Apple gets paid for every phone sold. FTFA:
Toni Sacconaghi - Sanford Bernstein
And then, you raised the issue of the unlock intention. I presume that phones that are sold that ultimately are not subscribed to the AT&T network are not eligible for any payments from AT&T, correct?
Timothy D. Cook
That's correct. The payments on AT&T depend on being locked to AT&T, obviously.
See, I told you! It's not just a "a few geeks" unlocking their phones. It's a full 18% of iPhone customers thus far. That's a pretty significant number. Expect it to grow, BTW.
And just in case you were still thinking you wanted to see proof that the lock-in to AT&T is all about the Benjamins, here it is:
Toni Sacconaghi - Sanford Bernstein
And then, you raised the issue of the unlock intention. I presume that phones that are sold that ultimately are not subscribed to the AT&T network are not eligible for any payments from AT&T, correct?
Timothy D. Cook
That's correct. The payments on AT&T depend on being locked to AT&T, obviously.
Broadcast storms can be avoided with even a modicum of proper planning All it takes is one badly behaving Windows client to create a broadcast storm.:)
That does by no means constitute any fundamental failures of Ethernet. I'm not saying that Ethernet isn't the best technology available given the options. Its ubiquitousness is part of what makes it the best strategy, though. Realistically, Ethernet is an old technology and a fresh approach, given what we know today, could do much better technically. It has its flaws, and some of them are very fundamental. You're right in that you can hide these flaws through good network engineering and administration, both on the network end and on the systems end. But that's all it is -- hiding it. Someone who knows what they're doing can still crapflood your network and bring it down.
What you're saying is akin to saying "well, sure, you can hack Windows with a few simple scripts, but that doesn't constitute any fundamental failure in the security of the operating system."
You also mention how you like free stuff because you are talking about Verizon and Vonage. What free stuff? I like cheap stuff. I pay Vonage $24.95/month + taxes and fees for their VOIP service, which I have to say, is easily the best out there.
I'm complaining not about the companies, but the lack of choices. Competition is a good thing. When there is no competition, it leads to behavior like Comcast's (and Microsoft's;).
You don't like it leave. Its that simple. Maybe if Comcast customers started leaving in drones, Comcast would re-think their insane policy. Where I used to live, your only choices for high-speed Internet service were Comcast (it's Craptastic!) and AT&T "we love the NSA!" DSL Service. Since my apartment was far from the CO, that meant blazing speeds of 384Kbps! w00t!
Here, I have Road Runner service through Bright House Networks, and I do have to say my BitTorrent downloads have never been better. But it's still a case of Bright House, Verizon "we're screwing Vonage!" DSL service or wait (possibly indefinitely) for Verizon's "we screw our customers, too!" FIOS service.
When did wired Ethernet become CSMA/CA, and what decade are you in? Collision-based networking? The CD in CSMA/CD has been irrelevant after almost a decade of full-duplex microsegmentation, effectively rendering the MA point-to-point, rather than "multiple access", and throwing out the CS in favour of "empty your buffers as fast as you can". Even your 'high school senior fresh out of Net+' knows that a broadcast storm will very effectively return your switched, full-duplex, microsegmented VLAN to a CSMA/CD network -- quickly. We have all kinds of fancy tools these days to hack Ethernet to do what we want, such as switches and bridges and routers and spanning tree protocol, and fast routing, etc., but in the end, it's still Ethernet. With a few simple hacks, I can force all of the ports on even the best Cisco switch equipment on a given VLAN open.
Many of these cards sell for $80+ (or do once you add the removable flash memory). If they were smart, they would take a page from the Wii's online service, sell a cartridge for $20 that allows you to buy and download old NES/SNES games with Nintento points like you can on the Wii. They could also sell a cartridge with a flash memory slot and allow it to do multimedia playback. Maybe that's exactly what they plan on doing and that's why they are cracking down. The Nintendo folks are pretty smart. They lost the king of hill spot in the video console market to Sony and Microsoft mostly by being fat and lazy, not by being stupid. They've managed to maintain their lead in portable gaming, even despite the onslaught of PSP.
Now, with Ethernet, one machine can hog the switch (I'll guess that they aren't using hubs). What use is shaving a millisecond off the app if you're still vulnerable to someone else hogging the network at the moment that you're trying to complete your transaction?
That's what proper network segmenting is for. The guy that hogs the bandwidth usually has some business need to do so (but not always;). Anyway, say the CAD guys do large file transfers multiple times a day. Well, you segment them off. That way they can't dominate the switch for that all-important transaction network, which would, of course, have its own segment different from the one where your office clients sit.
I already don't allow the use of passwords on SSH authentications, which is the only service exposed to the Internet at all on my network. Try brute-forcing a 2048-bit RSA key. Good luck!
Anyway, since a network login can be done with a smartcard, why not an authentication mechanism using a USB stick drive containing the private RSA key? Maybe the USB stick drive could even refuse to work unless first authenticated by a thumbprint? Flash memory's gettin' cheaper all the time, right?
4 of your neighbors call the police and say they believe your running drugs out of your house due to the mass amounts of traffic to and from your house thru the day. That right there is enough for a search warrent (and those statements didn't even come from law enforcement officials) No, it isn't. As you say next:
if the police already suspected this If. That's a pretty big if. The police would already have to suspect based on the observation of available evidence taken by sworn officers of the law, whether this is direct police surveillance (you don't need a warrant to park a patrol car on a public street) or by statements taken from sworn witnesses. Trust me. The police aren't going to be able to get a warrant based on unsworn statements given by a handful of nosy neighbors unless they already have some corroborating evidence.
Using BitTorrent is not, as defined by the Act, accessing a computer without authority or in excess of authority. You're looking for the No Electronic Theft Act, or maybe the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
True. But at that point you can just add in AdBlock Plus, which is, admittedly, a bit more involved than NoScript, but with automatic rule updates and people constantly working to add in new rules, it's gotten a whole lot better.
Yes, you are protected against unreasonable searches and seizures, but the presumption is that because a warrant is only issued by a judge "upon probable cause", a search based on that warrant is not unreasonable, because it is "supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized", and there are penalties for perjury. Right. But because the proceedings of this secret court are closed, the public can't really know whether a particular warrant was, in fact, issued "upon probable cause," unlike in an ordinary court. There's no oversight, so how would anyone involved be prosecuted for perjury?
Yes. 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers states that:
[Anyone who]...knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period; The term "protected computer" is defined as:
(B) which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States; (i) the offense was committed for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain;
(ii) the offense was committed in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of any State Hello, Mr. Federal Prosecutor? Where are you?
You're right. At least with FISA, there is some judicial oversight. Of course, this is judicial oversight by a secret court with closed proceedings in direct violation of the Constitution (right to be protected against unreasonable/unwarranted searches and seizures, right to a fair trial by jury of your peers) but at least it's technically legal under the Foreign Intelligence and Security Act.
Not exactly the same as steering hurricanes, though. In your case, the thunderstorms still occur, they just don't produce hail, right? Hurricanes pack a lot of energy. Where will all of that energy go? What other types of damage would that cause? I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying that we might not like the repercussions.
Really. It sounds dangerous. It's not best to mess with Mother Nature. Especially when it comes to climate and weather. IMHO, weather control such as steering hurricanes will create more problems than it solves. Do you know what the results would be? Do you know what the long-term effects of hurricane steering would be? No, no one does because it hasn't been done.
I think that the problem of viruses would be greatly reduced if people were less ignorant about viruses.
I think the problem of viruses would be greatly reduced if people were less ignorant about how their behavior causes them to get viruses.
Windows can be an okay operating system security-wise, if people didn't do these things:
Run Internet Explorer: IE is buggy and and insecure. If everyone replaced it with Firefox with the NoScript plugin installed, you could watch how much fewer viruses there would be.
Run Outlook or Outlook Express: Mail programs shouldn't have scripting abilities that can take control of the entire OS. Watch how much fewer viruses would exist if people would run Thunderbird instead.
Download programs from untrusted sites: Lots of random malware, spyware and viruses are installed because users the latest 'cute' or 'cool' thing their friend told them about.
Enable VBA macros to autorun in Microsoft Office documents. Turn off macros.
Run as Administrator: Either learn how to use your OS properly or upgrade to Vista. Seriously.
Eliminate these behaviors and you will have removed the most common vectors of infection on Windows machines.
I know for a fact that for many retailers this is not true - unless you have a source I call BS. It's true for many retailers, but not all, you're correct. But even Walmart makes a hell of a lot more money during the holiday shopping season than it does the entire rest of the year.
You'd be better off pointing out the amount of money Churches take in every year from donations and not paying taxes. Or that many of these religions demand donations equaling 10% or 20% of their members' gross incomes on threat of eternal damnation in the fiery pit of hell?
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And then, you raised the issue of the unlock intention. I presume that phones that are sold that ultimately are not subscribed to the AT&T network are not eligible for any payments from AT&T, correct?
Timothy D. Cook
That's correct. The payments on AT&T depend on being locked to AT&T, obviously.
It's FTFA!
And just in case you were still thinking you wanted to see proof that the lock-in to AT&T is all about the Benjamins, here it is:
What you're saying is akin to saying "well, sure, you can hack Windows with a few simple scripts, but that doesn't constitute any fundamental failure in the security of the operating system."
I'm complaining not about the companies, but the lack of choices. Competition is a good thing. When there is no competition, it leads to behavior like Comcast's (and Microsoft's
I was being generous. ;)
Here, I have Road Runner service through Bright House Networks, and I do have to say my BitTorrent downloads have never been better. But it's still a case of Bright House, Verizon "we're screwing Vonage!" DSL service or wait (possibly indefinitely) for Verizon's "we screw our customers, too!" FIOS service.
That's what proper network segmenting is for. The guy that hogs the bandwidth usually has some business need to do so (but not always
I already don't allow the use of passwords on SSH authentications, which is the only service exposed to the Internet at all on my network. Try brute-forcing a 2048-bit RSA key. Good luck!
Anyway, since a network login can be done with a smartcard, why not an authentication mechanism using a USB stick drive containing the private RSA key? Maybe the USB stick drive could even refuse to work unless first authenticated by a thumbprint? Flash memory's gettin' cheaper all the time, right?
Oh noes! Then they will know my password!
Wait! There must be some uses of this technology for pr0n.
Using BitTorrent is not, as defined by the Act, accessing a computer without authority or in excess of authority. You're looking for the No Electronic Theft Act, or maybe the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
True. But at that point you can just add in AdBlock Plus, which is, admittedly, a bit more involved than NoScript, but with automatic rule updates and people constantly working to add in new rules, it's gotten a whole lot better.
(ii) the offense was committed in furtherance of any criminal or tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States or of any State Hello, Mr. Federal Prosecutor? Where are you?
You're right. At least with FISA, there is some judicial oversight. Of course, this is judicial oversight by a secret court with closed proceedings in direct violation of the Constitution (right to be protected against unreasonable/unwarranted searches and seizures, right to a fair trial by jury of your peers) but at least it's technically legal under the Foreign Intelligence and Security Act.
NoScript helps most because it stops scripts on other domains (like ad servers) than the one you're looking at.
Not exactly the same as steering hurricanes, though. In your case, the thunderstorms still occur, they just don't produce hail, right? Hurricanes pack a lot of energy. Where will all of that energy go? What other types of damage would that cause? I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying that we might not like the repercussions.
Really. It sounds dangerous. It's not best to mess with Mother Nature. Especially when it comes to climate and weather. IMHO, weather control such as steering hurricanes will create more problems than it solves. Do you know what the results would be? Do you know what the long-term effects of hurricane steering would be? No, no one does because it hasn't been done.
I think the problem of viruses would be greatly reduced if people were less ignorant about how their behavior causes them to get viruses.
Windows can be an okay operating system security-wise, if people didn't do these things:
Run Internet Explorer: IE is buggy and and insecure. If everyone replaced it with Firefox with the NoScript plugin installed, you could watch how much fewer viruses there would be.
Run Outlook or Outlook Express: Mail programs shouldn't have scripting abilities that can take control of the entire OS. Watch how much fewer viruses would exist if people would run Thunderbird instead.
Download programs from untrusted sites: Lots of random malware, spyware and viruses are installed because users the latest 'cute' or 'cool' thing their friend told them about.
Enable VBA macros to autorun in Microsoft Office documents. Turn off macros.
Run as Administrator: Either learn how to use your OS properly or upgrade to Vista. Seriously.
Eliminate these behaviors and you will have removed the most common vectors of infection on Windows machines.