You make it sound like we (the entire western civilization) provoked the poor terrorists. They commit terrorism against us because of their egocentric, 18th century worldview, uneducated, dogmatic beliefs that western progress is a sin. They'd want to kill us if we left them alone, because we aren't like them and they are uneducated buffoons who don't have the mental capacity to understand a western staple such as tolerance.
Leaks tend to happen when things are being covered up that should not be covered up.
They also tend to happen when our lax background check/security clearance granting process lets fucked up teenagers get a clearance when there is no reason to believe they'd be able to keep secrets based on the readily available information in the teenagers troubled past.
Since PFC Manning was an all-source intelligence analyst in the Army, I'd say 100% of the stuff he had legal access to was leaked was military intel. He'll probably get a second life sentence for leaking all that other stuff he wasn't supposed to have access to in the first place.
Yeah, but no matter your computer literacy or cognitive preferences, you should always possess the skill of understanding other people outside the constraints of your own preferences and experiences.
The majority of people WANT location services, because pretty much every app benefits from knowing where the phone is in relationship to whatever it is that app is trying to do.
Granted, Angry Birds doesn't need to know where I am to be better, but things like, oh I don't know, weather, traffic, restaurant finders, maps, real estate tools, running/biking/hiking apps, hotel finders and a million other apps. I'd say probably 75% of my apps require location services, and I'm probably more in the majority than people like you who dismiss such services as "shiny new toys" and obsess about imaginary privacy threats.
Yeah, I'm kind of confused at how a group of tech smart people on slashdot claim you can't turn of location services on an iPhone (or perhaps don't know how to disable location services on an iPhone). Or maybe it's not true that you can't turn it off....hmmmm....
Not sure why you are modded troll. Seriously, any company that offers a free service has to have a financial incentive elsewhere in order to keep providing the service. Google is an advertising company, at the end of the day. Technology is their vehicle.
I tried posting the equivalent argument in the iPhone version of this story and got flamed into oblivion as a fanboy. As your screen shot clearly shows (and as does the same feature for iPhone), it actually IS a feature that many of us want. The negatives, for many of us, are drowned in a sea of positives (cool features that require location services).
But hey, don't try saying something nice about location services in a slashdot thread about iPhones if you are thin skinned.
STOP MONETIZING ME! I am not a data goldmine for you to rape at your convenience! Sell me the product that I want (NOT the product you think I need, or the Trojan Horse product that gets you access to my information) and then STEP OFF.
So stop buying their mining devices then.
Yes, and of course giant mega-corporation is going to make a phone with features YOU -- 18425 -- want and not what the majority of people want.
If you want a more secure system, then yes. If you want profit, I'd say no. The thing about that is there are tradeoffs. Somewhere between the Apple walled-garden model and the Microsoft anything goes, devs devs devs, model is a happy medium where maximum profits meet acceptable levels of vulnerability.
And yes, a really secure OS would be one like you suggest, like the NSA did in the 90s, but has since sold out to corporate interests and gone "commercial off the shelf". The benefit is lower costs and more stuff available, but at (IMHO) an unacceptable risk.
We had to attack the Afghanis because of terrorism, and of course we had to forget that most 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
We attack the Taliban because they provided safe harbor and support for Al Qaeda. Whether that is a smart strategy / worthwhile is certainly up to debate.
No the other guy is totally right! We should have invaded Saudi Arabia because a bunch of bad guys from their country that have no loyalty TO the Saudi government nor the support OF the Saudi government attacked the US and fled to third world terrorist breeding grounds.
$4 per gallon gas would look great right about now if that had happened.
But it is insecure by design. By letting anyone/everyone write software for your platform, you are creating an insecure platform by design. The tradeoff being you garner a 90% market share because you have the most developers.
The problem around these parts is most people on slashdot are so far removed from normal computer users, that they like to make fun of non-power-users and chalk up stuff as "easy" and blame the "totally clueless" user. Then when you look into it, they are expecting the users to do complicated things that aren't meant to be done at the user level. If you are asking your user to go into network settings, for example...stop right there, it's already too hard.
Agree. The tradeoff is not worth it. The day I have to load my Mac up with a bunch of resource hogging bloated AV software is the day OSX loses its luster for me.
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We need to get Admiral Akhbar on this! He'll be able to tell us if it's a trap.
Ooh NERD FIGHT!!!!!
You make it sound like we (the entire western civilization) provoked the poor terrorists. They commit terrorism against us because of their egocentric, 18th century worldview, uneducated, dogmatic beliefs that western progress is a sin. They'd want to kill us if we left them alone, because we aren't like them and they are uneducated buffoons who don't have the mental capacity to understand a western staple such as tolerance.
Leaks tend to happen when things are being covered up that should not be covered up.
They also tend to happen when our lax background check/security clearance granting process lets fucked up teenagers get a clearance when there is no reason to believe they'd be able to keep secrets based on the readily available information in the teenagers troubled past.
Since PFC Manning was an all-source intelligence analyst in the Army, I'd say 100% of the stuff he had legal access to was leaked was military intel. He'll probably get a second life sentence for leaking all that other stuff he wasn't supposed to have access to in the first place.
Paranoia only works when it's convenient for the paranoid.
I'm not one to trumpet common sense (because it usually isn't as common as we think), but I'm here to play you all a song on my trumpet.
Now if we can eliminate speeding tickets based on license plate numbers...
If that is true, it doesn't make me a fanboy, it makes me incorrect. Which is why I hate slashdot on most days... Nerd egos are the worst.
Yeah, but no matter your computer literacy or cognitive preferences, you should always possess the skill of understanding other people outside the constraints of your own preferences and experiences.
The majority of people WANT location services, because pretty much every app benefits from knowing where the phone is in relationship to whatever it is that app is trying to do.
Granted, Angry Birds doesn't need to know where I am to be better, but things like, oh I don't know, weather, traffic, restaurant finders, maps, real estate tools, running/biking/hiking apps, hotel finders and a million other apps. I'd say probably 75% of my apps require location services, and I'm probably more in the majority than people like you who dismiss such services as "shiny new toys" and obsess about imaginary privacy threats.
Security at the expense of usability is not a feature I want.
Yeah, I'm kind of confused at how a group of tech smart people on slashdot claim you can't turn of location services on an iPhone (or perhaps don't know how to disable location services on an iPhone). Or maybe it's not true that you can't turn it off....hmmmm....
Not sure why you are modded troll. Seriously, any company that offers a free service has to have a financial incentive elsewhere in order to keep providing the service. Google is an advertising company, at the end of the day. Technology is their vehicle.
I tried posting the equivalent argument in the iPhone version of this story and got flamed into oblivion as a fanboy. As your screen shot clearly shows (and as does the same feature for iPhone), it actually IS a feature that many of us want. The negatives, for many of us, are drowned in a sea of positives (cool features that require location services).
But hey, don't try saying something nice about location services in a slashdot thread about iPhones if you are thin skinned.
STOP MONETIZING ME! I am not a data goldmine for you to rape at your convenience! Sell me the product that I want (NOT the product you think I need, or the Trojan Horse product that gets you access to my information) and then STEP OFF.
So stop buying their mining devices then.
Yes, and of course giant mega-corporation is going to make a phone with features YOU -- 18425 -- want and not what the majority of people want.
Proof positive that Trey Parker is a genius.
If you want a more secure system, then yes. If you want profit, I'd say no. The thing about that is there are tradeoffs. Somewhere between the Apple walled-garden model and the Microsoft anything goes, devs devs devs, model is a happy medium where maximum profits meet acceptable levels of vulnerability.
And yes, a really secure OS would be one like you suggest, like the NSA did in the 90s, but has since sold out to corporate interests and gone "commercial off the shelf". The benefit is lower costs and more stuff available, but at (IMHO) an unacceptable risk.
Macs might very well be better "while talking about cost" when you look past the initial sticker price.
...when NSA ran 99% on Solaris, with 1% PowerPC for graphics and web design...
And exactly what political organization was Bin Laden the elected leader of?
We had to attack the Afghanis because of terrorism, and of course we had to forget that most 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
We attack the Taliban because they provided safe harbor and support for Al Qaeda. Whether that is a smart strategy / worthwhile is certainly up to debate.
No the other guy is totally right! We should have invaded Saudi Arabia because a bunch of bad guys from their country that have no loyalty TO the Saudi government nor the support OF the Saudi government attacked the US and fled to third world terrorist breeding grounds.
$4 per gallon gas would look great right about now if that had happened.
But it is insecure by design. By letting anyone/everyone write software for your platform, you are creating an insecure platform by design. The tradeoff being you garner a 90% market share because you have the most developers.
The problem around these parts is most people on slashdot are so far removed from normal computer users, that they like to make fun of non-power-users and chalk up stuff as "easy" and blame the "totally clueless" user. Then when you look into it, they are expecting the users to do complicated things that aren't meant to be done at the user level. If you are asking your user to go into network settings, for example...stop right there, it's already too hard.
Agree. The tradeoff is not worth it. The day I have to load my Mac up with a bunch of resource hogging bloated AV software is the day OSX loses its luster for me.
Reptiles' version should be in python.
Don't you mean parseltongue?