Running Opera Mini requires jailbreaking the phone, i.e. finding a buffer overflow. The original jailbreak exploit was in Safari. My point was that if they'd have used Opera in the start there was less chance of finding something like this.
This exploit SIM unlocks the iPhone which requires cracking the radio, which is something else entirely.
Actually the best thing to have done would have be to allow people to run whatever browser they wamt but SIM lock the radio for subsidised phones but leave it unlocked for non subsidised ones. That takes away most of the reasons to crack the device.
Releasing a device which is SIM locked and locked for applications only on approved operators means that there will be enormous pressure to find cracks for both the user mode and the radio, both of which have now been cracked. This is bad for Apple and the operators because it means people can buy a phone subsidised by AT&T, unlock it and use it on another operator. AT&T loses around $200 in subsidy each time this happens.
The XBOX360 was locked against both piracy and alternate OSs. The PS3 allowed Linux but was locked against piracy. The end result was that hackers cracked the XBOX360 but not the PS3.
In a sense most mobile phone manufacturers follow their appeasementish advice - they sell SIM locked phones which are subsidised for $x-$200 and non SIM locked phones which not subsidised for $x where $x is the market price. Increasingly open OS phones (Symbian, Windows Mobile) allow users to install their own applications.
I once had a client which made mobile phone chipsets and they took security very seriously, that's where I got the $200 figure from. Obviously it's a ballpark figure and is somewhat out of date, I suspect looking at prices that most SIM locked phones now are much less subsidised than this. Mind you it shows you how pissed off AT&T would be if SIM locks are broken. No one cares about jailbroken phones of course, apart from maybe Apple.
The end result is, statistically on average, ABS has actually created more dangerous roads for the majority of the driving population.
You are surely not correct. Automobile insurance companies offer discounts on policies for cars that have ABS. They would only do this if it were in their financial interest, which would mean that it is safer for the average driver to have ABS than to not have it.
Maybe it's a conspiracy against Above Average drivers like the OP.
She's the product of a party which is obsessed with micromanaging the citizens of the country. A party which got to power by ruthlessly instilling discipline within its own membership - in other words, "follow the party line to the letter or get out".
LOL WUT?
Have you ever been a member of the Labour Party? Pretty much every meeting I went to was devoted to people carping about the leadership.
The people that make mice are able to take advantage of selective value though. So they can make $100 mice with features that a sizable minority of people want. I have a MX 518 which I like a lot that worth $30. It probably cost a fraction of that to make. I've also got a couple of much cheaper Microsoft wheelmose opticals. The point being is that the mice manufacturers can sell basic mice cheap and a variety of more expensive ones.
A planned economy does work like this - you'd get one type of mouse sold at cost. There isn't much point improving on that mouse either, just keep knocking out the same thing over and over. And the producers get paid no matter how many they make, so expect queueing for your mouse or bribing an official.
Hell try reading how crap the Soviet Union was before Gorbachev started his reforms.
The larger iPod touch is a bit like the fairies in Peter Pan. The more people believe in them the more likely they are to exist. People on the Mac sites believe very passionately but they are small in number. Slashdotters are more heretic... I mean skeptical but they are more numerous. That is why it was posted here.
I die a little inside every time someone says something is more important that the rights set down in our earliest documents. You know, the ones we wrote in response to England's tyranny. I can't believe anyone could actually believe something like that while living in this country.
Except for the whole replacing the concealed dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (any non communist state) with an open dictatorship of the proletariat (any communist state) thing. Doing that pretty much implies censorship of non communist opinions and shipping people off to reeducation camps.
I think you're confusing communism as in 'sharing is good' with a bunch of Stalinists taking over the state and killing millions of people whilst claiming to be socialist/communist.
I'm quite clear on the differences; that was the entire point of my post. The one I was responding to seems to have bought wholesale the line that socialism == authoritarianism, which as we both pointed out is observably false.
The "sharing is good" anarcho-communism described by Marx can only function on a very small scale (but it can function, I've witnessed it personally). The problem with any anarchic political theory, though, is that eventually your society gets big enough that it includes an asshole who just has to be in charge (Stalin, Mao, etc) and enough idiots/lesser assholes willing to take their orders that they're able to consolidate power (the respective communist parties). They call themselves communists because if you read the Manifesto it sounds really good, and then they conveniently forget that part where the central government is supposed to fade away once the distribution mechanisms are in place (which makes perfect sense really, since distribution mechanisms don't run themselves).
Anyway, I feel like I'm rambling now. My main point was that socialism != authoritarianism. My secondary point was that communism != authoritarianism either, even though it generally plays out that way in the real world.
I'm not sure why people think Marx was about "sharing is good anarcho-communism". Here are a couple of quotes.
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite! Karl Marx
It seems to me that he was in favour of a violent revolution followed by a dictatorship that would kill off the former ruling class. In fact he was critical of the Paris Commune which failed in his view because it did not conscript an army and use it againsts its opponents, allowing them time to seek help from the Prussians. In fact he disagreed with Anarchists like Bakunin on exactly this point - whether a post revolutionary state should use traditional means like conscripted armies against counter revolutionaries.
Post Russian revolution, Lenin behaved exactly in this way and that led inevitably to dictatorship. It's silly to allow a White Party to compete with the Communists for seats in parliament when you've decided to crush them with a Red Army.
Thing is if the US doesn't go to the moon other people will. Makes you wonder if makes sense to use the moon as base to bombard targets on Earth with actually.
I recall my first experience with Halo3. I consider myself to be a somewhat experienced gamer though I no longer keep up with the latest anything. I was playing against my son who had been playing it for quite some time and was already very adept at it. I had played Halo2 and was reasonably comfortable with the game. However Halo3 is a different game and has some different features and different tools and weapons and of course different maps. These differences represent a learning curve. My 17 year old son was killing me left and right and I asked him to take it easier on me but he refused (though he said he would). I knew nothing of where to find any given weapon on this arena of this new game. I knew nothing of how to use many of the new tools and weapons. I was defenseless because I had no base knowledge of the environment or how to use it. This made playing with him significantly more frustrating than it needed to be. I played with my son for as long as I did attempting to learn but was effectively prevented even from learning due to the punishing nature of the game... get killed, lose everything, reset to original spawn location, meanwhile other players keep what they had, their location and everything. My response to him was to quit. After trying to play with him for at least 30 minutes, I just quit and told him I would never play against him ever again because he was brutal, unkind, and deceitful.
Maybe you should practice when your son isn't there. You can use the teamtalk on XBox live, people are very supportive.
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Why though? In Star Trek there is only one Federation. All the ships are military, at least they all carry weapons.
They may come in peace but that is only Plan A.
Well, we all know Vets are smarter than people doctors -- after all, the dog can't tell the doctor where it hurts.
Actually it's more than that. They also have to deal with the anatomy of more than just one species.
So zoophiles must be smart as fuck.
Running Opera Mini requires jailbreaking the phone, i.e. finding a buffer overflow. The original jailbreak exploit was in Safari. My point was that if they'd have used Opera in the start there was less chance of finding something like this.
This exploit SIM unlocks the iPhone which requires cracking the radio, which is something else entirely.
Actually the best thing to have done would have be to allow people to run whatever browser they wamt but SIM lock the radio for subsidised phones but leave it unlocked for non subsidised ones. That takes away most of the reasons to crack the device.
Releasing a device which is SIM locked and locked for applications only on approved operators means that there will be enormous pressure to find cracks for both the user mode and the radio, both of which have now been cracked. This is bad for Apple and the operators because it means people can buy a phone subsidised by AT&T, unlock it and use it on another operator. AT&T loses around $200 in subsidy each time this happens.
These people made the same point about consoles -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjpmc8ZIxM
The XBOX360 was locked against both piracy and alternate OSs. The PS3 allowed Linux but was locked against piracy. The end result was that hackers cracked the XBOX360 but not the PS3.
In a sense most mobile phone manufacturers follow their appeasementish advice - they sell SIM locked phones which are subsidised for $x-$200 and non SIM locked phones which not subsidised for $x where $x is the market price. Increasingly open OS phones (Symbian, Windows Mobile) allow users to install their own applications.
I once had a client which made mobile phone chipsets and they took security very seriously, that's where I got the $200 figure from. Obviously it's a ballpark figure and is somewhat out of date, I suspect looking at prices that most SIM locked phones now are much less subsidised than this. Mind you it shows you how pissed off AT&T would be if SIM locks are broken. No one cares about jailbroken phones of course, apart from maybe Apple.
There's an irony that if Apple had selected a secure browser like Opera in the first place it would have been harder to jailbreak the device.
You are surely not correct. Automobile insurance companies offer discounts on policies for cars that have ABS. They would only do this if it were in their financial interest, which would mean that it is safer for the average driver to have ABS than to not have it.
Maybe it's a conspiracy against Above Average drivers like the OP.
He could do support.
Hmm got to go, got some wanker from work that keeps calling me.
Here is the Buckingham House Marching Band playing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artOXVZxECA&feature=related
She's the product of a party which is obsessed with micromanaging the citizens of the country. A party which got to power by ruthlessly instilling discipline within its own membership - in other words, "follow the party line to the letter or get out".
LOL WUT?
Have you ever been a member of the Labour Party? Pretty much every meeting I went to was devoted to people carping about the leadership.
"So what's wrong with a shout out among consenting adults? "
For those who envision the domination of a gift economy. Now's your chance to make it happen. First software, now ideas.
*Aka "ideas want to be free".
I think I preferred the old economy where we sold our skills to billion dollar companies.
Why is this modded flamebait? It seems quite reasonable to me.
I'm nobody's hun, babe.
Baby on head! Baby on head!
The people that make mice are able to take advantage of selective value though. So they can make $100 mice with features that a sizable minority of people want. I have a MX 518 which I like a lot that worth $30. It probably cost a fraction of that to make. I've also got a couple of much cheaper Microsoft wheelmose opticals. The point being is that the mice manufacturers can sell basic mice cheap and a variety of more expensive ones.
A planned economy does work like this - you'd get one type of mouse sold at cost. There isn't much point improving on that mouse either, just keep knocking out the same thing over and over. And the producers get paid no matter how many they make, so expect queueing for your mouse or bribing an official.
Hell try reading how crap the Soviet Union was before Gorbachev started his reforms.
Funny how socialist countries never produced anything as ergonomic or as profitable as a Logitech MX revolution.
Subjective valuation FTW!
The larger iPod touch is a bit like the fairies in Peter Pan. The more people believe in them the more likely they are to exist. People on the Mac sites believe very passionately but they are small in number. Slashdotters are more heretic ... I mean skeptical but they are more numerous. That is why it was posted here.
Your post would be more dramatic if you used a few BOLD CAPS!. E.g
Mr Jobs had a "Whipple", an operation best described as a LIVING AUTOPSY!
Slashdot is racist. Old English and IPA glyphs aren't allowed but the !Kung mouth click symbol, !, is.
Or maybe ban the losers who constantly spell lose as loose.
It's gotten to the point that I involuntarily flinch every time I see the word 'looser', even in the correct context.
I will become rich and famous when I invent a way to make loosers flinch over the internet.
Really? That's knightable? Sir JK Rowling? Sir Alan Dean Foster?
Are you kidding? JK Rowling will get made Queen at least.
I die a little inside every time someone says something is more important that the rights set down in our earliest documents. You know, the ones we wrote in response to England's tyranny. I can't believe anyone could actually believe something like that while living in this country.
How do you know we're not all Brit expats?
The set of paedophiles also includes orifices of the CIA, the FBI, the police, court judges and city councillors.
Spellcheck is sometimes quite witty.
Except for the whole replacing the concealed dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (any non communist state) with an open dictatorship of the proletariat (any communist state) thing. Doing that pretty much implies censorship of non communist opinions and shipping people off to reeducation camps.
I think you're confusing communism as in 'sharing is good' with a bunch of Stalinists taking over the state and killing millions of people whilst claiming to be socialist/communist.
I'm quite clear on the differences; that was the entire point of my post. The one I was responding to seems to have bought wholesale the line that socialism == authoritarianism, which as we both pointed out is observably false.
The "sharing is good" anarcho-communism described by Marx can only function on a very small scale (but it can function, I've witnessed it personally). The problem with any anarchic political theory, though, is that eventually your society gets big enough that it includes an asshole who just has to be in charge (Stalin, Mao, etc) and enough idiots/lesser assholes willing to take their orders that they're able to consolidate power (the respective communist parties). They call themselves communists because if you read the Manifesto it sounds really good, and then they conveniently forget that part where the central government is supposed to fade away once the distribution mechanisms are in place (which makes perfect sense really, since distribution mechanisms don't run themselves).
Anyway, I feel like I'm rambling now. My main point was that socialism != authoritarianism. My secondary point was that communism != authoritarianism either, even though it generally plays out that way in the real world.
I'm not sure why people think Marx was about "sharing is good anarcho-communism". Here are a couple of quotes.
Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
Karl Marx
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx
It seems to me that he was in favour of a violent revolution followed by a dictatorship that would kill off the former ruling class. In fact he was critical of the Paris Commune which failed in his view because it did not conscript an army and use it againsts its opponents, allowing them time to seek help from the Prussians. In fact he disagreed with Anarchists like Bakunin on exactly this point - whether a post revolutionary state should use traditional means like conscripted armies against counter revolutionaries.
Post Russian revolution, Lenin behaved exactly in this way and that led inevitably to dictatorship. It's silly to allow a White Party to compete with the Communists for seats in parliament when you've decided to crush them with a Red Army.
That will be the best part.
Thing is if the US doesn't go to the moon other people will. Makes you wonder if makes sense to use the moon as base to bombard targets on Earth with actually.
I recall my first experience with Halo3. I consider myself to be a somewhat experienced gamer though I no longer keep up with the latest anything. I was playing against my son who had been playing it for quite some time and was already very adept at it. I had played Halo2 and was reasonably comfortable with the game. However Halo3 is a different game and has some different features and different tools and weapons and of course different maps. These differences represent a learning curve. My 17 year old son was killing me left and right and I asked him to take it easier on me but he refused (though he said he would). I knew nothing of where to find any given weapon on this arena of this new game. I knew nothing of how to use many of the new tools and weapons. I was defenseless because I had no base knowledge of the environment or how to use it. This made playing with him significantly more frustrating than it needed to be. I played with my son for as long as I did attempting to learn but was effectively prevented even from learning due to the punishing nature of the game... get killed, lose everything, reset to original spawn location, meanwhile other players keep what they had, their location and everything. My response to him was to quit. After trying to play with him for at least 30 minutes, I just quit and told him I would never play against him ever again because he was brutal, unkind, and deceitful.
Maybe you should practice when your son isn't there. You can use the teamtalk on XBox live, people are very supportive.