Re: Re: Not the only problems with the Dev Agreement
Go back and read the comment a little more carefully. He didn't say anything about open source apps.
He said you're not allowed to use the same code for the apple version of your app that you have in any other version.
Sadly, this matches their attitude toward desktop apps. They do everything they can to stop you from doing basic things like creating a window. They are VERY unfriendly towards developers.
If you only accumulate minutes month after month, you're actually buying too many of them... and paying for them!
So what? You're the one paying for minutes only to have them taken from you never to be seen again.
The point is that we end up paying less than we would on any standard network, but we get all the services you enjoy paying 4x what we do. Not sure how you think we're the fools here.
And now that Tracfone finally has smartphones available, I've lost the only reason I ever had to want to get on a "normal" plan.
This is disgusting. This technique well known as a man in the middle attack and should be prosecuted as such. The fact that they're your provider does not give them the freedom to alter your messages like this.
TLS cannot guarantee that. It can only guarantee that nothing in your message will be altered.
Verizon is using a Man-in-the-middle attack here, and all they are doing is adding to your message. TLS has no control over that.
Think of it as if you sent a letter, then the mail man wrote a message and put your letter and their message into a new envelope and mailed that. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
Awesome news. I'm a software engineer who has been trying to build some things on my own for some time now and I can't begin to see how anyone thinks this has made things more difficult for me. I feel like I can finally breathe a little.
One thing, though. How does one shave amounts off of transactions by rounding up? Sorry, but that's really getting to me :).
"but burning the hydrogen doesn't produce a net gain of energy"
I'm more than a little disappointed when I see people think that this is the goal we need to achieve in order for a system to be viable for use. Our current systems don't produce a net gain of energy, but that is not the point.
The point is that we need a source of energy that is relatively easy to extract and easy to transport in the vehicles it's intended to be used for. It would be awesome if we could also get a net gain in the process, but that is not the problem that's trying to be solved.
The fact that we have to extract the hydrogen out of water to get hydrogen fuel is no different than having to convert oil into gasoline. There is no net gain, but there is a result that we need.
This is pretty awesome to read. The problems with fusion have always been how to get enough energy in to cause fusion to happen without creating radioactive waste (read: hydrogen bomb), and how to collect the massive amount of energy that comes out once the atoms fuse together.
Seeing them able to model how the sun does it is just incredible. I wish the article described more how they actually collect the resulting energy.
Somehow I sincerely doubt peering is going on between Netflix and just about any other major provider. That kind of setup mostly describes how Tier 1 ISP's handle hooking their networks up to each other, not how a content provider handles hooking it's very tiny (comparatively) local network up to the ISP's.
As to who Netflix pays directly, ya, it might not be Verizon. Generally speaking, I'm treating paying whatever ISP they are as paying Verizon because Tier 1 ISP's use peering.
My whole point is that Verizon is already getting paid twice. I never said that was bad, only pointing out that Netflix IS paying to send the package and we are also paying to receive it.
...Which was exactly my point. Netflix is already paying for a connection to the internet. So Verizon is trying to get paid 3 times (twice from Netflix and once from the user using Netflix)
Ok, clearly everyone misunderstood my comment. You all need to look and see that I'm responding to the original comment, not someone else.
He's blaming Netflix for the actions of Verizon. I was trying to point out to him just how stupid that is by pointing out the difference between Netflix's networks and Verizon's.
I cannot even begin to understand what you think is happening here. How does traffic across the internet have anything to do with Netflix's internal network? Or what do you mean by "their own service"?
I would argue that Verizon is already being paid twice, and in fact is looking to triple dip.
Netflix would need to pay for a connection to upload anything to customers in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course, but I can't see any way Netflix could deliver anything to anyone if it wasn't paying someone to let it do that already.
While I agree with what the article is saying, something seems off with the claims made by DSLreports.
It claims we're behind Uruguay? I lived in Uruguay for 2 years, in several different areas of that country both inside the main city of Montevideo and in the countryside, and I can firmly tell you that almost no one there has internet in their home. They all go to internet cafe's to use the internet.
It makes perfect sense for a business to have a faster internet connection than a personal home does, so I'm just saying that they seem to be coming to a conclusion without really looking at some of the reasons why the countries might show a higher speed then we typically have here.
I agree that ISP's in the US are not competing at all and that it is causing a major lag in the speeds we have available here.
"Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government, and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism "
Wait, so creating political propaganda is an act of terrorism? Doesn't that make all politicians terrorists?
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Re: Re: Not the only problems with the Dev Agreement
He said you're not allowed to use the same code for the apple version of your app that you have in any other version.
Sadly, this matches their attitude toward desktop apps. They do everything they can to stop you from doing basic things like creating a window. They are VERY unfriendly towards developers.
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Re: Re: TracPhone
So what? You're the one paying for minutes only to have them taken from you never to be seen again.
The point is that we end up paying less than we would on any standard network, but we get all the services you enjoy paying 4x what we do. Not sure how you think we're the fools here.
And now that Tracfone finally has smartphones available, I've lost the only reason I ever had to want to get on a "normal" plan.
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Classic Man in the Middle
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Re: We need TLS everywhere
Verizon is using a Man-in-the-middle attack here, and all they are doing is adding to your message. TLS has no control over that.
Think of it as if you sent a letter, then the mail man wrote a message and put your letter and their message into a new envelope and mailed that. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
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Re: Rounding up?
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Rounding up?
One thing, though. How does one shave amounts off of transactions by rounding up? Sorry, but that's really getting to me :).
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I'm more than a little disappointed when I see people think that this is the goal we need to achieve in order for a system to be viable for use. Our current systems don't produce a net gain of energy, but that is not the point.
The point is that we need a source of energy that is relatively easy to extract and easy to transport in the vehicles it's intended to be used for. It would be awesome if we could also get a net gain in the process, but that is not the problem that's trying to be solved.
The fact that we have to extract the hydrogen out of water to get hydrogen fuel is no different than having to convert oil into gasoline. There is no net gain, but there is a result that we need.
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Seeing them able to model how the sun does it is just incredible. I wish the article described more how they actually collect the resulting energy.
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Re: Re: Paid twice already
As to who Netflix pays directly, ya, it might not be Verizon. Generally speaking, I'm treating paying whatever ISP they are as paying Verizon because Tier 1 ISP's use peering.
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He's blaming Netflix for the actions of Verizon. I was trying to point out to him just how stupid that is by pointing out the difference between Netflix's networks and Verizon's.
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I pay for an internet connection to receive the service, and Netflix would also need to pay for a connection to send it.
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Paid twice already
Netflix would need to pay for a connection to upload anything to customers in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong, of course, but I can't see any way Netflix could deliver anything to anyone if it wasn't paying someone to let it do that already.
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Data problems...
It claims we're behind Uruguay? I lived in Uruguay for 2 years, in several different areas of that country both inside the main city of Montevideo and in the countryside, and I can firmly tell you that almost no one there has internet in their home. They all go to internet cafe's to use the internet.
It makes perfect sense for a business to have a faster internet connection than a personal home does, so I'm just saying that they seem to be coming to a conclusion without really looking at some of the reasons why the countries might show a higher speed then we typically have here.
I agree that ISP's in the US are not competing at all and that it is causing a major lag in the speeds we have available here.
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http://www.whatyououghttoknow.com/show/2008/04/29/global-warming/
Climate change is a fact, but the idea that it's caused entirely or even largely by us is little more than opinion.
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Wait, so creating political propaganda is an act of terrorism?
Doesn't that make all politicians terrorists?
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Re: What I find most amusing..
No, because the Invisible Market Fairy has already created many free and easy to use internet filters to fill this need.
Problem solved.
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"Wikipedia defines a “password” as “a secret word or string of characters used for user authentication to prove identity or access approval"
A password does NOT identify a user, it proves that the identified user is who they say they are.
The ID's used by AT&T are not passwords, they are ID's. To try to pretend those are the same things is just being clueless.
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