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by Xuzz 15y ago
(Is that "WHOA" needed? I understand it's in the original headline, but having it in all-caps on the Hacker News homepage is slightly annoying.) Anyway, I don't find this strange at all. If I was going to guess who, if anyone, would be obje
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Tap on a PDF and it will ask you if you want to open it in Dropbox, iBooks, or any other PDF reader you have on your device. I keep mine organized in the iBooks categories, myself, but other people use different apps.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
No, it uses a custom scraper written by Marco. I've found that both of them work better on some pages and worse on others. (However, I do believe the "Safari Reader" feature of iOS 5 and Safari 5 does use Readability to extract the conten
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by Xuzz 15y ago
You still can do that, you just have to use "quotes" "around" "the" "words" instead of +putting +the +plus +sign +before +each +word. This just lets you get that type of search for every word easier.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Not on US keyboards, I don't think.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Counterfeits, possibly? I believe a lot of counterfeits are sold online and those companies might be interested in trying to get rid of those.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Using an almost amazingly simple procedure a few weeks ago, I worked a bit with @tmm1 on figuring most of this out. We actually got custom commands working via both proxy and on-device interposing based methods: http://mobile.twitter.com/t
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by Xuzz 15y ago
There is no jailbreak for the iPhone 4S (at least not publicly available), so any hacks like this must be done from outside the device.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
No, it's not jailbroken (there's no jailbreak for the iPhone 4S). This is just a feature of the iPhone: if you embed a SSL certificate in a mobile provisioning profile, it will add it to the system list. This is mostly intended for enterpri
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by Xuzz 15y ago
For one, he could have submitted it and then have it "held for developer release" — at which point he told them about it. There's no reason he had to have it actually in the App Store here, even if he wanted to test the approval process.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
You cannot, but the apps installed via Xcode have the same restrictions. In-app purchasing is at a much higher level than the kernel-enforced sandboxing rules that this exploit was affecting.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'd agree more if he didn't submit — and get approved — a working exploit in their store. Without telling them about it. Edit: Now, I don't disagree that just banning him from the program isn't a great idea, and that pulling the app and h
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Even so, they (ChevronWP7) appear to be calling it an "unlock". Just to increase the confusion, I guess.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The latter. I actually really want Apple to provide an option to request access to the photos without location, and remove the location data when reading in the photo metadata. But they don't — yet, at least. (Disclaimer: I worked on Batch
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's compressed after encryption, so the effects of the compression is minimal. I believe that my post was correct: due to the effects of the encryption, the compression is almost useless, rendering the large iOS file size essentially equiv
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(Encrypted and then compressed, however, so it's essentially the same as the uncompressed size.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The details here is that Siri seems to use some sort of authentication token when contacting the server that the iPhone 4 isn't sending, so it's rejected. We'll have to see if it's possible to work around that or share the token with a real
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Apple has an equivalent page for iOS, but they've done a very good job phasing out anything GPL or LGPL licensed, and are now down to a very small set of tools with any code released: http://opensource.apple.com/
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by Xuzz 15y ago
According to Marco's post (what this is a thread in response to), that is also backed up to iCloud and iTunes. Only Library/Caches/ and tmp/ are not.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Note this appears to be fixed in the recent Safari 5.1.1 update, according to Apple's support page here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I believe there actually may be legal issues with having something where the user might accidentally dial 911 if the voice control interpreted their speech incorrectly. (However, Android's voice actions seemed happy to call 911 for me, alth
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Again, let me ask: you have all these concerns about Facebook optionally letting you upload some data stored on your device to be shared with nobody. Exactly what Google's Contacts, Apple's iCloud, and Microsoft's Live let you do. Why is th
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by Xuzz 15y ago
You do realize, on iOS, that most contact info on the device is synced with either Google, or (in iOS 5) iCloud? Facebook is not making this information public, neither are those services. And how can they ask every person in your contacts
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I do not work at Facebook or even know a single person who does. I've never even talked to someone — including on the Internet — who works for Facebook. Your personal attack was incredibly uncalled for. Just because I do not feel Facebook i
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by Xuzz 15y ago
They just added very easy to understand privacy controls, for one. They're good enough that I'm considering merging my two "identities" into one Facebook account rather than my current two: I can now easily keep them separate. The other poi
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That makes no sense, the browser is sandboxed significantly more than any native app. Please stop assuming everything Facebook does is out to personally attack you or your data. It's demonstrably not the case.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's really not possible to launch something like this well: the app is progressively launching across the globe as the update propagates through the iTunes servers. There's no specific moment where it's available everywhere, it's a roll-ou
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Only after explicitly agreeing to share the information with a pretty explicit and huge warning message: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4352706085_5a6e467b50.jp... Seriously, I am getting tired of these outright lies or unsubstantiat
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The iPhone 4's A4 chip was clocked at 800 MHz, only the iPad had it at 1 GHz. I don't know what the A5 is clocked at in the iPhone 4S, but it's certainly possible it is faster clocked as well as dual-core.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Does the Android world have literally no respect for copyright? This is obviously a leak of copyrighted Google Code and I highly doubt that this website has permission to redistribute it.

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