Well the obvious thing would be if the laws int he US were changed to forbid carrier SIM-locking, that those same laws should also enforce that a phone that is compatible frequency wise simply can not be denied by a carrier. In fact, it probably should have been a FCC requirement for the past decade that any cell phone sold would simply work on any and all US carrier frequencies.
But it's a moot point, because these rules don't look to be changing anytime soon in the US.
In the future, here's a good set of guidelines to follow, I'm also not a lawyer this is just things I've learned over the years:
1. Never use their equipment for any personal projects. 2. Never install anything on their equipment for personal projects, even if it's to help them. 3. If you want payment from someone for something, then never do any piece of the project without confirmation in advance that you'll receive compensation for the work. 4. Don't do anything if it's not in writing.
The thing is, doing personal projects in your own time is fine and dandy, but already can be rough if you didn't read your employment contract closely as they may own it if you work for them. Using what may have been a personal project during your "work hours" for an employer may give them rights to that work unless you had an agreement otherwise. Beyond all that... if you didn't have an agreement before the work started you really can't expect them to pay for it now.
Now from the summary it sounds like you've just done design and not implementation, you're never going to get extra compensation for design you took it upon yourself to do, but do yourself a favor and just stop right there.
It's not far out of whack for some of the sets Lego makes now either. While doing holiday shopping this year for our daughter I was highly impressed by the Architecture sets at the Lego store.
Everyone has time to care about what happens in their own neighborhood. Remember, voting is -not- just about the president. For instance, just in the town I live in, I always vote, why? Because even if you take the state and national level out of it, there's still items that impact me and my neighbors directly. Like who's going to be deciding what our HOA spends money on and our children's school board.
Not every position requires a lot of time or money, a lot of local positions, which surprisingly probably impact your lives the most directly and immediately anyway, are simple positions that people can fill in part of their time. But they're still incredibly important. If you don't like who's there, run for office. Or find someone you do like. But for gods sake, at least show up and vote on your local issues.
If you can't find someone to vote for that represents you, then run for office yourself. Start locally, work your way up. But not voting is not "voicing dissatisfaction", it is saying "I'm too lazy to give a shit what happens".
Heck, what's so unknown about it. There's a high probability that given enough technology, and one batshit insane looney, and it's the end of the line. We always seem to go under the theory that alien life wouldn't ever have any psychopaths, that it's somehow distinctly human to go nuts.
While they killed a legitimate domain and business for a year. If it had actually been an illegal site, it would most likely have been up and available on another domain/site/host within 24 hours.
I don't know why they are wasting tax payer dollars on any of this.
Exactly. It's also surprisingly easy to measure performance. For instance, I own my own company, we do our own software as well as contracts for outside firms. In both cases we do design, set milestones with expected completion dates, and performance is easy to judge. We're either meeting our milestones or we aren't. If we aren't, we can always pinpoint the exact feature that's holding a milestone up.
So it's fair use if I go to the library and scan every book there. As long as I only share snippets it's somehow legal? Why do I feel like that would somehow not be how the courts would see it with an individual...
Downgraded? We got rid of ours entirely. Decided we couldn't even find $30 worth of entertainment on cable. Haven't missed it yet, and it's been 3 years.
I see a lot of people discussing Android in this regard, and just want to point out the same is true of iPhones. You don't have to share anything with Apple really. There is nothing forcing you to turn on any of the features that share your location, contacts, or any other data. So your biggest concern is still the telephone company. If you want to get a iPhone, but use your own servers for e-mail, and your own local machine for contacts, and such, it is as easy as pie to set up.
Now, note: If you use the Maps application you are sharing that info with Google (Who processes the searches). If you use the App Store you will need a account with Apple (big shock there). If you use your smartphone to post info on Facebook, well guess what you're sending them data. Typing in google searches in Safari, yeup, sending info to Google.
While I don't know or use Android phones, from everything I can tell any of the Smartphones are fine for privacy if you pay attention to what you turn on and use. The real question is, who are you trying to be private from? Because if there's a batch of tech companies that I wouldn't trust in any way shape or form to respect my privacy from government or corporate overlords it would be the phone companies themselves. So if you're that desperate to be private, perhaps a cell phone isn't what you actually want in the first place.
But if you really want a smartphone, well get the brand and model that you want. Just watch what you turn on, what you install, and what you do. Like any computer system.
Of course the most pointless thing with language bans and censorship of this kind is that it's exactly why we -have- so many double entendres and such. Every time a culture, religion, politician, parent, teacher, whomever, tells someone that saying something is offensive, the best they usually manage is the creation of some other way of stating the same thing. Even if that involves making up new words. Beyond that, the very children who everyone is usually trying to protect with language bans like this, are the absolute masters at creating new words to circumvent such things.
Easy solution. Hollywood is great at lobbying. So the tech industry should just -buy- Hollywood. After all, the entirety of Hollywood would cost the big tech giants little really. Split it up, each tech giant can buy a studio, and just straight up fire the entire executive staff. Then going forward the media industry can lobby in a tech friendly manner.
That's pretty ridiculous for any case whatsoever. Why do I feel like this whole thing isn't really accurate. Wouldn't a judge be more likely to make them each turn their passwords over to the court? Allowing the lawyers to perform discovery? But turning the passwords over to the respective people themselves, why would the judge do that?
After all, lawyers, despite what it may seem, do as far as I know (I'm not one), have rules they have to follow to continue practicing law. Breaking those rules could greatly impact their chances at winning their side's case. Or even continuing to work as a lawyer at all. On the other hand, the couple doesn't have any such issue really since they obviously already hate each other.
IANAL, but would it be possible to use the various EULA protections to turn it into a contract. Like sending the company themselves a letter along the lines of "Use of email server constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions. $500.00 US per email sent will be paid to." type thing? After all, that's what companies like to hide in tiny little fine print on all their websites. Why can't we do it? Perhaps in the e-mail server welcome message.
Plus once you've declared a cost to continue e-mailing you, then if they agree by sending you additional email, then you -do- have a value on both sides.
Mind you, Apple has a way for Developer's to provide feedback for APIs they need. If enough enter tickets requesting a API be sandboxed, it'll show up at some point. This has proven true on iOS side as well. If enough dev's put in requests for an API for something, it usually does show up, eventually. This isn't always a quick process, but the more feedback they get, the more likely it will turn up at some point.
Honestly, while yes today it is highly impractical. That was true of all frontiers at one point or another. Once upon a time sailing from Europe to the Americas was considered a long, highly dangerous, expensive voyage. Now we have multiple flights back and forth daily. Time changes, and progress -does- march forward. Yes, the space shuttle is gone. On the other hand we have what, 3 companies? More? that look like they will have tourism ready space travel in my lifetime. When my grandparents were my age that entire idea would have been insane. The key is, we, as humanity, can't give up on every idea simply because it doesn't make sense -today-. A lot of those ideas will suddenly be worth every penny that was ever invested in them at some point in the future.
As someone who makes their living doing Mac and iOS development, I'd like to point out the flip side to the story of rejections and stuff. For every very vocal person complaining that their app was rejected, or that they can't figure out how to install an app on their phone (As a registered developer, I have no problem re-signing an ipa with my own keys and installing it on my devices, without the appstore or jail breaking. Enterprises have even less issue), there are probably a hundred of us who are making our livings at this and not running into any of these issues.
That's not to say there's no truth to it either. But on a day-to-day basis, the irritations I'm having with Apple as a developer are not any of these things.
... is not a bad idea. There's a lot to protest for sure. The protests currently going on though? Well from what I've seen they don't know what they're protesting, or why. They're there simply to be there. Which is hardly going to change anything or even cause much of anyone to bat an eye.
While that's possibly accurate, that is also the way the American patent system works in regards to patents and patent trolls. If you don't have the patent, someone else will get it and use it against you. No. This isn't a great way of life. But I regularly write my congress critters about my distaste for this system, do you?
Obiviously/. has forgotten, but it was not long ago when iOS -and- Android developers started getting sued by Lodsys for apps that used in-app purchasing. I know Apple is a big bad evil company, but my first thought actually is that this is to cover the angle and protect third party devs, before some patent troll comes along to cover it from this angle too.
Why wouldn't 3rd party keys be installable? They -don't- have to be installable from a booted OS. They only need to be installable from say, a USB key from a UEFI menu. Which could be easily made as secure as physical hacks ever are. After all, we all already know that if someone you don't like has physical access to your hardware that you're already screwed. Nothing will ever change that. As long as it doesn't allow the keys to be modified from outside the UEFI menus themselves, then this shouldn't be a problem.
Sadly, while I've played and liked the previous games, and was looking forward to Skyrim. The very idea that they would actually sue over the word "scroll" in relation to RPGs completely destroys any respect I might have for the company. I hope they realize that whatever they could possibly hope to win in this lawsuit will cost them in good will from customers. As I for one have no intention of buying any more of their products... Add another entertainment company to the list of companies just not to purchase from.
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Well the obvious thing would be if the laws int he US were changed to forbid carrier SIM-locking, that those same laws should also enforce that a phone that is compatible frequency wise simply can not be denied by a carrier. In fact, it probably should have been a FCC requirement for the past decade that any cell phone sold would simply work on any and all US carrier frequencies.
But it's a moot point, because these rules don't look to be changing anytime soon in the US.
In the future, here's a good set of guidelines to follow, I'm also not a lawyer this is just things I've learned over the years:
1. Never use their equipment for any personal projects.
2. Never install anything on their equipment for personal projects, even if it's to help them.
3. If you want payment from someone for something, then never do any piece of the project without confirmation in advance that you'll receive compensation for the work.
4. Don't do anything if it's not in writing.
The thing is, doing personal projects in your own time is fine and dandy, but already can be rough if you didn't read your employment contract closely as they may own it if you work for them. Using what may have been a personal project during your "work hours" for an employer may give them rights to that work unless you had an agreement otherwise. Beyond all that... if you didn't have an agreement before the work started you really can't expect them to pay for it now.
Now from the summary it sounds like you've just done design and not implementation, you're never going to get extra compensation for design you took it upon yourself to do, but do yourself a favor and just stop right there.
It's not far out of whack for some of the sets Lego makes now either. While doing holiday shopping this year for our daughter I was highly impressed by the Architecture sets at the Lego store.
I also consider e-mail an untrusted source and simply don't use it at all for items that would require encryption.
It'd be great if we -could- use it as a trusted and encrypted form of communication though, but it's only useful that way if it works in all cases.
Everyone has time to care about what happens in their own neighborhood. Remember, voting is -not- just about the president. For instance, just in the town I live in, I always vote, why? Because even if you take the state and national level out of it, there's still items that impact me and my neighbors directly. Like who's going to be deciding what our HOA spends money on and our children's school board.
Not every position requires a lot of time or money, a lot of local positions, which surprisingly probably impact your lives the most directly and immediately anyway, are simple positions that people can fill in part of their time. But they're still incredibly important. If you don't like who's there, run for office. Or find someone you do like. But for gods sake, at least show up and vote on your local issues.
If you can't find someone to vote for that represents you, then run for office yourself. Start locally, work your way up. But not voting is not "voicing dissatisfaction", it is saying "I'm too lazy to give a shit what happens".
Heck, what's so unknown about it. There's a high probability that given enough technology, and one batshit insane looney, and it's the end of the line. We always seem to go under the theory that alien life wouldn't ever have any psychopaths, that it's somehow distinctly human to go nuts.
While they killed a legitimate domain and business for a year. If it had actually been an illegal site, it would most likely have been up and available on another domain/site/host within 24 hours.
I don't know why they are wasting tax payer dollars on any of this.
Exactly. It's also surprisingly easy to measure performance. For instance, I own my own company, we do our own software as well as contracts for outside firms. In both cases we do design, set milestones with expected completion dates, and performance is easy to judge. We're either meeting our milestones or we aren't. If we aren't, we can always pinpoint the exact feature that's holding a milestone up.
So it's fair use if I go to the library and scan every book there. As long as I only share snippets it's somehow legal? Why do I feel like that would somehow not be how the courts would see it with an individual...
But Apple didn't kill it. Amazon buying it did.
Downgraded? We got rid of ours entirely. Decided we couldn't even find $30 worth of entertainment on cable.
Haven't missed it yet, and it's been 3 years.
I see a lot of people discussing Android in this regard, and just want to point out the same is true of iPhones. You don't have to share anything with Apple really. There is nothing forcing you to turn on any of the features that share your location, contacts, or any other data. So your biggest concern is still the telephone company. If you want to get a iPhone, but use your own servers for e-mail, and your own local machine for contacts, and such, it is as easy as pie to set up.
Now, note: If you use the Maps application you are sharing that info with Google (Who processes the searches). If you use the App Store you will need a account with Apple (big shock there). If you use your smartphone to post info on Facebook, well guess what you're sending them data. Typing in google searches in Safari, yeup, sending info to Google.
While I don't know or use Android phones, from everything I can tell any of the Smartphones are fine for privacy if you pay attention to what you turn on and use. The real question is, who are you trying to be private from? Because if there's a batch of tech companies that I wouldn't trust in any way shape or form to respect my privacy from government or corporate overlords it would be the phone companies themselves. So if you're that desperate to be private, perhaps a cell phone isn't what you actually want in the first place.
But if you really want a smartphone, well get the brand and model that you want. Just watch what you turn on, what you install, and what you do. Like any computer system.
Of course the most pointless thing with language bans and censorship of this kind is that it's exactly why we -have- so many double entendres and such. Every time a culture, religion, politician, parent, teacher, whomever, tells someone that saying something is offensive, the best they usually manage is the creation of some other way of stating the same thing. Even if that involves making up new words. Beyond that, the very children who everyone is usually trying to protect with language bans like this, are the absolute masters at creating new words to circumvent such things.
Easy solution. Hollywood is great at lobbying. So the tech industry should just -buy- Hollywood. After all, the entirety of Hollywood would cost the big tech giants little really. Split it up, each tech giant can buy a studio, and just straight up fire the entire executive staff. Then going forward the media industry can lobby in a tech friendly manner.
That's pretty ridiculous for any case whatsoever. Why do I feel like this whole thing isn't really accurate. Wouldn't a judge be more likely to make them each turn their passwords over to the court? Allowing the lawyers to perform discovery? But turning the passwords over to the respective people themselves, why would the judge do that?
After all, lawyers, despite what it may seem, do as far as I know (I'm not one), have rules they have to follow to continue practicing law. Breaking those rules could greatly impact their chances at winning their side's case. Or even continuing to work as a lawyer at all. On the other hand, the couple doesn't have any such issue really since they obviously already hate each other.
IANAL, but would it be possible to use the various EULA protections to turn it into a contract. Like sending the company themselves a letter along the lines of "Use of email server constitutes acceptance of the following terms and conditions. $500.00 US per email sent will be paid to ." type thing? After all, that's what companies like to hide in tiny little fine print on all their websites. Why can't we do it? Perhaps in the e-mail server welcome message.
Plus once you've declared a cost to continue e-mailing you, then if they agree by sending you additional email, then you -do- have a value on both sides.
Mind you, Apple has a way for Developer's to provide feedback for APIs they need. If enough enter tickets requesting a API be sandboxed, it'll show up at some point. This has proven true on iOS side as well. If enough dev's put in requests for an API for something, it usually does show up, eventually. This isn't always a quick process, but the more feedback they get, the more likely it will turn up at some point.
Honestly, while yes today it is highly impractical. That was true of all frontiers at one point or another. Once upon a time sailing from Europe to the Americas was considered a long, highly dangerous, expensive voyage. Now we have multiple flights back and forth daily. Time changes, and progress -does- march forward. Yes, the space shuttle is gone. On the other hand we have what, 3 companies? More? that look like they will have tourism ready space travel in my lifetime. When my grandparents were my age that entire idea would have been insane. The key is, we, as humanity, can't give up on every idea simply because it doesn't make sense -today-. A lot of those ideas will suddenly be worth every penny that was ever invested in them at some point in the future.
As someone who makes their living doing Mac and iOS development, I'd like to point out the flip side to the story of rejections and stuff. For every very vocal person complaining that their app was rejected, or that they can't figure out how to install an app on their phone (As a registered developer, I have no problem re-signing an ipa with my own keys and installing it on my devices, without the appstore or jail breaking. Enterprises have even less issue), there are probably a hundred of us who are making our livings at this and not running into any of these issues.
That's not to say there's no truth to it either. But on a day-to-day basis, the irritations I'm having with Apple as a developer are not any of these things.
... is not a bad idea. There's a lot to protest for sure. The protests currently going on though? Well from what I've seen they don't know what they're protesting, or why. They're there simply to be there. Which is hardly going to change anything or even cause much of anyone to bat an eye.
While that's possibly accurate, that is also the way the American patent system works in regards to patents and patent trolls. If you don't have the patent, someone else will get it and use it against you. No. This isn't a great way of life. But I regularly write my congress critters about my distaste for this system, do you?
Obiviously /. has forgotten, but it was not long ago when iOS -and- Android developers started getting sued by Lodsys for apps that used in-app purchasing. I know Apple is a big bad evil company, but my first thought actually is that this is to cover the angle and protect third party devs, before some patent troll comes along to cover it from this angle too.
Why wouldn't 3rd party keys be installable? They -don't- have to be installable from a booted OS. They only need to be installable from say, a USB key from a UEFI menu. Which could be easily made as secure as physical hacks ever are. After all, we all already know that if someone you don't like has physical access to your hardware that you're already screwed. Nothing will ever change that. As long as it doesn't allow the keys to be modified from outside the UEFI menus themselves, then this shouldn't be a problem.
Sadly, while I've played and liked the previous games, and was looking forward to Skyrim. The very idea that they would actually sue over the word "scroll" in relation to RPGs completely destroys any respect I might have for the company. I hope they realize that whatever they could possibly hope to win in this lawsuit will cost them in good will from customers. As I for one have no intention of buying any more of their products... Add another entertainment company to the list of companies just not to purchase from.