This is like someone playing around with the electrics of their car, and modifying it in such a way that plugging in the manufacturer's test equipment will explode it.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act states that Apple cannot void a warranty for a product with third-party enhancements or modifications to their product. The only exception to this rule is if Apple can determine that the modification or enhancement is responsible damaging the product in question.
So the big question is indeed the supposed damage, and I haven't seen a single piece of evidence anywhere that the phone Apple is bricking were damaged, and what that damage was, before the upgrade. We only have Apple word for it so far.
Behind curtain A is a computer running Mac OS X, it can make voice calls (through voip), and it has third party software installed.
Behind curtain B is a computer running Mac OS X, it can make voice calls (through gsm), and it has third party software installed.
Apple argues that, because of the third party software, it can brick one of these computers. What's to stop them from bricking both, with that argument? It can't be because of differences in the hardware, because that isn't theirs anymore. I bought it, it's mine.
Apple has demonstrated it cannot be trusted anymore. A few short weeks ago people were all over Microsoft when they installed software without your knowledge that turns out to have broken some installations. This is worse, since the "breaking" is intentional.
Every single smaller advertiser I know that has attempted to get some money through advertising for google had their account yanked a few weeks before it reached the point where google actually had to pay something. Every single one. And always without any way to challenge the yanking, as in "we detected click-fraud and YOU have to prove we're wrong, but we won't show you anything that may help you".
It isn't a question of doing a key-exchange, it's a question of authentication. I'd probably go for getting a checksum from a https:/// page. Verify the certificate of the server, and you've got a valid checksum to use. The ISP would then have to pretend to be your https server to break this.
make a package that can be used as a simple drop-in to a website to detect this. If enough websites implement something that alerts users that the webpage was altered, isp will be forced to stop doing this.
Probably not - the last years I've discovered my music collection from before my boycott is big enough to last me a lifetime. Just put it on "random shuffle" on my iPod and I'm pretty sure I'll hear music I like and haven't heard in a while. Although I still like the sound of new stuff every now and then I've lost the need to acquire it for myself. I would not have known this without the boycott, so the labels have themselves to blame for this.
Officemax/Staples/CompUSA/etc sometimes have inkjets for $30 w/ a $30 mail-in rebate. Just buy a new printer, and when the initial cartridge runs out, toss the printer and get a new one.
Approximately 70,000 dogs and cats are born in the U.S. each day, or 25,567,500 each year. Of these, roughly 54%, or 13,806,450, are cats. Since 34.5% of cats don't live to see their first birthday, we can assume that about 4,763,225 kittens die each year in the United States alone. We'll take for granted that God in His divine Wisdom purposely smote each of these kittens.
Let's assume that the idiom is talking only about male masturbation. Let's further assume, highly conservatively, that males do not start masturbating until they reach age 15. Of the total U.S. male population, 107,199,356 would then be masturbation-age males. Again, let's conservatively estimate that teenagers masturbate no more frequently than adults, and that all men masturbate an average of 20 times each month or 240 times per year. This means that each man in the United States masturbates approximately every 1.5 days. It also means that there are approximately 25,727,845,440 male masturbation sessions in the United States each year.
There are nearly 26 billion male masturbation sessions in the U.S., yet there are fewer than five million kitten deaths annually. Far from a one-to-one correlation, there are 5401.5 masturbation sessions for every single kitten death. This means that the average American man can masturbate regularly for 22.5 years before he is responsible for the death of a single kitten. Indeed, with a life expectancy of less than 75 years, the average man will be responsible for only two or three kitten deaths in a lifetime of vigorous masturbation.
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Sounds like the same one Dilbert is using.
Good luck with your exam tomorrow. Best way to "show them" is to ace it. Go for it!
Of course they're not doing it permanently, that way there would be no fund raising on this issue in four years.
This is like someone playing around with the electrics of their car, and modifying it in such a way that plugging in the manufacturer's test equipment will explode it.
The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act states that Apple cannot void a warranty for a product with third-party enhancements or modifications to their product. The only exception to this rule is if Apple can determine that the modification or enhancement is responsible damaging the product in question.
So the big question is indeed the supposed damage, and I haven't seen a single piece of evidence anywhere that the phone Apple is bricking were damaged, and what that damage was, before the upgrade. We only have Apple word for it so far.
As far as I know, the "bricking" is only affecting people who have unlocked--either via hardware or software--their phones to work on other carriers
Unfortunately, that's not true, they're also bricking AT&T customers who didn't sim-unlock their sets.
"The installation of third party software" is the stated reason for the bricking they do.
I'm glad to see we agree that this is unacceptable.
So if Apple announced they were going to brick MacBooks, you'd be fine with that?
Behind curtain A is a computer running Mac OS X, it can make voice calls (through voip), and it has third party software installed.
Behind curtain B is a computer running Mac OS X, it can make voice calls (through gsm), and it has third party software installed.
Apple argues that, because of the third party software, it can brick one of these computers. What's to stop them from bricking both, with that argument? It can't be because of differences in the hardware, because that isn't theirs anymore. I bought it, it's mine.
Apple has demonstrated it cannot be trusted anymore. A few short weeks ago people were all over Microsoft when they installed software without your knowledge that turns out to have broken some installations. This is worse, since the "breaking" is intentional.
Every single smaller advertiser I know that has attempted to get some money through advertising for google had their account yanked a few weeks before it reached the point where google actually had to pay something. Every single one. And always without any way to challenge the yanking, as in "we detected click-fraud and YOU have to prove we're wrong, but we won't show you anything that may help you".
Guess who's permanently in my adblock filter?
The average price of the top ten CDs on Amazon (the nation's #1 music retailer, apparently) is $10.28.
Okay, I must be in the wrong country. The average price on amazon.co.uk is 8.95 pound, which is just about $18.
The proper solution, adding integrity checking to all HTTP, seems like its not happening.
True.
Sad, but true.
It isn't a question of doing a key-exchange, it's a question of authentication. I'd probably go for getting a checksum from a https:/// page. Verify the certificate of the server, and you've got a valid checksum to use. The ISP would then have to pretend to be your https server to break this.
That is a war that this package will win - probably with some cryptographic checks in version 2.0.
make a package that can be used as a simple drop-in to a website to detect this. If enough websites implement something that alerts users that the webpage was altered, isp will be forced to stop doing this.
I live in the EU too, so I should know :-)
of course - how else did I get to be a cynical bastard on things like this?
The EU has no constitution.
The cynical bastard in me thinks this sounds like they're about to sneak this legislation in as an attachment to some goat herders bill or something.
Probably not - the last years I've discovered my music collection from before my boycott is big enough to last me a lifetime. Just put it on "random shuffle" on my iPod and I'm pretty sure I'll hear music I like and haven't heard in a while. Although I still like the sound of new stuff every now and then I've lost the need to acquire it for myself. I would not have known this without the boycott, so the labels have themselves to blame for this.
Adapt or die. Soon the number of non-microsoft stuff exceeds the number you can ignore or brush off.
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. "
Officemax/Staples/CompUSA/etc sometimes have inkjets for $30 w/ a $30 mail-in rebate. Just buy a new printer, and when the initial cartridge runs out, toss the printer and get a new one.
You do realize it is 'Earth day' today, right?
Are you assuming only americans masturbate?
Let's assume that the idiom is talking only about male masturbation. Let's further assume, highly conservatively, that males do not start masturbating until they reach age 15. Of the total U.S. male population, 107,199,356 would then be masturbation-age males. Again, let's conservatively estimate that teenagers masturbate no more frequently than adults, and that all men masturbate an average of 20 times each month or 240 times per year. This means that each man in the United States masturbates approximately every 1.5 days. It also means that there are approximately 25,727,845,440 male masturbation sessions in the United States each year.
There are nearly 26 billion male masturbation sessions in the U.S., yet there are fewer than five million kitten deaths annually. Far from a one-to-one correlation, there are 5401.5 masturbation sessions for every single kitten death. This means that the average American man can masturbate regularly for 22.5 years before he is responsible for the death of a single kitten. Indeed, with a life expectancy of less than 75 years, the average man will be responsible for only two or three kitten deaths in a lifetime of vigorous masturbation.
and "politics" comes from the word "poli" meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsucking parasites...