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this post on g+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/100132233764003563318/posts/Y1s6T44Soby explain the problem: chrome/chromium won't compile with gtk+ 2.24.0. that's why rhel 6, ubuntu 10.04, debian 6.0 and each distro with outdated gtl all deprecated.

YUMMY!

If your best source is Wikipedia, you should re-evaluate where your get your information. Try Google Scholar for a start.

I haven't provided any "sources" - I've provided accessible starting points. Wikipedia is a good central repository of knowledge (with some socialist bias, but I'm willing to look past that in most cases). If you don't believe Wikipedia's claim that there is no literal "hole" in the ozone layer (something that I brought up only because the word "hole" was so emphasized in the story title and some earlier comments), you can look at the more scholarly reference materials that Wikipedia links to.

The conceptual points I am making are not very complex... You need to know a system before you can conclude if it is out of balance. You need to objectively consider all possibilities as to the cause. Before interfering with a system, you need to evaluate the costs and risks of your actions. Before attributing an effect to a specific cause, you need to take into account things like the time-frame of the processes that the said cause triggers. Before accepting a research institution's recommendations as "The Word Of Science", you need to scrutinize both their data-gathering methods as well as any potential biases that could affect how the data is processed and interpreted.

After studying environmentalist claims for many years, I have found a tremendous amount of political bias in all involved institutions - not only government-funded ones, but some corporate / non-profit ones as well. People don't study to become climatologists because they think climatology is boring and climate will have very little impact on humanity! An environmental crisis turns those people from zeros to heroes; without it they may end up teaching a fifth grade science class instead! Many businesses support unnecessary government interventionism, because they have positioned themselves to profit from it. And of course the government itself is literally dying for a global climate crisis to justify its on-going existence, and create many opportunities for expanding its power.

Libertarians may have a good take on liberty, but, sadly, many libertarian-leaning organizations have shown a disdain for science that does not jibe with their politics. I would like to be free of gravity, sometimes, or of the relationship between calories in and body weight. But no matter how much I like freedom, we ignore physical reality at our (or, in some cases, our children's) peril.

My politics are based on reason. I used to be a "left-winger", but had to change my position over many years in light of irrefutable facts.

And yet, no matter how many facts I bring up, all that I typically get in response are appeals to authority...

How many "expert" bishops and rabbis and imams believe in God is not a valid argument for God's existence!

--libman

[wikipedia.org][redstate.com][reason.com][mises.org]

If your best source is Wikipedia, you should re-evaluate where your get your information. Try Google Scholar for a start. Libertarians may have a good take on liberty, but, sadly, many libertarian-leaning organisations have shown a disdain for science that does not jibe with their politics. I would like to be free of gravity, sometimes, or of the relationship between calories in and body weight. But no matter how much I like freedom, we ignore physical reality at our (or, in some cases, our children's) peril.

If you insist..

Just becuase you can't show me a breaker with a protection relay in all that. So, yes your terms, in this instance, are very wrong.

But in this case, your terms are wrong.

Whatever you say.

Historically, the AUD has been worth about 0.75 USD (click on 10 year). It wasn't until the global financial meltdown that the AUD shot up in value to where it surpassed parity with the USD (Australia's economy wasn't hurt as much because they didn't have a housing bubble at the time, though they have one now). If you compare before and after, the AUD increased in value by about 40% against the USD. If you compare the software prices, they too are about 40% higher. Surprise, surprise.

When companies conduct business internationally, they usually negotiate a fixed exchange rate for a year (or a quarter). It helps insulate their annual financial planning from fluctuations in the currency markets. So when the AUD first shot up, the vendors importing US software still had to pay 1.3 AUD per 1.0 USD, even though 1.3 AUD was now worth closer to 1.4 USD. The next year when they went to negotiate currency exchange prices again, the US companies said "OMG! You want a 40% price cut? You can't be serious!" And the Australian vendors didn't have purchasing power to negotiate a better deal. So year after year they got shafted with prices based on pre-2007 exchange rates. (In the US companies' defense, they probably argued that if the AUD shot up 40% in a year, it could drop 40% the next year, and they weren't willing to take that big a risk and adjust the exchange rate by that large an amount. But it's unconscionable that it's continued for 5 years.)

there may be some prior art though
http://iwatch.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://www.lapdonline.org/iwatchla
http://www.google.com/search?q=iwatch&hl=de&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=IVQYUdqtO4mctAbllYHQAw&sqi=2&ved=0CDcQsAQ&biw=1204&bih=718

WebGL on Windows is only not available on XP for all practical intents and purposs.
It was a Chrome feature, and Google decided to start blacklisting videocards, and eventually just stopped recognizing even the few were things were working OK
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/Uw_ZJwQseKw
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=75298
Eventually Firefox added support for it, and I can enjoy gems such as the 3D Anatomy lessons available via http://zygotebody.com . Google Streetview isn't JUST WebGL --last I checked it requires some sneaky closed-source plugin install, which for all I know is system wide, and gives me a yucky rootkit feeling that I get for every Google product I install.

WebGL on Windows is only not available on XP for all practical intents and purposs.
It was a Chrome feature, and Google decided to start blacklisting videocards, and eventually just stopped recognizing even the few were things were working OK
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/Uw_ZJwQseKw
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=75298
Eventually Firefox added support for it, and I can enjoy gems such as the 3D Anatomy lessons available via http://zygotebody.com . Google Streetview isn't JUST WebGL --last I checked it requires some sneaky closed-source plugin install, which for all I know is system wide, and gives me a yucky rootkit feeling that I get for every Google product I install.

https://plus.google.com/106631699076927387965/posts/4fcZhWrKyg3

"Linux Mint on the Surface Pro. WiFi and touch don't work out of the box, but pen and Type Cover work great. "

There you are.

CC.

Islamic democracy functions like this: One man, one vote . . . once.

Once they get in power, the first order of the day is to kill off any opposition. There is never a real election again.

While this is a simplification, Revolutionary Sudan by Burr and Collins tells what went down in Sudan when the Islamists took power there through a coup and Persopolis gives a ground-level view of Iran, while the Islamists in Turkey have allowed elections after jailing their political opposition and eliminating opposition media.

Yeah, that's what I'm reading from this, though as said elsewhere, this is some claims in the patents were invalidated, but I'm wondering then can Moto re-apply with more detail? But yeah, does this mean anyone without a full listing of the algorithm (which is most 'with a computer/on the internet' patent these days) has a chance to have parts made invalid?

(i) Yes, but only those claims that invoke means-plus-function limitations under 35 U.S.C. 112(6). System claims, method claims, and Beauregard claims would still be valid;

(ii) And no, most "with a computer/on the internet" patents* do include a "full listing of the algorithm". They aren't required to include source code, or even pseudocode, but rather, as the judge notes:

The specification can express the algorithm “in any understandable terms including as a mathematical formula, in prose, or as a flow chart, or in any other manner that provides sufficient structure.” Finisar Corp. v. DirecTV Grp., Inc., 523 F.3d 1323, 1340 (Fed. Cir. 2008) (internal citation omitted).

And honestly, it's pretty rare that a software related patent doesn't include a flow chart these days. Consider the beloved Amazon one-click patent - it has 5 flow charts, starting at figure 3. The fact that these three patents (really one patent and two continuations with the same specification and figures) didn't include a flow chart is an anomaly, not the norm.

*there are no "with a computer/on the internet" patents. People on Slashdot may characterize them that way, but there are no patents that include a claim of "A method, comprising: [known process], on the internet." The mere addition of the limitation "on the internet" can't be the key to patentability, because the internet is known. As a combination of two known pieces of prior art, it would be invalid under KSR. Instead, you'll always find that there's some additional element in the claim that is not involved in the off-line operation.

I believe this FUD got started because someone saw a dependent claim that said, "The method of claim 1, wherein the network is the internet," and suddenly thought that that was the key to patentability of the entire patent. Not true. It's really just a doctrine called claim differentiation. Patent claims are like Venn Diagrams, where dependent claims are bubbles within the large bubble of the independent claim from which they depend. So, if claim 1 says a network, and claim 2 says the network is the internet, then claim 1 must include other networks including LANs and VPNs as well as the internet. But that's it - claim 1, which never explicitly mentions the internet, must still be patentable on its own.

50 Million Potentially Vulnerable to UPnP Flaws - January 2013 Articles and Downloads

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Multi-Article Document:

Part 1 - Article: 50 Million Potentially Vulnerable to UPnP Flaws
Part 2 - Article: Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play: Unplug, Don't Play
Part 3 - Router Scan: Universal Plug and Play - Router Security Check
Part 4 - Download: ScanNow for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) | For Windows
Part 5 - PDF: Whitepaper: Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play: Unplug, Don't Play.
Part 6 - Article: Millions of devices vulnerable via UPnP
Part 7 - Article and Discussion: 50 Million Potentially Vulnerable To UPnP Flaws

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http://paste.blixt.org/9819498
http://paste.lisp.org/display/135035 (RAW: http://paste.lisp.org/display/135035/raw)
http://paste.yt/p2605.html (RAW: http://paste.yt/P2605.txt)
http://slexy.org/view/s2r3Si2W3C
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(Part 1): 50 Million Potentially Vulnerable to UPnP Flaws

by Brian Donohue | January 29, 2013, 1:15PM

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/50-million-potentially-vulnerable-upnp-flaws-012913

"In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 and 50 million of those are vulnerable to at least one of three known attacks.

A Rapid7 white paper enumerated UPnP-exposed systems connected to the Internet and identified the number of vulnerabilities present in common configurations. Researchers found that more than 6,900 product models produced by 1,500 different vendors contained at least one known vulnerability, with 23 million systems housing the same remote code execution flaw.

Between June 1 and Nov. 17, 2012, Rapid7 conducted weekly scans that sent simple service discovery protocUPnPol (SSDP) requests to each routable IPv4 address. In all, 2.2 percent of all public IPv4 addresses responded to the standard UPnP discovery requests. So, 81 million unique IP addresses responded and, upon deeper probing, researchers determined some 17 million further systems exposed the UPnP simple object access protocol (SOAP). This level of exposure was far higher than researchers had expected, according to

I'm not an Android user but some quick googling turned up this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.forscene.KestrelTest&hl=en

http://www.junauza.com/2012/01/best-garageband-like-apps-for-android.html

Yes. they operated one of these early cash registers.

Note the distinct lack of a 3x3 grid of numbers 1 through 9, because these cash registers were mechanical not digital.

not so much

This isn't my video, but it's exactly the experience I had when upgrading my 2-year old iphone 3g to the 'latest and greatest' iOS 4.

Don't blame SCOTUS. The Supreme Court has actually said this isn't ok with a similar case involving someone 25 miles from the border. See Almeida Sanchez v. United States: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6933260753627774699 The bottom line is that the Court has already said that DHS can't do this. It doesn't matter how much DHS says they can, when it gets to a court any search based on this sort of thing will be thrown out.

Am I the only person that feels this way?

No, as a matter of fact, you're quite behind the times

Apropos the gun control debate, note that the media is starting to paint Christopher Dorner with mental illness.

In particular, this quote from The Daily News:

"His chilling statements, found on his Facebook page, portray a deeply intelligent and opinionated man, one who promotes gay rights and gun control, but whose mind has unraveled, likely due to mental illness, paranoia and possibly unresolved trauma, experts said Thursday."

He wasn't mentally ill before the incident, or when he was with the LAPD, but he is now that they want to catch him.

We've seen a number of these "I've got nothing to lose, I'm going out with a bang!" cases recently. What's with that? Has there always been spree killings, but weren't reported widely until recently? Has something changed in society?

(I've often wondered what Aaron Swartz could have done, assuming he believed his life was over & had a year or so of long-term scheming to plan something.)

And by the way, very few people care about this shit except gun nuts like you.

Nope, nobody else cares. Not one bit.

Although I seldom use their search engine directly since they focus more on searches in Russian, I can confirm that it works very well. They also have, among other things, better maintained and more detailed maps of ex-soviet countres with better traffic jam and accident tracking, an EXTREMELY convenient product search that lets you specify an insane amount of properties and features to pick the most fitting item that exists on the market and then find a good rated and cheap place to buy it, a great multilingual online dictionary and a convenient online storage service which has existed far longer than Google Drive. Their web pages have a simple, consistent and concise design, their ads are few and non-intrusive, and, on top of all this, the company has an almost cult standing among many tech students for its high wages and free CS and data mining school where they teach interested people in-depth data mining, artificial intelligence, algorithms and many other related and not-so-much things.

Why do I mention all this? First, to confirm that they are popular for a very good reason and, second, because most of their services use Internet data mining techniques to gather results, so if you live in CIS, chances are you are hooked anyway and you generate many internet searches indirectly even if you don't use their search feature. Unless Google pays as much attention to foreign countries as it does to the U.S. and keeps expanding its services, it should not be surprising to see sound local competition in some countries.

First method: Try a Pirate Bay proxy: http://thepiratebay.se/, http://malaysiabay.org/, many more

Second method: Several ISPs use simple DNS blocking, so try Google Public DNS. (This doesn't apply to OP, but may help others.) On Windows, you can use the following command to see if it might work, without changing your DNS: nslookup thepiratebay.org 8.8.8.8 (the IP right now should be 194.71.107.50).

Third method: Use Google Cache to find the magnet-link:

1. Do a site:thepiratebay.se Google search for the torrent.
2. Click the Preview (>>) arrow next to your result, and click the Cached link.
3. Click "Text Only" version if the page fails to load.
4. Finally, click the magnet link.

If the "Cached" link is missing from the Google search result, click on the search result, then copy the URL (the real URL, not the Google redirect URL), prepend "http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:" to the URL. (example)

First method: Try a Pirate Bay proxy: http://thepiratebay.se/, http://malaysiabay.org/, many more

Second method: Several ISPs use simple DNS blocking, so try Google Public DNS. (This doesn't apply to OP, but may help others.) On Windows, you can use the following command to see if it might work, without changing your DNS: nslookup thepiratebay.org 8.8.8.8 (the IP right now should be 194.71.107.50).

Third method: Use Google Cache to find the magnet-link:

1. Do a site:thepiratebay.se Google search for the torrent.
2. Click the Preview (>>) arrow next to your result, and click the Cached link.
3. Click "Text Only" version if the page fails to load.
4. Finally, click the magnet link.

If the "Cached" link is missing from the Google search result, click on the search result, then copy the URL (the real URL, not the Google redirect URL), prepend "http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:" to the URL. (example)

> Google translate will do the job well enough for non-English speakers
Yeah, like in this case. Please apologize for your stupidity :-)

The "input" you supply is your privacy. You sell your (and your contacts) privacy to google for access to their services.

Privacy is a concept. In fact, it's a subjective concept. I am selling information to Google in exchange for the use of their service. Some of that information is not terribly private to me (though others may consider similar information private to them). For the information that I consider private, I am not destroying that privacy, I am expanding the circle of trust to include Google, because I trust them to be responsible with that information. In exchange, the ads I see are more relevant to me. Possibly, there's a higher risk that my private information will end up in the hands of law enforcement or hackers. Possibly, someone at Google will "go rogue" and misuse my data. IMO, the likelihood of any of that seems pretty low to me.

You are welcome to your own concept of privacy, and you are absolutely free to opt out of Google's advertising relevance thing, or to stop using Google entirely.

I don't see why everyone is so intent on preventing Google from doing what they're doing, or suggesting that people should all be sharing the same objective idea of what privacy means. You have a choice. I have a choice. I know what I'm doing and I'm happy with the arrangement.

It seems like most of the people upset here are people that desperately want to keep using Gmail for free, but don't want Google knowing what's in their e-mail (except they do want Google to read their e-mail when it's spam, or has a virus or malware attached to it), and don't realize that you can opt out of personalized ads: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/#general

You can turn off the ads, but you can't turn off the fact that they are building detailed profiles

This appears to be easily provably false:
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/

PURE FUCKING EVIL

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about your neighborhood grocer or waiter learning your name and your likes and dislikes? Would you stand up and say, "PURE FUCKING EVIL" and storm out of the place when they offered you a coupon or a discount for a product you regularly purchased?

"If everything people say de Tocqueville said that he didn't actually say were put into a single book, I'll bet it would be longer than Democracy in America."

-- Julius Caesar

The claim that the there is no 4th amendment right within 100 miles of a border is false. (Though the federal government may occasionally conduct illegal searches on that basis.)

As wikipedia says, "Despite federal law allowing certain federal agents to conduct suspicionless search and seizures within 100 miles of the border, the Supreme Court has clearly and repeatedly confirmed that the border search exception applies only at international borders and their functional equivalent (such as international airports)."

Wikipedia offers this Supreme Court decision as an example: a non-US-citizen was busted for marijuana possesion while driving 25 miles from the border; and the SC ruled that the search of his car could not be justified by the border provision.

The music / movie industry has been trying to fight piracy for years. Nothing they do will ever work. People will continue to use seedboxes and VPNs and proxies to hide their identity. Piracy will continue like it always has. The only thing that will stop piracy is these 4 steps:

1. Make the content available in all regions instantly as soon as it becomes available. (The Internet is global! You can't set up arbitrary boundaries.)

2. Sell the content that people want for a fair price. If you feel like ripping me off, I'm going to go pirate it instead.

3. Release your entire back catalog. Don't sell one show, one episode or one season. Make the entire back catalog available for purchase and download.

4. Don't implement any draconian DRM schemes. Allow people to download, move, copy, and do what they want with the file they purchase. The DRM schemes only end up punishing legitimate paying customers.

All news organizations repeat filtered facts

But the offending part of that particular bit wasn't fact. It was fiction and nothing more. Presented by a supposed expert. THAT is the problem.

I don't find it troublesome that they argue against solar energy (or at least subsidies for it) - as you said, all news organizations present their own views. But presenting a guest as an expert on a subject matter, and then having that expert say something that is factually incorrect - and not even a little bit, mind you - THAT should be completely unacceptable, no matter what your political opinions are.

And while Fox News Channel has laid the ground work in getting the courts to declare that the media can lie, it is still really, REALLY bad form to present something like this as "facts".

But here's a tricky question - why are the media allowed to lie, when movies and tv shows have to go out of their way to emphasise that they are fiction? Seriously - there's a disclaimer at the end of Lord of the Fucking Rings!

At least Germany military experts doubt its efficiency in bad weather conditions (link is to a Google translated site as the original article is available in German only, sorry). I'd say their expertise weights more than the argument they're from Norway so they'll be alright.

Also, at 144k€ per unit this seems ridiculously expensive.

Under $2 when buying a roll of 200. Probably far less in larger quantities.
http://www.google.com/search?q=shock+watch+sticker&tbm=shop

Option A)

Use Google's advanced search.

Option B)

When searching, hit "Search tools" then in the "All results" drop-down use "Verbatim". Alternatively, append &tbs=li:1 to the search URL.

Option C)

Use a different search engine.

Munich: http://maps.google.com/?ll=48.166085,11.513672&spn=24.248734,32.739258&t=m&z=5
Same latitude in the US (northern Montana): http://maps.google.com/?ll=48.136767,-106.347656&spn=24.262182,32.739258&t=m&z=5

My favorite comparison is always that Berlin is at the latitude of South Hudson Bay.

Munich: http://maps.google.com/?ll=48.166085,11.513672&spn=24.248734,32.739258&t=m&z=5
Same latitude in the US (northern Montana): http://maps.google.com/?ll=48.136767,-106.347656&spn=24.262182,32.739258&t=m&z=5

My favorite comparison is always that Berlin is at the latitude of South Hudson Bay.

I for one would welcome our Bayesian filtering Overlords.

They shall spill forth from Artesian wells.

The invasion had begun with the introduction of the foul and mysterious word 'mesian' into our language ... a word none can define --- yet somehow by dark design has become acceptable for use in Scrabble.

Outlook.com has contextual ads just like Gmail, so Microsoft is being a hypocrite and a liar here.

However, paid services from both Microsoft and Google will allow you to have ad-free email that won't be scanned.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/

You can pay for paid Google services that don't include ads.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/

Especially in regard to redirection bugs (even from DNS poisonings, ala the unpatched for 1/2 a decade especially @ the ISP level, in the Kaminsky flaw) for BOTH added speed & security:

APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).

& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!

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Same with Ghostery:

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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.

They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious PR reasons.

Especially on this note of redirection (hosts file hardcodes stop that, for one thing, ALONG WITH ADBANNERS TOO - plus custom hosts files can do 10 things listed below, adblock can't, period...):

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).

& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!

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Same with Ghostery:

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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.

They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious

Here's fragmentation's sub-par experience:-
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=J2+Interactive

Then start on PowerVR Vs Tegra Vs Mali differences for some games...

nVidia have made a good sales pitch about finding Tegra-only games via their TegraZone app.

The real reason why Android is lacking in security is because Google hasn't focused on security. They decided not to include iptables/netfilter (the Linux firewall) as a standard facility in Android, which would have been very easy to do.

That's why I installed the free DroidWall app from Google Play. Now I have an Android iptables firewall that is very versatile.

And they haven't allowed users to block privileges demanded by apps after install. Instead you're offered only a package deal, either let the app do whatever it wants or don't install it, period.

That's why I built and installed the free PDroid framework into my free custom ROM. Now I can grant, deny, or spoof the permissions on all my apps.

If anyone's interested, I currently recommend using Auto-Patcher as the tool to inject PDroid into your ROM. I also recommend using the OpenPDroid option in Auto-Patcher, with PDroid Manager as the front-end UI app.

So, both of the Android security problems you cited have solutions. Yes, these solutions require rooting, and PDroid requires a custom ROM; however, since you were talking about Linux distros and iptables, I anticipated you might be able interested and capable.

As an aside, being able to do things like this is why I will never consider iOS or (*shudder*) Windows Phone for my devices.

The real reason why Android is lacking in security is because Google hasn't focused on security. They decided not to include iptables/netfilter (the Linux firewall) as a standard facility in Android, which would have been very easy to do.

That's why I installed the free DroidWall app from Google Play. Now I have an Android iptables firewall that is very versatile.

And they haven't allowed users to block privileges demanded by apps after install. Instead you're offered only a package deal, either let the app do whatever it wants or don't install it, period.

That's why I built and installed the free PDroid framework into my free custom ROM. Now I can grant, deny, or spoof the permissions on all my apps.

If anyone's interested, I currently recommend using Auto-Patcher as the tool to inject PDroid into your ROM. I also recommend using the OpenPDroid option in Auto-Patcher, with PDroid Manager as the front-end UI app.

So, both of the Android security problems you cited have solutions. Yes, these solutions require rooting, and PDroid requires a custom ROM; however, since you were talking about Linux distros and iptables, I anticipated you might be able interested and capable.

As an aside, being able to do things like this is why I will never consider iOS or (*shudder*) Windows Phone for my devices.

Peak of the market? Bull (no pun intended). Look it up, don't make up "facts". Peak of RIMM's stock value, maybe, but that was the POINT OF THE DISCUSSION. Peak of the NASDAQ was in 2000, and the CURRENT market is the highest it's been since then. Their performance more than 5 years ago is irrelevant, and 5 years is as good a window as any since it was about the time the iPhone came out and RIMM started to tank.

Besides, this was all stemming from a comparison of RIMM and Amazon. Here's an even more relevant chart.. Over those 5 years, the NASDAQ is up 36%, Amazon up 235% and RIM down 80%.

http://www.google.com/search?q=interface+byte+counter+incorrect

It's also amazing how often equipment gets that byte count wrong (I've seen it often with ISP head end equipment). Also there is no shortage of equipment that can overflow 32-bit byte counts faster than the ISP samples.

Also many interfaces are encapsulating the data (PPP-OE) and most ISPs do some mathematics so you are not charged for the overhead.

Starting off with the Google's Python Class, https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ , looking for "online course python programming" is the fastest and fun way to get a grip on what programming is.

For the serious and the bitten, a free and open course aimed at students with little or no prior programming experience:
Guttag, John. 6.00SC Introduction to Computer Science and Programming,Spring 2011. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu/ (Accessed 07 Feb, 2013). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

To go beyond syntax and algorithms, expose yourself to elegant open source python code and libraries

If Google can provide an App for my phone that provides the second factor (Google Authenticator), then any other company should be able to do the same. Offer a separate "dongle" for anybody who doesn't have a smart phone and you are set. You could probably make a dongle that supported giving out keys for multiple sites. So instead of having a separate dongle for each service you subscribe to, you have a single dongle which can give out different keys for all services. This would probably work much like and Android phone, that could support many apps for 2 factor authentication, but could be much cheaper and simpler than a phone.

I submit http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/2600/atari2600.JPG.

And yes, you could write programs directly on the 2600

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