[ale] Hacking Your Smartphone ( next Thursday's talk)

[dude-aaron-omy]

Hey Richard!

Regular location for ALE Central Third Thursday meetings is
Emory Law School / Gambrel Hall,  usually in room 1C.

I'll get notice posted for next Thursday's Hacking Your Smart Phone
talk shortly.  I just received the presentation synopsis this afternoon,
probably because I finally remembered to badger Charles for it
this morning.

peace
aaron






On 2012/02/10, at 14:33 , Richard Bronosky wrote:

> I want to make sure I don't missed Thursday's talk. I'm not sure when
> and where the meeting is and when folks meet up in advance. (I looked
> at http://ale.org/ and found "directions" but so much of that site is
> out of date, I don't trust it... and there is not time info anyway.)
>
> When, where... and is there and prep that we should do (download)
> before we come for this talk?
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Charles Shapiro
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ooh, furthermore according to slashdot, UEFI is gonna be mandatory  
>> and
>> non-configurable on WOA devices.  So if you buy one, you will never  
>> be
>> able to put another OS on it or use it with anything but Microsoft's
>> own software.  If Microsoft loses interest or you get a new one, your
>> only choices will be to disassemble the old one and use what
>> components aren't locked up by the software or throw it away.
>>
>> I suspect that this is mostly Bad News for M$.  Seems like they're
>> trying to march off Leading the Market in a direction that it won't
>> go.   Like the IBM PS/2 debacle.  Quite a contrast to HTC's policy
>> (basically, "Do what you Want, it's your device" (
>> http://htcdev.com/bootloader ) )
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> can we vote on where to apply the tar, feathers and fence rail? I  
>>> was
>>> thinking to use the fence rail to pack the tar and feathers where  
>>> his head
>>> usually is.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looks like the choice for open and free smartphones is gonna be
>>>> Android and . . . Android.  Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky ( prez of
>>>> Microsoft's Windows division,
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky ), has this to say  
>>>> about
>>>> Windows on smartphones (aka Windows 8 on ARM, or WOA ):
>>>>
>>>> WOA does not support running, emulating, or porting existing x86/64
>>>> desktop apps. Code that uses only system or OS services from  
>>>> WinRT can
>>>> be used within an app and distributed through the Windows Store for
>>>> both WOA and x86/64. Consumers obtain all [WOA] software, including
>>>> device drivers, through the Windows Store and Microsoft Update or
>>>> Windows Update.
>>>>
>>>> In short, if you want to develop or run your own software on your  
>>>> own
>>>> portable device, Android is It.  IOS or Winders won't do.   
>>>> Further, if
>>>> you want to develop an application which runs on both a Windows  
>>>> device
>>>> and a Windows smartphone, you're going to have to use the Microsoft
>>>> delivery system to distribute it.  No in-house repositories or  
>>>> distro
>>>> methods allowed!
>>>>
>>>> I for one welcome our new Steve Ballmer overlords.  With tar,
>>>> feathers, and a fence rail.
>>>>
>>>> -- CHS
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>
>>> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
>>> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do  
>>> as they
>>> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the  
>>> outcome.
>>> - 2011 Noam Chomsky
>>>
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