Isn't that exactly what the original poster said? No.
He said:
for the purpose of charging for services.
That's not what the IMEI is used for. The IMSI is tied to your account. You can put your SIM card in another GSM phone and it should work (assuming the other phone is not SIM locked).
All you need to do is write out your seczone (0xA003FA000), TEA encrypt a nice Motorola RAZR IMEI number at offset 0xB00, and write it back to your NOR...and voila...your iPhone now looks like a Motorola RAZR.
Would you try that and let us know if your visual voicemail and widgets still work? Thanks!
(That seems like a really bad idea. Maybe substitute a fake iPhone IMEI, but not a RAZR one).
Saying that they are 'tracking' you implies that they know where you are or how much you are using your phone. Certainly, AT&T (or whatever carrier you use) tracks you; they know what cell tower(s) you are near and they track your usage (re: the mega-page bills some iPhone users got initially).
But sending the IMEI is not 'proof' of Apple tracking you or tracking your usage. OK, they know when you run the Stocks or Weather widget, but that's hardly 'usage'. And there is not evidence that they send any info about your location, either.
Another poster mentioned that this is probably so the server can show you the stocks you've selected previously in the absence of cookies. That seems logical to me.
If it helps with signal jamming, I want it integrated into my cell phone! What do you mean it doesn't have commercial viability? Hopefully it won't go active when you receive a call while your phone is in your pocket!
First, when the GPS unit itself calculates the speed, it records your instantaneous velocity, not an average. It calculates this using the doppler shift present in the GPS signals picked up by the unit, not from how far the unit has travelled.
No, the speed is neither an instantaneous speed nor a simple average. It's most likely the speed estimate that falls out of the Kalman Filter used in the GPS receiver.
GPS receivers use Doppler to track the signal being received from the SVs; but that is the Doppler from the relative velocity between each of the SVs and the GPS receiver.
... would cause snprintf to double-interpolate the string and start looking for a %i off the end of the variadic arguments? I guess a different way to word it would be: If snprintf runs across a %s in the format string, would it also evaluate format specifiers within the spring that was passed to it?
Hmm, so why does the man page for snprintf say this?
The snprintf() and vsnprintf() functions will write at most size-1 of the
characters printed into the output string (the size'th character then
gets the terminating `\0'); if the return value is greater than or equal
to the size argument, the string was too short and some of the printed
characters were discarded. The output is always null-terminated.
I think you're confusing snprintf() behavior with that of strncpy(), which does as you say.
I'm sure some bright spot will be able to explain it away. How now they have a new technology that can do it faster, cheaper and better than ever before-- and yet somehow, in the end, it will translate to more cost to the consumer.
No, I don't think so. I'm sure I agreed to some vague stuff in the contract. But they apparently still had to get consent specifically for this. From the VZWL web site:
Q2. Why does Verizon Wireless need my consent?
A. Verizon Wireless needs to share your CPNI with our affiliates, agents and parent companies in order to better provide to you the full range of the Verizon Companies' communications related products and services. The Federal Communications Commission requires that we obtain your consent to do so.
Opt-out for this kind of thing should be illegal. I should have to opt-in to allow this, but of course few people would so it might not be worth it to the companies. Which is why they use opt-out.
I've been tempted to buy a Mac, but I game - and for the cost of a 17" Imac with pretty crappy video, I recently built a Core2 Quad 2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 500gb disk, Geforce 8800GTS, etc.
Where are you pricing a 17" iMac, eBay? Apple currently makes 20" and 24" iMacs.
I once wrote a AN/UYK-20 assembly to pseudocode generator in Pascal.
I wrote a reverse assembler in Pascal for a Computer Automation mini (don't remember the model). It's been so long since I used Pascal, I'm not sure I'd know where to BEGIN:-).
They died because they knew what the customer needed. NOT what the customer actually wanted, but what they thought the customer should have. DEC was a bunch of business dumb asses run by arrogant engineers who thought that they knew better. Period.
If you listen to the article, he says that sucrose (table sugar) is 50% fructose. HFCS used in soft drinks is 55% fructose. So sugar has just about the same amount of fructose as HFCS.
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He said:
for the purpose of charging for services.That's not what the IMEI is used for. The IMSI is tied to your account. You can put your SIM card in another GSM phone and it should work (assuming the other phone is not SIM locked).
Would you try that and let us know if your visual voicemail and widgets still work? Thanks!
(That seems like a really bad idea. Maybe substitute a fake iPhone IMEI, but not a RAZR one).
No, that would be the IMSI. The IMEI just identifies what equipment you are using.
But sending the IMEI is not 'proof' of Apple tracking you or tracking your usage. OK, they know when you run the Stocks or Weather widget, but that's hardly 'usage'. And there is not evidence that they send any info about your location, either.
Another poster mentioned that this is probably so the server can show you the stocks you've selected previously in the absence of cookies. That seems logical to me.
Just try stopping one of those 5000 lb behemoths. (yes, I read the summary).
GPS receivers use Doppler to track the signal being received from the SVs; but that is the Doppler from the relative velocity between each of the SVs and the GPS receiver.
(I used to work on a military GPS system.)
Wait... ever Linux box I've ever seen has 'more' on it, although I prefer 'less'. :-)
(I can't believe that no one beat me to that!)
... would cause snprintf to double-interpolate the string and start looking for a %i off the end of the variadic arguments? I guess a different way to word it would be: If snprintf runs across a %s in the format string, would it also evaluate format specifiers within the spring that was passed to it?No, what it's saying is; don't do this:
The format string will have a %s in it, but has no params following it. (Assuming that str1 would actually be passed in from elsewhere).
The *printf functions will only evaluate the format string, not any specifiers that happen to appear in the params following:
will print out:No, not really.
It's always a good idea to take programming advice from a random Slashdot poster; much easier than actually reading the documentation on a function.
I think you're confusing snprintf() behavior with that of strncpy(), which does as you say.
3 words: Patent License Fees
A. Verizon Wireless needs to share your CPNI with our affiliates, agents and parent companies in order to better provide to you the full range of the Verizon Companies' communications related products and services. The Federal Communications Commission requires that we obtain your consent to do so.
Opt-out for this kind of thing should be illegal. I should have to opt-in to allow this, but of course few people would so it might not be worth it to the companies. Which is why they use opt-out.
Where are you pricing a 17" iMac, eBay? Apple currently makes 20" and 24" iMacs.
I wrote a reverse assembler in Pascal for a Computer Automation mini (don't remember the model). It's been so long since I used Pascal, I'm not sure I'd know where to BEGIN :-).
My bank (credit union, actually) is doing a major system upgrade over the long weekend. Maybe something like that is causing PP problems?
TSNF.
That is a pseudonym; his real name is I. P. Freely
How about Gnufoundland?
I think they've already been dropping them, 'cause I've got one that just died!
This seems appropriate...
Exactly, so why would he make a public statement until the problem was resolved?
If you listen to the article, he says that sucrose (table sugar) is 50% fructose. HFCS used in soft drinks is 55% fructose. So sugar has just about the same amount of fructose as HFCS.
iPhone syncs your contacts and calendar whenever you connect iPhone to your computer.