just build the market in general. The fact that they were missing those two items during the most recent Christmas season seems like a huge oversight to me.
I also suspect they've found the entire exercise to be awkward, exhausting (and not in the good way), inconvenient to arrange around all the monitoring that's done, difficult to keep private in those cramped quarters, and generally an awful lot of work for a lot less reward than you'd expect.
Most of those statements could be made about "The Mile High Club" and yet people do it just to say that they've done it.
luckily in the US they don't look at your credit rating when you buy a house, or so two years worth of news reports would have me believe
The pair, according to police, had knowledge of a software glitch in one of the high-bet slot machines. In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. Such perks aren't unusual for high-rollers, who can wager anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of dollars in one day.
One Meadows employee, who was not criminally charged or accused of wrongdoing, agreed to enable the double-up feature on the machine with the glitch.
Normally, such a feature would allow a player to risk doubling his winnings or potentially losing them all. The double-up feature isn't usually enabled on the machines in part because it's unpopular with most gamblers, who are unwilling to risk large amounts of money.
Read the story and you'll see that there's a lot more to it then just his preferences. For instance he was using a third-party to cash in winnings that he knew would raise eyebrows.
There are lots of diseases that can't be pinned to a cause, and no one's happy about that. What's more important here is that medical science can say what can happen to kids without vaccinations and they have tested the safety of the vaccinations, but people are ignoring that
wait, an unelected body is your paragon of representative democracy?
It will also be tested by Apple before they allow it on the app store.
"I finished my app, but they won't let me sell it" is not a feature from the developer's point of view. And I doubt most companies would let Apple's submission process be any kind of replacement for their own testing process because A. it's not going to be as thorough as you'd want and B. test failures may or may not require a new submission meaning you'd have a really slow turn-around
Even Lynx is too 'modern'. Check this exploit: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2042
This is exactly why I manually telnet to each website's port and issue GET requests directly
They're not "moving" to anything since they're still showing ads. They're charging subscription fees to cable companies because they can, because they know that the cable company would rather not have to tell their own subscribers that they need to watch their regular channels with an antenna. And they'd do it whether they lost money or made money, because they see money on the table and they're grabbing it.
The point is that when someone steals 1.5 million passwords from Gawker, the hacker is more likely to spend the .1 seconds per account hacking the people that used the exact same password on every site than he is to spend 10 minutes looking at any one person's email address and password to try to divine how it could be changed to make a different password on other sites. This is "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" principle that underlies a lot of security decisions, but you're right that it doesn't help you much if someone is deliberately targeting you.
The recent Gawker hack where the entire username/password table was leaked is exactly the kind of "unrealistic attack" that you're calling "practically impossible to pull off". You don't need physical access to the system with the passwords, you just need a copy of the encypted passwords from the system to be moved onto a system that you have physical access to.
Want to try yourself? Ok fire up your favourite rainbow table program and have a go at this: f01889f696f2b20192b8ba7522481a98. I'll even give you the parameters: It is an MD5 hash, no salt, the password is an English phrase, any human can read it no problem. It is more than 20 but less than 30 characters in length.
I can't believe you use BeSureToDrinkYourOvaltine as a password
I think you're intending this as a way to secure the password to one really important site, but I wanted to point out that this solution still breaks down when 140 different websites require their own credentials (where the guy with the Ferrari key starts to look like a building superintendent). You'd need either a separate laminated password portion for every site, or a separate memorized portion for every site, or some mixed-in factor that is based on the site to combine with the other two pieces. And after all that you still end up with problems like one of the other posts on this thread mentions: some sites have arbitrary requirements like "the password has to be 8-12 characters" that kill a 14-character password scheme.
Unfortunately the requirements "easy to remember" and "not trivial to guess" are somewhat at odds, and the tension between "different for every account" and "not written down" just adds to the overall problem
The insurance companies DO have to cover a lot of people who either didn't have coverage, couldn't get coverage, or were no longer on their parents plans (but now can be). I really don't see how this is debatable?
The insurance companies love covering a lot of the new people, because most of them are young and won't need much in the way of services. There are definitely a lot of people who wanted to buy and use insurance in the past who now will be able to. But there were even more people who didn't buy insurance because they didn't use the services enough and were willing to take the risk of not having it. Those people will have to buy it now or a penalty will cost them enough money that economically they would have been better off buying it.
It should also be obvious that the passage of this bill offered the perfect excuse for insurance companies to raise their rates and pass off blame to someone else. The number of things that have changed in health care due to this law (lifetime caps, pre-existing conditions, no copay on yearly physicals) doesn't necessitate a 20-30% increase.
He's a male model that no one has ever heard of. I'm sure he's doing this to get the publicity that can get him out of the business of selling hot coffee (or "hot coffee")