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by gnaffle 13y ago
1) The iPhone iterations haven't been insignificant, unless you're expecting "mission impossible" technologies (or replaceable batteries and memory slots). 2) They have gone on record saying that they will introduce &quo
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think the main problem is that you could say exactly the same about Ballmer at Microsoft. He also ran Microsoft very well from an operations point of view. What we know for certain is that Apple can still _execute_ very well and stay comp
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Or Skype for that matter (what eBay bought it for, and what they sold it to Microsoft for). In comparison, NeXT which became the foundation for almost everything Apple has done since 1997 cost about $650M if I remember correctly.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
So, there is NO actual evidence? As in, this is just anecdotal, as in the driver, dealer and technician were all wrong in this instance: http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-avalon-displays-unintende... ..and the 400% increas
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I don't think they appear to be, after numerous recalls affecting millions of Toyota cars. That there have been real cases on unintended acceleration related to Toyota is not really in dispute, unless you think Toyota did the recall ma
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Actually, the ECU might very well do that if it gets in field updates :) Mechanical pieces fail over time, but we know a whole lot more about inspecting for, finding and preventing mechanical faults than we know how to create defect free so
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by gnaffle 13y ago
That's possible, but I don't think it's likely. The feel of an accelerator is very different from a brake pedal which normally will not go all the way down. Of course, more details about the story would be nice. Btw, there ha
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by gnaffle 13y ago
In the car at issue in that lawsuit, it didn't have a brake control system in the ECU at all. But yes, in later (2010) models that was the case.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, if you read the testimony, it seems clear that Toyota is overconfident in their software. They have updated the ECU software, but still as of 2010 they managed to implement the brake failsafe in the same software task that senses the
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think the most important detail is that he slammed on the brakes and the car continued to accelerate. Cars with a computer controlled accelerator should be able to stop accelerating if the brake pedal is pushed. I would also expect that h
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I agree that the main problem wasn't the options, but I do think that some of options are were unnecessary (the distinction between hibernate and sleep, for instance). The real lesson is that design by comittee over years trying to rea
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Here's a good story about the shutdown menu in Vista, and how it came to be: Original rant by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html Answer from the guy working on the shutdown
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I know he's not talking about web apps. But how is Microsoft going to be a dominant player providing services to apps running on platforms that are controlled by others? Both Apple and Google want to control their own cloud platform, a
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Microsoft already has a huge pile of cash. That's not the problem. The problem is that the execution is good, but not good enough. Compromize and difficult choices (Surface vs Surface RT) everywhere. They released the music kit for the
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Microsofts enterprise business is founded on the fact that everyone runs Windows, so no, that doesn't work well in the long run (ask Novell).
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by gnaffle 13y ago
How is it compared to IntelliJ?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
How are you any more tied to old JDK versions on Linux, compared to Microsoft? Also, I'm curious to what requirements you have that makes it OK to upgrade hardware and apply service packs and Java updates, but not to do OS release upgr
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Exactly.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think it is spot-on right up to the conclusion, which I disagree with. > The next ubiquity isn’t running on every device, it’s talking to every device. I don't see how Gruber can come to this conclusion unless he has suddenly chan
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by gnaffle 13y ago
> Google recognized that the OS doesn't matter anymore and Microsoft continued to believe it was everything. I think they recognize all too well that it matters, which is seen by the massive effort in developing and supporting Andro
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by gnaffle 13y ago
This is Motorola Mobility though, which only includes the cell phone business and was spun off from Motorola (not called Motorola Solutions) and later sold to Google.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
To clarify, I'm not talking about a replay attack. It's a _relay_ attack where they use the RF signal transmitted by the actualy car/key, just over a bigger distance than you would normally expect.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yes, but the point of this scheme is that the car "believes" the key is in close range. If that is enough to get it to open the car, the thieves don't have to break any encryption, they just need to relay the RF signal. The f
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by gnaffle 13y ago
This is easily (and almost certainly already) solved with pairing the key to the car, so that the car can safely ignore any unlock attempt by another (legitimate) key.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The point of the car alarms and crypto is to notify you if your car is broken into, that will act as a deterrent. That aside, many car thieves will even steel airbags (very expensive), and you can't exactly go around dismantling and re
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Not sure if it was the case here, but apparently some cars can unlock automatically if the key is nearby. To hack this, you only need a sensitive receiver that can retransmit the signal from the key, and you need two people, on in proximity
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by gnaffle 13y ago
AFAIK it's required by the new terms that you give your real name. And to do much of anything you need to verify your account with an SMS to a previously unused cell phone number.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It doesn't have to be intentional to be evil. But, 1) The decision to require a full name and gender was intentional 2) The decision to merge multiple accounts under the Google+ umbrella was intentional 3) The decision to automate this
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I've watched that keynote, and it certainly wasn't there. While Jobs had a tendency to claim ideas as his own internally (often after dismissing it initially), to the public he never seemed to like to claim ideas as his own, but r
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Not necessarily. Different teas brew best at different temperatures. A quick and easy solution of course is to boil the water and let it sit for a while until the temperature drops.

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