"Ohhh GSM patents aren't essential either, you can use CDMA!". That you have alternatives doesn't means that the other one isn't essential. You can't implement the entire SD card specification (includes the filsesystem too) that is a standard way to add external storage to a mobile device
Can I ask about the FAT patents that are part of a standard (SD Card)? Why Microsoft is able to force OEMs into big cross licensing agreements for dumb patents like that?
Use OpenId delegation pointing to any provider, that way you use your domain but don't need to run any extra software. I used myOpenid before but only this way, I knew something like this could happen, now wait for the day someone forget to renew their domain and all accounts where people used a myOpenid URL and people forgot to switch to another provider could be compromised
How do you propose to write it? you need a stable API (private if you don't want anyone using it) and an application that runs on your customers machine. Please tell me how you can secure the use of your private API more than obfuscating the client code. I can tell you the answer, It isn't possible unless you start using TPMs and only run on hardware and OSs that force the usage of it, and that can be hacked too
There are only two outcomes of this:
1- Dropbox learns that it is good to have an open API, and get people to write clients for every platform known to man 2- Dropbox start the "change API, obsfuscate again" race again the reverse engineers
Why a company outsource security (watchmen) to a 3rd party, or office cleaning services?. Because they don't want the overhead of having to schedule people times, vacations, salary payments, hardware they need, training. Instead of tha,t they contract some service that do that for them. You take care of the people you need for your core service or product, let the rest to others
They forked Android initially, don't know if they replaced bionic for glibc and more "GNUish" libraries, they aren't using Android SurfaceFlinger but they are using the GL drivers used for Android devices. Or they are using libhybris to make those GL drivers/libraries (that are linked against bionic) to run with Glibc or Firefox OS is still running bionic.
I am pretty sure they don't have everything open, Firefox OS is based on Android and their way of doing GPU drivers. I am most interested to know if Mozilla, the "mighty fighter for our freedoms" added a restriction to the usage of the Firefox brand that devices must be bootloader unlockable, so I can be the owner of the phone and not the OEM. I hope they are, I know Mozilla folks like to trash talk the Android ecosystem/openness, actions are better than words
False, PS+ is for all consoles the user has registered to PSN. There is a maximum of 2 PS3 and 2 Vitas (I don't remember if Vitas and PSP count in the same two). I have not read about how many PS4 will be allowed or if they will be grouped with the PS3 but Sony explicitly said that anyone can access the PS+ multiplayer on PS4 on those registered devices
Because you can't access the company network without access to the VPN. Serious enterprise networks do not trust only the wireless encryption, simple as that
Firefox has the option to protect saved passwords with a master passwords and if you already unlocked the password store, in order to read password from the GUI, you need to unlock it again
3. As for Group Text, I've never known any phone to say I'm not the only recipent. Does SMS even facilitate this? I think it's a case of the user not understanding this isn't a web based technology and wanting features he see's in the G+ and Facebook.
Same here, never seen that, it could be some SMS extension added by the carrier that needs a special SMS client
4. No pictures on low battery - this may well be to prevent the phone dying at a critical point which, were power to cease, would brick the phone. Should bricking the phone be the users descreation is another question.
Or there is not enough power to turn on the sensor. Many circuits can behave badly or break if you don't supply the correct minimum power, so you may be right
Exactly, forget about the GPL license in this case, the suppliers could have embedded malware on the product and never notice it. Fantec apparently didn't built the source they received. If I pay someone to do something for me I at least pay someone (an employee) to test if the package I recevied meet the contract I have with that supplier. If I requested source code for everything, that person must validate that
I prefer LibreOffice approach, release 4.1, and maintain with real critical fixes the 4.0 branch. On the 3.x cycle they always recommended to use the previous stable release, for example 3.4.3 when 3.5.0 was released, when they reached 3.6.0 they switched their recommendation to 3.5.x. Dream you will have real fixes for the 3.x branch of Apache OpenOffice
I don't need cables to do that, I stream audio using standard Bluetooth to my car stereo and I only plug the charger if a need it to be charged. For a quick 30 minutes ride on the car, I am sure I can live without charging it
Why the hurry? the probability of something as catastrophic like the car accident on your datacenter happening again is lower now, you can now proceed with the transition to the cloud or colocation service with the same speed than before.
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"Ohhh GSM patents aren't essential either, you can use CDMA!". That you have alternatives doesn't means that the other one isn't essential. You can't implement the entire SD card specification (includes the filsesystem too) that is a standard way to add external storage to a mobile device
You can't say your product is compliant with SD Card if you don't support FAT (or ExFat on the newer specifications)
That is irrelevant, we are talking about "Standards-Essential Patents Abuse" and Microsoft is a member of the SD Association
Can I ask about the FAT patents that are part of a standard (SD Card)? Why Microsoft is able to force OEMs into big cross licensing agreements for dumb patents like that?
Use OpenId delegation pointing to any provider, that way you use your domain but don't need to run any extra software. I used myOpenid before but only this way, I knew something like this could happen, now wait for the day someone forget to renew their domain and all accounts where people used a myOpenid URL and people forgot to switch to another provider could be compromised
How do you propose to write it? you need a stable API (private if you don't want anyone using it) and an application that runs on your customers machine. Please tell me how you can secure the use of your private API more than obfuscating the client code. I can tell you the answer, It isn't possible unless you start using TPMs and only run on hardware and OSs that force the usage of it, and that can be hacked too
There are only two outcomes of this:
1- Dropbox learns that it is good to have an open API, and get people to write clients for every platform known to man
2- Dropbox start the "change API, obsfuscate again" race again the reverse engineers
No, you want a frozen kernel. A stable kernel isn't one without bugs, is one where there aren't massive changes and you get dot releases with fixes
Why a company outsource security (watchmen) to a 3rd party, or office cleaning services?. Because they don't want the overhead of having to schedule people times, vacations, salary payments, hardware they need, training. Instead of tha,t they contract some service that do that for them. You take care of the people you need for your core service or product, let the rest to others
They forked Android initially, don't know if they replaced bionic for glibc and more "GNUish" libraries, they aren't using Android SurfaceFlinger but they are using the GL drivers used for Android devices. Or they are using libhybris to make those GL drivers/libraries (that are linked against bionic) to run with Glibc or Firefox OS is still running bionic.
I am pretty sure they don't have everything open, Firefox OS is based on Android and their way of doing GPU drivers. I am most interested to know if Mozilla, the "mighty fighter for our freedoms" added a restriction to the usage of the Firefox brand that devices must be bootloader unlockable, so I can be the owner of the phone and not the OEM. I hope they are, I know Mozilla folks like to trash talk the Android ecosystem/openness, actions are better than words
Web 3.0 and uses a plugin? at least do something real web before starting new buzzwords
False, PS+ is for all consoles the user has registered to PSN. There is a maximum of 2 PS3 and 2 Vitas (I don't remember if Vitas and PSP count in the same two). I have not read about how many PS4 will be allowed or if they will be grouped with the PS3 but Sony explicitly said that anyone can access the PS+ multiplayer on PS4 on those registered devices
Because you can't access the company network without access to the VPN. Serious enterprise networks do not trust only the wireless encryption, simple as that
Or treat wireless like an internet connection, require VPN access over it
âThe job of an IT department is to block or delay any solution implementation"
Firefox has the option to protect saved passwords with a master passwords and if you already unlocked the password store, in order to read password from the GUI, you need to unlock it again
Doesn't work, not because of Google but because applications developers do not use the platform API to backup and restore the data
3. As for Group Text, I've never known any phone to say I'm not the only recipent. Does SMS even facilitate this? I think it's a case of the user not understanding this isn't a web based technology and wanting features he see's in the G+ and Facebook.
Same here, never seen that, it could be some SMS extension added by the carrier that needs a special SMS client
4. No pictures on low battery - this may well be to prevent the phone dying at a critical point which, were power to cease, would brick the phone. Should bricking the phone be the users descreation is another question.
Or there is not enough power to turn on the sensor. Many circuits can behave badly or break if you don't supply the correct minimum power, so you may be right
Samsung copy everything Apple do, so it is Apple's fault :P
Exactly, forget about the GPL license in this case, the suppliers could have embedded malware on the product and never notice it. Fantec apparently didn't built the source they received. If I pay someone to do something for me I at least pay someone (an employee) to test if the package I recevied meet the contract I have with that supplier. If I requested source code for everything, that person must validate that
I prefer LibreOffice approach, release 4.1, and maintain with real critical fixes the 4.0 branch. On the 3.x cycle they always recommended to use the previous stable release, for example 3.4.3 when 3.5.0 was released, when they reached 3.6.0 they switched their recommendation to 3.5.x. Dream you will have real fixes for the 3.x branch of Apache OpenOffice
I don't need cables to do that, I stream audio using standard Bluetooth to my car stereo and I only plug the charger if a need it to be charged. For a quick 30 minutes ride on the car, I am sure I can live without charging it
CyamogenMod Privacy Guard>/a>, it gives the applications you configure that way empty data for your contacts and other privacy important data. It works like Incognito/private mode on browsers
Why the hurry? the probability of something as catastrophic like the car accident on your datacenter happening again is lower now, you can now proceed with the transition to the cloud or colocation service with the same speed than before.
Encrypted on their servers mean they can decrypt on their servers. It should be encrypted on the client