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• How Apple Scaled Back Its Titanic Plan to Take on Detroit

  Sander October 17, 2016 at 4:32 pm

  I think we have stumbled upon the reason why there are no new Macs. Apple was wasting resources on the car.

  Apple Inc. has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project.

  [..]

  Zadesky handed the reins to his boss, Dan Riccio, adding to responsibilities that already included engineering annual iPhone, iPad, and Mac refreshes.

  Source: How Apple Scaled Back Its Titanic Plan to Take on Detroit - Bloomberg

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• Dropbox Modifies TCC.db to Give Itself Accessibility Access

  Sander September 22, 2016 at 11:30 am

  Dropbox was using a sql attack on the tcc database to circumvent Apple’s authorization policy

  Another issue like this and a lot of people will switch to iCloud Drive.

  #link #technology

• Trusting the government

  Sander January 27, 2016 at 1:43 pm

  The UK government had setup the Independent Commision on Freedom of Information with an eye to review the Freedom Of Information Act:

  Last year, the government set up a commission to review the law, composed mostly of people who had expressed scepticism or concern about the scope of the FOIA, and with a clear brief to add restrictions to its workings.

  Not my definition of independent.

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• Security through insecurity

  Sander July 6, 2015 at 2:41 pm

  Schneier explained how, initially, NSA Director General Keith Alexander claimed in 2013 that he had disrupted 54 terrorists plots. A few months later, this was revised down to 13, and then to "one or two." Eventually, the only success that the NSA could point to was the prevention of a San Diego man sending $8,500 to support a Somali militant group.

  Doesn't sound like a worthy trade-off.

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• Modern technology

  Sander July 8, 2012 at 11:10 pm

  Today’s experience of trying to watch the formula 1 race at Silverstone was a frustration of modern technology and drm issues:

  • the Virgin media box only recorded the first hour of the BBC Broadcast. Disappointed.
  • I then navigated to the Virgin media version of BBC iPlayer. However it does not list Formula 1 races, due to licensing restrictions. sigh annoying.
  • I loaded up the iPhone version of the BBC iPlayer. It has the race but it visually it looks like an amateur YouTube video. Connecting it to the HDTV with the Av cable might tell the app to switch to an Hd stream, but alas the picture is twice as muddy. Frustrating.
  • Booted up the laptop to view the web version, which is as blurry as the iPhone version. Let’s download it perhaps it’s higher quality? Hopeful.
  • iPlayer desktop is installed then crashes. Typical.
  • Adobe Air wants to be updated which happens as the programming preventing the update just crashed. Really?
  • iPlayer desktop loads but does not let you browse any shows. Losing interest fast.
  • Downloading Formula one British Gran… 2.3Gb this is looking good. No streaming? I’ll start watching on the iPhone in the meantime. Tolerating.
  • 11 minutes later the abbreviated title expands to ’d prix qualifying’. Getting pissed.
  • downloading the actual grand prix. Watching more on the iPhone. Maybe this is as good as it gets?
  • connecting the laptop over HDMI. Download is finished! Turns out visuals are better but framerate is choppy. Can’t be arsed anymore. I’ll watch it on the laptop.

  Does it have to be this hard, Virgin, BBC, Acer, Toshiba, Apple?

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• Rupert Murdoch facing BSkyB defeat as parties unite in call to drop takeover

  Sander July 13, 2011 at 10:03 am

  Rupert Murdoch will today face the humiliation of the Commons issuing a unanimous all-party call for his scandal-ridden News Corporation to withdraw its £8bn bid for BSkyB, the great commercial prize he has been pursuing to cement his dominance of the British media landscape.

  In an extraordinary volte-face, David Cameron will disown the media tycoon by leading his party through the lobbies to urge him to drop the bid. Murdoch can defy parliament and press ahead with the bid, prompting a Competition Commission inquiry, but he risks finding himself ostracised by a political class that once scrambled to bend to his wishes.

  I'm sure it has nothing to do with MPs no longer wishing to be associated with a news organisation that might give them certain favours. I still have yet to find a convincing argument on BSkyB being related to the phone hacking scandal. Until then there must be other, presently unknown, reasons for this change in direction.

  via The Guardian.

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• How to meet interesting people (with Olark) « Borski

  Sander March 4, 2011 at 10:54 am

  Interesting article on personal support via impersonal website:

  via How to meet interesting people (with Olark) « Borski.

  #technology #web

• Mark Zuckerberg is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?

  Sander March 3, 2011 at 11:18 am

  Facebook's users are not connecting directly with each other. They are speaking to Mr. Zuckerberg, who first writes down and files away everything said, and then maybe relays it to the intended destination, if it suits him.

  Mark Zuckerberg is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?

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• Quote of the week

  Sander October 13, 2010 at 2:24 pm

  I'd post the other two examples, but I wouldn't want to take all the fun out of reading the manual.

  Source: stackoverflow.com

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• Letter to Ministry of Sound

  Sander October 28, 2008 at 11:07 am

  Dear sir/madam, I am writing you to complain about the new ministry of sound website and the lack of data protection with regards to your users.

  Earlier today I received an email notification about the new MoS website. The email also notified me that a new password was issued to use on the website. These are two characteristics of a phishing mail - in this case launching a new website and sending out new passwords, they could easily have been sent from a malicious source wanting me to login to their MoS-lookalike website and take my credit card details. You shouldn't send out a new password unless someone requests it on your website, because email can be forged. You also sent out my password in plain text email rather than on a secure part of your website. Anyone can read it and login to my account and purchase orders.

  Also to my surprise while investigating the source of the mail, several of the links point to a http://www.c-f-1.com/ domain (update: this domain name no longer exists!), the name doesn't help to improve the trust in your email. To my astonishment the link led to a webpage with the html email, again with my password in plain sight. Have a look (link removed), I changed my password already. Let's wait for Google to index it so that anyone can search for my account information. They already found other newsletters.

  Finally, I used mosdownload.com to buy my mp3s online. This site no longer works as an error comes up when it tries to redirect, due to a configuration error. My order history is gone, most of my profile is gone.

  I'm very disappointed with your lack of security and care for your customers and unfortunately have come to the conclusion that I won't be using your service again, and I will recommend my friends and family to do the same, due to these trust issues.

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