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by Xuzz 15y ago
I think the most amazing part of this is just how quickly it disappeared. That graph showing it almost entirely disappearing — after being used for hundreds of years beforehand — in just 15 years is pretty amazing. The explanations in this
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Or, perhaps, they thought about it beforehand? Do you know that Apple did not, in fact, consider something like this when deciding on screen size?
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Most likely. Most iPhones are sold locked to a specific carrier. Only recently (this summer) were you even able to buy unlocked ones inside the US.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644192 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428723 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600890
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That's not true; there is a very, very specific alert shown before Facebook accesses any phone numbers. I'm not making this up, it's just how it works. Facebook does not get anything "whether you like it or not". They get the information if
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Hardware.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I think some of the point in this case is that the iPad is specifically not a computer.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Single page (print) view for Instapaper, Readability, etc: http://www.anandtech.com/print/4686/samsung-galaxy-s-2-inter...
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Most of us on Hacker News, from what I can tell, are generally against legislating the Internet. But, that's exactly what DNT requires to be effective, since it provides no technical barrier against tracking: either websites are legislated
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by Xuzz 15y ago
You're not skipping gdb's ptrace, you're skipping when iTunes calls it. iTunes calls ptrace() with PT_DENY_ATTACH to disallow gdb from attaching to it, which this method easily skips to let you attach to iTunes without any issues.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Theoretically could. But it didn't happen, and nobody even made a PoC or demonstration. And full source code was released within three weeks of the initial JailbreakMe release, so it's not like it was made particularly hard if someone wante
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I designed the website for JailbreakMe, but I seriously have not seen a single malicious implementation of that exploit of that — or of any malware, through the App Store or not — for the iPhone.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
What malware on iOS?
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by Xuzz 15y ago
iOS does not have a general purpose "permissions" system. It does, however, ask for permission (via a modal popup with an explanation) before performing some things that you might to deny, such as accessing your photo library or physical lo
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Before we spend too much time attacking Facebook over this, let's try and think of possible reasons why this might be not an "evil" move. No need to go out of our way to conclude "omg they're evil stealing our privacy". Firstly, what if t
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's not "using Apple's APIs", though. It's emulating the hardware of an iPhone, and then running an unmodified iOS on top. Also, unless this thing (which is really intended as a development and security testing tool, not a user-facing prod
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It would be if "running iOS apps on Android" was actually the goal of the project, which it isn't. The goal is for easier debugging and security research of iOS and iOS apps, being based on QEMU and running on non-desktop platforms would ju
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's ambitious, but cmw can do it if anyone can. He already has most of the bootloaders running in QEMU, and is making progress on the kernel. I'm not sure that it would work for anything but an incredibly-slow demo on an Android phone, but
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That's incorrect. All apps are sandboxed — Safari most of all, in fact — comex just found ways to break out of the sandbox, usually by exploiting something in the iOS kernel. In addition, while it is possible to make the dock connector powe
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Only somewhat relevant, but comex (developer of JailbreakMe and a Dev-Team member) is starting an internship at Apple in a few weeks: https://twitter.com/comex/status/106863873952448512
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by Xuzz 15y ago
You can run Ubuntu on a TouchPad. See http://webos-internals.org/ for how.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Yeah, there was _UISwitchSlider class or something being used. I ripped almost all of that stuff out for "Cydia 1.1"; except for saurik's WebKit code to replace the crippled UIWebView, it's almost entirely public APIs now (UIViewController,
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The reason that Cydia doesn't have reviews (or even ratings) is that we haven't found a way to make a working review system either, so we don't even try. I don't think that any of us would argue or work against something like that, but I al
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Kickstarter project to develop an open-source iOS emulator (not simulator)(kickstarter.com)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
My app Maximizer can do this dynamically for pretty much any app on your system (including TextMate, but also stuff like Firefox or Spotify). It's SIMBL based, but the code is clean and hopefully open source soon: http://chpwn.com/apps/max
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The website where most of it happens (wiibrew.org) seems to be down, but here's a Google cache of the list of available homebrew: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hODdueH...
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Not really relevant, since there's enough iPad apps that it doesn't matter: I use one pixel-doubled app on the iPad (Facebook) and they're coming out with a native app very soon anyway.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Android does do this, but it only very rarely has worked for me. Like, take the Dropbox app, which is even listed under "featured tablet apps": you have file listings that are 8" wide, with no more content shown on a tablet than on a phon
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The iPad had 2,000 apps on launch day: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/02/best-ipad-apps-launch/ Hell, even the HP TouchPad had 300 at launch a month ago (which may even be more than Honeycomb had then, there's no way to tell due to that Ma

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