If CarrierIQ is making money from studying my behaviors, then I want a cut or I want to uninstall their craptastic software. I should not be forced to consume software I do not want. If Android wants analytics, then build it into Android OS. My relationship is with my phone manufacturer and the OS manufacturer. I should be able to decide what other relationships I want. CarrierIQ can contact me if they think their software somehow adds value to my experience. Otherwise, do more testing.
Just to be clear, CarrierIQ didn't put the software on your phone. Your mobile phone provider, with whom you do have a relationship, put it there. If you feel that is a violation of said relationship, take it up with them. No one forced your provider to install CarrierIQ.
The problem could just be a lack of capacity planning. When management says we are going to add $1 million worth of iPads on to our mail system plus let users use iPhones and droids the mail admins should be evaluating their infrastructure.
Of course this assumes that management bothered to tell them the scale of what they were planning to begin with. If their project management workflow has holes, these sorts of things can come as a really uncool surprise. Then again, unless it was a mass migration they should have seen the usage ramping up on their servers and wondered WTF?
What purpose do they think seedboxes serve other than sharing copyrighted material?
They allow you to be a respectable participant in the torrent networks, even if your personal machine is on dialup, a slow dsl connection, or is just turned off. Even more so if you have a really unbalanced up/down ratio, or if you have a draconian ISP that blocks torrents of any sort. Not everyone uses bittorrent for copyright infringement.
They also improve the bittorrent network overall since seedboxes are usually closer to the backbone than your home machine.
Personally I get and distribute nightly builds of several projects using bittorrent. With a seedbox I don't have to worry about my personal machine being off the network at any particular time.
This is especially true in software shops, where everyone tends to be fairly technically literate and have unusual needs for their systems.
Yeah, because they all have really good reasons why they "need" that random piece of software. You know, reasons like they don't want to learn the company standard software or they don't like the available background colors. Never mind the cost, the vulnerabilities, the audit requirements. Just as long as the cornflower blue background is available.
Point-and-shoots can't replicate the quality SLRs because of the lenses. A Rebel + $100 "nifty 50" 50mm lens cannot be duplicated by a point-and-shoot.
Just to throw something else into the mix, I have noticed that more and more public venues are drawing the line for cameras at interchangeable lenses.
Someone else mentioned the Canon G12. I would second that line. I still have a G2 from that line (it's a monster but it still takes great shots).
The service split and price increase was so incredibly harebrained, it's almost as if management wanted to fail.
The service split and price increase was so incredibly harebrained, it's almost as if management (and their friends) was holding onto a short position that was about to expire.
Most baking is on a very low margin because of the bulk batches made by the Baker.
Well, for chain stores, sure. My wife runs a bakery - specialty cake shop - and margins have to be higher because of specialized ingredients, lower volume, personalized decorating, and so forth. It tastes a lot better than the bulk-produced stuff you get at Costco or Sam's or even the grocery story, but it costs noticeably more, too.
They're f@%&ing cupcakes for $DEITY's sake. This whole insane trend of charging $4-$5 for a cupcake is out of control anyway. Now maybe it it makes sense on the coasts I suppose, but here in the flyover states everyone knows how to make their own cupcakes by the time they are 10 years old. The sooner stores that do nothing but make cupcakes go under the better. Doubly so since it appears that the store's owners do not understand the contracts they are signing.
Like they say though, good decisions are made through experience. Experience is gained by making bad decisions. Now they know a little bit more than they do before.
There's a "dirty little secret" in ham radio that skews these numbers, though. When the morse code requirements were lowered and eventually dropped, many of the "old order" of radio operators literally drove the new hams off the air. There was vile hatred towards the new hams, and they were told they were not "real hams", or that they held a "general lite" or "extra lite" license. They wouldn't speak to the new hams on the air, and in many cases they would deliberately interfere with them on the air. It got so bad that many new hams would work to get their license, spend $1,000 or more on equipment, get on the air, then sell their equipment again a few months later. They had lowered the code requirement to 5 words per minute by the time I got my Extra, and there were people in my own local club trying to belittle me. I did eventually give it up totally about 5 years ago, selling my own gear as well.
This. Fortunately I bought a used scanner that reached into some of the ham frequencies before committing anything more to the hobby. Between the aging "get off my lawn" crowd asking each other where the "any" key was on their newfangled computer and the abusive attitude towards new license holders, I gave the hobby a pass.
I don't need a reminder on what to get, I need a reminder on what I forgot to get. Let's say I'm baking bread and I put down that I need flour. However, I forgot that used up my yeast when I last baked two weeks ago and I forgot to put that down on my list. The "you forgot to get" feature would look at my past purchasing history and tell me, hey you might want to check if you have enough yeast since you last purchased yeast 6 months ago. Maybe even it could see if a phone is currently located in the house where you live, is one of your families phones and send a text message asking them to check and see if there is any yeast in the cupboard.
With regard to your use case, if you used a recipe and it was in an application on your device, you could track the usage and know exactly how much you had left. Exapanding that a bit, use the bar code, scanned by the camera on the device, to record which brand you use. Cross reference that with a coupon management application to determine who has the best price today and add it to a shopping list, tagged with the geolocation of the store. The coupons are scanned and tagged to determine if they are store specific with current coupon doubling/upgrading policies taken into account when figuring the value.
In a broader use case, if the register could use near field to communicate ( or email to start) your receipt to you. You could then update an aggregate database in the cloud for other users with up to the minute pricing similar to gas buddy types of applications. The application could then tag all of the prices with geolocation data to determine the store, region and chain involved. Shopping applications could then use that data for the most accurate savings.
On an even larger scale, someone could then data mine that information to determine retailer's pricing trends and spot inconsistencies based on geographic location or other geographic related data such as median income, census data etc. I think it would be very revealing, which means the retailers will fight it tooth and nail.
From the analysis of the Nook Tablet thus far, it's actually less capable than the Kindle due to the signed bootloader and checksummed kernel and ramdisk. As a result it's likely that the Kindle will see CM9 and ICS, while the Nook Tablet will be perpetually stuck on Gingerbread.
I'm wondering if the parent was referring to the nook color which has a great (IMHO) hacking community behind it.
It's not that the optical drive is no longer a necessary piece of kit at all and that the medium has gone the way of the dodo. It's that it is no longer a necessary piece of hardware for a computer that is intended to be portable. They add weight to the machine, take up valuable internal space, add complexity, and are rarely used. As a Write Once Read Many storage media, DVDs still have valid uses. I just don't think that those uses justify the "expense" for most consumers. If you think you need one, consider buying an external drive. Just don't buy it until you actually need it. I'm betting you won't ever have to purchase it.
I wonder if the defendant can legally refuse to give the password. On one hand, there is a law against self-incrimination. But on the other hand during discovery the plaintiff subpoenas documents, even if they are inside a safe to be revealed. Are there any precedences for this in US courts?
That's where my understanding gets a bit hazy as well. I don't really see where the Fifth amendment should be applicable any more than saying that the police can't open your office safe because it might contain incriminating documents. Shouldn't this all be covered by the fourth amendment?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In the US at least law enforcement should be required to obtain a warrant before searching your computer. This warrant should specifically state what is to be searched for and where they are allowed to search.
One of the benefits of whole disk encryption is that even if law enforcement can force you to give them the password (not saying they can, but let's suppose for argument's sake), at least you control when they access the data and under what circumstances. No warrant, no password. Without the encryption, they have pretty much free reign over things such as what they find (and what they add if it's that type of county) and can fill out the paperwork later.
but dare talk to a friendly lawyer about this and they'll likely bite your head off. and if you are in voire dire and dare tell anyone that you are even aware of what JN means, you are immediately dismissed as a juror. worse: if you don't let on during VD and then vote your concience, you can be jailed for contempt!
That's why I wear a "I Support Jury Nullification!" button to jury duty. I still get to work at the normal time on those days.
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the tricky part â" is thin enough to actually swipe through when you're not using it for text-entry.
From TFA:
TouchFire is soft and supple if you swipe through it horizontally, so you can easily select the special characters on the keyboard.
I didn't read anything about swiping when you were not using the keyboard for text entry.
If CarrierIQ is making money from studying my behaviors, then I want a cut or I want to uninstall their craptastic software. I should not be forced to consume software I do not want. If Android wants analytics, then build it into Android OS. My relationship is with my phone manufacturer and the OS manufacturer. I should be able to decide what other relationships I want. CarrierIQ can contact me if they think their software somehow adds value to my experience. Otherwise, do more testing.
Just to be clear, CarrierIQ didn't put the software on your phone. Your mobile phone provider, with whom you do have a relationship, put it there. If you feel that is a violation of said relationship, take it up with them. No one forced your provider to install CarrierIQ.
The problem could just be a lack of capacity planning. When management says we are going to add $1 million worth of iPads on to our mail system plus let users use iPhones and droids the mail admins should be evaluating their infrastructure.
Of course this assumes that management bothered to tell them the scale of what they were planning to begin with. If their project management workflow has holes, these sorts of things can come as a really uncool surprise. Then again, unless it was a mass migration they should have seen the usage ramping up on their servers and wondered WTF?
Anyway, this isn't about spy vs spy stuff.
Funny you should say that, because actually it was. See the solution to the challenge and the puzzles for full details.
my lack of ignorance is disturbing.
Maybe it's a lack of faith.
"What kills people but spares those with certain characteristics, increases the ratio of people with those characteristics in the general population."
True, but how the hell do you fit that onto a bumper sticker?
What purpose do they think seedboxes serve other than sharing copyrighted material?
They allow you to be a respectable participant in the torrent networks, even if your personal machine is on dialup, a slow dsl connection, or is just turned off. Even more so if you have a really unbalanced up/down ratio, or if you have a draconian ISP that blocks torrents of any sort. Not everyone uses bittorrent for copyright infringement. They also improve the bittorrent network overall since seedboxes are usually closer to the backbone than your home machine.
Personally I get and distribute nightly builds of several projects using bittorrent. With a seedbox I don't have to worry about my personal machine being off the network at any particular time.
I want a basic income. Should I just email you my account number so you can start making deposits, or how do you want to go about it?
Yes, that how you get started. Please email your account information to ptbarnum@mailinator.com
This is especially true in software shops, where everyone tends to be fairly technically literate and have unusual needs for their systems.
Yeah, because they all have really good reasons why they "need" that random piece of software. You know, reasons like they don't want to learn the company standard software or they don't like the available background colors. Never mind the cost, the vulnerabilities, the audit requirements. Just as long as the cornflower blue background is available.
Get a Canon Powershot SX150. It's about $200 if not less online.
They are selling for $149 today on Amazon.
Point-and-shoots can't replicate the quality SLRs because of the lenses. A Rebel + $100 "nifty 50" 50mm lens cannot be duplicated by a point-and-shoot.
Just to throw something else into the mix, I have noticed that more and more public venues are drawing the line for cameras at interchangeable lenses.
Someone else mentioned the Canon G12. I would second that line. I still have a G2 from that line (it's a monster but it still takes great shots).
AT&T Stops T-Mobile Merger Bid With the FCC
I didn't even know T-Mobile was trying to merge with the FCC. How did AT&T stop it?
Do you seriously believe that a hacker handle with phallic overtones lends you any sort of credibility whatsoever?
The service split and price increase was so incredibly harebrained, it's almost as if management wanted to fail.
The service split and price increase was so incredibly harebrained, it's almost as if management (and their friends) was holding onto a short position that was about to expire.
Well, for chain stores, sure. My wife runs a bakery - specialty cake shop - and margins have to be higher because of specialized ingredients, lower volume, personalized decorating, and so forth. It tastes a lot better than the bulk-produced stuff you get at Costco or Sam's or even the grocery story, but it costs noticeably more, too.
They're f@%&ing cupcakes for $DEITY's sake. This whole insane trend of charging $4-$5 for a cupcake is out of control anyway. Now maybe it it makes sense on the coasts I suppose, but here in the flyover states everyone knows how to make their own cupcakes by the time they are 10 years old. The sooner stores that do nothing but make cupcakes go under the better. Doubly so since it appears that the store's owners do not understand the contracts they are signing.
Like they say though, good decisions are made through experience. Experience is gained by making bad decisions. Now they know a little bit more than they do before.
There's a "dirty little secret" in ham radio that skews these numbers, though. When the morse code requirements were lowered and eventually dropped, many of the "old order" of radio operators literally drove the new hams off the air. There was vile hatred towards the new hams, and they were told they were not "real hams", or that they held a "general lite" or "extra lite" license. They wouldn't speak to the new hams on the air, and in many cases they would deliberately interfere with them on the air. It got so bad that many new hams would work to get their license, spend $1,000 or more on equipment, get on the air, then sell their equipment again a few months later. They had lowered the code requirement to 5 words per minute by the time I got my Extra, and there were people in my own local club trying to belittle me. I did eventually give it up totally about 5 years ago, selling my own gear as well.
This. Fortunately I bought a used scanner that reached into some of the ham frequencies before committing anything more to the hobby. Between the aging "get off my lawn" crowd asking each other where the "any" key was on their newfangled computer and the abusive attitude towards new license holders, I gave the hobby a pass.
their use in the USA is pretty much settled law as well.
Citation needed please. This is a pretty bold assertion to make without providing evidence to back it up.
I don't need a reminder on what to get, I need a reminder on what I forgot to get. Let's say I'm baking bread and I put down that I need flour. However, I forgot that used up my yeast when I last baked two weeks ago and I forgot to put that down on my list. The "you forgot to get" feature would look at my past purchasing history and tell me, hey you might want to check if you have enough yeast since you last purchased yeast 6 months ago. Maybe even it could see if a phone is currently located in the house where you live, is one of your families phones and send a text message asking them to check and see if there is any yeast in the cupboard.
With regard to your use case, if you used a recipe and it was in an application on your device, you could track the usage and know exactly how much you had left. Exapanding that a bit, use the bar code, scanned by the camera on the device, to record which brand you use. Cross reference that with a coupon management application to determine who has the best price today and add it to a shopping list, tagged with the geolocation of the store. The coupons are scanned and tagged to determine if they are store specific with current coupon doubling/upgrading policies taken into account when figuring the value.
In a broader use case, if the register could use near field to communicate ( or email to start) your receipt to you. You could then update an aggregate database in the cloud for other users with up to the minute pricing similar to gas buddy types of applications. The application could then tag all of the prices with geolocation data to determine the store, region and chain involved. Shopping applications could then use that data for the most accurate savings.
On an even larger scale, someone could then data mine that information to determine retailer's pricing trends and spot inconsistencies based on geographic location or other geographic related data such as median income, census data etc. I think it would be very revealing, which means the retailers will fight it tooth and nail.
From the analysis of the Nook Tablet thus far, it's actually less capable than the Kindle due to the signed bootloader and checksummed kernel and ramdisk. As a result it's likely that the Kindle will see CM9 and ICS, while the Nook Tablet will be perpetually stuck on Gingerbread.
I'm wondering if the parent was referring to the nook color which has a great (IMHO) hacking community behind it.
It's not that the optical drive is no longer a necessary piece of kit at all and that the medium has gone the way of the dodo. It's that it is no longer a necessary piece of hardware for a computer that is intended to be portable. They add weight to the machine, take up valuable internal space, add complexity, and are rarely used. As a Write Once Read Many storage media, DVDs still have valid uses. I just don't think that those uses justify the "expense" for most consumers. If you think you need one, consider buying an external drive. Just don't buy it until you actually need it. I'm betting you won't ever have to purchase it.
I wonder if the defendant can legally refuse to give the password. On one hand, there is a law against self-incrimination. But on the other hand during discovery the plaintiff subpoenas documents, even if they are inside a safe to be revealed. Are there any precedences for this in US courts?
That's where my understanding gets a bit hazy as well. I don't really see where the Fifth amendment should be applicable any more than saying that the police can't open your office safe because it might contain incriminating documents. Shouldn't this all be covered by the fourth amendment?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In the US at least law enforcement should be required to obtain a warrant before searching your computer. This warrant should specifically state what is to be searched for and where they are allowed to search.
One of the benefits of whole disk encryption is that even if law enforcement can force you to give them the password (not saying they can, but let's suppose for argument's sake), at least you control when they access the data and under what circumstances. No warrant, no password. Without the encryption, they have pretty much free reign over things such as what they find (and what they add if it's that type of county) and can fill out the paperwork later.
but dare talk to a friendly lawyer about this and they'll likely bite your head off. and if you are in voire dire and dare tell anyone that you are even aware of what JN means, you are immediately dismissed as a juror. worse: if you don't let on during VD and then vote your concience, you can be jailed for contempt!
That's why I wear a "I Support Jury Nullification!" button to jury duty. I still get to work at the normal time on those days.
My only suggestion would be to choose your apps carefully. After all, you are going to be supporting them for the next five years!
Microsoft patenting obnoxious employee behaviour? Aren't they their own prior art?
I realize this might be unsettling for Slashdot users used to living in the past. Sorry for that.
We're used to it by now. Heck, it says "yesterday's news" right at the bottom of the front page!