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by Xuzz 16y ago
Combine this with COICA and suddenly just changing your DNS provider becomes quite a bit more difficult.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
You'd be very surprised how many people consider being the first Google search result automatically worth of trust. Related: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_failed_inter...
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Horrible, but scarily brilliant.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I think it would actually be fine if they didn't sanction it, and had it violate the warranty (at least), but allowed it (and hid the setting somewhere).
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by Xuzz 16y ago
http://cydia.saurik.com/
486.
by Xuzz 16y ago
I think the point is not that it's not possible, but that Microsoft and Google have demonstrated that it isn't going to happen, at least from them.
487.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Because Android is the "open" system, and Apple is the "closed" one?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Kinda sad that this ends up on the front page, when there's a lot more technically interesting stuff in Cydia, like Cycript (dynamic JavaScript/Objective-C bridge, http://www.cycript.org/ ) or MobileSubstrate (runtime code patching and hoo
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by Xuzz 16y ago
People claim the same issue with Python, but I don't think it's really hurt anyone much. It's usually very obvious and auto-indent is surprisingly possible on a lot of it.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
It does, but you can't scroll part of the page in the native way -- iOS users are very accustomed to the kinetic scrolling, anything even slightly different is enough to throw them off and make your app seem "weird".
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by Xuzz 16y ago
This last caveat leads to an interesting economic question. As noted above, retail prices for CAPTCHA- solving vary over a wide range, from about $1 per thousand to $20 per thousand. This price spread, and the fact that it’s
492.
by Xuzz 16y ago
At least on iOS, recreating the "feel" of the scroll views is actually impossible with reasonable performance (the CSS 2d transitions don't have the correct interpolation options), so you can't make anything, at least there, that "feels" na
493.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Interesting; I didn't know that. Thanks!
494.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Closed source Android port? I thought Android was open?
495.
by Xuzz 16y ago
No, you left it unprotected so you didn't need to spend CPU cycles decrypting it, even though you really didn't want to.
496.
by Xuzz 16y ago
I'm an app developer and I'm sure that over half of my users are pirates. I think this is a good thing. It helps me improve my productions, as I talk to the pirates and fix the bugs they find. It helps my product get out there: pirates show
497.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Or is it just that using Flash for ads is an abuse of the tool?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
There is only one foolproof check to see if your application is pirated, since only the binary itself has to change (and you can't checksum what's distributed to users). Therefore, there's just one simple thing to patch out -- 5 minutes for
499.
by Xuzz 16y ago
I didn't know that, thanks! I'd reword it as "Stanford Course: iPhone App Development", but I bet the OP didn't know that either.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
OK, well, I actually wrote part of a few of them, and they do none of that. First, "replacing system framework with your own hex edited version" -- no. They do patch the kernel, but they exploit it at startup and do dynamic patching using d
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by Xuzz 16y ago
In case you are interested in iOS, you can check out the Open Toolchain project: http://code.google.com/p/iphonedevonlinux/wiki/Installation It's not seamless, and you might need to learn Objective-C (don't worry, it's not Java), and you
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by Xuzz 16y ago
This issue was actually central to my switch to Chrome. I'm glad it's finally fixed, but when something this important to UI takes over 10 years to get resolved, perhaps the Firefox team needs to just choose a fix (such as the ones suggeste
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(I know this is off-topic and nitpick-y, but it is "iPhone", not "Iphone".)
504.
by Xuzz 16y ago
I'm not sure what's so "shady" about jailbreaking: the processes is very streamlined, and while you can find malicious software, the Cydia Store is about as curated -- if not more -- than the App Store.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
There are any number of ways to get around the blacklist, but none of them matter if they don't apply to everyone . It's about the public, not a dedicated tech-person getting around it.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
It's not out yet, but it's going to be part of Action Menu by Ryan Petrich ( http://rpetri.ch ).
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Except the iPhone effectively has no DRM. Load the application into gdb, dump memory, and you've broken it. This is even worse than Android, even: the developers cannot add their own DRM on top, due to both technical and App Store restricti
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by Xuzz 16y ago
And is probably used for their Java-based image uploader.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I'm also guessing this is used in the Top Tweets algorithm, which seems to favor lesser known users in the amount of interest needed to get chosen, but I have no way to back that up.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
This might be worse in San Francisco, though, than other places, just due to the sheer iPhone density. I've been on BART trains where over half of the people were on an iPod touch or iPhone (yes, I counted).

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