at most, you're keeping the GPS hot. That won't drain the battery "in no time", but over several hours. Running the backlight or Wifi will kill the battery faster. And, as far as I know, there aren't "selective blacklists for poorly programmed apps" that block access to those services.
"Security is Layered" doesn't mean "Security is idiotic." It would make sense, on the other hand, to have both a certificate/revocation system and a "bad guy blacklist". A blacklist for location services just doesn't make sense. Until such time as someone produces something more than a four-letter acronym.
(And by the way "security through obscurity" should not be confused with "security through obfuscation". When I've stashed killswitches, they've never been in labeled "KILLSWITCH"
Well, the fact that, as linked several other times on this page, Jobs allegedly confirms a killswitch should settle the issue.
If it doesn't, the logic behind the notion that the way to protect sensitive data like "core location" is to blacklist, should suffice. If you're dealing with signed apps, why would you need to blacklist? The code should be reviewed for proper use of resources, no? If you want to protect the user's privacy against those cases that slip through, why not whitelist? Privacy should be the default, not the exception. On the other hand, if a keylogger slips into a third-party's release, they might want to have a killswitch on there. Just be careful what you use it for.
To answer your question:
You're right. "Almost as useful as a desktop" is an inaccurate way of expressing the utility of this class of devices. I am writing this on my desktop, within arm's reach of a Nokia N800, which meets the specs above (800-pixel-wide touch screen, wifi, 256 MB RAM, 256 MB system memory, 24 GB in two SDHC cards, Linux, Gecko, Skype, Asterisk and Video), and yet I'm writing on a desktop.
What gives? Why are these things useful? For that matter, why not get an Eee 2G, Elonex One or MSI Wind?
To start with the last question, those ultra-cheap, portable PCs ("netbooks" or whatever), are great. They provide you with a desktop-like experience for less money, and with greater portability than a laptop. So, in cases where I would need to work on a computer, but didn't need full workstation power, it would be ideal. Photoshop on an Eee would suck, but word processing would be okay (if it weren't for the tiny keyboard). But I don't often need to work directly on a computer in remote locations.
So why these things? Because in my day-to-day life, I often need to do something that involves (secondarily) a computer, and a small tablet makes a computer available where previously there was none. In a meeting, I can look something up and pass it to a colleague without breaking eye contact. In airports, I don't have to take the damn thing out of my bag for the scanners. With a low-power mobile processor (as opposed to an x86), I just leave it on, and it's handy. Someone wants to call me on skype, I can take the call and carry the phone around the house.
If I were to use cameras as an analogy, we currently have professional-grade digital cameras, prosumer dSLRs and portable point-and-shoot cameras. A dSLR with a sweet lens and a tripod is great, but the best camera to have is the one you're carrying when you take the shot.
What gives? Desktops are ideal when you've got a project that requires full-time work on a PC. Laptops give you desktop power in places where you can't get a desktop. Tablets give you computing in situations where you aren't always staring at a computer.
yeah, it does. I left my stylus at work yesterday and had to use the fingerboard. Ugh. I'm just glad it's not the preferred entry method, a la iPod touch.
Seriously, take an XP box and plug it directly into a home cable/ADSL modem.
About a year and a half back, I did that for maybe a week. I'd kept all the crit updates in there, and yet the AV software would pop up every few hours announcing that a new gift had arrived on the PC. Installed a third-party firewall, and then put the thing behind a router/hardware firewall.
Malware evolves rapidly, and we as individuals can't spend as much time combating it as the makers do in developing it. Sure, by only using trusted programs, only surfing to known sites, and never opening suspect attachments, you'll avoid all but 1% of the types malware out there. But when you're talking about thousands of types, the odds aren't so good.
And, when you're talking about a home environment, where the "administrator" cannot lock down the usage all the time, you better have something.
You also left out a vector #3) any software defect that, when combined with networking, leads to an unsafe situation. Using images to trigger buffer overflows and execute code, for example. Or exploiting a Flash bug. Now, combine that with an exploit to gain access to third-party ("Trusted") web servers, and everyone's gonna need something.
As bad as it was, AVG's spoofing the useragent as IE6 was pretty smart: if a site has malware, it'll deliver it to IE6.
There is, it ain't cheap, and even if you had the money, you'd have trouble getting your hands on one. Then, when you did, you'd probably find it uncomfortable.
If you've used broadband for the last eight years and not had any trouble with your ISP, you must be really lucky. I've had all kinds of festive things happen, most of them related to crappy ISP-provided hardware (modems) or ISP-owned hardware (the switch at the second mile). If an ISP acts like any other corporation, it's not going to upgrade its hardware to maintain consistently the same level of service: it will vary within a band. And when you get in the saturated part of the band, it sucks, and you wish you had a second connection, or at least a directional wifi antenna.
It's also not doubling the costs. If he needs/wants bandwidth above the base package, 2xbase package will not be twice as expensive as buying a single source.
There's also the political side of it, as we saw from an Ask Slashdot from a couple weeks ago: someone's using P2P from this household. And if nobody's using P2P, someone's gonna want video from time to time. Now, we know how to throttle P2P to "play nice" with other applications on the same connection, but without ridiculously expensive hardware and evil legislation, we can't always enforce that solution. In any case, oversubscribed residential lines clog at the same time, and it's not clear that someone with a 5000 Mbps connection gets 5/3 the degraded connection of someone with a 3000 Mbps line.
Hey, with ample funding from the Cyprus Tourism Organization, you'd find Atlantis too!
Speaking as someone who works on ancient Greek literature for a living (no, there's not all that many of us)...
And there won't be that many of you if you keep replying to/. instead of working on that dissertation.
And I question whether "Actually have actually happened" is an appropriate rendition. I'm guessing the original had some form of wordplay on entelecheia/energeia that's not been rendered properly.
It does look really cool, and has great specs, but Windows CE? Think agile here. The CE platform not only builds in a couple years of lag, it also incorporates those internal Microsoft turf "discussions" to ensure this Windows product doesn't compete with others.
So, was granpa's banana more slippery? 'Cos that would explain their widespread use as comic devices in the pre-television era.
(And, no, I never thought about asking Grandma about Granpa's banana, codenamed "Big Mike." Pervert.)
2. That's called "self-relief" and it's usually frowned upon in modern societies. Or can I just forego the writ and distrain someone of chattel on property he's already seised of?
Yeah, the military wasted a ton of cash generating a half-page brainstorming abstract. But that's largely due to the no-bid contract for paper and the ridiculous prices the PX charges for pr0n.
Saw this on your blog, and I was stunned. For you, this has gotta be intellectual adrenaline.
After granting the instruction 15 change insisted upon by Mr. Gabriel, and after Wired reported on the recommendation given by Ms. Thomas' attorney, it took courage for Judge Davis to make such a motion sua sponte.
My question now is: after the battle is truly joined, and the RIAA have cited Capitol v. Thomas in numerous stages of contested cases and in what some have claimed are improperly joined dragnet cases meant to shake down and terrortize the general public, how do they deal with their star case turning into a turd?
By the way, the moderator at Fordham was wrong on a point of logic: if a person is making an argument from her or his authority, attacking the basis of that authority is not ann ad hominem. As an aside to tthe aside, that's why the courts and the ABA have their troublesome rules. An attorney who fails on these matters in one case destroys her or his credibility in all cases.
forsitan, sed antequam amicus noster beatus Ieronimus illae ad idiomatum latinum transtulit, haec verba haebrice dicta sunt, vel sic credentes pie asserunt.
I'm against shoplifting, but I don't think that gives storeowners the right to summarily execute anyone they suspect of the crime.
That's really the point. For music, we all believe that artists should get remunerated for their work. Want makes the RIAA evil is that (A) they don't work in the interests of the artists, and (B) their approach to their customers is insulting, intimidating, disdainful and invasive. Some would use stronger words.
The RIAA right now is waging a campaign against music fans, in the name of artists (many of whom do not support their name being so used), and gee, if the people's rights, liberties and freedoms are caught in the crossfire, so be it. Hey, we can even reduce those too!
...just tech school graduates by and large don't have the skills to be as eloquent in defending their choice.
When 20-year-old computer types congregate in large groups, little good comes out of it (unless it's a prank played on Caltech). You don't need hundreds of other tech folk, just a handful of very interesting, creative and motivated people. And, if that's not your thing, hippies have better parties.
"Liberal Arts" comes from the late-Roman notion of the fields of human inquiry suitable for a free man, as opposed to those sciences needed by the slaves under him. Of course, Roman freemen didn't really do much work in life. The modern interpretation of the LA idea, especially in a LA college, consists in teaching skills and fields geared to improving the person, not the person's marketability. And somehow, at the end of the day, that makes the person a better hire, too.
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at most, you're keeping the GPS hot. That won't drain the battery "in no time", but over several hours. Running the backlight or Wifi will kill the battery faster. And, as far as I know, there aren't "selective blacklists for poorly programmed apps" that block access to those services.
"Security is Layered" doesn't mean "Security is idiotic." It would make sense, on the other hand, to have both a certificate/revocation system and a "bad guy blacklist". A blacklist for location services just doesn't make sense. Until such time as someone produces something more than a four-letter acronym.
(And by the way "security through obscurity" should not be confused with "security through obfuscation". When I've stashed killswitches, they've never been in labeled "KILLSWITCH"
Well, the fact that, as linked several other times on this page, Jobs allegedly confirms a killswitch should settle the issue.
If it doesn't, the logic behind the notion that the way to protect sensitive data like "core location" is to blacklist, should suffice. If you're dealing with signed apps, why would you need to blacklist? The code should be reviewed for proper use of resources, no? If you want to protect the user's privacy against those cases that slip through, why not whitelist? Privacy should be the default, not the exception. On the other hand, if a keylogger slips into a third-party's release, they might want to have a killswitch on there. Just be careful what you use it for.
So, does this mean IT admins are going to add a few sites to the list of undesirable crackz/warez/p4sswordz addresses?
MMMMMeeeee tooo
To answer your question:
You're right. "Almost as useful as a desktop" is an inaccurate way of expressing the utility of this class of devices. I am writing this on my desktop, within arm's reach of a Nokia N800, which meets the specs above (800-pixel-wide touch screen, wifi, 256 MB RAM, 256 MB system memory, 24 GB in two SDHC cards, Linux, Gecko, Skype, Asterisk and Video), and yet I'm writing on a desktop.
What gives? Why are these things useful? For that matter, why not get an Eee 2G, Elonex One or MSI Wind?
To start with the last question, those ultra-cheap, portable PCs ("netbooks" or whatever), are great. They provide you with a desktop-like experience for less money, and with greater portability than a laptop. So, in cases where I would need to work on a computer, but didn't need full workstation power, it would be ideal. Photoshop on an Eee would suck, but word processing would be okay (if it weren't for the tiny keyboard).
But I don't often need to work directly on a computer in remote locations.
So why these things? Because in my day-to-day life, I often need to do something that involves (secondarily) a computer, and a small tablet makes a computer available where previously there was none. In a meeting, I can look something up and pass it to a colleague without breaking eye contact. In airports, I don't have to take the damn thing out of my bag for the scanners. With a low-power mobile processor (as opposed to an x86), I just leave it on, and it's handy. Someone wants to call me on skype, I can take the call and carry the phone around the house.
If I were to use cameras as an analogy, we currently have professional-grade digital cameras, prosumer dSLRs and portable point-and-shoot cameras. A dSLR with a sweet lens and a tripod is great, but the best camera to have is the one you're carrying when you take the shot.
What gives? Desktops are ideal when you've got a project that requires full-time work on a PC. Laptops give you desktop power in places where you can't get a desktop. Tablets give you computing in situations where you aren't always staring at a computer.
yeah, it does. I left my stylus at work yesterday and had to use the fingerboard. Ugh. I'm just glad it's not the preferred entry method, a la iPod touch.
I mean, those specs pretty much match a Nokia N800 with a pair of 2 GB SD cards and running OS 2008. Heck, they even got the Linux part.
Okay, you can upgun to an Arm11, put in a bigger battery, and make the touch screen multitouch, but the device proposed is not something entirely new.
It is, however, something eminently useful on a daily basis.
Uh, vector #1 includes basic Windows networking.
Seriously, take an XP box and plug it directly into a home cable/ADSL modem.
About a year and a half back, I did that for maybe a week. I'd kept all the crit updates in there, and yet the AV software would pop up every few hours announcing that a new gift had arrived on the PC. Installed a third-party firewall, and then put the thing behind a router/hardware firewall.
Malware evolves rapidly, and we as individuals can't spend as much time combating it as the makers do in developing it. Sure, by only using trusted programs, only surfing to known sites, and never opening suspect attachments, you'll avoid all but 1% of the types malware out there. But when you're talking about thousands of types, the odds aren't so good.
And, when you're talking about a home environment, where the "administrator" cannot lock down the usage all the time, you better have something.
You also left out a vector #3) any software defect that, when combined with networking, leads to an unsafe situation. Using images to trigger buffer overflows and execute code, for example. Or exploiting a Flash bug. Now, combine that with an exploit to gain access to third-party ("Trusted") web servers, and everyone's gonna need something.
As bad as it was, AVG's spoofing the useragent as IE6 was pretty smart: if a site has malware, it'll deliver it to IE6.
There is, it ain't cheap, and even if you had the money, you'd have trouble getting your hands on one. Then, when you did, you'd probably find it uncomfortable.
If you've used broadband for the last eight years and not had any trouble with your ISP, you must be really lucky. I've had all kinds of festive things happen, most of them related to crappy ISP-provided hardware (modems) or ISP-owned hardware (the switch at the second mile). If an ISP acts like any other corporation, it's not going to upgrade its hardware to maintain consistently the same level of service: it will vary within a band. And when you get in the saturated part of the band, it sucks, and you wish you had a second connection, or at least a directional wifi antenna.
It's also not doubling the costs. If he needs/wants bandwidth above the base package, 2xbase package will not be twice as expensive as buying a single source.
There's also the political side of it, as we saw from an Ask Slashdot from a couple weeks ago: someone's using P2P from this household. And if nobody's using P2P, someone's gonna want video from time to time. Now, we know how to throttle P2P to "play nice" with other applications on the same connection, but without ridiculously expensive hardware and evil legislation, we can't always enforce that solution. In any case, oversubscribed residential lines clog at the same time, and it's not clear that someone with a 5000 Mbps connection gets 5/3 the degraded connection of someone with a 3000 Mbps line.
And there won't be that many of you if you keep replying to
So, what will Ms. Cassin do? Who's representing her anyway? Maybe that attorney could find out and get back to us?
At least once in a while.
Of course face recognition is good: hold up a photo to the camera, and you're good.
It was John Carpenter, They Live, ripped off by DN3D.
so basically, it was made with The Knowledge, but not The Love?
Aye, should be lower friction. I missed.
It does look really cool, and has great specs, but Windows CE? Think agile here. The CE platform not only builds in a couple years of lag, it also incorporates those internal Microsoft turf "discussions" to ensure this Windows product doesn't compete with others.
So, was granpa's banana more slippery? 'Cos that would explain their widespread use as comic devices in the pre-television era. (And, no, I never thought about asking Grandma about Granpa's banana, codenamed "Big Mike." Pervert.)
2. That's called "self-relief" and it's usually frowned upon in modern societies. Or can I just forego the writ and distrain someone of chattel on property he's already seised of?
Yeah, the military wasted a ton of cash generating a half-page brainstorming abstract. But that's largely due to the no-bid contract for paper and the ridiculous prices the PX charges for pr0n.
Saw this on your blog, and I was stunned. For you, this has gotta be intellectual adrenaline.
After granting the instruction 15 change insisted upon by Mr. Gabriel, and after Wired reported on the recommendation given by Ms. Thomas' attorney, it took courage for Judge Davis to make such a motion sua sponte.
My question now is: after the battle is truly joined, and the RIAA have cited Capitol v. Thomas in numerous stages of contested cases and in what some have claimed are improperly joined dragnet cases meant to shake down and terrortize the general public, how do they deal with their star case turning into a turd?
By the way, the moderator at Fordham was wrong on a point of logic: if a person is making an argument from her or his authority, attacking the basis of that authority is not ann ad hominem. As an aside to tthe aside, that's why the courts and the ABA have their troublesome rules. An attorney who fails on these matters in one case destroys her or his credibility in all cases.
forsitan, sed antequam amicus noster beatus Ieronimus illae ad idiomatum latinum transtulit, haec verba haebrice dicta sunt, vel sic credentes pie asserunt.
I'm against shoplifting, but I don't think that gives storeowners the right to summarily execute anyone they suspect of the crime.
That's really the point. For music, we all believe that artists should get remunerated for their work. Want makes the RIAA evil is that (A) they don't work in the interests of the artists, and (B) their approach to their customers is insulting, intimidating, disdainful and invasive. Some would use stronger words.
The RIAA right now is waging a campaign against music fans, in the name of artists (many of whom do not support their name being so used), and gee, if the people's rights, liberties and freedoms are caught in the crossfire, so be it. Hey, we can even reduce those too!
...just tech school graduates by and large don't have the skills to be as eloquent in defending their choice. When 20-year-old computer types congregate in large groups, little good comes out of it (unless it's a prank played on Caltech). You don't need hundreds of other tech folk, just a handful of very interesting, creative and motivated people. And, if that's not your thing, hippies have better parties. "Liberal Arts" comes from the late-Roman notion of the fields of human inquiry suitable for a free man, as opposed to those sciences needed by the slaves under him. Of course, Roman freemen didn't really do much work in life. The modern interpretation of the LA idea, especially in a LA college, consists in teaching skills and fields geared to improving the person, not the person's marketability. And somehow, at the end of the day, that makes the person a better hire, too.
I mean, come on. The HD war so far only has losers.