redrobot5050

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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Really? Really? Are you really that shortsighted? XBox is huge. It's becoming the media center for an American Consumer household. That means paying $60/year just for the "privilege" of watching Netflix in HD through your 360. Wait 2-3 (o
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Uh, yes, Microsoft DOES charge you a fee...it's called "paying out the ass for your tools". What did Visual Studio Enterprise cost last time I looked for a small company (like a start up)? $1600 a pop. More than what's needed for a Mac Mini
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
You must be new to the internet, then: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553386...
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>bumrushing congress in much the same way that the tea party has done. Let's hope not. The Teaparty congress started going to work on things that didn't serve the tea party, but rather, corporate benefactors. Another example of the big
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
I wouldn't be at liberty to comment either way. Talk to your friendly, neighborhood defense contractor.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
And all the FOIA request simply states is that something like A) We are investigating Carrier IQ. B) We have physically recovered phones as evidence and extracted Carrier IQ data. I want to believe that Big Brother is watching, really, I do
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>Again, you are making choices for them. You don't see anything wrong with this? Nobody is guaranteed a living. However, you should be given a chance. You are taking away that chance completely. I don't even see where this is coming fro
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Yes. Any briefing involving a secure area will mention that phones can be triggered this way, and that your customer (military, intel, DoD, or DOE) forbids their access for the very reason.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Wired broke the stories about the NSA monitoring something like 25% of all domestic cell phone traffic. The fact that all investigations into it have been stopped citing "National Security", and the former President Bush defended the tactic
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>Without a way to make money, we will see less music. Why? Because artists will be forced to get day jobs. As it is, there is a small chance you will make a full living as an artist. So? This is how it has been for centuries. Call it th
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
All of these reasons could apply to iTunes and Amazon's music store? So why are they posting profits?
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Wait, you're just figuring out now that anything that travels through a cell phone network could be monitored?
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Unknown. However, the FBI can send a remote message to ANY phone to turn on its microphone and essentially use it as a wiretap. That's been built into every phone in the USA for something like 10 years now. It's why you have to surrender a
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Carrier IQ is in iOS 5. It is, however, disabled by default. It is also buried in the second or third level down in Preferences, so its very unlikely a user will enable it by accident -- and will probably only do so upon the instruction of
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
It acts as a keylogger on some android phones, when Carrier IQ is put into a "debug state". The researcher apparently triggered that by accident without knowing. It's not the default log level. Carrier IQ is likely benign and this whole iss
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Carrier IQ isn't used by all carriers (Verizon opts out, I believe) and the data transmitted is anonymous. I admit there is a risk with the data profiles being assembled, and being done so with ease not seen before, but the carrier IQ findi
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Where did the article indicate that Law Enforcement didn't need a warrant to access the Carrier IQ data?
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
However, the only documented case of the abuse is on the "most open" hardware stack. Jailbreakers saw no keylogging on the iPhone. (In fact, it's disabled by default on the iPhone).
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
This is not the case with all state schools. Mine, for example, was contrary to that. Different colleges in the University had different tuition. Obviously Art, Theater, Music, and Engineering have different costs -- why should they all pay
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
I'm now following you so I can read it later.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Keep in mind that Siri was a wholly stand alone product for all smart phones before it was bought by Apple. Apple has improved the product to a degree, but really, nothing has been changed except it has been modified to run only on an iPhon
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
This rant goes beyond "I have a realistic view of what people expect from Apple because I'm a tech journalist" to "I am a three year old who was promised the world, and my expectations fell short as they were completely unrealistic."
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Maybe Siri is the first A.I. to take part in a general strike?
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Well, this is just a guess, but you would probably get a bigger, meaner, more accurate V2 missile. But that could be because the place for rocket scientists before NASA was the Nazi party -- back when they were out to pretty much dominate h
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>Eventually the US government will sell back the banks and make some income, so its hardly comparable. Sweden in the early nineties did this and they recovered more than half their money. Compared to what America got out of the space ra
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
I did some googling, and while Facebook has sued small fare (like individual researchers) those researchers have pointed out that all the public profiles have been cached by Google's webcrawler, and they haven't sued Google (yet). If Google
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Scrape.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
So if I were to try to scrub photos accessible to me with a valid username and password from Facebook, (btw Facebook makes millions annually off its users viewing photos) I would be hacking?
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
1) It's very likely the $1.5 million figure is heavily inflated so as to help the prosecution with their case. I would like to see people really investigate where this $1.5 million is coming from? Was that how much JSTOR was really making o
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>Is it even legally okay to publicly make an example of someone like that? Yes, it's entirely up to the prosecuting attorney to prosecute with vigor. Again, if you up-jump the charges you often lower the odds of conviction because the b

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