If I've had a channel with my buds for years then I probably had a right to be surprised when the complete logs of our discussions appeared in a database somewhere. Granted, I have no right to privacy, but still.... how underhanded is it that they did this with stealth bots pretending to be real users?
The problem is, it's not quite like that. In your case, if so, I'd find it hard to believe that you had this user idling there for years without you ever once talking to it or figuring out that it was someone's bot.
And when you stopped reading, you should have continued, because there you have "helpful" suggestions like "Owners of high traffic sites should be QAing their sites against our nightlies to ensure bugs don't affect them or they can report them" (uh, huh? Why is it a site owner's responsibility to track Firefox development for regression of introduced bugs?) Seriously? Daily checks of the Firefox nightly build to ensure such basic functionality as canvas.drawImage isn't completely fucked by the developer's inability to test a release properly?
This would only be a problem if the iPhone were a regular, everyday cellphone, which it isn't.
Woah, a little less Koolaid. It is a regular, everyday cellphone. A few incremental improvements, a few nice new features, and a few features significantly behind the eight ball. It's not, really it's not, "ZOMG REVOLUTIONARY!"
We paid for licensing to get iPhones and Blackberries to synch properly and support editing on the device without screwing up all the time. I believe we wrote our own connector for Palm devices, engineering time not being free.
Out of curiosity, what licensed product did you purchase for iPhone-Exchange synchronization? Because extensive searching has lead me to find not one. I don't own an iPhone, but I'm sure plenty of people would love this information.
Why would you write your own connector for Palm devices, when all PalmOne devices, and most of their recent models (I had a hiatus a while ago) have licensed ActiveSync? "Makes no sense."
You have to license a third party plug-in for most smartphones in order to get them to interact properly with an Exchange server. At least that has been our experience.
Your experience leaves something to be desired then - I've used several Windows Mobile devices with E2K3 SP2, with no magic other than ensuring firewall rules are fine, to allow them to connect.
Nokia N series device, on Symbian? Install MailForExchange on the device and, without a single touch of configuration, you get calendar/contact/mail on demand.
Blackberry? As the GP stated, any interop issues there are purely that of RIM's revenue model, not anything to do with Exchange whatsoever.
This is a serious issue if you're a member of invite-only torrent sites where you don't get to download unless you've uploaded enough
Please. Please, I'm ever so curious - do show me an "invite-only torrent site" with ratios that distributes all this legal torrent traffic everyone's always talking about. thelinuxisobay.org, perhaps? (Yes, I know TPB is not invite-only) or perhaps linuxisonoid.com?
Forgive me, but if you're bitching about it screwing with your ability to illegally obtain things, my sympathy isn't all that high.
Haha, you're kidding right? The wait between OS X releases has gotten longer and longer. Not since the.0 to.1 days has it been anything like six months. I'd guess far closer to 18+ months.
(G)P isn't insightful. He's just on his usual Anti-"M$" vitriolic rantings again.
It's not Google's burden to quell IE (or Firefox, Opera, etc) exploits.
No-one said it is.
It is however Google's burden to quash spyware sites that exploit loopholes and weaknesses in Google's ranking and indexing algorithms that allow such malware to effortlessly make it to the front page of search results for any thousand of subjects.
Re your sig: remind us again why domain speculating on the back of Wikipedia is somehow acceptable - in the sense of 'I'm not sure if you actually expect sympathy at an appraisal scammer trying to scam a domain spammer?'
If you want to go down the road of "EULA is non binding", why is ICOs EULA non binding, but libarc's is binding? There's no act of acceptance for either. You can't say "A notice in the box/manual/software help menu is not binding, but a notice in the software source code is binding", that's nonsensical. If it/is/ binding, then you're taking a moral call as to your license being more merited as an enforceable license than someone else's - who gets, or should get, to make that call?
Some of us use free software because it's the ethical thing to to.
Wow. There's a little superiority complex thing happening there. I didn't realize I was apparently less ethical than you for using proprietary software. Now I do, and I shall apply the appropriate feelings of being chastened.
Nokia had added accelerometers to their phones while the iPhone was a glint in Steve's eye. Another totally cool feature of the accelerometer on the N95? The Wellness Diary, which lets you track and graph weight, etc, and step count - you can keep the phone in your pocket and have it function as a pedometer, all tied into the system with calorie tracking, etc, based on your weight as tracked on a daily basis, etc.
when in truth their network uses a proprietary version of CDMA which is not even compatible with any of the GSM hardware out there
Do you understand what you say? Their network is CDMA, not a "proprietary version of". Other CDMA devices can, in theory, be used on their network - with the caveat that the device ID, etc, needs to be allowed to register by the provider.
CDMA and GSM were never intended to be, never will be, compatible, and it has precisely fuckall to do with Verizon.
I'd need to see... the higher-ups who would actually know if this was a known issue
Riiiiight. Because we all know that never in Apple's history have they stonewalled, outright denied, declined warranty support in regards to issues that were clearly there, on a mass scale (note: I am not saying this issue is so), often until public pressure got sufficiently great.
"The higher ups. They know. They shall speak. Forsooth, they have not, ergo, there be no problem."
Bullshit yourself./Read/. Nowhere did he say you had no right to voice your opinion. He said he thought it was a fair trade, the provision of information for site access. You may differ: if so, complain and don't use. He didn't say "STFU and suck it up, big boy."
they stopped making the first generation altogether
Really?!? STOP THE PRESSES!
What a ridiculous statement. Tell me, did Apple continue to manufacture 1G iPods after it released the 2G? No? Then I fail to see your so-called point.
Ye gods - "Look, it's a failure! They stopped making the old version after the new!"
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The problem is, it's not quite like that. In your case, if so, I'd find it hard to believe that you had this user idling there for years without you ever once talking to it or figuring out that it was someone's bot.
Uhh, I think you replied to the wrong post.
And NOWHERE in the GPs post did he suggest that he couldn't use the GPL for commercial purposes. Let's not get all reactionary.
And when you stopped reading, you should have continued, because there you have "helpful" suggestions like "Owners of high traffic sites should be QAing their sites against our nightlies to ensure bugs don't affect them or they can report them" (uh, huh? Why is it a site owner's responsibility to track Firefox development for regression of introduced bugs?) Seriously? Daily checks of the Firefox nightly build to ensure such basic functionality as canvas.drawImage isn't completely fucked by the developer's inability to test a release properly?
Woah, a little less Koolaid. It is a regular, everyday cellphone. A few incremental improvements, a few nice new features, and a few features significantly behind the eight ball. It's not, really it's not, "ZOMG REVOLUTIONARY!"
"Apple, we're the company that pisses on you, the customer, as revenge for other companies stealing our thunder."
Out of curiosity, what licensed product did you purchase for iPhone-Exchange synchronization? Because extensive searching has lead me to find not one. I don't own an iPhone, but I'm sure plenty of people would love this information.
Why would you write your own connector for Palm devices, when all PalmOne devices, and most of their recent models (I had a hiatus a while ago) have licensed ActiveSync? "Makes no sense."
Your experience leaves something to be desired then - I've used several Windows Mobile devices with E2K3 SP2, with no magic other than ensuring firewall rules are fine, to allow them to connect.
Nokia N series device, on Symbian? Install MailForExchange on the device and, without a single touch of configuration, you get calendar/contact/mail on demand.
Blackberry? As the GP stated, any interop issues there are purely that of RIM's revenue model, not anything to do with Exchange whatsoever.
Please. Please, I'm ever so curious - do show me an "invite-only torrent site" with ratios that distributes all this legal torrent traffic everyone's always talking about. thelinuxisobay.org, perhaps? (Yes, I know TPB is not invite-only) or perhaps linuxisonoid.com?
Forgive me, but if you're bitching about it screwing with your ability to illegally obtain things, my sympathy isn't all that high.
Better than: "Bite my shiny metal fanny", though ...
Hahahahaha! Ha! Oh, wait, you were serious? Really?
Wow, to be as optimistic/naive/all of the above as you...
Haha, you're kidding right? The wait between OS X releases has gotten longer and longer. Not since the .0 to .1 days has it been anything like six months. I'd guess far closer to 18+ months.
It's not Google's burden to quell IE (or Firefox, Opera, etc) exploits.
No-one said it is.
It is however Google's burden to quash spyware sites that exploit loopholes and weaknesses in Google's ranking and indexing algorithms that allow such malware to effortlessly make it to the front page of search results for any thousand of subjects.
Re your sig: remind us again why domain speculating on the back of Wikipedia is somehow acceptable - in the sense of 'I'm not sure if you actually expect sympathy at an appraisal scammer trying to scam a domain spammer?'
So, knowing Google, it'll be ready for the iPhone 6G in 2013?
If you want to go down the road of "EULA is non binding", why is ICOs EULA non binding, but libarc's is binding? There's no act of acceptance for either. You can't say "A notice in the box/manual/software help menu is not binding, but a notice in the software source code is binding", that's nonsensical. If it /is/ binding, then you're taking a moral call as to your license being more merited as an enforceable license than someone else's - who gets, or should get, to make that call?
Wow. There's a little superiority complex thing happening there. I didn't realize I was apparently less ethical than you for using proprietary software. Now I do, and I shall apply the appropriate feelings of being chastened.
Or not.
Nokia had added accelerometers to their phones while the iPhone was a glint in Steve's eye. Another totally cool feature of the accelerometer on the N95? The Wellness Diary, which lets you track and graph weight, etc, and step count - you can keep the phone in your pocket and have it function as a pedometer, all tied into the system with calorie tracking, etc, based on your weight as tracked on a daily basis, etc.
Do you understand what you say? Their network is CDMA, not a "proprietary version of". Other CDMA devices can, in theory, be used on their network - with the caveat that the device ID, etc, needs to be allowed to register by the provider.
CDMA and GSM were never intended to be, never will be, compatible, and it has precisely fuckall to do with Verizon.
Riiiiight. Because we all know that never in Apple's history have they stonewalled, outright denied, declined warranty support in regards to issues that were clearly there, on a mass scale (note: I am not saying this issue is so), often until public pressure got sufficiently great.
"The higher ups. They know. They shall speak. Forsooth, they have not, ergo, there be no problem."
Ha. Ha. Ha.
The presence of federal marshals at said "internal audit" may hmm, raise an eyebrow or two...
Except for one trivial detail - statutory rights cannot be usurped by contract or EULA. Oops.
Bullshit yourself. /Read/. Nowhere did he say you had no right to voice your opinion. He said he thought it was a fair trade, the provision of information for site access. You may differ: if so, complain and don't use. He didn't say "STFU and suck it up, big boy."
Oh, you only said 'practically'... where 'practically' is defined as 'not really', right?
Really?!? STOP THE PRESSES!
What a ridiculous statement. Tell me, did Apple continue to manufacture 1G iPods after it released the 2G? No? Then I fail to see your so-called point.
Ye gods - "Look, it's a failure! They stopped making the old version after the new!"