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Let's say they have jobs, and work the same amount people normally do. That's roughly 40 hours a week each, that in theory, could be added to the JB process. Compound that over a few people and over a couple of weeks and the time is substantial, not only for finding new exploits, but for squashing bugs incredibly quickly.
You are assuming more time and more people will make jb happen faster. That's like saying if we double the number of cooks in the kitchen dinner will be ready in half the time.

Even the most superficial browsing of MR, the Dev-Team blog and any discussion forum that deals with jb shows a large majority of threads filled with people complaining about how long the development of the current jb is taking. This happens with every jb but has escalated recently. It is unfortunate MR moderators and administrators refuse to deal with it. Since this increases the number of visits, members and posts, I suppose the increased ad revenue explains this neglect.

This whining from a small band of self absorbed malcontents with a sense of entitlement is without having paid anything for a jb. If they had paid money for it, the level of complaining would skyrocket which might allow MR to charge advertisers even more, but would surely drive away the more valuable members of MR, leaving MR an electronic wasteland.
 
p0sixninja

Windows version soon after (macosx version is beta) ...more packaging, less talking
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
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The exploit is already patched in 4.3 so were trying to get it out ASAP
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone

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ETA is as soon as I get it packaged and uploaded (macosx only for this first release, sorry)
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone

p0sixninja
After this release I think we need a nice vacation to keep us from all going crazy
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
 
p0sixninja

Windows version soon after (macosx version is beta) ...more packaging, less talking
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
Reply Retweet

p0sixninja
The exploit is already patched in 4.3 so were trying to get it out ASAP
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone

p0sixninja
ETA is as soon as I get it packaged and uploaded (macosx only for this first release, sorry)
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone

p0sixninja
After this release I think we need a nice vacation to keep us from all going crazy
about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone

hopefully 500th time promising release is the charm
 
Once again I don't care about GP, too little too late guys. Hopefully 4.3 release from comex comes sooner than later. Then again I'm not that keen on upgrading from 4.1 just yet either.
 
Once again I don't care about GP, too little too late guys. Hopefully 4.3 release from comex comes sooner than later. Then again I'm not that keen on upgrading from 4.1 just yet either.

Of course people care about 4.2.1... there's tons who are on the tethered JB out of necessity (apple replaced phones), like me. I would jump on 4.2.1 untethered if it becomes available.

I think your opinion is the minority... there's nothing set in stone that there will even be a JB for 4.3 in a week, a month, or 6 months. You can stay at your 4.1 for all that waiting then.
 
Now everybody will look at posixninja twitter account and that's what he wants, more fame.

That seems to be what they all want, attention. Nobody has released sh$t in 2 months, yet they all tweet like there's no tomorrow. They really need to put out or shut up, because it's getting old following their misinformation.
 
That seems to be what they all want, attention. Nobody has released sh$t in 2 months, yet they all tweet like there's no tomorrow. They really need to put out or shut up, because it's getting old following their misinformation.

"Now I wrote one more letter in my code, release soon"

"Ok, now I will sleep, tomorrow the work begin"

Well, let's see what's going on now.
 
Share with the class why you believe this?

It's not excruciatingly obvious from my statement? These guys have day jobs. They do it in their spare time. The comment speculated that if they could concentrate on it professionally, they'd have more time to devote to it. You are somehow under the impression that the less you work on something the faster it gets done.

This is certainly not to say that working 2x the hours gets a jailbreak done 2x faster. Hunting for exploits isn't an exact science and requires a specific skillset. But that's only part of the battle. The exploit used in GP RC5 has been known for awhile now (about 6 weeks, if I recall). Since then they've been coding it and getting it stable. This takes time, which you'd conveniently have more of if you were spending more time working on it, hence the comment. Code development and testing is certainly not a fixed-time endeavor like cooking, which is a ridiculous argument. If that were the case, why would any piece of software have more than one developer?

In any case I doubt they'd be interested in turning a hobby into a job, but that wasn't part of my speculation.
 
For some reason I can not open the .zip file, it just gives me an "error 1 - operation not permitted" Anyone else?
 
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The requested URL //dl/greenpois0n-win_rc5.zip was not found on this server.
 
It was a bit slow, but I was able to download, give it a couple of tries...

I got it from a mirror site.

This is Untethered 4.2.1, right? Do I need any old 'blobs' or can I just do a brand new 4.2.1 and go straight untethered?
 
did anyone manage to snag the win ver before it was pulled? mirror it for everyone else?
 
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