For fuck sake, they're ARGUING OVER THE RIGHTS TO PUT FUCKING ADS ON OUR PERSONAL DEVICES.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? Fuck them and their ads. Do not want.
Um no. They are arguing over the rights to let other developers use only their service to serve ads to you and get a fair share of the ad revenue for themselves.
Wow, that confused even me. The point is, Apple doesn't put ads on your device (I think,... correct me if I'm wrong). They just want to capitalize on what app developers are already doing, which is putting ads (currently most likely Google Ads) in their own applications. Understandable, but still annoying, I agree.
Still, it probably will be done some day. As soon as the risk (and associated cost) of sending rockets/satellites etc. into orbit becomes too great due to floating around space junk, they need to address the problem.
A lot of intranet applications require proprietary ActiveX / OCX controls, which only work in IE (I think). I've also seen quite a few intranet applications that run with VBScript, which also requires IE (again, I think).
Advertising will probably be the very first thing we will find on fruits once the FDA approves this new technique. Can't wait for my laser etched Chiquita banana!
If automakers wanted you to drive slower and safer, they would set the speedometer to read high- ie, it reports 60 when you're really doing 55. The upside is that your mpg may improve as well.
Yes, that is what they do and that is what i said they do. I just looked up what Volkswagen has to say about this: "To allow for possible differences in overall tire diameter with different tire manufacturers and wheel sizes, a factor is designed into the speedometer function that increases the displayed speed. "
And while the odometer isn't directly tied to the speedometer, they're usually driven by the same shaft- I've fixed both in several vehicles. Changing tire diameter will affect both. Changing shaft itself can affect both as well, but typically, the gears that break and need replacing are the ones connecting the shaft to the odometers/speedometers.
In my car, the speedometer is not a gear driven system at all. It uses magnetic pulses so once you have the pulses/sec, adjusting it is a matter of modifying the ECU. 500 pulses per second means I'm travelling 88 ft/sec or 60 mph.
As a matter of fact (at least on my GTI) the odometer uses the data reported via the CANBUS. The ECU processes this data and then sends it to the computer that displays your current mph. The distance impulse number used to calculate your speed can be changed in the ECU!
Aside- it's funny how legally you cannot roll back an odometer, but nothing legally prevents one from inserting a high ratio gear to report much lower mileage for future drives (not that I'd do that- I'm extremely careful about maintenance scheduling on my vehicles).
Actually that too is illegally here (Europe). I even had to get my speedometer and odometer verified by a professional when I changed my 15" rims to the new 19" ones.
The odometer isn't tied to the speedometer, at least not on my VW GTI. I actually re-calibrated the speedometer to show 3mph less (a tedious process by the way) so it now nearly always matches the speed shown by the GPS.
I think parent is correct, auto manufacturers just want you to drive slower and saver. Also it's pretty safe to say you won't get a ticket if your speedometer says you're going 52/53 in a 50 zone.
True. I didn't really see it that way. Thanks for pointing it out.
Still, it's kind of obvious that once someone gains physical access to your device, they can do anything with it. You could swap the keyboard with one that records all keystrokes or simply install a physical key logger device or do whatever you want with it.
That article is actually like saying that there is no point to install a very expensive and secure door lock on your front door because it doesn't help you when you go get groceries and leave your door open. Duh. I'm sure most people realize that the point of disc encryption is not to protect your data while it's unencrypted in memory.
It's a PLUGIN, not an ADD-ON. There is no way to uninstall ANY Plugins in Firefox. You can disable Add-Ons, you can uninstall Add-Ons and you can disable Plugins. But you cannot uninstall Plugins from within Firefox. Firefox simply loads all files in a specific Internet Plugins folder (not a Firefox-only plugin folder) and if it detects a plugin, it uses it.
Simple solution needs a simple response: compile Hello World! tutorial app and name it XYZ app and upload it to your desired squatter name.
Clever thought but that wouldn't work. An App like that wouldn't get approved and would hang in the queue for maybe 2-4 weeks, after which it will get rejected. Rejected App names are cleared out of the system, as far as I know. That's why TFA is talking about a "quirk".
The solution is actually even simpler than flushing the DB: Simply register an app name only AFTER a binary has been submitted. I think that's the way it should have worked...
It's a safe bet that that's only a few hours after they found out, and 3 days after the first student did.
That was my thinking too, but TFA says that the students notified their admin on the Friday, who notified Google on the Saturday, who fixed it on the Tuesday. It's not clear - bad writing - but they may have suspended the service on the Monday.
That was my assumption too. And actually, that's not too bad... If they shut down the accounts on Monday morning, that's as prompt as it gets. To my knowledge, Google email support doesn't work on sundays.
If you read the article you'll see that it's not just AT&T that Apple did it for. It's across all providers even if they have a legally unlocked phone and approved tethering in their contracts.
As I said in another comment, my provider's contract in my country allows tethering and tethering still works, even after the 3.1 update. I still don't think this is a necessary move on Apple's side. You can tether with almost any phone that has bluetooth.
Also, I'm paying EUR 2 (US $ 3) a month for tethering with my current contract, which I wouldn't have to, if I had a different phone.
You're right, the lock occurs in the phone's baseband. That's why the next *sn0w unlock by the iphone dev team will probably modify the.ipsw file so that you can update your phone to 3.1 WITHOUT updating the baseband, thus allowing both tethering AND downgrades to 3.0.
TFA is WRONG. I have a contract in my country which allows tethering and while it's true that tethering stopped working immediately after the 3.1 update, my provider unlocked tethering a few days later.
Wait... so we would get free Microsoft products that look cool and only do one thing, but they do it well?
Can we please lock those guys up in a room already until they come up with that idea?
Apple has their hands pretty full with checking every app and rating it for the (coming) Parental Control System. They have to find a good balance between time it takes for apps to be in the App Store and false positives (like this one). It's a tightrope walk I wouldn't want to do.
Still, this is pretty ridiculous.
Das Keyboard sports best-in-class German-engineered gold-plated mechanical key switches that provide tactile and audio feedback making typing a pure joy. Once you start typing, the tactile and audio clicks create positive reinforcing feedback. It makes typing fun and addictive. Newly added blue LEDs provide a slick look and the new USB hub allows you to charge and sync your iPod or iPhone. Fast typists and gamers will be glad to hear Das Keyboard has an n-key rollover function allowing up to 12 keys to be pressed simultaneously. Finally, the new Das Keyboard has an extra long USB cable that fits through your desk grommet and keeps your workspace neat and tidy.
But still, I agree with you. The price is ridiculous.
Can you show me a single nation that followed, or even approximated, Communism? All I see is a bunch of fascist dictatorships using Karl Marx's Rhetoric to excuse their power grab.
Which, for some, is enough proof that it doesn't work...
The NSA made the cadets' task more difficult by planting viruses on some of the equipment, just as real-world hackers have done on millions of computers around the world.
Well, I can easily see how Linux might be your OS of choice then (as a defending team). The NSA would have a hard time finding some rootkits/viruses/trojans that can be hidden on your Linux machines...
You actually *do* have to be enrolled in the iPhone Developer Program, and pay the annual $99 fee, to be able to test your own application on your own phone, as crazy as it sounds.
But you can't. Unless you jailbreak it.
Um...
Nothing more to add, really... Just jailbreak and test. Or use the simulator. There is absolutely NO reason to develop an app, test it on your own iPhone and NOT deploy it.
My point was that you do NOT have to own an Intel Mac and you don't have to pay apple to just play around with the SDK. It's when you want to commercially deploy apps that you have to pay.
(Actually you have to pay them too when you release it as freeware which kinda sucks, to be honest. They could have at least made a free account for releasing, say, up to a maximum of 3 freeware apps a year. Or even just one...)
No, not really. You have to pay to have your application in the iTunes store. You can develop applications all you want but once you want to distribute them through the store that Apple builds and maintains you have to pay an annual fee. Which, in my understanding of economics, is actually fair.
Also, I kind of understand why Apple doesn't have much incentive to port Xcode to Windows and/or Linux. You are, however, free to do so yourself, if you manage to do so without reverse engineering it.
And, if you're well versed in ObjectiveC, there are things like WinChain which allow you to build the native iPhone toolchain on Windows (or Linux if you prefer).
So please, for the love of the rest of us, don't spout any populistic crap in the future which has no relation to reality.
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For fuck sake, they're ARGUING OVER THE RIGHTS TO PUT FUCKING ADS ON OUR PERSONAL DEVICES.
Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? Fuck them and their ads. Do not want.
Um no. They are arguing over the rights to let other developers use only their service to serve ads to you and get a fair share of the ad revenue for themselves.
Wow, that confused even me. The point is, Apple doesn't put ads on your device (I think, ... correct me if I'm wrong). They just want to capitalize on what app developers are already doing, which is putting ads (currently most likely Google Ads) in their own applications. Understandable, but still annoying, I agree.
Still, it probably will be done some day. As soon as the risk (and associated cost) of sending rockets/satellites etc. into orbit becomes too great due to floating around space junk, they need to address the problem.
A lot of intranet applications require proprietary ActiveX / OCX controls, which only work in IE (I think). I've also seen quite a few intranet applications that run with VBScript, which also requires IE (again, I think).
Advertising will probably be the very first thing we will find on fruits once the FDA approves this new technique. Can't wait for my laser etched Chiquita banana!
If automakers wanted you to drive slower and safer, they would set the speedometer to read high- ie, it reports 60 when you're really doing 55. The upside is that your mpg may improve as well.
Yes, that is what they do and that is what i said they do. I just looked up what Volkswagen has to say about this: "To allow for possible differences in overall tire diameter with different tire manufacturers and wheel sizes, a factor is designed into the speedometer function that increases the displayed speed. "
And while the odometer isn't directly tied to the speedometer, they're usually driven by the same shaft- I've fixed both in several vehicles. Changing tire diameter will affect both. Changing shaft itself can affect both as well, but typically, the gears that break and need replacing are the ones connecting the shaft to the odometers/speedometers.
In my car, the speedometer is not a gear driven system at all. It uses magnetic pulses so once you have the pulses/sec, adjusting it is a matter of modifying the ECU. 500 pulses per second means I'm travelling 88 ft/sec or 60 mph.
As a matter of fact (at least on my GTI) the odometer uses the data reported via the CANBUS. The ECU processes this data and then sends it to the computer that displays your current mph. The distance impulse number used to calculate your speed can be changed in the ECU!
Aside- it's funny how legally you cannot roll back an odometer, but nothing legally prevents one from inserting a high ratio gear to report much lower mileage for future drives (not that I'd do that- I'm extremely careful about maintenance scheduling on my vehicles).
Actually that too is illegally here (Europe). I even had to get my speedometer and odometer verified by a professional when I changed my 15" rims to the new 19" ones.
The odometer isn't tied to the speedometer, at least not on my VW GTI. I actually re-calibrated the speedometer to show 3mph less (a tedious process by the way) so it now nearly always matches the speed shown by the GPS. I think parent is correct, auto manufacturers just want you to drive slower and saver. Also it's pretty safe to say you won't get a ticket if your speedometer says you're going 52/53 in a 50 zone.
True. I didn't really see it that way. Thanks for pointing it out.
Still, it's kind of obvious that once someone gains physical access to your device, they can do anything with it. You could swap the keyboard with one that records all keystrokes or simply install a physical key logger device or do whatever you want with it.
Slow news day?
That article is actually like saying that there is no point to install a very expensive and secure door lock on your front door because it doesn't help you when you go get groceries and leave your door open. Duh. I'm sure most people realize that the point of disc encryption is not to protect your data while it's unencrypted in memory.
Is this a failed attempt at trolling?
It's a PLUGIN, not an ADD-ON. There is no way to uninstall ANY Plugins in Firefox. You can disable Add-Ons, you can uninstall Add-Ons and you can disable Plugins. But you cannot uninstall Plugins from within Firefox. Firefox simply loads all files in a specific Internet Plugins folder (not a Firefox-only plugin folder) and if it detects a plugin, it uses it.
Delete the file and you're good to go.
We use circular polarization lenses for photography. The ones used for stereoscopic 3d are linear polarization lenses.
Simple solution needs a simple response: compile Hello World! tutorial app and name it XYZ app and upload it to your desired squatter name.
Clever thought but that wouldn't work. An App like that wouldn't get approved and would hang in the queue for maybe 2-4 weeks, after which it will get rejected. Rejected App names are cleared out of the system, as far as I know. That's why TFA is talking about a "quirk".
The solution is actually even simpler than flushing the DB: Simply register an app name only AFTER a binary has been submitted. I think that's the way it should have worked...
It's a safe bet that that's only a few hours after they found out, and 3 days after the first student did.
That was my thinking too, but TFA says that the students notified their admin on the Friday, who notified Google on the Saturday, who fixed it on the Tuesday. It's not clear - bad writing - but they may have suspended the service on the Monday.
That was my assumption too. And actually, that's not too bad... If they shut down the accounts on Monday morning, that's as prompt as it gets. To my knowledge, Google email support doesn't work on sundays.
If you read the article you'll see that it's not just AT&T that Apple did it for. It's across all providers even if they have a legally unlocked phone and approved tethering in their contracts.
As I said in another comment, my provider's contract in my country allows tethering and tethering still works, even after the 3.1 update. I still don't think this is a necessary move on Apple's side. You can tether with almost any phone that has bluetooth.
Also, I'm paying EUR 2 (US $ 3) a month for tethering with my current contract, which I wouldn't have to, if I had a different phone.
So yes, this sucks.
You're right, the lock occurs in the phone's baseband. That's why the next *sn0w unlock by the iphone dev team will probably modify the .ipsw file so that you can update your phone to 3.1 WITHOUT updating the baseband, thus allowing both tethering AND downgrades to 3.0.
TFA is WRONG. I have a contract in my country which allows tethering and while it's true that tethering stopped working immediately after the 3.1 update, my provider unlocked tethering a few days later.
Wait... so we would get free Microsoft products that look cool and only do one thing, but they do it well? Can we please lock those guys up in a room already until they come up with that idea?
You're just not slapping hard enough :>
I'm not disagreeing with you. The guy who reviewed that app must have been pretty stupid. Or ignorant. Or both.
Apple has their hands pretty full with checking every app and rating it for the (coming) Parental Control System. They have to find a good balance between time it takes for apps to be in the App Store and false positives (like this one). It's a tightrope walk I wouldn't want to do. Still, this is pretty ridiculous.
Das Keyboard sports best-in-class German-engineered gold-plated mechanical key switches that provide tactile and audio feedback making typing a pure joy. Once you start typing, the tactile and audio clicks create positive reinforcing feedback. It makes typing fun and addictive. Newly added blue LEDs provide a slick look and the new USB hub allows you to charge and sync your iPod or iPhone. Fast typists and gamers will be glad to hear Das Keyboard has an n-key rollover function allowing up to 12 keys to be pressed simultaneously. Finally, the new Das Keyboard has an extra long USB cable that fits through your desk grommet and keeps your workspace neat and tidy.
But still, I agree with you. The price is ridiculous.
Use NEO. And scratch the paint off your keys. Or get Das Keyboard Ultimate. I guarantee you, noone will even want to use your computer.
Can you show me a single nation that followed, or even approximated, Communism? All I see is a bunch of fascist dictatorships using Karl Marx's Rhetoric to excuse their power grab.
Which, for some, is enough proof that it doesn't work...
But communism DIDN'T work. And in a few years we'll realize that democracy doesn't work either.
Democracy is the worst government system. Except for all the other ones we have tried in the past...
The NSA made the cadets' task more difficult by planting viruses on some of the equipment, just as real-world hackers have done on millions of computers around the world.
Well, I can easily see how Linux might be your OS of choice then (as a defending team). The NSA would have a hard time finding some rootkits/viruses/trojans that can be hidden on your Linux machines...
You actually *do* have to be enrolled in the iPhone Developer Program, and pay the annual $99 fee, to be able to test your own application on your own phone, as crazy as it sounds.
But you can't. Unless you jailbreak it.
Um...
Nothing more to add, really... Just jailbreak and test. Or use the simulator. There is absolutely NO reason to develop an app, test it on your own iPhone and NOT deploy it.
My point was that you do NOT have to own an Intel Mac and you don't have to pay apple to just play around with the SDK. It's when you want to commercially deploy apps that you have to pay.
(Actually you have to pay them too when you release it as freeware which kinda sucks, to be honest. They could have at least made a free account for releasing, say, up to a maximum of 3 freeware apps a year. Or even just one...)
No, not really. You have to pay to have your application in the iTunes store. You can develop applications all you want but once you want to distribute them through the store that Apple builds and maintains you have to pay an annual fee. Which, in my understanding of economics, is actually fair.
Also, I kind of understand why Apple doesn't have much incentive to port Xcode to Windows and/or Linux. You are, however, free to do so yourself, if you manage to do so without reverse engineering it.
And, if you're well versed in ObjectiveC, there are things like WinChain which allow you to build the native iPhone toolchain on Windows (or Linux if you prefer).
So please, for the love of the rest of us, don't spout any populistic crap in the future which has no relation to reality.