Yes, you're right, sorry. In my case it's not a problem (I back up only one computer), but for people that pays for the family plan and backs up more than one it's way more expensive.
It's my backup solution too. But the offer they made looks good to me: if you migrate to the Small Business plan, you will not be billed until the end of your current subscription (plus 2 months - they extended everyone's subscription), then you will have 75% off for a year in the Small Business plan (normal price US$ 10,00 a month, therefore you'll pay US$ 2,50 a month for a year, half the price of the Home Plan) and only then you will pay the full price (US$ 10,00 a month). Yes, the new price is double the Home Plan price, but I think it's still worth it. I'm with them for years and years and never had a problem.
Exactly. Here in Rio (in the mountains region) we had a pretty bad disaster recently were very, very heavy rains caused almost 1000 deaths and left several cities without electricity and (consequently) communications. The first communications channel between these cities - that had turned into islands due to the rains and the heavy landslides in the roads (again, the region is in the mountains) were stablished by amateur radio operators. They got three or four offroad trucks, loaded their equipment (antennas, radios and generators), and constructed a small communications tower in the highest mountain point, connecting the guys in the isolated cities with the state capital by radio. This only 2 days after the disaster, under the remaining rain and in almost intransitable roads. For free. Without anyone asking them to.
I've tried CoD, Medal of Honor, 007... And tried some other genres too, like sword games and stuff like that. Yeah, the hardware don't help, but the real problem is the way the games seems to be simplified in the Wii - less dense, easier. This, and the fact that some games were programmed as if the controller itself would make the game great - despite it being very, very shallow. The sword ones are good examples, because you pratically keeps shaking the control all the time - and that's it.
But the controller is my major issue in other systems (like PS3 and X-Box). I've never adapted to these control pads.:-) I remember playing with that very raw, clunky, black cube with a stick in the Atari 2600 and it was great despite my hand aching like hell after some hours. I believe I adapt better to a joystick than to a pad.
I'm not arguing that the XBox and PS3 have good games and are good systems - how could I when they are a huge success? But call me old-fashioned (I just turned 40, can you imagine that?:-) ), I'm still a PC guy.
I quit playing console games when I sold my Atari and bought an Apple 2 - and from there I got an MSX (not so popular in the US) and then my first PC. And never looked back.
PCs have better controls, are upgradeable, cheaper (when you consider their life cycle and usefulness), can do a multitude of things and have more complex (in a good way) games. The majority of the console games are very, very shallow compared to the PC games.
The only videogame I got after my first PC was a Wii for my wife. I can't deny that when we have friends over it is some fun with the sports games, but apart of that the only thing I've really played were the Mario games (Kart and New Super Mario). I've tried several shooters (my favorite genre) and was very, very disappointed.
This is one more case where the technology is giving ordinary people the capabilities to create very good content, and slowly shifting the power from the big entertainment corporations to these people. Somebody can tell it already happened (youtube, torrent LEGAL distribution, etc), but I believe we are just seeing the beginning of it. Yes, I know that Hollywood still have fat-asses computers and crews to do prettier and more real animations and stuff, but the majority of their plots is awful. With a good plot it's possible to compensate the graphic quality difference and make something people will watch and like more than Holywood stuff.
Except that the vast majority of them watch porn behind doors, in the same way a lot of "moralists" make the news from time to time having sex with prostitutes or extraconjugal affairs.
Its all, absolutely all about hypocrisy, nothing more.
Seriously? Let's say they are trying to forbid, for example, the TLDs.FUUSA and.USAMYASS. Then what? Everyone can get a.FUUSA.COM or FUUSA.COM.?? (where ?? is any country TLD) and they can't do shit about it.
I'm all for mantaining the number of TLDs low, because it will be a mess to try to remember some address when you have no clue of the TLD, but I just can't see the point in not allowing this or that specific TLD.
And these new TLDs, with few exceptions, will be barely used anyway. Here in Brazil we have a bunch of TLDs like.INF.BR,.NOM.BR, etc, and nobody uses it except a few people. Its all about.COM.BR everywhere.
And they forgot MAC filtering too. I believe this is the best security measure you can use, obviously on top of all the others, since this one can't be guessed (it can be spoofed, but the spoofer would need to know your MAC first).
... they can just create a closed, non-internet connected network (please dont say it will be costly, its the government). They would not need to bring the ENTIRE Internet down in the country.
How can they remove a program that Ive installed through my USB without knowing the name of the package? It can work for Market only, and theyve usedit once for a specific exploit.
Oh, God, this shitty MS keyboard have two keys that looks like the apostrophe, and I ALWAYS use the wrong one - hence I have no apostrophes in my messages...
I generally would agree with you, but in cases like this it is not necessarily the user's fault. If the bug is really like the article describes, just clicking a link can exploit it - and you can avoid clicking in the "click here to see boobies", but not some google results that appear to be legit, or some links in forums, etc. If in fact you need to RUN something, then, yes, it will be the user's fault.
AFAIK Dolphin dont use a proxy to "compress" pages as Opera and Skyfire, so its not a threat to my privacy to use Dolphin. In Opera's and Skyfire's cases, I agree with you it would be.
But, in other news, when I was confirming that Dolphin don't use a proxy I just found out that it is built over the stock browser, and therefore probably doomed too. It seems that I will need to use the incredibly buggy Firefox for now. At least I have a stock Android (Nexus S) so probably Ill have a patch soon.
Im not minimizing the problem or its potential consequences, but the article says:
For now, Android users can protect themselves by disabling JavaScript support in the browser, or by using a third-party browser for now.
So the problem is the browser, not the OS, and it can be circumvented by using another browser (what a lot of people do, for example Opera and Dolphin). Good to know, since I use Dolphin most of the time, and Firefox Beta (still terribly buggy) now and then.
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It was not a typo, he was just f*cking with us...
I'm struggling to decide if you failed to spot my joke or if you're joking too. :-) If the case is the former, a tip: "Largest".
It will be a failure, since it will not fit any microSD port...
Yes, you're right, sorry. In my case it's not a problem (I back up only one computer), but for people that pays for the family plan and backs up more than one it's way more expensive.
It's my backup solution too. But the offer they made looks good to me: if you migrate to the Small Business plan, you will not be billed until the end of your current subscription (plus 2 months - they extended everyone's subscription), then you will have 75% off for a year in the Small Business plan (normal price US$ 10,00 a month, therefore you'll pay US$ 2,50 a month for a year, half the price of the Home Plan) and only then you will pay the full price (US$ 10,00 a month). Yes, the new price is double the Home Plan price, but I think it's still worth it. I'm with them for years and years and never had a problem.
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Here in Brazil the law don't allow the government to extradite a brazilian citizen. Is this not commonplace?
Don't worry, Mr. Alex! Everyone can find your article since Google News already indexed it...
http://www.google.com.br/search?q="Google has become a global predator"&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wn
Exactly. Here in Rio (in the mountains region) we had a pretty bad disaster recently were very, very heavy rains caused almost 1000 deaths and left several cities without electricity and (consequently) communications. The first communications channel between these cities - that had turned into islands due to the rains and the heavy landslides in the roads (again, the region is in the mountains) were stablished by amateur radio operators. They got three or four offroad trucks, loaded their equipment (antennas, radios and generators), and constructed a small communications tower in the highest mountain point, connecting the guys in the isolated cities with the state capital by radio. This only 2 days after the disaster, under the remaining rain and in almost intransitable roads. For free. Without anyone asking them to.
I've tried CoD, Medal of Honor, 007... And tried some other genres too, like sword games and stuff like that. Yeah, the hardware don't help, but the real problem is the way the games seems to be simplified in the Wii - less dense, easier. This, and the fact that some games were programmed as if the controller itself would make the game great - despite it being very, very shallow. The sword ones are good examples, because you pratically keeps shaking the control all the time - and that's it.
But the controller is my major issue in other systems (like PS3 and X-Box). I've never adapted to these control pads. :-) I remember playing with that very raw, clunky, black cube with a stick in the Atari 2600 and it was great despite my hand aching like hell after some hours. I believe I adapt better to a joystick than to a pad.
I'm not arguing that the XBox and PS3 have good games and are good systems - how could I when they are a huge success? But call me old-fashioned (I just turned 40, can you imagine that? :-) ), I'm still a PC guy.
I quit playing console games when I sold my Atari and bought an Apple 2 - and from there I got an MSX (not so popular in the US) and then my first PC. And never looked back.
PCs have better controls, are upgradeable, cheaper (when you consider their life cycle and usefulness), can do a multitude of things and have more complex (in a good way) games. The majority of the console games are very, very shallow compared to the PC games.
The only videogame I got after my first PC was a Wii for my wife. I can't deny that when we have friends over it is some fun with the sports games, but apart of that the only thing I've really played were the Mario games (Kart and New Super Mario). I've tried several shooters (my favorite genre) and was very, very disappointed.
This is one more case where the technology is giving ordinary people the capabilities to create very good content, and slowly shifting the power from the big entertainment corporations to these people. Somebody can tell it already happened (youtube, torrent LEGAL distribution, etc), but I believe we are just seeing the beginning of it. Yes, I know that Hollywood still have fat-asses computers and crews to do prettier and more real animations and stuff, but the majority of their plots is awful. With a good plot it's possible to compensate the graphic quality difference and make something people will watch and like more than Holywood stuff.
Except that the vast majority of them watch porn behind doors, in the same way a lot of "moralists" make the news from time to time having sex with prostitutes or extraconjugal affairs.
Its all, absolutely all about hypocrisy, nothing more.
Seriously? Let's say they are trying to forbid, for example, the TLDs .FUUSA and .USAMYASS. Then what? Everyone can get a .FUUSA.COM or FUUSA.COM.?? (where ?? is any country TLD) and they can't do shit about it.
I'm all for mantaining the number of TLDs low, because it will be a mess to try to remember some address when you have no clue of the TLD, but I just can't see the point in not allowing this or that specific TLD.
And these new TLDs, with few exceptions, will be barely used anyway. Here in Brazil we have a bunch of TLDs like .INF.BR, .NOM.BR, etc, and nobody uses it except a few people. Its all about .COM.BR everywhere.
And they forgot MAC filtering too. I believe this is the best security measure you can use, obviously on top of all the others, since this one can't be guessed (it can be spoofed, but the spoofer would need to know your MAC first).
... they can just create a closed, non-internet connected network (please dont say it will be costly, its the government). They would not need to bring the ENTIRE Internet down in the country.
This is all about censorship.
How can they remove a program that Ive installed through my USB without knowing the name of the package? It can work for Market only, and theyve usedit once for a specific exploit.
Anyway, I love to rant about Apple. ;-)
You are just joking, but I need to answer. ;-)
The iStuff have the most severe exploit of all: Apple can do what they want with the iStuff, like delete things.
And this one exploit will never be fixed.
In the mosquitoes world, the males don't suck, only the females. There are no homossexual mosquitoes. ;-)
Oh, God, this shitty MS keyboard have two keys that looks like the apostrophe, and I ALWAYS use the wrong one - hence I have no apostrophes in my messages...
Yes, youre right. Im doomed. :-) Please let me know if you see my wifes nude pictures somewhere. ;-)
(I think I will need to use Lynx for Android ;-)) )
I generally would agree with you, but in cases like this it is not necessarily the user's fault. If the bug is really like the article describes, just clicking a link can exploit it - and you can avoid clicking in the "click here to see boobies", but not some google results that appear to be legit, or some links in forums, etc. If in fact you need to RUN something, then, yes, it will be the user's fault.
It will work. The phone will be dead, so nobody (even you) will read or write anything in the SD anymore. :-)
(I have a Nexus, and the only think I couldn't understand and think would make the phone even better is the lack of a SD port)
AFAIK Dolphin dont use a proxy to "compress" pages as Opera and Skyfire, so its not a threat to my privacy to use Dolphin. In Opera's and Skyfire's cases, I agree with you it would be.
But, in other news, when I was confirming that Dolphin don't use a proxy I just found out that it is built over the stock browser, and therefore probably doomed too. It seems that I will need to use the incredibly buggy Firefox for now. At least I have a stock Android (Nexus S) so probably Ill have a patch soon.
Im not minimizing the problem or its potential consequences, but the article says:
For now, Android users can protect themselves by disabling JavaScript support in the browser, or by using a third-party browser for now.
So the problem is the browser, not the OS, and it can be circumvented by using another browser (what a lot of people do, for example Opera and Dolphin). Good to know, since I use Dolphin most of the time, and Firefox Beta (still terribly buggy) now and then.