Yes, let's all rely on Adobe, the company who wrote one of the planet's least secure multimedia delivery platforms in history, to save us from their own software. I'm sure the sandbox will be stable and secure and in no way, shape, or form, completely useless and awful.
In at least some cases I know of, the "security mechanism" is used to encrypt and secure payment credentials (cc info, etc) on the new droids. While I am not asserting that this is the case here, it's not impossible that certain apps will fail to work because they can't safely store or access your private data on an altered machine.
If you play a video game as "training" to commit a violent act in the real world, the game is not the thing making you a violent psychopath, you're already there.
Actually, (s)he excluded devices which require activation or service fees. The G1 can be used with Wifi connectivity and no cellular contract... obviously it won't make calls, but all the other functions will work (browsing, email, etc) as long as you're within range of a trusted network. I could even see the barcode scanning functionality being useful to someone working with all those books. Price is the only real variable for this device as far as I can tell.
Several years ago I was using these devices as my primary home network gateway, and experiencing the same issues. This lead me over time to replace the firewall/routing portion of the device with a home-made linux router on commodity computer hardware. My Linksys has hardly ever required rebooting since. While this is far from a good diagnostic of the problem, it definitely seemed that, at least in my case, it was the firewalling portion (particularly on high-bandwidth or connection count apps) that was crippling the device.
I might be less critical of them if they actually spent some of their abusively high rates on upgrading said failing infrastructure instead of god knows what.
How many even slightly large software products have you ever seen that have no outstanding defects to begin with? Just browse a buganizer or two. There are thousands of open issues for major apps; some false, but plenty viable, if often minor, "defects."
How you refer to a coding or logic error is irrelevant; whether it gets fixed or not is entirely dependant on the dedication of the supporting company, and how they envision it affecting their bottom line.
I agree fully, my point was actually agreeing with what you just said. I just don't see the benefit either way. You either:
a) Really caught a pirate - and only disabled his shiny GUI instead of his OS.
b) "Caught" an innocent bystander - and disabled his GUI when he didn't deserve it.
How is either one really worth the effort?
If they really have some method of detecting piracy that they think will actually work on pirates (unlike every other protection scheme ever released that only punishes the innocent), why not make it disable the whole bloody OS instead of just the pretty GUI?
I don't see how P2P could possibly be as secure as a server based system. How do you know who your neighbors are? Do you trust that they're really sending you to your bank, or microsoft, or _insert_potentially_sensitive_website_here? Just look at P2P now, it's hard enough to find some files without 100s of corrupted or fake versions. The security implications of allowing everyone to have a say in DNS could easily be catastrophic unless I completely misunderstand you.
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Yes, let's all rely on Adobe, the company who wrote one of the planet's least secure multimedia delivery platforms in history, to save us from their own software. I'm sure the sandbox will be stable and secure and in no way, shape, or form, completely useless and awful.
In at least some cases I know of, the "security mechanism" is used to encrypt and secure payment credentials (cc info, etc) on the new droids. While I am not asserting that this is the case here, it's not impossible that certain apps will fail to work because they can't safely store or access your private data on an altered machine.
If you play a video game as "training" to commit a violent act in the real world, the game is not the thing making you a violent psychopath, you're already there.
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Actually, (s)he excluded devices which require activation or service fees. The G1 can be used with Wifi connectivity and no cellular contract... obviously it won't make calls, but all the other functions will work (browsing, email, etc) as long as you're within range of a trusted network. I could even see the barcode scanning functionality being useful to someone working with all those books. Price is the only real variable for this device as far as I can tell.
Several years ago I was using these devices as my primary home network gateway, and experiencing the same issues. This lead me over time to replace the firewall/routing portion of the device with a home-made linux router on commodity computer hardware. My Linksys has hardly ever required rebooting since. While this is far from a good diagnostic of the problem, it definitely seemed that, at least in my case, it was the firewalling portion (particularly on high-bandwidth or connection count apps) that was crippling the device.
I might be less critical of them if they actually spent some of their abusively high rates on upgrading said failing infrastructure instead of god knows what.
How many even slightly large software products have you ever seen that have no outstanding defects to begin with? Just browse a buganizer or two. There are thousands of open issues for major apps; some false, but plenty viable, if often minor, "defects." How you refer to a coding or logic error is irrelevant; whether it gets fixed or not is entirely dependant on the dedication of the supporting company, and how they envision it affecting their bottom line.
I agree fully, my point was actually agreeing with what you just said. I just don't see the benefit either way. You either: a) Really caught a pirate - and only disabled his shiny GUI instead of his OS. b) "Caught" an innocent bystander - and disabled his GUI when he didn't deserve it. How is either one really worth the effort?
If they really have some method of detecting piracy that they think will actually work on pirates (unlike every other protection scheme ever released that only punishes the innocent), why not make it disable the whole bloody OS instead of just the pretty GUI?
I don't see how P2P could possibly be as secure as a server based system. How do you know who your neighbors are? Do you trust that they're really sending you to your bank, or microsoft, or _insert_potentially_sensitive_website_here? Just look at P2P now, it's hard enough to find some files without 100s of corrupted or fake versions. The security implications of allowing everyone to have a say in DNS could easily be catastrophic unless I completely misunderstand you.