People power is hugely difficult and expensive to capture
Biometrics are a) not foolproof b) not secure c) not the answer
Mind reading for basic control works, nothing more...
Digital divide will still exist, if your village has no electricity, then you won't have a phone......they probably have the last one right Spam will be mostly (mis) directed Adverts....
Company A patents wheels - does no more work on them and sells licences, and sues anyone who makes anything like a wheel, you get treetrunks on all vehicles for the next 70 years
Company B makes a walking car, it's clunky slow and costs 10 times company A's but can cover terrain company A's can't - Sells only to specialist buyers
Company C makes a vehicle with Septagonal wheels, and Company A sues them anyway...
Meanwhile everyone just wants an improved wheel but no-one has any incentive to do this....
Simple Solution make the penalty clauses outweigh the enhanced sale... and miracles will happen, or the company who really cannot deliver wont tender...
"iOS is the most secure consumer OS there is"... really, it has had malware, even of limited success.... there are consumer OS's that have never had any...?
"as soon as Apple do become aware, they can remove it from the store," and what about all the rogue apps they are not aware of...? As they say themselves it needs someone to report it to them, if an app passes all the initial checks it could be years before anyone spots an rogue app...
Walled gardens occur in nature, ant colonies are a good example, ants will challenge anything that attempts to enter, attack any that fails the checks, and will attack anything that does not have the colony scent once inside,and it makes them invulnerable to most predators, but a few predators actually live inside the colony and eat ants with impunity...
Apple do not make iPhones to run iOS.... they make iOS to run on iPhones, they are a hardware company, they sell hardware, and incidentally sell software so that it works..
Google is a software company, Android is designed to run on multiple devices, very few of which were even specified by Google...they have no control on what it is run on, and deliberately design it to work on anything capable of running it...
Number of Universal Laws (Universally applicable Scientific theories) before Newton : None
There were precursors to gravitation that were about before him, and others might have applied them to objects on Earth, or in space, his great leap was seeing they could apply to both...
It changed the universe from "on earth and in heaven" to "everywhere"...
Newton spoke English (17th century English) and so his notes are in that...but this is Pre-Johnson's Dictionary so there is no standard English and no standard spelling so he wrote in Lincolnshire/Cambridge English...Because of this most published works were written in Latin which did have standard spelling and could read by most intellectual Europeans
The Apple falling (never on his head) was actually a story used in his IP Dispute with Leibniz over Calculus, it was argued that the Apple story (in his garden at home in 1666) proved that Newton was using Calculus before Leibniz said he invented it, and so Newton invented it independently and first...
The real problem is numbers, say there are 20 reviews on Amazon, and 15 are fake and praise the product, 1 says it's OK, and 4 says it was useless.... that looks to be the normal spread for a good product...whereas without the fake reviews it would be 1 OK and 4 bad reviews, the sign of a pile of junk.... and so people will assume it is worth buying... Astroturf wins...
..and PC's have more malware than ever... and I get none of it because I do not click on the dancing ponies..
I know there is malware, so I am careful
People with iOS assume there is not and so are not careful, and so any malware that does get on (and it does occasionally) spreads like wildfire...
I don't want to have to pay for an app that will use up memory, slow my device down, all just to protect me from malware I have the knowledge to avoid...
Walled gardens and auditing do not work (even in the article Apple admits that they cannot catch everything)... It just gives a false sense of security, and just like malware on PC's there are always ways of getting round the malware detectors...
If you notice the special effects then they have failed......even the WOW effects should look realistic, however impossible in reality
but WOW effect movies don't work unless there is also story and character...
but a movie with a good story and characters can use special effects like it uses sets, camera angles, lighting, makeup,, costume, prosthetics, etc...
You don't see "look at the cool effect" in Historical dramas, but they often use special effects because the location either does not look the same, or does not exist anymore...the point is that they are used so you don't even notice them...
Is your building secure? Well I suspect you have these people who can wander in any time, even when no-one else is around, and have complete access and keys to all parts of the building,.... they are called cleaners and probably are on minimum wage
The company who runs your security system can probably bypass it anytime they want to, and enter the building undetected
"...a lack of high-level APIs for security developers, using an insecure Java-based virtual machine to execute apps, and a lack of trusted digital signatures for apps.."
i.e. Security company complaining that they are not being pandered to, and so are throwing their toys out of the pram...
"Target" just means that people are aiming for the biggest, not that it is succeeding...
All the malware for Android, is the same malware as always, it is software you should not install, are warned not to install, but do so anyway, the difference is that people actually check on Android, with the Apple appstore people trust it and so never check... one rogue app can easily infect many systems, and has done so
OS X is just another Mac OS, It's market share is static, the only people who buy it are the same people who always bought it...it's just a few iPhone, iPad users are now aware that Apple also do "PC"'s
MS Win Market is static as well for much the same reasons, everyone who wants one already has one...
When people can run their design applications correctly and easily on another platform OSX will die...
When people can run their business applications on another platform Windows will die...
iPad is a toy because it has no killer app... iPhone has killer apps, but they are all generic (Twitter, Facebook Various other Web based apps), Siri is a gimmick they are trying to make a killer app, but it is just another shiny toy...
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People power is hugely difficult and expensive to capture
Biometrics are a) not foolproof b) not secure c) not the answer
Mind reading for basic control works, nothing more ...
Digital divide will still exist, if your village has no electricity, then you won't have a phone ... ...they probably have the last one right Spam will be mostly (mis) directed Adverts ....
I am not surprised by the Irish government, the last time Scotland got into serious debt (Darien Crisis) it signed away it's sovereignty completely ...
So you don't live in the USA - Where laws allowing companies to do this were created?
Or Europe - where they apply
Or any other 1st world nation - who have signed up ...
Or Any 3rd world nation who owe enough to bow to the corporations
which leaves repressive dictatorships...
So you don't live on Earth ? - Life does exist on other planets ...!
The sensible government can simply pass laws that:
Make suing the government/country illegal
Counter sue the company (under it's own laws)
Make the company illegal....
which very effectively stops any new players entering the market.....
...and the cost of licensing patented items in a smartphone is already a significant proportion of the cost of all smartphones
Reinvent the wheel is more like
Company A patents wheels - does no more work on them and sells licences, and sues anyone who makes anything like a wheel, you get treetrunks on all vehicles for the next 70 years
Company B makes a walking car, it's clunky slow and costs 10 times company A's but can cover terrain company A's can't - Sells only to specialist buyers
Company C makes a vehicle with Septagonal wheels, and Company A sues them anyway ...
Meanwhile everyone just wants an improved wheel but no-one has any incentive to do this ....
If you have nothing to hide then you are not human ...
If you have nothing to hide :
Why do you have curtains?
Why do wear clothes?
Why don't you video your entire life and broadcast it online ...? ...because you do have something to hide : a private life
He specifically said he would have no last minute conversion, so no he did not wager ... ..the religious nuts will claim he did anyway ...
Simple Solution make the penalty clauses outweigh the enhanced sale ... and miracles will happen, or the company who really cannot deliver wont tender ...
Ta Muchly ...
Like Shakespeare I have "little Latin, and less Greek" ...
"iOS is the most secure consumer OS there is" ... really, it has had malware, even of limited success .... there are consumer OS's that have never had any ...?
"as soon as Apple do become aware, they can remove it from the store," and what about all the rogue apps they are not aware of ...? As they say themselves it needs someone to report it to them, if an app passes all the initial checks it could be years before anyone spots an rogue app ...
Walled gardens occur in nature, ant colonies are a good example, ants will challenge anything that attempts to enter, attack any that fails the checks, and will attack anything that does not have the colony scent once inside,and it makes them invulnerable to most predators, but a few predators actually live inside the colony and eat ants with impunity ...
The question is who do you trust ... ?
Who installed the IP Cameras? Who can bypass them?
If the final answer is only you, then who does all this when you go on holiday/off sick ...?
Apple do not make iPhones to run iOS .... they make iOS to run on iPhones, they are a hardware company, they sell hardware, and incidentally sell software so that it works ..
Google is a software company, Android is designed to run on multiple devices, very few of which were even specified by Google ...they have no control on what it is run on, and deliberately design it to work on anything capable of running it ...
Number of Universal Laws (Universally applicable Scientific theories) before Newton : None
There were precursors to gravitation that were about before him, and others might have applied them to objects on Earth, or in space, his great leap was seeing they could apply to both ...
It changed the universe from "on earth and in heaven" to "everywhere" ...
Newton spoke English (17th century English) and so his notes are in that ...but this is Pre-Johnson's Dictionary so there is no standard English and no standard spelling so he wrote in Lincolnshire/Cambridge English ...Because of this most published works were written in Latin which did have standard spelling and could read by most intellectual Europeans
Newton, Invented milled edge coins to stop people trimming the edges (when the metal in coins was actually worth something)
Spent most of his life researching esoteric alchemy and biblical numerology ... and most of his notes are to do with this and not physics ...
The Apple falling (never on his head) was actually a story used in his IP Dispute with Leibniz over Calculus, it was argued that the Apple story (in his garden at home in 1666) proved that Newton was using Calculus before Leibniz said he invented it, and so Newton invented it independently and first ...
It was his way of dating prior art ...
The real problem is numbers, say there are 20 reviews on Amazon, and 15 are fake and praise the product, 1 says it's OK, and 4 says it was useless.... that looks to be the normal spread for a good product ...whereas without the fake reviews it would be 1 OK and 4 bad reviews, the sign of a pile of junk .... and so people will assume it is worth buying ... Astroturf wins ...
..and PC's have more malware than ever ... and I get none of it because I do not click on the dancing ponies ..
I know there is malware, so I am careful
People with iOS assume there is not and so are not careful, and so any malware that does get on (and it does occasionally) spreads like wildfire ...
I don't want to have to pay for an app that will use up memory, slow my device down, all just to protect me from malware I have the knowledge to avoid ...
Walled gardens and auditing do not work (even in the article Apple admits that they cannot catch everything) ... It just gives a false sense of security, and just like malware on PC's there are always ways of getting round the malware detectors ...
If you notice the special effects then they have failed ... ...even the WOW effects should look realistic, however impossible in reality
but WOW effect movies don't work unless there is also story and character ...
but a movie with a good story and characters can use special effects like it uses sets, camera angles, lighting, makeup,, costume, prosthetics, etc ...
You don't see "look at the cool effect" in Historical dramas, but they often use special effects because the location either does not look the same, or does not exist anymore ...the point is that they are used so you don't even notice them ...
Security , always makes me laugh ...
Is your building secure? Well I suspect you have these people who can wander in any time, even when no-one else is around, and have complete access and keys to all parts of the building, .... they are called cleaners and probably are on minimum wage
The company who runs your security system can probably bypass it anytime they want to, and enter the building undetected
and you worry about your own vetted employees ...?
Amazon are large enough that it would be terrible publicity for Apple if they refused...
Now repeat with a small company ...
"...a lack of high-level APIs for security developers, using an insecure Java-based virtual machine to execute apps, and a lack of trusted digital signatures for apps.."
i.e. Security company complaining that they are not being pandered to, and so are throwing their toys out of the pram ...
"Target" just means that people are aiming for the biggest, not that it is succeeding ...
All the malware for Android, is the same malware as always, it is software you should not install, are warned not to install, but do so anyway, the difference is that people actually check on Android, with the Apple appstore people trust it and so never check ... one rogue app can easily infect many systems, and has done so
OS X is just another Mac OS, It's market share is static, the only people who buy it are the same people who always bought it ...it's just a few iPhone, iPad users are now aware that Apple also do "PC"'s
MS Win Market is static as well for much the same reasons, everyone who wants one already has one...
When people can run their design applications correctly and easily on another platform OSX will die ...
When people can run their business applications on another platform Windows will die ...
iPad is a toy because it has no killer app ... iPhone has killer apps, but they are all generic (Twitter, Facebook Various other Web based apps), Siri is a gimmick they are trying to make a killer app, but it is just another shiny toy ...