Think about it this way:
1. It's a more powerful, but less portable iPad.
2. It's a Silent Scope style sniperscope. See 3m16 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNst2RZQ2hs
3. It's a cheaper cintiq drawing tablet.
I'm very much sold on it, assuming it's priced right.
This sounds like it could have some uses for e.g. wikipedia, where instead of blocking vandals by IP, you can block individual users on a certain IP address block instead. This would work for people vandalising off university networks, for example.
World's largest collection of ego?
I thought we were talking about wikipedia, not the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China or all those other wonders...
Well, arguably having an incompatible railway network won World War II on the Eastern Front, so, I'm not counting on the Russians changing their system just yet.;-)
Maybe it'd have been valuable to wait, to prepare better, so that Bin Laden would have been captured alive. Or maybe the US was tracking people leaving the compound, for a source of intelligence. What if by rushing the operation, it was actually bungled (as it nearly was, since one helicopter was lost), and Bin Laden got away? Would you be praising Wikileaks now?
Well, the code breaking was only useful so long as the Germans and Japanese didn't know the code was being broken. If Wikileaks existed then and leaked the existence of ULTRA, it'd have done a ton of damage.
Well, you aren't thinking with datamining. The cellular data is only the tip of the iceberg. Combine it with the wifi sniffing, and you can probably get things to a far greater level of accuracy. It'll take a bit of ingenuity to unify the data, but there's more than enough to establish e.g. if someone went out of their normal route to meet with someone at a certain time, or stuff like that.
There's only one way to see if the data is sent somewhere: it's to monitor the iPhone's input and output over an extended period. To my knowledge, no one has done that. In other words, we simply do not know whether this data is sent anywhere - and there are absolutely zero protections against it being sent. However, the way the data is stored, and the way the data is connected per user instead of per phone (being migrated across if you switch phones), makes it seems like presuming that Apple is being totally clean with this is very very naive.
As TFA says, the data displayed on by the app is artificially degraded so that the app itself cannot be used as a snopping tool. The raw data stored is far more precise.
It's impossible to determine where this data has been sent. Any app has access to it. Access to this file itself is not logged. It could be sitting on the hard drives of any number of app producers.
Yes. It uses cell triangulation, so it's still tracking with GPS switched off. The researchers' website has a very informative FAQ. Also, as their app illustrates, with this data on the phone, *any* iphone or ipad app has access to this, not just Apple themselves. It's a privacy nightmare.
The answer is very simple. Because weather != climate. Climate is a statistical average over long periods of time and large geographical areas. (And we don't know with absolute certainty, in any case. Everything has to be qualified with error bounds, which is very obvious, really, because much of what will happen is dependent on what we will do in response to predictions.) Weather is localised temporary fluctuations in phenomena.
It's like saying that we can pretty much guess what the slashdot comments to a certain story would be saying, but it would be very unfair to ask us to type out the text of the Nth comment.
(Well, except for First Post, In Soviet Russia, I, for one, welcome our.... etc )
Pleeeease don't make a Planescape Torment sequel. Sure, make another game set in the Planescape multiverse. But a sequel to Torment can only be a rape of a fine game's memory. The game had a fine ending, a great ending. Don't ruin it by tacking something on.
After all, we've heard the relentless call that more research is required to prove GW or AGW or whatever. So, when funding is cut on precisely this research, making it likely to take far longer to get the answers you are asking for, where's the surge of outrage?
Slashdot Mirror
Think about it this way: 1. It's a more powerful, but less portable iPad. 2. It's a Silent Scope style sniperscope. See 3m16 on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNst2RZQ2hs 3. It's a cheaper cintiq drawing tablet. I'm very much sold on it, assuming it's priced right.
This sounds like it could have some uses for e.g. wikipedia, where instead of blocking vandals by IP, you can block individual users on a certain IP address block instead. This would work for people vandalising off university networks, for example.
World's largest collection of ego? I thought we were talking about wikipedia, not the Pyramids or the Great Wall of China or all those other wonders...
Well, arguably having an incompatible railway network won World War II on the Eastern Front, so, I'm not counting on the Russians changing their system just yet. ;-)
Yeah, people saying that it's a good thing the operation was brought forward aren't considering the increased probability of failure this means.
Maybe it'd have been valuable to wait, to prepare better, so that Bin Laden would have been captured alive. Or maybe the US was tracking people leaving the compound, for a source of intelligence. What if by rushing the operation, it was actually bungled (as it nearly was, since one helicopter was lost), and Bin Laden got away? Would you be praising Wikileaks now?
>You can NOT trust leaders. Yet you trust Assange.
Well, the code breaking was only useful so long as the Germans and Japanese didn't know the code was being broken. If Wikileaks existed then and leaked the existence of ULTRA, it'd have done a ton of damage.
Garbage. Google can't write to this file on iPhones. And the file stored on Android is very different.
If you don't care, would you like to upload your logs to a say mediafire please, so I can have a look at it?
Well, you aren't thinking with datamining. The cellular data is only the tip of the iceberg. Combine it with the wifi sniffing, and you can probably get things to a far greater level of accuracy. It'll take a bit of ingenuity to unify the data, but there's more than enough to establish e.g. if someone went out of their normal route to meet with someone at a certain time, or stuff like that.
There's only one way to see if the data is sent somewhere: it's to monitor the iPhone's input and output over an extended period. To my knowledge, no one has done that. In other words, we simply do not know whether this data is sent anywhere - and there are absolutely zero protections against it being sent. However, the way the data is stored, and the way the data is connected per user instead of per phone (being migrated across if you switch phones), makes it seems like presuming that Apple is being totally clean with this is very very naive.
It uses cell triangulation, so yeah, it would make sense that it wouldn't log for devices without cellular access.
As TFA says, the data displayed on by the app is artificially degraded so that the app itself cannot be used as a snopping tool. The raw data stored is far more precise.
Why would you know if Apple is receiving this information or not? Access to this file is not tracked.
It's impossible to determine where this data has been sent. Any app has access to it. Access to this file itself is not logged. It could be sitting on the hard drives of any number of app producers.
Yes. It uses cell triangulation, so it's still tracking with GPS switched off. The researchers' website has a very informative FAQ. Also, as their app illustrates, with this data on the phone, *any* iphone or ipad app has access to this, not just Apple themselves. It's a privacy nightmare.
Man, I was waiting for one of these.
The answer is very simple. Because weather != climate. Climate is a statistical average over long periods of time and large geographical areas. (And we don't know with absolute certainty, in any case. Everything has to be qualified with error bounds, which is very obvious, really, because much of what will happen is dependent on what we will do in response to predictions.) Weather is localised temporary fluctuations in phenomena.
It's like saying that we can pretty much guess what the slashdot comments to a certain story would be saying, but it would be very unfair to ask us to type out the text of the Nth comment.
(Well, except for First Post, In Soviet Russia, I, for one, welcome our.... etc )
Man, what degrees are you guys taking?
In my maths course, no calculators are allowed in *any exam*, full stop.
Indeed.
Hell, by that argument, Slashdot is a singularity of dangerousness.
Um, welcome to our buddies from the Mirror Universe.
Or maybe AC2: Return to Earth...
Pleeeease don't make a Planescape Torment sequel. Sure, make another game set in the Planescape multiverse. But a sequel to Torment can only be a rape of a fine game's memory. The game had a fine ending, a great ending. Don't ruin it by tacking something on.
...Why aren't you opposing this?
After all, we've heard the relentless call that more research is required to prove GW or AGW or whatever. So, when funding is cut on precisely this research, making it likely to take far longer to get the answers you are asking for, where's the surge of outrage?
How much fresh air could a solar powered air system produce?
About enough for a whole planet.
Sorry for smartassedness.