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by Xuzz 16y ago
(I know this is a bit pedantic, but I do want to remind people that not all jailbreak users -- and, in fact, more than half of them -- aren't pirates.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Is this something that anybody actually wants? The form elements are standard in your browser, any user knows immediately what they are. Is theming them a good thing, or just a way to make your web(site|app) "different" than everyone else?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Eh, Steve said that it was at a "normal" 10-12 inch distance from the eyes, IIRC. I agree, though, it's very hard to see those pixels, but I also agree with OP that you hold it quite a bit farther away. They'll call it a Retina Display almo
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Hah, my tweet(s) got quite some attention! I'm not even sure if I found that image myself, but I do remember discussing it on IRC in August (and just recently brought it back up with all the new rumors). (Lots of attention, and, it seems, l
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by Xuzz 16y ago
You're wrong, but it's not why you think. iTunes is no less awful on the Mac. It's arguably worse, and certainly no better.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I don't think Google has affected anything with this move. By any counts out there, Firefox has double the market share of Chrome. It might reduce the use of HTML5 video versus Flash video in Chrome itself, but for the whole web, it doesn
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Apple's primary reason for not supporting Flash is that there is not a "Browser Plugin Store", there is an "App Store", and Flash is decidedly not an "app".
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by Xuzz 16y ago
They didn't have an exploit: they showed how to get the private keys to sign anything. Much more valuable (for legitimate uses (and piracy)) than geohot's posting of one individual key.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(Honestly I don't see how geohot did anything, here, really: he used one exploit to apply the work of fail0verflow, who presented at CCC, to a new part of the PS3. All the important parts, like the private key calculation, were already pres
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Unprecedented to sue those hacking a console with the sole intent of using it for Linux and homebrew, yes. (Yes, suing over piracy is not new, and that's what Sony is doing here. But that doesn't change the fact that none of them support pi
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Incredibly relevant: Daeken's Hardware Hacker Manifesto: http://daeken.com/the-hardware-hacker-manifesto Sony probably has the upper hand legally here. The DMCA seems to be pretty explicit about these kind of this, at least from my non-la
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Unless it has a door out of the garden, like Android's "install unsigned apps" toggle. It's the best solution to this "issue", but so far only certain Android phones offer it (and all but the Nexus series are locked down in other ways). If
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by Xuzz 16y ago
He makes a few good points: Linux has had this for years, and they have done quite a good job with it (especially with the Ubuntu Software Center). But, as he says: Linux only has 1% market share. Mac OS X has almost 10% market share. If
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I prefer the new-style Exposé, I find it more visually appealing. I'd never used it before Snow Leopard, but the changes made it much more appealing to me. (Meta: I'm always interested why blatant copyright infringement of developer-only so
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by Xuzz 16y ago
The weird thing is that they still add some people, but they claim it isn't adding anyone new.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(However, Twitter did shut down the "verified account" program -- it was a "beta test" and they no longer are adding new accounts to it. Talk about confusing.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(If any VLC developers happen to read this, I'm happy to help you package it up for submission to Cydia.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Apple does have a kill switch, but they don't use it for situations like this one (or, actually, they haven't used it at all so far). You can keep using it, but backup that .ipa file.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Probably would be better to use a vendor-specific salt, so you can compare users between your application. Since the UDID is just SHA1(SerialNumber + IMEI + WiFiAddress + BluetoothAddress), adding in a "vendor ID" at the end when generating
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I believe the name "dissident" comes from a desire for anonymity (probably a good idea, with what he does). He used to go by "TDDebug", fwiw. (Insert argument how none of the kids who use Hackulous would ever buy an app anyway, due to lack
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by Xuzz 16y ago
There's a difference between "ugly attempt at matching the standard controls" and "extending nicely into a different style of UI".
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by Xuzz 16y ago
So they didn't bother to try here or on iOS. Honestly, not particularly surprising: any DRM will be broken eventually (even their own heavily-obfuscated iTunes FairPlay DRM). (Edit: apparently this is the fault of Angry Birds. I bet it's go
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by Xuzz 16y ago
More to the point: neither of those belong as part of iTunes. (Well, maybe the music store. But device management and syncing makes no sense.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
More correct title: AT&T cuts the iPhone 3GS price -- at their own stores -- to $49
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by Xuzz 16y ago
However, I see it around as an alternative to IE -- usually IE6.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Funny that this is posted the same day that we see this from MetroPCS: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2070797
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by Xuzz 16y ago
You can't argue with the page turning, though. I have no idea how the Google engineers turn a page, since it's nothing like anyone else does it (or iBooks, for that matter).
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I think the issue, though, is not if you (or other people on HN) use AppBrain: it's if your customers are going to be able to find your app. I doubt that a significant chunk of Android users actually use something like AppBrain, so a pre-in
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by Xuzz 16y ago
If they power it off, using the same exploits as the iPhone jailbreaks (and using forensic tools by Jonathan Zdziarski; http://twitter.com/JZDZIARSKI ) they can easily recover the data. Before the boot-up ROM used on the iPhone was exploit
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Then use Chromium. Just as open source, and it's not like Android: Chromium development is public and anyone can work on it.

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