This is a welcome sign for those that do not want to buy Apple hardware and have struggled working with Hackintosh VMs or cloud-based OSX desktops.
Is it still policy for Apple to require XCode and therefore force you into buying Apple hardware (one way or another) in order to deploy to the App Store?
Yes. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, you can't deploy an app to the app store without a Mac. But you can (at least in theory) do iOS development on a Windows machine.
Isn't it that you just need your build to be signed by a registered copy of XCode/OSX (don't know specifically what it is)?
So you can actually just send the code developed on your windows box off to a third party build server, which will be an actual registered mac - you get the compiled binary back and then submit that to the app store, no worries.
I'm not sure if the rules around this have changed but IIRC from a couple of years ago when I last checked, this is what Adobe were doing with their phonegap build server - you send them up your phonegap project which can be written on anything (windows, linux, etc), they compile it to apps for various platforms and send you back those binaries, you then just submit these to the various platform app stores. Again, IIRC, this included iOS apps.
There's always Cordova/PhoneGap and possibly Ionic Framework. It's much easier to build apps that look good on all different device sizes with hybrid tech. You'll want to use Visual Studio 2015 for that too since Microsoft now has an Android Emulator which is faster than any other.
I think you'll learn more from porting a simple C compiler than you will from any compiler book, at least given a fixed amount of time to do either task in.
Maybe a lot of these issues will be resolved when eBay spins PayPal off? Most of these issues seemed to have really started right around the same time they were acquired.
> How were you determining the accounts were stolen?
About 3-5 days after each payment was confirmed Paypal would reverse it due to it being unauthorized. More so the payment would show up as confirmed/valid initially, at no point during the process did Paypal make you aware of the possibility of the payment being reversed nor to help you confirm/validate that it was in fact authorized by the account holder.
> Also, as much as we would love to say companies are responsible for the security of our accounts, losing credentials is also a user issue.
Of course it's a user issue at a certain scale, but when it's that prevalent I am inclined to say that company is primarily at fault.
It was just a WoW account, so not a big deal for me, but I'd really hate to be a merchant or someone otherwise relying on Paypal day-to-day, that sounds absolutely horrible.
In theory, they shouldn't. Its not allowed by Blizzard, and if memory serves, Blizzard considers it a breach of EULA and takes the account down as a whole. PayPal was supposed to be cracking down when this was rampant, because essentially its an illegal product.
Though really, paying for crap is different than selling it. More of an eBay domain problem than PayPal. Two totally different businesses.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but breaking the EULA does NOT make an action illegal. It puts you in breach with an agreement you had with Blizzard, so they could terminate your account. But that doesn't make it a law. Blizzard may have some means to enforce the "contract" in civil court, though.
The difficulty comes in when the only use of the account, which would consist of the username and password, would be to log into Blizzard's servers, and since the account has been sold, it would be doing so in violation of the EULA and thus accessing their servers and circumventing a login without protection. This can possibly be a federal crime (there are a few cases tried as such, though it is rare).
So while the item being sold isn't illegal, it is pretty close to have no legal uses.
That said, I rather paypal (or any other business) not be the arbiter of law.
The issue that they've been nailed with isn't so much that they over charged people, its that they signed people up without notifying them.
If you are using the service intentionally, then you aren't affected.
On another note, I have been using PayPal for years and haven't had any real issues with it. I mean it takes a while for eBay to get the money to me after a sale, but other than that its not bad. Have I just been lucky? Or is anyone else not experiencing problems that others are?
This is exciting. Hopefully people will start to create apps that extend existing stuff. First thing I'm doing is working on 2fa. Tired of having to get my phone out for that nonsense.
I don't know why anyone would do this for $110,000. Especially after the entry fee, probably wouldn't make much money after the hardware costs, though if you're good enough to take on TOR, you probably also have a botnet. Also, why the hell would anyone give it to the Russians? Of all people, they're definitely who need exclusive access to a TOR hack. Especially if you consider that some of those people who are using it in Russia could be regular people who are trying to not be persecuted for their sexual orientation. Bad idea overall.
