It's simple marketing, really. AT&T is treating their employees just like they treat their customers: not listening to them. Apple is likely to enact some corporate NIMBY-ism and tell AT&T to deal with it the eyesore of a protest.
The protesters get publicity. A protest of the iPhone launch will get a LOT more press than protesting outside of some random AT&T store. Even if Apple does nothing, the story still reached a greater audience this way and we're now aware of the situation.
The protest hasn't even happened yet and this strategy is paying dividends. Looks like a 100% win so far.
TC was Sabu's pet project. Since he was caught and working for the Feds, he has provided the very access everybody is afraid of them now having.
Sabu was just released from the service of the Feds a few days ago. Enough time to rewrite the binaries, change the passwords, and disable the whole lot since it's all been compromised for years. Gets rid of a dangerous product, and pisses off the Feds without violating the terms of anything since TC is still available for download, just in a crippled form.
The argument is less over which one controls all of China than it is over which one is the "Real China". The current governing bodies of both refer to a "One China, Two Areas" rule which allows them to cooperate economically without fighting.
Having spent some time in Taiwan, the people there refer to themselves as Chinese, not Taiwanese. They don't speak Mandarin, they speak Chinese. Which is to say, their national identity is "Chinese" and that's what works for them. They also have a standing military that is completely independent of PRC.
That said, the only reason they can maintain that independence is because of how close they are tied to the US. RoC knows it, we know it, and Mainland China knows it.
That's better than in Boston. An MBTA bus is not late until two hours past its scheduled arrival time. I found this out a couple years back. In January. I'm sure you can imagine my displeasure.
It may have been years since I researched this topic, and it may have been in a Pennsylvania public school that the paper was written, but here's what I can recall from memory about the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution, specifically about illegal search and seizure and how it relates to public schools:
Police entering the school to complete a search are just that: Police. As such, they are bound to the full effect of any Local, State, and Federal laws regarding search and seizure. That part is clear-cut and dry. Immediately after that, however, it gets fuzzy.
For example, a student's locker is their personal space, right? Not always. It's government property, but there is a confidence held with the school that possessions stored within specifically designated areas will remain private. This has gone both ways in court, and largely depends on the circumstances.
If the police want to avoid that whole argument, then they have the easiest of ways to have that space searched and items collected: school administrators. This is where a student will realize that, because they are under 18 (and under 21 in some states), they have very little say in the situation.
Police need Probable Cause to search without a warrant. School administrators need only "Reasonable Belief", also called "Reason to Suspect" or one of many other phrases. As long as the student or the property are on school grounds, a school administrator has full and complete privilege to any of that students belongings, and the option to detain the student against their will until Police arrive.
So, what constitutes Reasonable Belief? Quote simple, really: anything at all. Did the kid look funny? Did the administrator think they overheard a foul comment? Reason to believe.
This may have been a long way of getting around to it, however the fact remains that this cell phone was taken in accordance with the law and is fully permissible as evidence. It doesn't matter why the administrators were looking through the kid's pictures, they can claim anything now.
The real test of law here is whether child pornography prosecution can be used against minors who willingly took and distributed the pictures of themselves. Furthermore, can the boys be charged for receipt of something they did not have the option to reject? I don't know about you, but I don't have a choice to reject an SMS on my phone, it just accepts it no matter what.
To start with, there are even less expensive methods than the one you mention, the first of which that comes to mind being the $10 1gig usb flash drives at microcenter.
On to the bit about recovery. You say system recovery, but use those words to link to a usb flash drive. Did you mean recovering data from said flash drive? If so, the data on those works the same way it does on a hard drive. The system deletes a file from the tree, but leaves the data intact until written over. Any standard undelete program will recover files you've simply deleted.
As for backing up your system to a flash drive, I wouldn't recommend it unless you're running a small enough footprint to fit on one. The 8gig flash drive are getting to be reasonably priced, but that's still not enough for most full system backups.
Literally. Didn't they lose some redonkulous amount of money this year due to PS3 R&D? I mean, overall as a company in previous years the gaming department was the only thing keeping Sony afloat, then they go and spend all that money on a system that the industry doesn't even back.
Not to mention that the XBox 360 is poised to take Sony's spot in Japan, due to the insanely low price point of the system.
Can I get a netcraft troll to confirm it?
That's just wrong. How the hell can you uptight Republican bastards say that about people who simply run companies? The people at the top of the MPAA are just doing their job, like any other Joe Blow out there.
It's people like you that give Americans a bad name.
This is exactly why Nintendo is still around. They have never tried selling revisions of their hardware boynd the standard versioning of the system (see gameboy). Even when they did, like with the gameboy camera and printer, they were wildly successful because Nintendo knows how to do gaming right.
Sony and Microsoft are both failing horribly at this game and will soon be pushed out of the market by their own profit whoring.
This is like the wal-mart issue: the international megacorporations (Sony, Microsoft) are trying to push the little guy who's been in the industry since the beginning (Nintendo) out of the market, but at least this time the little guy is going to win!
The 68k were cards issues by MasterCard alone, with another 132k cards issued by other companies.
This is still an apporximation, but a much nicer one than the 40 million that were "potentially" compromised originally.
Yes, it's still completely intolerable for this to have happened, as the processor shouldn't store that data any longer than it takes to process the charge.
At least Mastercard is stepping up and taking control of this situation, I haven't seen a story about the other companies taking anything more than a corrolary role in this process.
I know the quote but I can't seem to place it. Help please?
And I realized how far off my idea of it's meaning was when the first AC replied. I, like most slashdotters, figured it meant that the Gov't was taxing on something that they had no hand in builing or maintaining, and was thusly taxing for the sake of taxing. Although this is also a bad thing, it's not what the phrase means.
but I rarely see stuff come out of MS Paint that resembles what it's supposed to be.
Of course, this could be used to search from a scanned in image, which would be good for things like finding car parts, which we had a story about a couple of days ago. Old news, slightly different subject.
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It's simple marketing, really. AT&T is treating their employees just like they treat their customers: not listening to them. Apple is likely to enact some corporate NIMBY-ism and tell AT&T to deal with it the eyesore of a protest.
The protesters get publicity. A protest of the iPhone launch will get a LOT more press than protesting outside of some random AT&T store. Even if Apple does nothing, the story still reached a greater audience this way and we're now aware of the situation.
The protest hasn't even happened yet and this strategy is paying dividends. Looks like a 100% win so far.
Here's a theory, based on the timing:
TC was Sabu's pet project. Since he was caught and working for the Feds, he has provided the very access everybody is afraid of them now having.
Sabu was just released from the service of the Feds a few days ago. Enough time to rewrite the binaries, change the passwords, and disable the whole lot since it's all been compromised for years. Gets rid of a dangerous product, and pisses off the Feds without violating the terms of anything since TC is still available for download, just in a crippled form.
I heard... you know what? It's too easy.
The argument is less over which one controls all of China than it is over which one is the "Real China". The current governing bodies of both refer to a "One China, Two Areas" rule which allows them to cooperate economically without fighting.
Having spent some time in Taiwan, the people there refer to themselves as Chinese, not Taiwanese. They don't speak Mandarin, they speak Chinese. Which is to say, their national identity is "Chinese" and that's what works for them. They also have a standing military that is completely independent of PRC.
That said, the only reason they can maintain that independence is because of how close they are tied to the US. RoC knows it, we know it, and Mainland China knows it.
Obligatory xkcd
Alright, so I made that whole story up.
That was obvious from the subject line.
Go back to bed, grandpa! :-)
That's better than in Boston. An MBTA bus is not late until two hours past its scheduled arrival time. I found this out a couple years back. In January. I'm sure you can imagine my displeasure.
It may have been years since I researched this topic, and it may have been in a Pennsylvania public school that the paper was written, but here's what I can recall from memory about the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution, specifically about illegal search and seizure and how it relates to public schools:
Police entering the school to complete a search are just that: Police. As such, they are bound to the full effect of any Local, State, and Federal laws regarding search and seizure. That part is clear-cut and dry. Immediately after that, however, it gets fuzzy.
For example, a student's locker is their personal space, right? Not always. It's government property, but there is a confidence held with the school that possessions stored within specifically designated areas will remain private. This has gone both ways in court, and largely depends on the circumstances.
If the police want to avoid that whole argument, then they have the easiest of ways to have that space searched and items collected: school administrators. This is where a student will realize that, because they are under 18 (and under 21 in some states), they have very little say in the situation.
Police need Probable Cause to search without a warrant. School administrators need only "Reasonable Belief", also called "Reason to Suspect" or one of many other phrases. As long as the student or the property are on school grounds, a school administrator has full and complete privilege to any of that students belongings, and the option to detain the student against their will until Police arrive.
So, what constitutes Reasonable Belief? Quote simple, really: anything at all. Did the kid look funny? Did the administrator think they overheard a foul comment? Reason to believe.
This may have been a long way of getting around to it, however the fact remains that this cell phone was taken in accordance with the law and is fully permissible as evidence. It doesn't matter why the administrators were looking through the kid's pictures, they can claim anything now.
The real test of law here is whether child pornography prosecution can be used against minors who willingly took and distributed the pictures of themselves. Furthermore, can the boys be charged for receipt of something they did not have the option to reject? I don't know about you, but I don't have a choice to reject an SMS on my phone, it just accepts it no matter what.
To start with, there are even less expensive methods than the one you mention, the first of which that comes to mind being the $10 1gig usb flash drives at microcenter.
On to the bit about recovery. You say system recovery, but use those words to link to a usb flash drive. Did you mean recovering data from said flash drive? If so, the data on those works the same way it does on a hard drive. The system deletes a file from the tree, but leaves the data intact until written over. Any standard undelete program will recover files you've simply deleted.
As for backing up your system to a flash drive, I wouldn't recommend it unless you're running a small enough footprint to fit on one. The 8gig flash drive are getting to be reasonably priced, but that's still not enough for most full system backups.
I believe you'll find your answer here.
Literally. Didn't they lose some redonkulous amount of money this year due to PS3 R&D? I mean, overall as a company in previous years the gaming department was the only thing keeping Sony afloat, then they go and spend all that money on a system that the industry doesn't even back. Not to mention that the XBox 360 is poised to take Sony's spot in Japan, due to the insanely low price point of the system. Can I get a netcraft troll to confirm it?
That's just wrong. How the hell can you uptight Republican bastards say that about people who simply run companies? The people at the top of the MPAA are just doing their job, like any other Joe Blow out there.
It's people like you that give Americans a bad name.
This is exactly why Nintendo is still around. They have never tried selling revisions of their hardware boynd the standard versioning of the system (see gameboy). Even when they did, like with the gameboy camera and printer, they were wildly successful because Nintendo knows how to do gaming right.
Sony and Microsoft are both failing horribly at this game and will soon be pushed out of the market by their own profit whoring.
This is like the wal-mart issue: the international megacorporations (Sony, Microsoft) are trying to push the little guy who's been in the industry since the beginning (Nintendo) out of the market, but at least this time the little guy is going to win!
Have you seen the size of a Sunday edition to a newspaper?
A Sunday paper doesn't list the news that happens on that Sunday.
Besides, a decent portion of the Sunday paper is just dupes from the rest of the week. Slashdot usually gets those out of the way on the same day.
Nope. But it's sunday, and slashdot is almost always slow on sundays. Just take a look at today's "news" about google.
Yep. A slow day indeed.
I believe that Penny Arcade's news and comic today sum up this whole situation best.
The 68k were cards issues by MasterCard alone, with another 132k cards issued by other companies.
This is still an apporximation, but a much nicer one than the 40 million that were "potentially" compromised originally.
Yes, it's still completely intolerable for this to have happened, as the processor shouldn't store that data any longer than it takes to process the charge.
At least Mastercard is stepping up and taking control of this situation, I haven't seen a story about the other companies taking anything more than a corrolary role in this process.
Yep. Apple's a goner. :-P
he should be shot.
"As of right now only a few manufacturers are building audio lip-sync delay into their products to compensate."
So once again, another company is working around the problem instead of fixing it. This seems to be a bad trend in technology these days.
hmm.. I've never seen that one, and really don't intend to. Must be in multiple movies.
:-)
Upon reading over that for mistakes, I noticed how much it seems like I'm trying to hide something, but no, I really have never seen that movie
I doubt anbody will fall for this one, they forgot to use the caps lock key!
I know the quote but I can't seem to place it. Help please?
And I realized how far off my idea of it's meaning was when the first AC replied. I, like most slashdotters, figured it meant that the Gov't was taxing on something that they had no hand in builing or maintaining, and was thusly taxing for the sake of taxing. Although this is also a bad thing, it's not what the phrase means.
but I rarely see stuff come out of MS Paint that resembles what it's supposed to be.
Of course, this could be used to search from a scanned in image, which would be good for things like finding car parts, which we had a story about a couple of days ago. Old news, slightly different subject.