RTFPR. The ACLU press release explains this in the first paragraph. Last year they filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice to get the government's policies and procedures for tracking people via their cellphones. The DOJ basically ignored the request, so now the ACLU and EFF are suing the government to try to get them to comply with that request (and the law). Sounds like a ideal example of why we have lawsuits.
However, it's wrong for Apple to manufacture and sell hardware that disobeys its owner. I don't think Apple is alone in this. I told my Wii to rollover, but it didn't obey me, either. Sit seems to work, though.
Now I feel so stupid. You should. If you installed the betas of 10.5 or ZFS on your primary machine and then lost data, it's your own fault. Apple explicitly told you not to do that and it is simple commonsense to follow that advice. I haven't been accepted to the iPhone Developer Program yet, so I'm stuck on the simulator, but according to TUAW Apple gave the same advice for the iPhone OS betas:
"Important note: Once you install the pre-release iPhone OS on your device, such device may only be used for development and testing purposes until the final (GM) version of the iPhone OS is released. In addition, you will need to install new versions of the software from time to time throughout the beta period. Failure to install the most current version will, after a period of time, put your device in a de-activated state. Updating to the most current version will re-activate your device so that you may continue testing."
After all, it's not as if it's reasonable to expect a machine to do everyday tasks AND be used as software development platform at the same time. It is perfectly reasonable and so are Apple's requirements. If you can't afford a separate device AND can't deal with the inconveniences of running beta software on your primary device, then simply wait for the software to be publicly released in a non-beta form. Then you can develop on your primary device AND ignore Apple's advice to not run beta software on devices on which you can't afford to have bugs.
Apple thinks it own an iPhone... resulting in features... like mandatory SDK expiration dates Hmm, I wonder why Apple would want mandatory SDK expiration dates for their beta firmwares? Maybe because they are beta firmwares and they want developers to be developing against the latest version? Additionally, the beta firmwares aren't fully tested and could have exploits or other details Apple would prefer not to leave lying around.
The developers did nothing but buy hardware from an unethical company. ...and install beta software that they were explicitly told could do all of the things it has done and worse. You are obviously a troll, but because this idiocy seems so rampant, I thought I'd debunk it anyway.
Lying under oath, which is what Clinton did, is 100% impeachable. Lying in general, not so much.
You do not understand what impeachment is.
U.S. Consitution, Article II, Section 4:
Section 4. The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Or, as Gerald Ford put it, "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."
How are they not related? Did you even read what he said in May and what he said today? Then he said "we'll find a way to let 3rd parties write apps and still preserve security on the iPhone." Today he said we want to "provide an... open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc." Those are practically the same thing. And you'll have to explain how you logically classifiy one as an "Event" and one as a "Statement." One was verbal and one was written, one was (ostensibly) off-the-cuff and one was prepared. Other than that, they are effectively the same.
No, your post is just wrong and should be moderated as such. Here is Jobs at the D5 conference on May 30th, about a month before the iPhone was even released:
Q: All indications appear that the iPhone is closed, we'd love to develop apps...
This is an important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We're working through a way... we'll find a way to let 3rd parties write apps and still preserve security on the iPhone. But until we find that way we can't compromise the security of the phone.
I've used 3rd party apps... the more you add, the more your phone crashes. No one's perfect, and we'd sure like our phone not to crash once a day. If you can just be a little more patient with us I think everyone can get what they want.
Actually, WebKit is used by Nokia on its phones. And Safari runs on the iPhone. So you're wrong there.
The status bar isn't there by default, but it is very easy to turn on. Go to View->Show status bar. It doesn't get much easier than that. The fact is, most people don't look at that. My parents don't. My brothers don't. So, Apple doesn't waste screen real-estate on it by default.
My Powerbook also came with the trial / crapware versions of Stuffit, Omnigraffle, OmniOutliner, Quicken and some eReader thing that I forget the name of.
This is wrong. It comes will full versions of each of those programs. And, while they are completely unobtrusive, if you don't want them you can just drag them to the trash.
Oh.. and a.Mac trial - although I'm still pissed that I was too new to Macs to figure out that.Mac actually sucked until *after* the trial expired and I'd bought a subscription.
Which is why they give you a 3 month trial. And for which you give don't give them any credit card info. Enough said.
It is built in. It asks you when you install the OS if you want to transfer your data from a previous install of OS X on another Mac or a different volume, but there is also a program called Migration Assistant that allows you to do it after the fact. It has always been fairly easy to do, but only for an advanced user. This is slick and extremely easy to use. You can choose to copy over applicatons, user data, machine settings, other files, or any combination thereof. You can do it using a FireWire cable or through any drive hooked up internally or externally (i.e. USB2) to your Mac. And it works seamlessly. The only thing it won't get is/usr/local, but you can just drag and drop that if you need it. I use it quite a bit at work and it is a lifesaver when upgrading a user to new hardware.
You can be running a local mailserver but not have a daemon active, because launchctl will bring up postfix as needed.
Launchd will bring postfix up as needed. But, launchctl is what you want to use to see what launchd has loaded. And that is loaded, not necessarily running. The command you want to use is "sudo launchctl list". For example, mine shows org.postfix.master and com.openssh.sshd, which aren't actually running but will be activated when there is traffic on the specified ports. Of course, you'll also notice org.xinetd.xinetd. Nothing by default runs under xinetd, but if you've added a server, it could be in/etc/xinetd.d rather than in the launchctl list.
The XML vs. flat file debate has been fought all over the web, so I won't rehash it here, but I think the benefits of machine-parseability are worth it and it uses Apple's standard plist format, so it is consistent the rest of the OS.
Overall, launchd is a huge step forward. Apple has open-sourced it and it would be interesting to see it implemented in other systems. Perhaps Solaris can use it in exchange for giving us ZFS (10.5).
Once people understand that they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, invester confidence will rise. We will be confident that finally those privaleged few might be too afraid of the reprocussions to go around screwing us small guys.
If those aren't natural monopolies, than what is? Do you have any idea what it costs to run a utility to every home? If you're second, not only is it more expensive (the earlier competitors took the easiest path), but you have a massively lower take rate. The solution is to have one infrastructure controlled by a public organization providing wholesale access to service providers on RAND terms.
Instead of government controlled ""public access"" property, what is your solution? That a utility provider negotiate with every property owner between me and their property?
And that, my friend, is when you, as an informed customer, sue the pants off of your telco for not providing the level of service in your SLA.
Except it will legal. Or do you really think the telcos won't update their service agreements to take into account their new powers? The solution isn't to mitigate bad law, it is to prevent bad law from being enacted. It is going to be very hard to find a "gotcha" against the telcos in a law they wrote themselves.
As though telecoms really want to block off websites instead of regulate bandwidth to things that are going to consume terabytes or more of bandwidth like hi-def video services.
Yes, they do. The telcos can see the writing on the wall. The phone companies are just starting to hemorrhage customers to VOIP, but they know it's going to change from a trickle to a torrent. They're already hurting because of cell networks (which is why they own big chunks of them) and VOIP is going to make it worse. And it is a bit further off, but cable companies know that an on-demand world is coming. ITunes is already there, TiVo has been there, and people love it. In the next few years, both industries are going see a significant decline in revenues. They see Internet regulation as their solution. They can degrade the service of competitors, driving customers towards their own services, or they can charge companies who provide those services, making up for their lost profits. Either way, they won't have to worry about competition, which is exactly what they've become accustomed to.
Democracy sucks ass at allocating resources compared to a competitive free market. I'll take my chances with the market over protections for either side, thank you.
Except this isn't a free market and never will be. The huge capital costs represent a massive barrier to entry and subsequent competitors have substantially increased costs. It is a natural monopoly - or duopoly, in this case. Think about a company trying to provide an alternative to our road system. And consumers quite simply aren't equipped to make intelligent decisions that take into consideration any factors other than cost and perhaps support (although that is often entirely anecdotal), which is something that is a requirement for a free market to function. The infrastructure should be publicly owned with private service providers operating on top of the infrastructure on a RAND basis. That is as close to a free market and ideal situation as we can get.
Think Front Row. Front Row is very much like a video game menu system. Although it looks pretty and I like to use it, the functionality blows. They have a lot of work to do with it. Or maybe they want some better games for their new video iPod. One this is for sure, the iTunes group aren't developing games for the Mac platform. They want some people with lots of graphics experience, probably for some custom GUI stuff (every game has it's own widgets).
He's talking about virtual circuits. Before ATM cells (frames) can be sent to their destination, a connection has to be opened to that destination. Each router in the path from the starting point to the end point has to be able to guarantee the level of service the connection needs (Wikipedia explains). So each router knows exactly where each incoming cell is going. This speeds things up quite a bit, but the problem is that the connection is reserved whether it is used or not. Connections can allocate chunks of bandwidth and that bandwidth is tied up whether or not it is being used, because it might be used and the router has committed to a certain level of service. And there is a single route from start to finish, not the multiple routes that an IP packet might get take (Ethernet frames don't get routed). It makes things faster, but it reduces flexibility and it requires greater resources and complexity.
While I'm writing, I didn't get why they used the term "data center." I think of a data center as something like a colo facility or one of Google's server farms, but the article talked exclusively about computer clusters and HPC. Is that just me?
so their goal is to get the gov't to allow them to run their part of the internet as a private network. where they can partition off portions of their bandwidth that's dedicated to VoIP phone calls and such, while allowing a (perhaps smaller) portion of the pipe to be available for video downloads and such.
No. I don't know why this is such a hard subject for people to get. What the telcos want is for *their* VOIP 911 calls to go through, but for Vonage to have to pay them if Vonage want *its* VOIP 911 calls to go through.
The telcos want to discriminate based on origin. That is bad. Unfortunately, the telcos are trying to conflate discriminating based on origin with discriminating based on service or priority (which is debatable). They are separate issues. The problem is, that while the latter does make some sense, it is a very tricky thing to allow due to the telcos desire to do the former. If you allow service or priority filtering, than how do you stop the telcos from saying "We aren't prioritizing VOIP, but we are prioritizing VOIP+, which just happens to only be offered by us"? What about new services that would benefit from prioritization? Do older services get an automatic advantage? It simply won't work. It will be too cumbersome, it slow down innovation and it will slow down growth. The solution is simple: more bandwidth. Keep the network stupid.
It looks like the battery performance is much closer to the iBook than I thought it would be:
Work Longer Unplugged MacBook offers up to 6 hours of battery life. (2.5 hours of DVD playback, 3.5 hours with wireless turned on.) Here's how to squeeze out every last second of battery power when you need it.
Turn off AirPort and Bluetooth if you're not using them Disconnect peripherals not in use Quit applications not in use Eject CDs and DVDs not in use Choose Energy Saver in System Preferences, click the Show Details button, and: Select "Better Battery Life" Set MacBook to sleep after five minutes (or less) of inactivity Put the display to sleep after five minutes (or less) of inactivity Check the box next to "Put the hard disk to sleep when possible"
It will be tempting to switch from my MBP just for the battery life. Although the weight is now only 6.4 ounces less. Still, if work didn't pay for my laptop, there is no question which one I'd buy. I already have an external DVD burner (and dual-layer to boot), so I'd get the cheapest and spend the extra $200 on maxing out the RAM. The only thing that would give me pause is the integrated graphics. I don't care about games, but I do use Aperture and some other pro apps and I'd like to know what difference this will make. Apple is going to be supply constrained for quite a while.
Bottom line, the Nixon administration went as far as they could with the technology available to them. It is also worth pointing out that quite a few members of the current administration worked in the Nixon administration, most notably Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
I'm a Network Engineer for a major US cable company... So to sum up, yeah it's not a big deal for a few people to stream HD at 6~10Mbit through an egress point however if a killer service takes off and everybody starts using it in this way it could seriously impact service.
Okay, so how are you handling the video and Vonage-like services you want to offer to your customers? Oh look, problem solved.
It should be obvious that an agency involved in spying gets all of their information from somewhere. Whether they are digging through my trash, having somebody observe me and make notes, or coercing my phone company is irrelevant and, yes, specious. The point is that it is secret from the subject of the spying and in this case the subject was the entire American people.
...who, incidentally, are providing it voluntarily
In addition, the agency suggested that Qwest's foot-dragging might affect its ability to get future classified work with the government. Like other big telecommunications companies, Qwest already had classified contracts and hoped to get more.
They tried to force at least one company that resisted. Do you really think they asked meekly and said "Oh, okay" when a someone said no? What else will we learn as this starts to see some sunlight?
Oxford dictionary:
spy
verb ( spies, spied, spying) [ intrans. ] work for a government or other organization by secretly collecting information about enemies or competitors : he agreed to spy for the West.
( spy on) observe (someone) furtively : the couple were spied on by reporters.
My government secretly collecting information about who I call and for how long would seem to fall under the definition of "spying". Hopefully you can now understand why your IRS and phone company examples are specious.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.
RTFPR. The ACLU press release explains this in the first paragraph. Last year they filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice to get the government's policies and procedures for tracking people via their cellphones. The DOJ basically ignored the request, so now the ACLU and EFF are suing the government to try to get them to comply with that request (and the law). Sounds like a ideal example of why we have lawsuits.
After all, it's not as if it's reasonable to expect a machine to do everyday tasks AND be used as software development platform at the same time. It is perfectly reasonable and so are Apple's requirements. If you can't afford a separate device AND can't deal with the inconveniences of running beta software on your primary device, then simply wait for the software to be publicly released in a non-beta form. Then you can develop on your primary device AND ignore Apple's advice to not run beta software on devices on which you can't afford to have bugs.
Apple thinks it own an iPhone... resulting in features... like mandatory SDK expiration dates Hmm, I wonder why Apple would want mandatory SDK expiration dates for their beta firmwares? Maybe because they are beta firmwares and they want developers to be developing against the latest version? Additionally, the beta firmwares aren't fully tested and could have exploits or other details Apple would prefer not to leave lying around.
The developers did nothing but buy hardware from an unethical company. ...and install beta software that they were explicitly told could do all of the things it has done and worse. You are obviously a troll, but because this idiocy seems so rampant, I thought I'd debunk it anyway.
What version is getting 96%?
WebKit nightly builds. Just go to http://nightly.webkit.org/, download, and run. It currently gets 96%, tomorrow's will get 98% or better.
You do not understand what impeachment is.
U.S. Consitution, Article II, Section 4: Or, as Gerald Ford put it, "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."
How are they not related? Did you even read what he said in May and what he said today? Then he said "we'll find a way to let 3rd parties write apps and still preserve security on the iPhone." Today he said we want to "provide an... open platform to developers while at the same time protect iPhone users from viruses, malware, privacy attacks, etc." Those are practically the same thing. And you'll have to explain how you logically classifiy one as an "Event" and one as a "Statement." One was verbal and one was written, one was (ostensibly) off-the-cuff and one was prepared. Other than that, they are effectively the same.
The status bar isn't there by default, but it is very easy to turn on. Go to View->Show status bar. It doesn't get much easier than that. The fact is, most people don't look at that. My parents don't. My brothers don't. So, Apple doesn't waste screen real-estate on it by default.
You can also just drag the URL to any text box.
And if you are developing, look into Drosera.
You could take 5 seconds and find out that it has been cracked. Simply Google playsforsure and cracked.
This is wrong. It comes will full versions of each of those programs. And, while they are completely unobtrusive, if you don't want them you can just drag them to the trash.
Oh.. and a .Mac trial - although I'm still pissed that I was too new to Macs to figure out that .Mac actually sucked until *after* the trial expired and I'd bought a subscription.
Which is why they give you a 3 month trial. And for which you give don't give them any credit card info. Enough said.
It is built in. It asks you when you install the OS if you want to transfer your data from a previous install of OS X on another Mac or a different volume, but there is also a program called Migration Assistant that allows you to do it after the fact. It has always been fairly easy to do, but only for an advanced user. This is slick and extremely easy to use. You can choose to copy over applicatons, user data, machine settings, other files, or any combination thereof. You can do it using a FireWire cable or through any drive hooked up internally or externally (i.e. USB2) to your Mac. And it works seamlessly. The only thing it won't get is /usr/local, but you can just drag and drop that if you need it. I use it quite a bit at work and it is a lifesaver when upgrading a user to new hardware.
Launchd will bring postfix up as needed. But, launchctl is what you want to use to see what launchd has loaded. And that is loaded, not necessarily running. The command you want to use is "sudo launchctl list". For example, mine shows org.postfix.master and com.openssh.sshd, which aren't actually running but will be activated when there is traffic on the specified ports. Of course, you'll also notice org.xinetd.xinetd. Nothing by default runs under xinetd, but if you've added a server, it could be in /etc/xinetd.d rather than in the launchctl list.
The XML vs. flat file debate has been fought all over the web, so I won't rehash it here, but I think the benefits of machine-parseability are worth it and it uses Apple's standard plist format, so it is consistent the rest of the OS.
Overall, launchd is a huge step forward. Apple has open-sourced it and it would be interesting to see it implemented in other systems. Perhaps Solaris can use it in exchange for giving us ZFS (10.5).
Once people understand that they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, invester confidence will rise. We will be confident that finally those privaleged few might be too afraid of the reprocussions to go around screwing us small guys.
Unless investors are those privileged few.
Instead of government controlled ""public access"" property, what is your solution? That a utility provider negotiate with every property owner between me and their property?
Except it will legal. Or do you really think the telcos won't update their service agreements to take into account their new powers? The solution isn't to mitigate bad law, it is to prevent bad law from being enacted. It is going to be very hard to find a "gotcha" against the telcos in a law they wrote themselves.
Yes, they do. The telcos can see the writing on the wall. The phone companies are just starting to hemorrhage customers to VOIP, but they know it's going to change from a trickle to a torrent. They're already hurting because of cell networks (which is why they own big chunks of them) and VOIP is going to make it worse. And it is a bit further off, but cable companies know that an on-demand world is coming. ITunes is already there, TiVo has been there, and people love it. In the next few years, both industries are going see a significant decline in revenues. They see Internet regulation as their solution. They can degrade the service of competitors, driving customers towards their own services, or they can charge companies who provide those services, making up for their lost profits. Either way, they won't have to worry about competition, which is exactly what they've become accustomed to.
Democracy sucks ass at allocating resources compared to a competitive free market. I'll take my chances with the market over protections for either side, thank you.
Except this isn't a free market and never will be. The huge capital costs represent a massive barrier to entry and subsequent competitors have substantially increased costs. It is a natural monopoly - or duopoly, in this case. Think about a company trying to provide an alternative to our road system. And consumers quite simply aren't equipped to make intelligent decisions that take into consideration any factors other than cost and perhaps support (although that is often entirely anecdotal), which is something that is a requirement for a free market to function. The infrastructure should be publicly owned with private service providers operating on top of the infrastructure on a RAND basis. That is as close to a free market and ideal situation as we can get.
Think Front Row. Front Row is very much like a video game menu system. Although it looks pretty and I like to use it, the functionality blows. They have a lot of work to do with it. Or maybe they want some better games for their new video iPod. One this is for sure, the iTunes group aren't developing games for the Mac platform. They want some people with lots of graphics experience, probably for some custom GUI stuff (every game has it's own widgets).
While I'm writing, I didn't get why they used the term "data center." I think of a data center as something like a colo facility or one of Google's server farms, but the article talked exclusively about computer clusters and HPC. Is that just me?
No. I don't know why this is such a hard subject for people to get. What the telcos want is for *their* VOIP 911 calls to go through, but for Vonage to have to pay them if Vonage want *its* VOIP 911 calls to go through.
The telcos want to discriminate based on origin. That is bad. Unfortunately, the telcos are trying to conflate discriminating based on origin with discriminating based on service or priority (which is debatable). They are separate issues. The problem is, that while the latter does make some sense, it is a very tricky thing to allow due to the telcos desire to do the former. If you allow service or priority filtering, than how do you stop the telcos from saying "We aren't prioritizing VOIP, but we are prioritizing VOIP+, which just happens to only be offered by us"? What about new services that would benefit from prioritization? Do older services get an automatic advantage? It simply won't work. It will be too cumbersome, it slow down innovation and it will slow down growth. The solution is simple: more bandwidth. Keep the network stupid.
It will be tempting to switch from my MBP just for the battery life. Although the weight is now only 6.4 ounces less. Still, if work didn't pay for my laptop, there is no question which one I'd buy. I already have an external DVD burner (and dual-layer to boot), so I'd get the cheapest and spend the extra $200 on maxing out the RAM. The only thing that would give me pause is the integrated graphics. I don't care about games, but I do use Aperture and some other pro apps and I'd like to know what difference this will make. Apple is going to be supply constrained for quite a while.
Excerpt from Rick Perlstein's upcoming Nixonland
Bottom line, the Nixon administration went as far as they could with the technology available to them. It is also worth pointing out that quite a few members of the current administration worked in the Nixon administration, most notably Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Okay, so how are you handling the video and Vonage-like services you want to offer to your customers? Oh look, problem solved.
No, you're wrong:
They tried to force at least one company that resisted. Do you really think they asked meekly and said "Oh, okay" when a someone said no? What else will we learn as this starts to see some sunlight?
Oxford dictionary:
spy verb ( spies, spied, spying) [ intrans. ] work for a government or other organization by secretly collecting information about enemies or competitors : he agreed to spy for the West.
( spy on) observe (someone) furtively : the couple were spied on by reporters.
My government secretly collecting information about who I call and for how long would seem to fall under the definition of "spying". Hopefully you can now understand why your IRS and phone company examples are specious.