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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm definitely an Apple person right now, but both webOS and WP7 will get very attractive after the Pre^3 and Mango. Depending on what hardware Apple announces, I'll be very tempted to move to one of those. Apple has done a great job with i
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Winners announced for the 2011 Pwnie Awards(pwnies.com)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I can't agree with more than the first few lines of the grandparent comment (as it is, as you say, "pure fanboyism"), but there is a point there. Nothing — nothing — before the iPhone had anything similar to it's UI. Not Palm OS, not Wind
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's a font-based exploit, not PDF. The particular implementation on JailbreakMe used a PDF, but it could easily work in @font-face with CSS on any webpage (or, as we did on JailbreakMe, just hiding an <iframe> to the PDF).
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I think the solution that Apple would suggest is to just not put an "app-within-an-app". If the feature set is far enough apart that it feels like a separate app that needs a separate menu bar, it should be a separate app. (I actually agree
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I was talking about the majority of jailbreaks, not JailbreakMe. Most jailbreaks are done at the low-level bootloader level, which does require physical access to the device (as well as pressing a bunch of buttons in a certain way); and eve
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I think the issue is not their security team, who seem to do quite a good job securing iOS (which I'd consider one of, if not the most, secure consumer operating systems out there). The issue is that securing an OS is hard . It's hard to m
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Actually, not really. From what I know, the keychain security hasn't been broken, except through brute forcing the passcode. While that's usually possible for the standard 4-digit passcode, it's not always possible. Jailbreaking is a necess
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by Xuzz 15y ago
He didn't design the interface (Apple did; it's a clone of the App Store, and I guess I designed some of the iPad UI), but he did work very hard to ensure that the user experience was great. There was quite a bit of discussion about that, e
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that's correct. I know they take stuff like JailbreakMe seriously — remote code execution exploits and sandbox evasions might cause real issues — but I don't think they care all that much about your normal USB-based jailbrea
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Sorry, that wasn't supposed to be there. I'm scared by Eclipse itself, not it's popularity. ;P
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by Xuzz 15y ago
As someone who is interested in Android, but is currently being scared off by Eclipse, does anyone know any good resources for developing for Android in something that isn't $BLOATED_JAVA_IDE? I tried vim, but the command-line builds were h
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(I posted this as a comment on the TechCrunch article, but not everyone would see that and it might be useful for people here too:) If you want Lion's "full-screen" mode in Chrome (and other apps, TextMate, Firefox, etc), I made an extensio
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by Xuzz 15y ago
It's quite easy to set it up to boot of an external drive; I've done that and had 10.4/10.5/10.6 all bootable off of one external drive (split into three partitions).
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm interested to know how the people targeting iOS releases other than 4.3, 4.2, and 3.1 actually test on those platforms before release (ignoring the simulator for now — many apps don't work there at all, and it often has subtly different
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by Xuzz 15y ago
You maintain that Gmail contact list. Your friends maintain their Facebook profiles. That's the difference.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I think it now also closes the "Notification Center". (And the diagram also missed one usage, as spotted by @rpetrich: it also closes an iAd.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
No real need if you don't: there's no additional vector added by the jailbreak to even try entering a password if you don't have sshd installed.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(I just asked BigBoss about this.) No, it's down due to an insane traffic load. It'll be up as soon as either a) traffic gets less insane (not likely to happen soon) or b) BigBoss adds more capacity. I'd also suggest to just keep trying: it
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Try rebooting, it usually fixes some of the issues. (Disclosure: I made the JailbreakMe website; not the jailbreak itself.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I like the idea of an iOS theme, but I feel that with iOS, you have to either get it perfect or not do it at all. That means fixing the font sizes in the headers, the button layouts and styling, and everything else to exactly match iOS. I k
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm going to assume this was a mistake. However, I have been seeing quite a few "mistakes" similar to this from Facebook lately. They have a legitimate problem with application spam, but if they are going to try and fight that by banning ap
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Possibly, but the music being played (and, thus, the audio recording of said music) is copyrighted. Maybe if you disabled the microphone?
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by Xuzz 15y ago
But just as you could recreate that (pixel art) image yourself, there's nothing stopping you from coming up with an already-created song yourself: the necessary information to create that (a piano, say) isn't dead like Miles Davis. Whether
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Yes, but the question was about downloading what you put in, not what other people put in that you happen to have access to.
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That's actually happened to me — not-in-store-reproducable home button issues on iPhone 4 — twice now, and I've gotten a brand new phone in 5 minutes every time. Definitely agree,
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by Xuzz 15y ago
According to their Applicant Guidebook: String reviews (concerning the applied-for gTLD string). String reviews include a determination that the applied-for gTLD string is not likely to cause security or stability problems in the DNS, incl
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by Xuzz 15y ago
How possible would it be for an individual to register one of these, assuming they had the $185k figure I've seen floating around in articles related to this? I doubt it would be a useful or smart investment, but I just wonder how theoretic
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by Xuzz 15y ago
All processes (at least, ones in the App Store) are already sandboxed, as are Safari and Web.app (although the latter two are sandboxed more heavily than ones from the App Store, since Apple knows exactly what things they might want to ac
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by Xuzz 15y ago
They can't, however, without removing much of the security mechanisms in iOS. Excepting the possibility that they could move WebKit (and Nitro) to a separate process, allowing App Store apps to use Nitro would completely disable their (gene

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