As someone who has written cell phone software before, I can tell you that Symbian and Windows Mobile also require application signing before allowing your programs to run on their platforms. It's very common in the cell phone industry to use certificate signing--and at $99/year....
This is blatantly false. You most certainly DO NOT have to sign an application for it to run in Symbian or Windows Mobile. The device will prompt you that the application you are installing is not signe, sure, but that does not stop you from installing the application at all. Sure, if you are a commercial entity you would want to sign your app to get rid of the "ugly dialog". But there are thousands of free Windows Mobile and Symbian apps that are unsigned, many of which are EXTREMELY popular.
The fact that an iPhone requires an application to be signed before it can even be installed and run is totally different from how Windows Mobile and Symbian operate.
Your link misses the entire point of the term "African American," which is not a fancy P.C. word for "black people," but a term used to identify people in a specific cultural group, with certain overall traditions, customs, and apparently gaming habits. It's come into commonplace usage because it's a unique phrase which sets that group off from other cultural, ethnic and racial groups in America. Exactly like Pennsylvania Dutch, who are called "Pennsylvania Dutch" even though they aren't really Dutch and don't all live in Pennsylvania. And, check it: someone might actually be from the Netherlands and move to Pennsylvania, oh no, what do we call them?
This is total baloney. Do you somehow honestly think that black people living in Alabama have the same "overall traditions, customs, and apparently gaming habits" as black people living in New York City, and them the same as black people living in Chicago?
This would be totally presumptuous and ignorant. Such a statement is blatantly false since these are very different cultural groups. It would also be glossing over the important historical fact that many blacks in the north in generations past were never slaves. You can't just take a label like "African American" and slap it on all black people in the US. It is and should be degrading to many.
No one with a financial brain keeps any substantial amount of money in bank accounts.
Any emergency savings you have should be held in money market accounts or short / medium term GICs.
Smart people let their money work for them.
I have an OK job, few debits, and no kids - and I *NEVER* have more than $100 cash in my bank account at any time. I pay for everything with credit card to accumulate points and/or cash back, and pay it in full every month, and the surplus goes into retirement funds and money market accounts.
The same behavior was present when Vista was originally released, but the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers.
A comment like this smacks of someone who has never actually worked at a for-profit development shop.
A more reasonable response is something like "the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door because a cost/benefit analysis proved that it cost more to fix and QA the problem during the SP1 timeline than the projected revenue loss from leaving the bug in place".
It's probably because if you're undergoing intensive radiation therapy the last thing you want to do is go on vacation or a long drive - you feel like absolute crap. Cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy are pretty much either confined to hospital or their house for a long stint. If the hospital was far enough from your home so as to travel for an extended period on the interstate to get there, you would be staying there while the treatment was ongoing, you would definitely not be being shuttled around.
The only reason the cat is driven all over the place while undergoing radiation treatment is because they can't speak up for themselves.
... as long as the city isn't run by idiots and/or politicians who have been bought out by he local ISP conglomerates.
In my city, which had the foresight to not only build a municipal WiFi network but also run it themselves without profit-mongering corporate overlords, the municipal network not only breaks even, it makes a net profit. This is because the same infrastructure that powers the municipal WiFi (the city-wide fibre-optic ring), has oodles of extra capacity, which the city leases to local companies, which funds the maintenance and expansion of the wireless network for the public.
As such, the city is it's own ISP, and actually competes with the local telco for broadband ISP access with local companies.
Niagara falls is not a good example becase nature itself is on Canada's side. The reason the Canadian side of the falls has grown into such a tourist attraction is the horseshoe falls, which are the most dramatic portion, is best visible from the Canadian side. You can hardly see anything from the New York side.
So, over time, more and more money went to the Canadian side developing the tourist area. Think about it, if you are a developer spending $100 million on a hotel, you want it to have the best possible view - so you put it on the Canadian side.
Like I posted above, you can use www.maxmind.com's downloadable database to find the geographic location of any IP with a quite high granularity. The database is free to use for open source projects as well.
P.S.: Try using a more compact encoding for your HD rips, you don't need all 30GB to have spectacular picture, H.264 can do amazing things.
Sorry - I like to have my media archived in it's original format. Re-encoding already compressed data is just a recipie for lossiness, which is not what you want in a permanant archive.
If I had the original uncompressed material to do a H.264 encode on, that would be an option, but when you only have the MPEG2 HD copy, it isn't.
Because drive size has began starting to exceed our data storage needs (at least on a personal computer Level)
Er.... I have several 30 GB HD rips that would tend to disagree with you.
Multimedia content is still huge. Your standard from-the-factory PC can only hold 3-4 high quality movies. I know people who have multi-TB RAID arrays to archive their media content and are already feeling storage crunches.
For what reason? Last I heard Apple did not have a monopoly on cell phones, or even on smart phones. The only thing they seem to have a monopoly on is fanboys.
Don't like the iPhone's rules, don't buy the phone. There are a multitude of alternatives. The FCC does not regulate what US providers can and can not restrict on their cell phone networks currently in any way.
In that case the exploited software is running as a non privileged user that can not escalate themselves anyway - so the existence of passwords or not on some other arbitrary account is once again irrelevant.
The soaked floorboards is just a smokescreen, because if the car actually had a bunch of his wife's blood, no amount of soaking with water would be able to remove the traces of it - it would be easily visible under UV light. The only way to have removed the traces would be to soak it in BLEACH, which if was the case the prosecutors / media would surely be pointing out.
Not saying he is innocent or guilty, but IMO the fact that the defense doesn't up this inconsistency is confusing.
If you had any clue about network security you would know what a ridiculous statement this was.
The password of the currently logged in user is totally irrelevant because you either compromise the machine as root without anyone logged in, or you compromise the machine as the user running the flawed service, either way you already have all privileges of the exploited user so not knowing their password is totally irrelevant.
Passwords are for encryption and login security. Once exploited the existence or not of a password on the connected machine is meaningless.
a) Your average cop who is seizing your PC is well-read enough to know about this technique b) The cops came totally unannounced to you c) Your PC is left on all the time with your encrypted partition mounted, or that the cops moved through your house so fast (30 seconds according to the article) that you don't have enough time to turn the machine you are using off for long enough for the DRAM to lose it's charge. d) You don't have a BIOS boot password set on the PC (any BIOS password would take at least 30 seconds to bypass by opening the PC and clearing the BIOS)
In short - if you have data that is important enough to keep secret that it is on an encrypted partition, you shouldn't be leaving it mounted all the time ANYWAY. You should mount it when needed and unmount it as soon as you don't. Thus there won't be any keys in memory to steal.
The US is pretty much the only country that has a gripe with Cuba, and that is just because they are the only country who have ever had the guts to kick the US out.
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As someone who has written cell phone software before, I can tell you that Symbian and Windows Mobile also require application signing before allowing your programs to run on their platforms. It's very common in the cell phone industry to use certificate signing--and at $99/year....
This is blatantly false. You most certainly DO NOT have to sign an application for it to run in Symbian or Windows Mobile. The device will prompt you that the application you are installing is not signe, sure, but that does not stop you from installing the application at all. Sure, if you are a commercial entity you would want to sign your app to get rid of the "ugly dialog". But there are thousands of free Windows Mobile and Symbian apps that are unsigned, many of which are EXTREMELY popular.
The fact that an iPhone requires an application to be signed before it can even be installed and run is totally different from how Windows Mobile and Symbian operate.
Anything less than 1920x1200 is too narrow to fit two windows comfortably side-by-side, and you sacrifice vertical resolution to get the widescreen.
Er... so get a 1920x1200 laptop then?
Both my current and previous Dells (D600 and D820) have been 1920x1200.
Your link misses the entire point of the term "African American," which is not a fancy P.C. word for "black people," but a term used to identify people in a specific cultural group, with certain overall traditions, customs, and apparently gaming habits. It's come into commonplace usage because it's a unique phrase which sets that group off from other cultural, ethnic and racial groups in America. Exactly like Pennsylvania Dutch, who are called "Pennsylvania Dutch" even though they aren't really Dutch and don't all live in Pennsylvania. And, check it: someone might actually be from the Netherlands and move to Pennsylvania, oh no, what do we call them?
This is total baloney. Do you somehow honestly think that black people living in Alabama have the same "overall traditions, customs, and apparently gaming habits" as black people living in New York City, and them the same as black people living in Chicago?
This would be totally presumptuous and ignorant. Such a statement is blatantly false since these are very different cultural groups. It would also be glossing over the important historical fact that many blacks in the north in generations past were never slaves. You can't just take a label like "African American" and slap it on all black people in the US. It is and should be degrading to many.
I find I can usually find the item cheaper at a fixed price at amazon.com than I can at the current going "auction price" on eBay.
And with Amazon, I pay with my CC *DIRECTLY*, no shifty PayPal in the middle.
No one with a financial brain keeps any substantial amount of money in bank accounts.
Any emergency savings you have should be held in money market accounts or short / medium term GICs.
Smart people let their money work for them.
I have an OK job, few debits, and no kids - and I *NEVER* have more than $100 cash in my bank account at any time. I pay for everything with credit card to accumulate points and/or cash back, and pay it in full every month, and the surplus goes into retirement funds and money market accounts.
Keeping money in bank accounts is foolishness.
The same behavior was present when Vista was originally released, but the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door as a way to make the price of Vista more appealing to sophisticated buyers.
A comment like this smacks of someone who has never actually worked at a for-profit development shop.
A more reasonable response is something like "the fact that the trick wasn't removed from SP1 suggests that Microsoft executives approved the back door because a cost/benefit analysis proved that it cost more to fix and QA the problem during the SP1 timeline than the projected revenue loss from leaving the bug in place".
Rogers has HSPDA rolled out in many major centres already and is going to be doing so at a rapid rate this year.
But then hobos would be in such high demand you would never be able to find any when you wanted to watch a good fight.
It's probably because if you're undergoing intensive radiation therapy the last thing you want to do is go on vacation or a long drive - you feel like absolute crap. Cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy are pretty much either confined to hospital or their house for a long stint. If the hospital was far enough from your home so as to travel for an extended period on the interstate to get there, you would be staying there while the treatment was ongoing, you would definitely not be being shuttled around.
The only reason the cat is driven all over the place while undergoing radiation treatment is because they can't speak up for themselves.
... as long as the city isn't run by idiots and/or politicians who have been bought out by he local ISP conglomerates.
In my city, which had the foresight to not only build a municipal WiFi network but also run it themselves without profit-mongering corporate overlords, the municipal network not only breaks even, it makes a net profit. This is because the same infrastructure that powers the municipal WiFi (the city-wide fibre-optic ring), has oodles of extra capacity, which the city leases to local companies, which funds the maintenance and expansion of the wireless network for the public.
As such, the city is it's own ISP, and actually competes with the local telco for broadband ISP access with local companies.
Niagara falls is not a good example becase nature itself is on Canada's side. The reason the Canadian side of the falls has grown into such a tourist attraction is the horseshoe falls, which are the most dramatic portion, is best visible from the Canadian side. You can hardly see anything from the New York side.
So, over time, more and more money went to the Canadian side developing the tourist area. Think about it, if you are a developer spending $100 million on a hotel, you want it to have the best possible view - so you put it on the Canadian side.
Adblock - everyone should have this installed.
Like I posted above, you can use www.maxmind.com's downloadable database to find the geographic location of any IP with a quite high granularity. The database is free to use for open source projects as well.
Geographic location of IPs is not secret.
www.maxmind.com
If your project is open source their database is free.
P.S.: Try using a more compact encoding for your HD rips, you don't need all 30GB to have spectacular picture, H.264 can do amazing things.
Sorry - I like to have my media archived in it's original format. Re-encoding already compressed data is just a recipie for lossiness, which is not what you want in a permanant archive.
If I had the original uncompressed material to do a H.264 encode on, that would be an option, but when you only have the MPEG2 HD copy, it isn't.
The main page of Slashdot alone is over 580 KB when you include the images and JS files. And Slashdot is not a very rich site.
Because drive size has began starting to exceed our data storage needs (at least on a personal computer Level)
Er.... I have several 30 GB HD rips that would tend to disagree with you.Multimedia content is still huge. Your standard from-the-factory PC can only hold 3-4 high quality movies. I know people who have multi-TB RAID arrays to archive their media content and are already feeling storage crunches.
Could Apple face government regulators?
For what reason? Last I heard Apple did not have a monopoly on cell phones, or even on smart phones. The only thing they seem to have a monopoly on is fanboys.
Don't like the iPhone's rules, don't buy the phone. There are a multitude of alternatives. The FCC does not regulate what US providers can and can not restrict on their cell phone networks currently in any way.
I would like to Digg this story to spread the word more...
In that case the exploited software is running as a non privileged user that can not escalate themselves anyway - so the existence of passwords or not on some other arbitrary account is once again irrelevant.
The soaked floorboards is just a smokescreen, because if the car actually had a bunch of his wife's blood, no amount of soaking with water would be able to remove the traces of it - it would be easily visible under UV light. The only way to have removed the traces would be to soak it in BLEACH, which if was the case the prosecutors / media would surely be pointing out.
Not saying he is innocent or guilty, but IMO the fact that the defense doesn't up this inconsistency is confusing.
If you had any clue about network security you would know what a ridiculous statement this was.
The password of the currently logged in user is totally irrelevant because you either compromise the machine as root without anyone logged in, or you compromise the machine as the user running the flawed service, either way you already have all privileges of the exploited user so not knowing their password is totally irrelevant.
Passwords are for encryption and login security. Once exploited the existence or not of a password on the connected machine is meaningless.
You are assuming that...
a) Your average cop who is seizing your PC is well-read enough to know about this technique
b) The cops came totally unannounced to you
c) Your PC is left on all the time with your encrypted partition mounted, or that the cops moved through your house so fast (30 seconds according to the article) that you don't have enough time to turn the machine you are using off for long enough for the DRAM to lose it's charge.
d) You don't have a BIOS boot password set on the PC (any BIOS password would take at least 30 seconds to bypass by opening the PC and clearing the BIOS)
In short - if you have data that is important enough to keep secret that it is on an encrypted partition, you shouldn't be leaving it mounted all the time ANYWAY. You should mount it when needed and unmount it as soon as you don't. Thus there won't be any keys in memory to steal.
I dunno what crazy math you are doing but your calculations are way off. At 58" (1.47 m) the device will output 1.35 watts:
W = ( N * m ) / s
N = kg * ( m / s^2 )
N = 22.6 * 9.8 = 221.48
W = ( 221.48 * 1.47 ) / 240
W = 1.353
I also don't know WTF you're talking about 150 lumens / watt. Many white LEDs output 300 and up lumens / watt.
In short this is totally doable.
The US is pretty much the only country that has a gripe with Cuba, and that is just because they are the only country who have ever had the guts to kick the US out.