This particular Chinese phone is a GSM phone. Verizon couldn't allow it even if they wanted to. My phone is that anyone in the US can buy it & use it on any of the US GSM Networks.
Well, they can clone an iPhone or whatever. Already bugs and security holes are being found in iPhone. And AAPL would fix it and a security patch will be issued. Who is fixing bugs in the iClone? What if it lets people intercept the calls? Who is going to make the repairs? Suddenly when it dies with all your contacts and music and files, you think iChina is going to be there? Half the value AAPL provides is not in the iPhone.
Those Chinese can never do all these complicated stuff. It's only the great Steve & his merry men who could provide these patches & fixes etc. Also the Chinese phone is obviously rigged to allow the Chinese Govt to listen to all your secret phone calls. Of course, no one will ever be able to repair these phones if something goes wrong.
Also, maybe demons will fly out of the phone when you are talking on it.
US cell phone companies will have to recognize and allow the miniOne into their cellular networks.
What a dumb commnet. You could just get a SIM card from T-Mobile or any other GSM provider & plug into the phone. There is no absolutely no way, the provider will able be able to detect it or do anything about it.
Researchers find hole, Fanboi's defend Apple. Company can't be sure that they've fixed hole, so they temporarily disable the reportedly-vulnerable function. Fanboi's defend Apple again.
Thread through many mails in the thread archived at lkml.org. Overall, it looks like almost everyone feels that Linus's portrayal of Con is absolutely unfair. Linus seems to have made a decision & is then doing character attacks on Con to justify his decision. There is even one mail where he talks about Con's illness & says that it didn't help.
My personal opinion is that Linus comes out looking worse in this Linus vs Con debate.
Why not bite the bullet and go with an OSX type operating system? It'll be a bit painful but it'll cure a lot of the security woes
I don't see how just moving to an OSX type OS will cure security woes. For that you would need to also move to an OSX type fanboi base who can threaten security researchers.
Political message: ok, I understand that if you're living in a restricted country.
A good percentage of the internet users & slashdot readers are from the USA. So this is a very valid need what with the Patriot Act, and all the other stuff which the Supreme Dictator has changed.
I guess people outside the US should stop using all US software. Any piece of software can be used to own a machine to be part of Bush's world conquering plans.
The very last piece of software I would ever install on my own computers would be a Chinese or Russian anti-virus package. Sure, it may finger other viruses, but it might also allow free access to the "right" people.
Wow, the Chinese & Russian Govt are interested in accessing your computer. It's great to have such people posting on Slashdot. This is even better than Wil Wheaton posting here.
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Forget Linux, Java works much better on Windows than on Solaris.
I found Java on Solaris to be rather buggy.
The Chery QQ demonstrates more than just the skill of modern cloning. It also illustrates the danger.
I am a little scared now. Will the Chinese Cellphone I purchased kill me or maim me somehow?
My phone is that anyone in the US can buy it & use it on any of the US GSM Networks.
Meant to write "My point is that anyone in the US can buy it & use it on any of the US GSM Networks."
This particular Chinese phone is a GSM phone. Verizon couldn't allow it even if they
wanted to.
My phone is that anyone in the US can buy it & use it on any of the US GSM Networks.
Well, they can clone an iPhone or whatever. Already bugs and security holes are being found in iPhone. And AAPL would fix it and a security patch will be issued. Who is fixing bugs in the iClone? What if it lets people intercept the calls? Who is going to make the repairs? Suddenly when it dies with all your contacts and music and files, you think iChina is going to be there? Half the value AAPL provides is not in the iPhone.
Those Chinese can never do all these complicated stuff. It's only the great Steve & his merry men who
could provide these patches & fixes etc.
Also the Chinese phone is obviously rigged to allow the Chinese Govt to listen to all your secret
phone calls.
Of course, no one will ever be able to repair these phones if something goes wrong.
Also, maybe demons will fly out of the phone when you are talking on it.
This looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
LG will now have to sue both Apple & the Chinese
company for copying their touch screen phone.
US cell phone companies will have to recognize and allow the miniOne into their cellular networks.
What a dumb commnet. You could just get a SIM card from T-Mobile or any other GSM provider & plug into
the phone. There is no absolutely no way, the provider will able be able to detect it or do anything about
it.
Open Source may be an excellent model for developing software,
but I don't think it's a good business model.
As & when more Open Source businesses become a little
successfull, we will surely see some of them do what MySQL
has done.
What about the NokiaE70 (this
links to Maddox's comparison between E70 & IPhone.
Researchers find hole, Fanboi's defend Apple. Company can't be sure that they've fixed hole, so they temporarily disable the reportedly-vulnerable function. Fanboi's defend Apple again.
Then Fanboi's go and mod me down to obscurity.
Frankie's theorem
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Anybody who knows what or who is Bayes' theorem is very
unlike to have much sex
Anyone writing or maintaining command line programs knows that they
should be using the API getopt() or getopt_long().
There is no getopt or getopt_long in the C or C++ standard.
Will Fanboi's issue death threats against those who go against the will of Steve Jobs?
Con should have sucked it up and worked harder on his scheduler.
And what would have been his reward for that.
Thread through many mails in the thread archived at lkml.org.
Overall, it looks like almost everyone feels that Linus's
portrayal of Con is absolutely unfair. Linus seems to have
made a decision & is then doing character attacks on Con
to justify his decision. There is even one mail where he
talks about Con's illness & says that it didn't help.
My personal opinion is that Linus comes out looking worse
in this Linus vs Con debate.
Here
Why not bite the bullet and go with an OSX type operating system? It'll be a bit painful but it'll cure a lot of the security woes
I don't see how just moving to an OSX type OS will cure security woes.
For that you would need to also move to an OSX type fanboi base who can
threaten security researchers.
Really, who uses hotmail anymore?
As per this report
more people use Hotmail than Gmail.
Who found the bug? Can we commision a hit on him?
Ok, I take that back. Forgot this is Firefox, not Safari.
Political message: ok, I understand that if you're living in a restricted country.
A good percentage of the internet users & slashdot readers are
from the USA. So this is a very valid need what with the Patriot
Act, and all the other stuff which the Supreme Dictator has
changed.
Apple betters Microsoft once more.
Dispatch Tuesday is so much cooler than Patch Tuesday.
From the dictionary
Dispatch == To put to death summarily.
I guess people outside the US should stop using all US software.
Any piece of software can be used to own a machine to be part of
Bush's world conquering plans.
The very last piece of software I would ever install on my own computers would be a Chinese or Russian anti-virus package. Sure, it may finger other viruses, but it might also allow free access to the "right" people.
Wow, the Chinese & Russian Govt are interested in accessing your
computer. It's great to have such people posting on Slashdot.
This is even better than Wil Wheaton posting here.
I don't think this is so much an Apple issue as it's an electronics issue.
Hello Fanboi - how are you doing today?
Apple - What overpriced stuff can we sell you today?
Soldered Battery - what kind of moron thought of that?