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by czhiddy 13y ago
Which glass surface? The oleophobic glass on the iPhone itself? If the print was copied directly from one of the phone surfaces, you'd think that the CCC would want to include that little tidbit.
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> Just use brute force or dictionary attack over the wire. Given that most users use 4-digit pass codes, this can be done usually in minutes, almost always in less than an hour. It's clear you've never actually attempted this.
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> There is no "M7 co-processor" [1] chip in the device - possibly it's just marketing for some part of the A7? Not sure why the iFixit guys jumped to the conclusion that it was possibly marketing fluff. It is an SoC after
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by czhiddy 13y ago
You're saying that Apple's 30 pin connector, introduced in 2003, was a copy of a "industry standard" that was designed in 2010? Maybe that's why you're struggling to find a source that "directly confirms i
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by czhiddy 13y ago
Where was all this outrage when South Korea banned the iPhone until 2009 to protect the local cell phone makers? http://www.crn.com/news/networking/220100939/south-korea-lif...
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by czhiddy 13y ago
Why? Because they spend a fortune on advertising. Anyone who's used a S3/S4 knows most of the S-"features" are pure gimmicks that a fairly competent engineer could implement in less than a week. HTC phones are much more
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> They need to do better, but they have little reason to pack it in. http://allthingsd.com/20130705/htc-profit-misses-expectation... They're still profitable, but for how long? If they don't engineer a tur
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> The Android numbers don't seem that different compared to other lopsided iOS vs Android sales statistics. Interesting how 77% of Android purchases were made when the app went on sale, versus 14% for iOS. Other articles mention how
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by czhiddy 13y ago
It looks like the exploit used a vulnerability in Apache Struts that was revealed on 7/16 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081428 Given that, your question of "how can we completely avoid zero-day attacks&q
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by czhiddy 13y ago
The timing of this looks right: Struts 2.3.15.1 was released on 7/16/13, and developer.apple.com went down on 7/18/13 for "maintenance". Plenty of time for an enterprising black hat to notice and exploit the vu
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by czhiddy 13y ago
Not so much manufacturing - the chips/cameras/flex/cases/etc are all made somewhere else. Foxconn is an army of cheap Chinese laborers who perform the final assembly and testing.
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by czhiddy 13y ago
These articles are largely pointless, since taste is subjective. For instance, I find a few of Leo's icons to look slightly better and a few to look slightly worse. Going down the page, JustD's, Zane's, and Ida's icon se
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by czhiddy 13y ago
Wow. I'm sure there are examples that might prove your point, but those are some of ugliest icons I've ever seen. The second one looks like it's straight from Windows 3.1.
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> The homescreen just looks half finished. Shocking, right? Things looks half finished in a pre-release beta. What were they thinking?
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by czhiddy 13y ago
When did HN become such a cesspool of snarky low-quality comments? Every time I see a Glass/iPhone/WindowsPhone/etc article nowadays, I prepare myself for a deluge of shitty YouTube-caliber posts. Embarrassing.
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by czhiddy 13y ago
The completely arbitrary icon sizes look absolutely terrible on Android, IMO : http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/nexu...
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by czhiddy 13y ago
By that logic, every company has a monopoly on the products they produce + sell.
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by czhiddy 13y ago
I'm kind of surprised and amused that Ubuntu chose the name of a NBA expansion team (1980): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> (and to a lesser extent Google) have done a remarkable job in wresting control away from the carriers. Seriously? In order to get Android out on the market, Google pretty much allowed the carriers to keep all the control they had back
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> Carriers are also allowed to do it to Android phones, but choose not to do so. Why is that? Do they make more money from Android phones, and are incentivised to make them appear better performing? Studies have shown that iPhone user u
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by czhiddy 13y ago
> Jeesh, why are people still putting up with Apple's domineering control over what they're allowed to do with their own devices? Because when the average user hits a badly written app that constantly uses the network in the background
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by czhiddy 13y ago
Software is hard. Any company where you can ship production code with all of physical memory mmap'able world-readable/writable (Exynos Android 4.0 vulnerability) points to a seriously flawed software engineering culture.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
The form factor of Lightning is top notch - all of the USB-variants seem terribly designed after using it. Too bad Lighting isn't free-to-license like Firewire was. That said, the design for this AV adapter is puzzling. I wonder what the ha
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by czhiddy 14y ago
> iOS doesn't have a terminal. And considering the recent moves with the Mac app store, how long before terminals will stop shipping with OS X? Why not take this illogical train of thought even further? iOS tries to hide the filesystem
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Or you could use the one-year warranty.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
Highly unlikely. If you look at the backtrace, it's dying on an assert, not some random memory dereference.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
What's more crazy is that _profits_ (what truly matters) actually beat expectations. I could start a business selling $100 bills for $99.99 and report back enormous revenue numbers. Hell, I could probably match Amazon's losses and revenues
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by czhiddy 14y ago
So geeky, it may actually hinder adoption. The general disdain for bluetooth headsets was quite widespread - voice-operated Google Glass would face the same backlash.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/375... Apple's marketing budget relative to its size is quite tiny.
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by czhiddy 14y ago
A minimal amount of googling would've uncovered the actual purpose of the chip: http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/ Care to provide any sources describing the DRM capabilities?

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