Maybe it's not new for us, but it's new for the platform and developers that get tricked by such a simple hack should be ashamed of themselves. I think that's enough merit for an 11 year old to be getting some sort of reward for their discovery. Taking this initiative and actively hosting a contest this year so kids get an idea about IT security, not to mention all the grown ups that get to hear about it too, is way more valuable than "we did that years ago on the platforms we used as kids".
To be honest, it didn't sell before the windows phone 8 announcement and the fact that there wouldn't be upgrades available. The announcement didn't exactly help sales, but Lumia was dead in the water long before that.
80: MMS works with an SMS that gives you the URL to a website containing the actual MMS content. So, given the fact that GPRS is really outdated, 3G will be used to fetch that message. That is not something in Windows Phone, but in the (lame) protocol.
86: Android up to 2.3.6 doesn't have that either. I agree, it's stupid for a phone this day and age, but MicroSoft isn't alone in being that stupid. Over 50% of android phones in use now lack this feature, even though there has been plenty of request for it throughout the years.
Out over 100+ complaints, not bad that I can only comment on two and invalidate only one. Or actually, rather bad for MicroSoft and Nokia
Not really. The bar will sell you any type, brand and taste of beer that the Heineken breweries produce, if they have it on stock. No beers by competing or microbreweries, since that is prohibited by their contract with Heineken. Not only that, but they have to buy the beer from Heineken themselves at the price that Heineken quotes them. Even if they can buy it cheaper in the super market (which is usually the case) they still have to pay the premium price Heineken demands.
Heineken and a few other breweries are the only ones that will give a loan to the owner of the bar, since bars and clubs are a high risk investment and most banks won't get involved. Because the breweries aren't banks, they don't have to hold themselves to a lot of regulations that forbid banks from controlling their loaners too much. This means that the breweries often end up owning the building after a previous business goes bankrupt and now most bars and clubs are effectively owned by the breweries. Once they figured out this method, they started to actively buy real estate that houses bars, restaurants and clubs. The real kicker is that those bars pay more for their beers than you and I pay for the same beers in the super market. The innkeepers have to pay rent, make a living and pay their staff, so variation is hard to find and prices are inflated due to the lack of competition this sort of practice brings. Add to that the high alcohol tax and it's no wonder that bars and clubs are such a high risk investment....
Windows Phone 7 is also abandoned. Maybe not yet by Nokia, but MicroSoft has already publicly abandoned it, which will make the current line of non-smart phones (S40 operating system) from Nokia the only non-abandoned platform they are selling.
How about patches against obvious security risks? Office was (and probably still is) riddled with vulnerable code that can be exploited by using a carefully crafted document that will be opened using Office by the target. Office 2003 will soon no longer be updated and I don't think it will take long for unpatched vulnerabilities to appear. Once you have no protection against malware, you can't open any document anybody sends you or that you find yourself on the internet. Not only that, but they'd probably find ways to hide the payload in such a way that you won't even know you're opening something with your vulnerable office until it's already loading, or if you already have the app open, you see the thing you just clicked opening in office.
You could be perfectly happy with 2003 features, but you will need the security updates in order for it to remain usable.
I wonder if employee #20 would already have such a clause in their contract and if they do, if it would be as "solid" as the current ones. Also, it could very well be the non compete tells she isn't allowed to work in a similar function to that of employee #20 at the time. I doubt the job description for employee #20 was anything resembling CEO of a large multimillion dollar company, so chances are, even if she has a non compete, it'd be worthless here.
These cuffs are in fact a bit harder to pick the lock from. Especially when cuffed yourself, it would probably take you too long to pick the lock to remain undetected and your pick taken from you.
There are quite a few more modern lock designs that require specialist tools to unlock without a key. Those tools usually cost a multitude of a key and are hard to buy, even from chinese clone sites. One of those locks is the "abloy classic". Another lock that is hard to pick without special tools is the lock system that uses "dimples". You can't really rake those locks and setting individual pins is a challenge by itself. Those are in fact bumpable, but I don't consider that a "picking" technique. There are a few modern key systems I don't know the name of that could possibly be pickable, but I haven't tried or seen any information on so far, so it could very well be that they are in fact pick resistant.
It's not just about airport security, but also courthouse security and places where they might actually care about handcuff keys, like jails where you visit someone that's doing hard time. Airport security is not the best example you could choose, but "places that use a metal detector" would have a hard time detecting these keys.
Apple is further than Android. Sure, the app has to ask for permission, but whom does it ask? The end user. The end user is asked to agree to *bunch of things* to get his new app that he just chose out of a gazillion other apps. At that point in time, the end user is determined to get the app on his/her device and is willing to agree to anything because they already decided they want the app. In practice, those explicit permission grants mean nothing because for all practical purposes, over 50% of end users would probably agree to donate their first born child to the developer of the app without even blinking if that was in the click-screen with the grants.
Also, the unique UID per application and the unix filesystem permissions for all apps are usually worthless. Developers tend to set permissions of all their files to 777, which means world readable and executable. That way, they won't get any pesky permission denied errors. That other apps can read and write in their files doesn't matter to them, until someone "hacks" their application they aren't going to change it and Google Play sure isn't going to deny them for it, because Google has no commercial interest in denying apps that aren't malicious but just stupidly bad protected.
No, this is not an Apple Fanboi comment, but a reflection on the state of security android is in at the moment. These two factors combined make Android a total laugh when it comes to security, even if the rest of the framework is getting fairly decent, the end result is abysmal and you should consider any and all data on an average users android phone to be compromised.
A disease is epidemic if it is contagious and a certain percentage of the population is infected. Even though (morbid) obesity is common enough for the percentage requirement to be fulfilled, obesity is not a contagious disease. It is completely self inflicted, because people that have it got it by eating too much and/or the wrong diet.
The only mitigation for that is, once your body has made the fat reserves that make you obese, you can diet but they won't go away. Sure, they'll get smaller, but once you stop your diet and exercise that got your weight back to normal, your body will try and restore those reserves. That means that you'll have to be much more careful about your diet for the rest of your life, once you've gained weight, even if you lost the weight afterwards. Liposuction does help in that, because the cells are removed that store the fat, but you really have to ask yourself if that is what you want, given the fact that a healthy diet and enough exercise will probably make you heal without the procedure.
Calling obesity epidemic makes it sound like it's something that people got due to something out of their control, while it's something they really did to themselves, or their children.
It's just measuring their signal strength. The pinging happens if the phone wants to change to a different base station, or if it wants to inform the base station it's currently connected to it's still alive. Not that it matters a lot, since they will have a rough log of where you've been for months/years after the fact, depending on how long your cell phone company is required to keep the records. The roughness is because they'll only have the base station you're logged onto and no triangulation, plus the fact that there are multiple minutes in between the time stamps, especially if you're not moving a lot. Once the police has a warrant, the cell phone towers will start pinging you and triangulation will take place with a frequency that can easily be once a minute. Depending on cell density, they might be able to locate you almost as precise as with a GPS.
With a smart phone, it's a different story. If you have apps that call home regularly to check for messages, you'll typically be exchanging data with base stations much more often. If you have GPS enabled (battery hog, so unlikely for a lot of users) and an app that stores your data (like google on android does themselves), it's dead easy to track you. The alternative, wifi base stations that get logged by google for every android phone unless switched off, is much more common since most people leave wifi on on their phone. Not so accurate as GPS, but within cities, usually sufficient.
As if he couldn't get someone else to proxy for him already. If apple keeps him away and he finds something worth while, he'll find someone else that is willing to front for him and just submit another app to prove his point. Keeping people out is useless, they should be thankful for someone to hilight their security flaws, even if it's bad publicity for them at that moment. Not exposing it and letting someone commit a serious crime on a large scale will hurt Apple more than having someone expose it.
Legalizing doesn't make the psychosis go away. In the Netherlands it's legal and there are plenty of fucked up people smoking themselves into an even more fucked up state, instead of dealing with their crap and getting on with their life without smoking.
Medium time effects have quite an influence. After losing the "high" you will have less concentration and less short term memory capability for days, weeks and even months to follow, depending on how long and how much you smoked before. Daily use of half a gram or more for a year will have influence on you for months after you quit smoking. Each individual reacts more or less severe to this and it totally depends on the individual and the circumstances how much this will actually have effect on your daily life, but it's a very real and significant effect of cannabinols on the human mind.
No, those 10-15 minutes are destructive minutes. This is non-destructive and non invasive. This is making a fitting key for the most advanced lock without another key to copy from. Try doing that with the latest advanced mechanical locks...
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He'll have the funds to retire^Wfly to space in no time.
Only in the USA, because large parts of the world use other outlets and voltages....
Nuff said
Pirates are in it for the sex?
Maybe it's not new for us, but it's new for the platform and developers that get tricked by such a simple hack should be ashamed of themselves. I think that's enough merit for an 11 year old to be getting some sort of reward for their discovery. Taking this initiative and actively hosting a contest this year so kids get an idea about IT security, not to mention all the grown ups that get to hear about it too, is way more valuable than "we did that years ago on the platforms we used as kids".
How about sending a white bunny?
You mean all the other C&C servers, kiddie pr0n stashes and what not?
To be honest, it didn't sell before the windows phone 8 announcement and the fact that there wouldn't be upgrades available. The announcement didn't exactly help sales, but Lumia was dead in the water long before that.
80: MMS works with an SMS that gives you the URL to a website containing the actual MMS content. So, given the fact that GPRS is really outdated, 3G will be used to fetch that message. That is not something in Windows Phone, but in the (lame) protocol.
86: Android up to 2.3.6 doesn't have that either. I agree, it's stupid for a phone this day and age, but MicroSoft isn't alone in being that stupid. Over 50% of android phones in use now lack this feature, even though there has been plenty of request for it throughout the years.
Out over 100+ complaints, not bad that I can only comment on two and invalidate only one. Or actually, rather bad for MicroSoft and Nokia
Not really. The bar will sell you any type, brand and taste of beer that the Heineken breweries produce, if they have it on stock. No beers by competing or microbreweries, since that is prohibited by their contract with Heineken. Not only that, but they have to buy the beer from Heineken themselves at the price that Heineken quotes them. Even if they can buy it cheaper in the super market (which is usually the case) they still have to pay the premium price Heineken demands.
Heineken and a few other breweries are the only ones that will give a loan to the owner of the bar, since bars and clubs are a high risk investment and most banks won't get involved. Because the breweries aren't banks, they don't have to hold themselves to a lot of regulations that forbid banks from controlling their loaners too much. This means that the breweries often end up owning the building after a previous business goes bankrupt and now most bars and clubs are effectively owned by the breweries. Once they figured out this method, they started to actively buy real estate that houses bars, restaurants and clubs. The real kicker is that those bars pay more for their beers than you and I pay for the same beers in the super market. The innkeepers have to pay rent, make a living and pay their staff, so variation is hard to find and prices are inflated due to the lack of competition this sort of practice brings. Add to that the high alcohol tax and it's no wonder that bars and clubs are such a high risk investment....
Windows Phone 7 is also abandoned. Maybe not yet by Nokia, but MicroSoft has already publicly abandoned it, which will make the current line of non-smart phones (S40 operating system) from Nokia the only non-abandoned platform they are selling.
How about patches against obvious security risks? Office was (and probably still is) riddled with vulnerable code that can be exploited by using a carefully crafted document that will be opened using Office by the target. Office 2003 will soon no longer be updated and I don't think it will take long for unpatched vulnerabilities to appear. Once you have no protection against malware, you can't open any document anybody sends you or that you find yourself on the internet. Not only that, but they'd probably find ways to hide the payload in such a way that you won't even know you're opening something with your vulnerable office until it's already loading, or if you already have the app open, you see the thing you just clicked opening in office.
You could be perfectly happy with 2003 features, but you will need the security updates in order for it to remain usable.
I wonder if employee #20 would already have such a clause in their contract and if they do, if it would be as "solid" as the current ones. Also, it could very well be the non compete tells she isn't allowed to work in a similar function to that of employee #20 at the time. I doubt the job description for employee #20 was anything resembling CEO of a large multimillion dollar company, so chances are, even if she has a non compete, it'd be worthless here.
These cuffs are in fact a bit harder to pick the lock from. Especially when cuffed yourself, it would probably take you too long to pick the lock to remain undetected and your pick taken from you.
There are quite a few more modern lock designs that require specialist tools to unlock without a key. Those tools usually cost a multitude of a key and are hard to buy, even from chinese clone sites. One of those locks is the "abloy classic". Another lock that is hard to pick without special tools is the lock system that uses "dimples". You can't really rake those locks and setting individual pins is a challenge by itself. Those are in fact bumpable, but I don't consider that a "picking" technique. There are a few modern key systems I don't know the name of that could possibly be pickable, but I haven't tried or seen any information on so far, so it could very well be that they are in fact pick resistant.
It's not just about airport security, but also courthouse security and places where they might actually care about handcuff keys, like jails where you visit someone that's doing hard time. Airport security is not the best example you could choose, but "places that use a metal detector" would have a hard time detecting these keys.
Apple is further than Android. Sure, the app has to ask for permission, but whom does it ask? The end user. The end user is asked to agree to *bunch of things* to get his new app that he just chose out of a gazillion other apps. At that point in time, the end user is determined to get the app on his/her device and is willing to agree to anything because they already decided they want the app. In practice, those explicit permission grants mean nothing because for all practical purposes, over 50% of end users would probably agree to donate their first born child to the developer of the app without even blinking if that was in the click-screen with the grants.
Also, the unique UID per application and the unix filesystem permissions for all apps are usually worthless. Developers tend to set permissions of all their files to 777, which means world readable and executable. That way, they won't get any pesky permission denied errors. That other apps can read and write in their files doesn't matter to them, until someone "hacks" their application they aren't going to change it and Google Play sure isn't going to deny them for it, because Google has no commercial interest in denying apps that aren't malicious but just stupidly bad protected.
No, this is not an Apple Fanboi comment, but a reflection on the state of security android is in at the moment. These two factors combined make Android a total laugh when it comes to security, even if the rest of the framework is getting fairly decent, the end result is abysmal and you should consider any and all data on an average users android phone to be compromised.
A disease is epidemic if it is contagious and a certain percentage of the population is infected. Even though (morbid) obesity is common enough for the percentage requirement to be fulfilled, obesity is not a contagious disease. It is completely self inflicted, because people that have it got it by eating too much and/or the wrong diet.
The only mitigation for that is, once your body has made the fat reserves that make you obese, you can diet but they won't go away. Sure, they'll get smaller, but once you stop your diet and exercise that got your weight back to normal, your body will try and restore those reserves. That means that you'll have to be much more careful about your diet for the rest of your life, once you've gained weight, even if you lost the weight afterwards. Liposuction does help in that, because the cells are removed that store the fat, but you really have to ask yourself if that is what you want, given the fact that a healthy diet and enough exercise will probably make you heal without the procedure.
Calling obesity epidemic makes it sound like it's something that people got due to something out of their control, while it's something they really did to themselves, or their children.
It's just measuring their signal strength. The pinging happens if the phone wants to change to a different base station, or if it wants to inform the base station it's currently connected to it's still alive. Not that it matters a lot, since they will have a rough log of where you've been for months/years after the fact, depending on how long your cell phone company is required to keep the records. The roughness is because they'll only have the base station you're logged onto and no triangulation, plus the fact that there are multiple minutes in between the time stamps, especially if you're not moving a lot. Once the police has a warrant, the cell phone towers will start pinging you and triangulation will take place with a frequency that can easily be once a minute. Depending on cell density, they might be able to locate you almost as precise as with a GPS.
With a smart phone, it's a different story. If you have apps that call home regularly to check for messages, you'll typically be exchanging data with base stations much more often. If you have GPS enabled (battery hog, so unlikely for a lot of users) and an app that stores your data (like google on android does themselves), it's dead easy to track you. The alternative, wifi base stations that get logged by google for every android phone unless switched off, is much more common since most people leave wifi on on their phone. Not so accurate as GPS, but within cities, usually sufficient.
As if he couldn't get someone else to proxy for him already. If apple keeps him away and he finds something worth while, he'll find someone else that is willing to front for him and just submit another app to prove his point. Keeping people out is useless, they should be thankful for someone to hilight their security flaws, even if it's bad publicity for them at that moment. Not exposing it and letting someone commit a serious crime on a large scale will hurt Apple more than having someone expose it.
Legalizing doesn't make the psychosis go away. In the Netherlands it's legal and there are plenty of fucked up people smoking themselves into an even more fucked up state, instead of dealing with their crap and getting on with their life without smoking.
Medium time effects have quite an influence. After losing the "high" you will have less concentration and less short term memory capability for days, weeks and even months to follow, depending on how long and how much you smoked before. Daily use of half a gram or more for a year will have influence on you for months after you quit smoking. Each individual reacts more or less severe to this and it totally depends on the individual and the circumstances how much this will actually have effect on your daily life, but it's a very real and significant effect of cannabinols on the human mind.
That's just opening the car, this is making a key to actually start and drive the car and afterwards, lock and unlock it.
It's directional and aimed to detect people in the seats. If you want sensors to cover every inch of the car, you'll need dozens of them.
No, those 10-15 minutes are destructive minutes. This is non-destructive and non invasive. This is making a fitting key for the most advanced lock without another key to copy from. Try doing that with the latest advanced mechanical locks...