"One of the problems is that ALL ad software that free apps use "
There, let's get it right, ok? So far, ALL ad methods I've seen need to talk to their overlords to serve up what they think I will respond to. they act in futility, but I'm not going to tell them that.
stopwatch might want access to phone state so it can choose how to alert you to an alarm, a common feature in stopwatches. Or just to decide how to give you the 'tick tock' - speaker, earpiece, or phone audio... It might want to play nice and not beep all over your call in progress, or scare your callers.
Read/write to SD to save results of timings? Some people like saving the results of timing their software load times, or epic 5k run.
Perhaps you need to write your own stopwatch.apk that just.does.stopwatch.stuff?
AKNotepad syncs to catch.com. It's a feature. So it uses Internet access.
And it's in the Market.
There is no substitute for you actually knowing what the app does, and evaluating the permissions to see if they are appropriate, in your view, to what the app states is its feature set.
Until recently, Apple users were quite proud of the relative lack of threats to their MacBooks. This past week seems to have wiped the smirk off their faces, but that will be shortlived. Apple will plug the holes and they will go back to bliss. Reactive again.
And few Linux laptop toters bother with substantial AV. Of course, most Linux distros install a firewall, but it's relatively generic and minimal, and the users also seem ready to gloat about the seeming lack of threats. And they are not entirely incorrect in this, but that's more because the attackers seems to be avoiding DHCP blocks, in favor of named hosts, though that is not 100% and as Linux gains share in the home, they will happily follow these new users and take their machines for their own. Ah yes, security by limited market share.
What I want for my Android phone is a firewall that denies apps access to SMS and phone, GPS, and camera, except by my permission, and then only when I want them to. I've uninstalled Stitcher because it ran a Bluetooth service. My podcast gizmo needed a Bluetooth service? I already got one of those, Suppose I'll get that firewall any time soon?
BTW, you ARE using ftps or something secure, aren't you? Plain old FTP is so insecure you need to run it in jail, non-root, no write perms, and mark everything r/o.
I have a team here that uses JScape, but there are other FTPS, S/FTP, and such tools out there. Gotta do it, my friend. FTP is nearly useless. I use SCP a lot, but I will tolerate the clients.
Fail2Ban seems to work well, and one of the mail servers I use does it, but i asked him to not use int on my server - I wanted the wrapper option instead of iptables, and my admin partner balked. He wanted to keep the bans in place for years, which is fairly pointless, except he has a secret admirer that comes back and hax on his system every 2 years or so. I'm not sure i can take him anywhere with me any more, he's pissed someone off who has more scripts than he does. Fortunately his secret admirer is now reduced to moderately intense DOS attacks, instead of deleting data and writing our web pages into pr0n sites... Ah, good times, those were, much lost sleep. If I find him, I'm gonna feed him to ants.
I used a script I found here, which just needed some fixups for my system. It's fairly good.
I liked the detecting brute forces and putting them in hosts.deny best, it let me see what was added and flush them out after they went away to someone else's server, and it didn't grow my iptables into something grotesque. At least no more so than it already was. And it made me learn regex a little better.
Linux running inside Firefox running inside Windows XP running inside Windows XP running inside Windows 7.
I have this thing about virtual machines at work... It;s the only way to make javascript work past all the antivirus, dlp, and dpi here, and all I want to to do is kill time between the last minor disaster and the next one.
Very little of what we love and use on the Internet would have survived the "Very nice, but how much use is this?" test. Fortunately, most of it didn't even consider the question.
When we citizens speak of 'simplifying' the tax code, we generally actually mean two things:
- Reducing the complexity for people like you and me - Reducing the advantages to corporations and the wealthy
We hope this means we pay less taxes, and someone else pays more. And we assert our virtue by intending that those who earn more pay more.
So Brin figures that analysis of the tax code could yield a simpler code with the same results. Um, we don't WANT the same results. Really.
No, really. We want that General Electric pays some reasonable tax on corporate income. If you believe, as I do, that corporate income taxes are just a cost that is passed on to consumers, you could live with abolishing it entirely and ending the facade. We also want to the very, very wealthy, who claim to have incomes in excess of, say, $1 million, should pay some reasonable tax. And that 40% or so of U.S. households that do have actual income also pay some reasonable tax. It doesn't have to be much, but the concept that nearly half of all U.S. households pay NO income tax is flawed. Besides trying to consider all this in the miasma of federal v state v local taxes, payroll v income, total tax burden, blah blah blah, look at how they 'pay no taxes'. Earned Income Credit. Sheesh. Simplify this, please. But the tax code is used for many purposes, and one is to win votes. Which also leads to creating heros and villains.
The tax code is so complex, it has to be increasingly made more complex to solve the problems it causes. Ergo, EIC.
If nothing else it breeds a lack of interest in the cost of government, and at worst breeds contempt on the part of many (that pay noticeable amounts) for the entire system.
JUST simplify the tax code, please. If you want to encourage industry and the economy, consider tarriffs. These worked once.
"I covered the Clintons for eight years. The one thing I learned about them is that they lie. It's reflexive to them; after decades of the lying that tends to infect the households of addicts, they don't have a normal person's understanding of truth and falsehood."
Well, he's either naive, or lying, when he claims there could even be something like 'an independent federal agency'. For that reason alone this is a dumb, bad, dangerous idea.
I guarantee you that if I drive off a cliff, any cliff, that I have never been there before, and I have no idea how things will progress from that point on. But it will not be good, no matter how high the cliff is.
Makes sense to me. Expanding gasoline delivery to pipelines will increase the underground volume of fuel, and the amount of area with gasoline underground certainyl will increase the scope and frequency of leakage groundwater contamination spills in general.
We should probably reconsider using MTBE, since it's water-soluble and would. fit. right. in. with this change.
Change is good, no? And getting those nasty trucks off the road has to be worth the risk. I kinda like the idea of the occasional hydrogen flare to liven things up. Gasoline spills just make your water taste like, well, gasoline, and the cancer risk takes too long to develop. Color me impatient, but this future is so bright...
While we're on this subject, is there some strange and hidden agenda the Tea Partiers have to challenge the use of sewers and subways?
Snake moves are boring. Reptilian movies are boring. Ghost movies are boring. Vampire/undead movies are boring.
Seriously, vampire shows are just vehicles for skinny girls and sexual content. The plot is 'save the girl, sweep her off her feet, live undead happily forever and ever and ever'. Thin soup.
HBO figured out that as a premium channel, they could command an even more loyal subscriber base by producing exclusive content. So we got Sex and the City and The Sopranos. And they kept on producing series. While you might complain that you got a few weeks of Sopranos, you got 60 minutes, no ads, and real good work.
sYfY could take a lesson here and consider establishing the series they have available. SG doesn't have much life in it unless you want to do an Indiana Jones treatment and go back to the 1920s or further and work on the arrival of stargates. I, for one, would like to know why a System Lord would abandon Earth. Something in the water? Or finish Caprica. Or get the band back together and make a Firefly extension. Personally, I would like to see the Dune series done right, or Asimov's I, Robot fleshed out for the first time on film, or the Foundation series. If you like vampires, the Crystal Singer series is close enough to keep you entertained, maybe. HBO is doing Game of Thrones, which is what sYfY should be doing. The Event is better than anything on sYfY, faint praise, and the new 'V' was just unsnake enough for me to sit through it. We live in a golden age of video production, and it isn't that damned expensive. You don't even have to build sets like you used to. Hell, you don't even have to buy film.
It's just a matter of time before there is enough out there on YouTube to blow sYfY off the map. Actually, YouTube may eventually blow half of cable off the map.
sYfY has lost its way. I doubt they can find it again so long as they can't figure out how to make money doing what they used to.
Oh, wait, it always was about the eyeballs. I remember when you could attract an audience with factual reporting and insightful analysis, based on investigation and jornalistic reporting. Now it's mostly sensationalism and opinion made up like news.
First, get into VBScript AND VBA. I think SFU 3.5 runs on Vista/7, and Powershell is just very useful. But VBA and VBS will et you do plenty.
Trying to use Java and Javascript will frustrate in many ways, but might be helpful.
It sounds like you are trying to develop test utilities for your development. VBS/VBA are very helpful here. You could develop an Excel sheet and use VBS to create SMTP messages and drive mail to an Exchange server pretty easily. And use it to pass messages to your various platforms, including Sharepoint if someone has been listening to Microsoft consultants again. It happens even in the best organizations, don'te be embarassed.
I work with a creative guy that uses VBS to create messages for a test financial system. He's got it down so he can create 100,000+ messages that fire all errors and encompass all desired scenarios, with unique sample data if desired or a standard data set. These include ASCII, EBCDIC, packed binary/bcd/decimal/whatever- the-programmers-are-calling-this-week, BLOBs, hex, and encrypted strings. When the developers tried to do this themselves, it took them 4-5 manhours for one test, and they test 20-30 times a day at some points. He satisfies their demands in 5-10 minutes, submits via HTTPS PUT, and then parses the results and sends this back to them all in a half hour. They loathe him, because he demonstrates their futile efforts to solve the problem the same day they declared the problem solved, usually before they can schedule the celebratory luncheon. Fun to watch, since it's not my group involved...
Oh, and he's porting this to a Java app so it can be given out to the development teams and deprive them of another excuse to drag out the process. There is nothing about this development process that offshoring hasn't made substantially worse by every measure. Well, maybe the celebratory luncheons are more fun...
My 41CV died a couple of years ago, and I packed in the hell box. Display bled out and was unreadable, and I didn;t bother to get it repaired.
And I have a bunch of modules for it, financials mostly. And the wand, card reader/writer, blank overlays by the pound, stacks of solution books. I worked for a dealer... I also had a 67, but traded it in for th 41CV. And I had use of a 97 in between, but I never got very good at using it.
But - using the 41CV for balancing my checkbook was a blast. Organize it correctly, and you hit ENTER and saw either a zero or your error(s). Made that chore actual fun, for a while.
How about leave the system alone, though the actual per-gallon rate will have to be raised as vehicles get more fuel-efficient.
All-electric vehicles of course will escape this, so we will be subsidizing them, as if subsidies are anything new for the highway system here in the U.S.
Eventually, alternative energy will break this, and then you will just track vehicle mileage either when you file your income taxes, or sell the vehicle. Tax on rolling average, and catch up on inaccurate assessments during vehicle sales. Kinda like real estate.
And then, when it becomes too wierd, deploy RFID tags and track vehicle passage here and there, and send a bill.
Yeah, the environmentalists have screwed it up again. Now we all pay.
"The United States federal excise tax on gasoline, as of February 2011, is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. In January 2011, motor gasoline taxes averaged 48.1 cents per gallon and diesel fuel taxes averaged 53.1 cents per gallon"
"For diesel, the mean state tax is 26.6 cents per US gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 50.8 cents US per gallon (13.4/L)."
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"One of the problems is that ALL ad software that free apps use "
There, let's get it right, ok? So far, ALL ad methods I've seen need to talk to their overlords to serve up what they think I will respond to. they act in futility, but I'm not going to tell them that.
stopwatch might want access to phone state so it can choose how to alert you to an alarm, a common feature in stopwatches. Or just to decide how to give you the 'tick tock' - speaker, earpiece, or phone audio... It might want to play nice and not beep all over your call in progress, or scare your callers.
Read/write to SD to save results of timings? Some people like saving the results of timing their software load times, or epic 5k run.
Perhaps you need to write your own stopwatch.apk that just.does.stopwatch.stuff?
AKNotepad syncs to catch.com. It's a feature. So it uses Internet access.
And it's in the Market.
There is no substitute for you actually knowing what the app does, and evaluating the permissions to see if they are appropriate, in your view, to what the app states is its feature set.
You were saying?
Until recently, Apple users were quite proud of the relative lack of threats to their MacBooks. This past week seems to have wiped the smirk off their faces, but that will be shortlived. Apple will plug the holes and they will go back to bliss. Reactive again.
And few Linux laptop toters bother with substantial AV. Of course, most Linux distros install a firewall, but it's relatively generic and minimal, and the users also seem ready to gloat about the seeming lack of threats. And they are not entirely incorrect in this, but that's more because the attackers seems to be avoiding DHCP blocks, in favor of named hosts, though that is not 100% and as Linux gains share in the home, they will happily follow these new users and take their machines for their own. Ah yes, security by limited market share.
What I want for my Android phone is a firewall that denies apps access to SMS and phone, GPS, and camera, except by my permission, and then only when I want them to. I've uninstalled Stitcher because it ran a Bluetooth service. My podcast gizmo needed a Bluetooth service? I already got one of those, Suppose I'll get that firewall any time soon?
BTW, you ARE using ftps or something secure, aren't you? Plain old FTP is so insecure you need to run it in jail, non-root, no write perms, and mark everything r/o.
I have a team here that uses JScape, but there are other FTPS, S/FTP, and such tools out there. Gotta do it, my friend. FTP is nearly useless. I use SCP a lot, but I will tolerate the clients.
Fail2Ban seems to work well, and one of the mail servers I use does it, but i asked him to not use int on my server - I wanted the wrapper option instead of iptables, and my admin partner balked. He wanted to keep the bans in place for years, which is fairly pointless, except he has a secret admirer that comes back and hax on his system every 2 years or so. I'm not sure i can take him anywhere with me any more, he's pissed someone off who has more scripts than he does. Fortunately his secret admirer is now reduced to moderately intense DOS attacks, instead of deleting data and writing our web pages into pr0n sites... Ah, good times, those were, much lost sleep. If I find him, I'm gonna feed him to ants.
I used a script I found here, which just needed some fixups for my system. It's fairly good.
I liked the detecting brute forces and putting them in hosts.deny best, it let me see what was added and flush them out after they went away to someone else's server, and it didn't grow my iptables into something grotesque. At least no more so than it already was. And it made me learn regex a little better.
Linux running inside Firefox running inside Windows XP running inside Windows XP running inside Windows 7.
I have this thing about virtual machines at work... It;s the only way to make javascript work past all the antivirus, dlp, and dpi here, and all I want to to do is kill time between the last minor disaster and the next one.
good guess.
There's no network interface either, so not a lot of use for rcp, scp, ftp, ssh, telnet, sheesh a whole lot of stuff missing.
Waddayawantfornothing?
If they would let me in the datacenter, I could try this with both a serial modem and a PCI-E modem. But they have no sense of humor. Admins. Bleagh.
Very little of what we love and use on the Internet would have survived the "Very nice, but how much use is this?" test. Fortunately, most of it didn't even consider the question.
Depends on the virus. Some don't manifest physical symptoms such as burning...
When we citizens speak of 'simplifying' the tax code, we generally actually mean two things:
- Reducing the complexity for people like you and me
- Reducing the advantages to corporations and the wealthy
We hope this means we pay less taxes, and someone else pays more. And we assert our virtue by intending that those who earn more pay more.
So Brin figures that analysis of the tax code could yield a simpler code with the same results. Um, we don't WANT the same results. Really.
No, really. We want that General Electric pays some reasonable tax on corporate income. If you believe, as I do, that corporate income taxes are just a cost that is passed on to consumers, you could live with abolishing it entirely and ending the facade. We also want to the very, very wealthy, who claim to have incomes in excess of, say, $1 million, should pay some reasonable tax. And that 40% or so of U.S. households that do have actual income also pay some reasonable tax. It doesn't have to be much, but the concept that nearly half of all U.S. households pay NO income tax is flawed. Besides trying to consider all this in the miasma of federal v state v local taxes, payroll v income, total tax burden, blah blah blah, look at how they 'pay no taxes'. Earned Income Credit. Sheesh. Simplify this, please. But the tax code is used for many purposes, and one is to win votes. Which also leads to creating heros and villains.
The tax code is so complex, it has to be increasingly made more complex to solve the problems it causes. Ergo, EIC.
If nothing else it breeds a lack of interest in the cost of government, and at worst breeds contempt on the part of many (that pay noticeable amounts) for the entire system.
JUST simplify the tax code, please. If you want to encourage industry and the economy, consider tarriffs. These worked once.
"an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else "
That's funny until you realize he might just believe it, and then it's sad.
And then you realize he really DOESN"T believe it, and it's sadder still.
From Andrew Sullivan at theatlantic.com
"I covered the Clintons for eight years. The one thing I learned about them is that they lie. It's reflexive to them; after decades of the lying that tends to infect the households of addicts, they don't have a normal person's understanding of truth and falsehood."
Well, he's either naive, or lying, when he claims there could even be something like 'an independent federal agency'. For that reason alone this is a dumb, bad, dangerous idea.
Then there's the First Amendment.
Batteries? What happens if you short them? Or get in an accident and puncture the casing?
Yup, nothing without risk.
I guarantee you that if I drive off a cliff, any cliff, that I have never been there before, and I have no idea how things will progress from that point on. But it will not be good, no matter how high the cliff is.
" Who is dying?"
Single dumbest statement in this entire debate. Congratulations.
Ask this for the next 40 years, ok? You WILL get an answer.
Makes sense to me. Expanding gasoline delivery to pipelines will increase the underground volume of fuel, and the amount of area with gasoline underground certainyl will increase the scope and frequency of leakage groundwater contamination spills in general.
We should probably reconsider using MTBE, since it's water-soluble and would. fit. right. in. with this change.
Change is good, no? And getting those nasty trucks off the road has to be worth the risk. I kinda like the idea of the occasional hydrogen flare to liven things up. Gasoline spills just make your water taste like, well, gasoline, and the cancer risk takes too long to develop. Color me impatient, but this future is so bright...
While we're on this subject, is there some strange and hidden agenda the Tea Partiers have to challenge the use of sewers and subways?
Your sig certainly says it all. Bravo. Putz.
Snake moves are boring. Reptilian movies are boring. Ghost movies are boring. Vampire/undead movies are boring.
Seriously, vampire shows are just vehicles for skinny girls and sexual content. The plot is 'save the girl, sweep her off her feet, live undead happily forever and ever and ever'. Thin soup.
HBO figured out that as a premium channel, they could command an even more loyal subscriber base by producing exclusive content. So we got Sex and the City and The Sopranos. And they kept on producing series. While you might complain that you got a few weeks of Sopranos, you got 60 minutes, no ads, and real good work.
sYfY could take a lesson here and consider establishing the series they have available. SG doesn't have much life in it unless you want to do an Indiana Jones treatment and go back to the 1920s or further and work on the arrival of stargates. I, for one, would like to know why a System Lord would abandon Earth. Something in the water? Or finish Caprica. Or get the band back together and make a Firefly extension. Personally, I would like to see the Dune series done right, or Asimov's I, Robot fleshed out for the first time on film, or the Foundation series. If you like vampires, the Crystal Singer series is close enough to keep you entertained, maybe. HBO is doing Game of Thrones, which is what sYfY should be doing. The Event is better than anything on sYfY, faint praise, and the new 'V' was just unsnake enough for me to sit through it. We live in a golden age of video production, and it isn't that damned expensive. You don't even have to build sets like you used to. Hell, you don't even have to buy film.
It's just a matter of time before there is enough out there on YouTube to blow sYfY off the map. Actually, YouTube may eventually blow half of cable off the map.
sYfY has lost its way. I doubt they can find it again so long as they can't figure out how to make money doing what they used to.
"News has become about trolling for eyeballs."
Let's not lose sight of that.
Oh, wait, it always was about the eyeballs. I remember when you could attract an audience with factual reporting and insightful analysis, based on investigation and jornalistic reporting. Now it's mostly sensationalism and opinion made up like news.
Yep, I'm that old.
And not surprising.
First, get into VBScript AND VBA. I think SFU 3.5 runs on Vista/7, and Powershell is just very useful. But VBA and VBS will et you do plenty.
Trying to use Java and Javascript will frustrate in many ways, but might be helpful.
It sounds like you are trying to develop test utilities for your development. VBS/VBA are very helpful here. You could develop an Excel sheet and use VBS to create SMTP messages and drive mail to an Exchange server pretty easily. And use it to pass messages to your various platforms, including Sharepoint if someone has been listening to Microsoft consultants again. It happens even in the best organizations, don'te be embarassed.
I work with a creative guy that uses VBS to create messages for a test financial system. He's got it down so he can create 100,000+ messages that fire all errors and encompass all desired scenarios, with unique sample data if desired or a standard data set. These include ASCII, EBCDIC, packed binary/bcd/decimal/whatever- the-programmers-are-calling-this-week, BLOBs, hex, and encrypted strings. When the developers tried to do this themselves, it took them 4-5 manhours for one test, and they test 20-30 times a day at some points. He satisfies their demands in 5-10 minutes, submits via HTTPS PUT, and then parses the results and sends this back to them all in a half hour. They loathe him, because he demonstrates their futile efforts to solve the problem the same day they declared the problem solved, usually before they can schedule the celebratory luncheon. Fun to watch, since it's not my group involved...
Oh, and he's porting this to a Java app so it can be given out to the development teams and deprive them of another excuse to drag out the process. There is nothing about this development process that offshoring hasn't made substantially worse by every measure. Well, maybe the celebratory luncheons are more fun...
My 41CV died a couple of years ago, and I packed in the hell box. Display bled out and was unreadable, and I didn;t bother to get it repaired.
And I have a bunch of modules for it, financials mostly. And the wand, card reader/writer, blank overlays by the pound, stacks of solution books. I worked for a dealer... I also had a 67, but traded it in for th 41CV. And I had use of a 97 in between, but I never got very good at using it.
But - using the 41CV for balancing my checkbook was a blast. Organize it correctly, and you hit ENTER and saw either a zero or your error(s). Made that chore actual fun, for a while.
What terrific devices.
My '00 Explorer AWD V8 gets 17.9 mpg on my 66 mile round-trip commute. Let up on the pedal, ok?
My wife's '98 Saab 900 SET gets 29.5-29.8 mpg when I drive it, 23-24 mpg when she does. She hates me.
How about leave the system alone, though the actual per-gallon rate will have to be raised as vehicles get more fuel-efficient.
All-electric vehicles of course will escape this, so we will be subsidizing them, as if subsidies are anything new for the highway system here in the U.S.
Eventually, alternative energy will break this, and then you will just track vehicle mileage either when you file your income taxes, or sell the vehicle. Tax on rolling average, and catch up on inaccurate assessments during vehicle sales. Kinda like real estate.
And then, when it becomes too wierd, deploy RFID tags and track vehicle passage here and there, and send a bill.
Yeah, the environmentalists have screwed it up again. Now we all pay.
They do.
"The United States federal excise tax on gasoline, as of February 2011, is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. In January 2011, motor gasoline taxes averaged 48.1 cents per gallon and diesel fuel taxes averaged 53.1 cents per gallon"
"For diesel, the mean state tax is 26.6 cents per US gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 50.8 cents US per gallon (13.4 /L)."