That's why the proxy server disallows downloading of executables, archives and anything else that could carry evil code (including most flash, which isn't installed on most of the clients either), the firewall denies direct access to the Internet, and the permissions are set within the Windows installation to prevent easy installation or execution of malicious code.
The only real attack vector is if someone plugs an unauthorised device into an active network port and it can exploit a remote vulnerability in something else on the same VLAN. And even then they would have to spoof the MAC address of the device that it supposed to be plugged into that port.
Security is easy. You just need to spend the time on the initial setup and from then on you have a lot fewer problems.
What a joke. I can easily make a fucking bitmap that has nasty data in it. If I can tell the computer to go download assfuck.exe I can tell it to download assfuck.bmp and execute a certain range of the file. Your proxy doesn't fix this. Your proxy just stops people from downloading exes, zips, rars, swfs, and scrs directly.
It's not safe to stop for random strangers on the highway. That is a job for the police. My sister was robbed, raped, and then murdered by two men who were faking a flat tire. They did the same thing to a dozen other people before they got the wrong person and were shot by a passerby with a hunting rifle. So when you see a car on the side, DON'T STOP, just CALL THE POLICE. They can deal with it.
My sister had no idea there was a second man hiding in the back seat, and just wanted to be nice. She paid for this mistake with her life. That's fact. Nobody can afford to be nice anymore. The world has changed. If you are nice, you will be taken advantage of by those who aren't. Be nice at your own risk.
Wanting to stay alive does not make me an evil person. People who are nice are killed. If you want to survive, you need to learn to TRUST NOBODY, EVER.
OBJECTION!
AC's testimony states that his sister was robbed, raped, and then murdered. He then states that she had no idea the second man was hiding in the back seat.
If your sister died, how would we know where the second man came from? AC is obviously one of the rapists.
There are an awful lot of sharp peaks in power consumption - I'd like to know how many runs they averaged their points over (i'm guessing it was all a single run, but i cant find the data on this test). Also, no specific hardware drivers other than the graphics driver were installed is a non-representative case on windows, where most manufacturers provide extra drivers and what not to give more features/ different power consumption. And finally, these are awfully high end machines - why not test something a normal person would have (i.e. a netbook, a 300 dollar laptop from [insert office store here], a 500 dollar desktop from [insert office store here], etc.?)
There's the rub. Without Intel or AMD's CPU "drivers", you won't be able to get the Cool n' Quiet / EIST / whatever shit that underclocks your CPU and disables idle cores. Intel's drivers are built into every Windows version since XP SP2, but they won't be the latest version. AMD's drivers aren't built in, that I know of (I don't have an AMD Windows 7 system to test with).
And then you have to set your power scheme to "Minimal Power Management" to enable that shit.
I run Win 7 / Ubuntu 11.04 dual boot. I have found that my CPU (Phenom II X4 955) averages about 17-21 Celsius at low loads/idle in Ubuntu and about 30-35 in Win 7.
Install the AMD Cool n' Quiet (or whatever they call it now) "drivers". Then, in Windows, set your power profile to "Minimal Power Management". This lets the CPU underclock itself, turn idle cores off, etc.
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I know changing from Pi to Tau seems silly but it's not at all about radius vs diameter for calculating the circumference, It's about everything else that uses Pi. When equations that use Pi are compared to other similar equations that use other constants they are always off by a factor of 2 in some way. Tau fixes that in all cases I am aware of (If you know any it does not please post them). "The Tau Manifesto" link goes over this in detail. Tau is simply a more fundamental constant then PI.
Tau is retarded. There's no point to it. Having a trig function have a 2 or not doesn't make it more elegant. 2 Pi is a constant. Tau is a constant. They're identical. The rallying cry of this stupid meta-nerd Tau bullshit is "Pi is wrong!". That's just complete horse shit. The main argument is
In particular, since a circle is defined as the set of points a fixed distance—the radius—from a given point, a more natural definition for the circle constant uses r in place of D:
Who gives a shit? What about when you want to define the area (you know, "the set of points a fixed distance—the radius—from a given point")? Pi R^2 is more "elegant" than Tau/2 R^2. What about when you want to use trig functions? We should be using Pi/2 for those, not Pi, and not 2 Pi.
And why are we concerned with a circle anyway? We live in 3D space (at least, for now) and we should be dealing with 3D objects. What's the volume of a sphere? 4/3 Pi R^3? Fuck that! It should be Lambda R^3 so it's more elegant!! Pi is wrong! Lambda is 4/3 Pi!
The bottom line is that if you want to talk about "elegance", you should be defining your point collections as {L = , M = x}, where L is the locus defined in your native dimension, and M is the magnitude (end to end or center to end, I don't give a shit). 1D? Line segment. 2D? Circle. 3D? Sphere. 4D? Yo Momma. Add a Phi if you want to define a circle in 3D space, or a line segment in 2D space. Add a Theta or some shit if you want line segments in 3D.
The entire argument for Tau is imbecilic. It reeks of "I got a problem wrong on a test because instead of actually understanding trig functions, I memorized them, and memorized them wrong." This is fucking "KB = 1000B" all over again - utter horseshit that morons will point to as an excuse when they fuck up. "See? I was right!" No bro, you were wrong. At least with this Tau horseshit we won't have marketing departments behind the push for detrimental ambiguity.
Use Tau all you fucking want. Just understand that no one else gives a shit, and no one will be teaching it in schools.
How are any of your anecdotes evidence google is favoring their own properties? Are you saying the non-profit Wikipedia foundation is paying them?
Er, google has never manipulated their search ranking to favor themselves or someone in particular. If, so they would be under serious trouble!
It's evidence because the search results are extremely shitty and go against any and all logical metrics and weights, as well as against the results of their competitors who otherwise provide nearly identical results. In addition to this, Google openly admits to manually fucking with results (read their adsense blog - it's basically a semi-annual "how we're changing it and how you have to pay more / do more to keep your results/ads on top"). In addition to that, Google has been caught red-handed manually futzing with results multiple times. The term "climategate" was actively suppressed for months when the initial story broke.
Er, google has never manipulated their search ranking to favor themselves or someone in particular. If, so they would be under serious trouble!
LOL! Of course they have! Search for any noun and you get a Wikipedia page in the top 10, guaranteed, despite it likely not being what anyone fucking wants. Search for "email" and you get gmail as the first result every fucking time, despite both hotmail and yahoo mail having FAR more active users than gmail. Search for any video, and you'll get endless broken links to google video. Well, you used to, but now these are being replaced with broken links to youtube.com where the video is removed or it's a shitty "reaction" video. I want my porn and shock videos and Google buries the results. Use Bing for any video content - they don't have a video site that loses millions of dollars per day they need to pimp out. (And if you don't believe me, just search for some porn on Bing. Wash your hands, then thank me.)
The Microsoft antitrust legislation was wrong. It was the result of stupid judges not understanding technology. Unfortunately the precedent has been set and it will be abused.
The court decisions regarding MS were wrong.
But you're incorrect. Apple has been getting away with worse horseshit for about a decade now. Google is and will continue to do so as well.
But the moment MS includes a browser or media player with an operating system, the EU fines them another billion Euros and forces them to have a "fair" (meaning, completely retarded and unfair) option that users can select from.
This is slashdot, where patents and MS are always bad, and common sense can go fuck itself.
Patent applications more often than not use mockups that are vague, ugly, weird, or hypothetical examples that use existing real world things. This is done to prevent competitors from figuring out what the fuck they're doing, as well as to keep the patent as broad as possible.
If this was about a video game hardware patent from Nintendo or Sony, would Slashdot claim they were doing something wrong by using images of dildo wands and bows and arrows and whatnot in their descriptions? No. But because this is Microsoft, all reason goes out the window.
Plenty of toasters, deep fryers, crock pots, etc. came with them in the 60s and 70s. A few electric lawnmowers used them as well, though the leashed lawnmower didn't last long at all.
This is one (and only) area I will give apple a brownie point, they have those magnetic connectors that can't really be damaged, at least on the laptop. You hit it and it simply falls off. I've not had one my self, so I can't say how well they work in keeping connected when they should be, but really it's not a bad start at all!
Apple didn't do anything. They just copied an existing design used in many household electric devices.
Apple's patent is for an electr[strong]onic[/strong] device, while prior designs are for electr[strong]ic[/strong]. It's a bullshit patent, basically. No one sees it as a big enough feature to challenge it, though, because honestly, if you lose a laptop due to tripping, you're just going to go right out and buy another one. You're not gonna pony up even more in unexpected costs for a Mac.
This is a good thing because MS is using Silverlight when it makes sense, and HTML 5 / canvas when that makes sense.
The problems with Flash were: 1 - Massive, frequent security holes. 2 - Performance. 3 - Everyone using Flash unnecessarily
When Silverlight came about / was in the works: 1 - People used Silverlight when it made sense (because the people that started to use it were ones that hated Flash but needed its functionality) 2 - Security issues were minimal compared to Flash 3 - Performance was pretty good
When GPU acceleration for browser shit came about, you didn't give a shit about performance.
Now that HTML5 / canvas is around, much of what needed a plugin such as Flash or Silverlight can be rendered by browsers natively. This doesn't mean Silverlight is dead, it just means that it's not necessary for today's typical content (video and some of the fancier CSS, basically).
Idiots will bitch about MS abandoning Silverlight. They're wrong. Zealots will cheer about MS using HTML 5 (or, on the fanboy side, laugh at them for taking so long).
Users will be happy that Silverlight is an option, is being used only when necessary, and that interface design in general is looking at functionality and usability before pointless Flashiness.
You pulled his quote out of context. His full assertion is that Dropbox is secure IF USED CORRECTLY (i.e., encrypting data before sending to Dropbox). Do you have evidence that contradicts that statement?
A public pastebin is just as secure IF USED CORRECTLY (i.e., encrypting data before sending to Dropbox). Do you have evidence that contradicts that statement?
Dropbox is all about herpderp convenience for the dumb masses. Want shit available online? Run / rent a server. Want it secure? Secure it. Want it encrypted? Encrypt it. Want it automatically synced to multiple machines? Write a script.
Want it all done for you with minimal effort, maximum handholding, and minimal attention to security? Use dropbox.
Sooner or later Google will need to do some sort of Quality Control on their store, or they'll just keep making the Marketplace look even less trustworthy and push people to the Amazon store.
And the Amazon store requires people to turn on the "let anything install from anywhere" option, which is what lets the bad applications do their thing. No need to trick the user into clicking a link / saying yes to a pop up. Everyone who has the Amazon store and uses something from it has that hole wide open.
Android NEEDS to have per-executable, granular permissions. I refuse to believe <your shitty app> needs full network access, phone state, and location data just to show me a picture of a cat.
Hank Hill: So are you Chinese or Japanese? Minh Souphanousinphone: No, we are Laotian. Bill Dauterive: The ocean? What ocean? Kahn Souphanousinphone: From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in South East Asia between Vietnam and Thailand, population approximately 4.7 million!
Hank ponders this for a few seconds.
Hank Hill: So are you Chinese or Japanese? Kahn Souphanousinphone: D'oh!
Cache comes from the Latin cogere. To collect. A cache is a collection. The modern (bastardized by the French) usage of a cache adds "hidden" to the meaning.
Apple storing location data in a specific location it knows about and consumers don't (or don't have access to / full control over) is both collecting it and hiding it. They may not be retrieving that information, nor may they have any intent to do so. But they are collecting it.
And they still wouldn't delete it. If a user tried to sue, they'd say all their records were "anonymized", and thus no one user can claim any damages because they can't prove their records were used against their wishes. If any group of users tries to start a class action, they'll point to the bullshit arbitration clause (no class action suits) in the EULA. If a state tries to protect consumers and say "that clause is illegal", they'll just buy off the supreme court of the state.
(Protip: All of these things have already happened.)
Solar activity had nothing to do with "The Year Without a Summer". It was the eruption of Tambora that caused that.
You mean a volcanic eruption, which spews out tons of green house gasses and liquid hot magma, cooled the planet? Yeah right buddy.
We all know CO2 will heat the planet, so we all have to drive around in electric vehicles powered by the pristine, renewable, safe, clean coal-based electricity, transmitted over our totally excellent and robust power grid with losses that are totally better than shipping a chemical fuel in a liquid state.
Oh you mean like GMail. Or Google Chat. Or Google Maps. Or Google Earth. Or Google Docs. Or Google Video. Or Blogger. Or Yourube. Or...
Search and ads are the ONLY THINGS Google has made on its own (as opposed to blatantly carbon-copying / straight out buying). This isn't necessarily bad (unless you want to believe Google is somehow great), but it definitely isn't a new trend.
Look around you. Companies have been following Apple's "lead" for years. And what do I get? Inferior hardware, dumbed-down interfaces, and more restrictive software.
Web development is a small subset of what you can do with.NET.
The other 90%+ of things you can do with.NET you're not going to write as a web application. Period.
Someone might as well ask whether HTML5 will replace C++. It'd be as about as idiotic of a question. Not only is the answer obviously no in either case, even asking the question reveals that the asker doesn't have even the most basic idea of what they're talking about.
The problem is no body fucking gives a shit because all they want is a shiny toy.
Apple shat out a shiny toy and people ate it up. Apple said Flash was bad, and people hated Flash for all the wrong reasons. Apple said "open standards" and people barked about HTML5 so much that the fucking implementations came out before the standard was finished, and the fucking standard doesn't even dictate what codecs you must support. Apple made up the term "retina display" and now people think it's something more than an arbitrary DPI threshold. Apple continues to exploit open standards as marketing points while selling a closed, locked-down system and favors closed formats.
The media then hires a bunch of morons to "report" on this "news". It's an endless cycle of dumbening, fueled by the ability of Steve Jobs to entice people to fork out hundreds for their own aluminum prison cells. The man is diving the industry, but he's fucking driving it down antiprogress lane toward stupidity cliff.
Wait, what? I make client applications... Windows apps. I don't make websites. I don't make client applications that require constant connection with a server. So your statement completely forgets about me and thousands of developers who need to make real applications that work in the real world, not some dream land in the cloud.
I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft hasn't forgotten about us too.
Oh... and this: HTML5 may excel with GUI, but it's not better than WPF. WPF is definitely better in terms of combining the power, flexibility, and ease-of-development of UIs. (Before the flaming begins... I never said WPF is better for everyone, it's just better for me and my Windows clients.)
No, his statement completely forgets about you and thousands of developers who use.NET because they don't know C/C++.
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That's why the proxy server disallows downloading of executables, archives and anything else that could carry evil code (including most flash, which isn't installed on most of the clients either), the firewall denies direct access to the Internet, and the permissions are set within the Windows installation to prevent easy installation or execution of malicious code.
The only real attack vector is if someone plugs an unauthorised device into an active network port and it can exploit a remote vulnerability in something else on the same VLAN. And even then they would have to spoof the MAC address of the device that it supposed to be plugged into that port.
Security is easy. You just need to spend the time on the initial setup and from then on you have a lot fewer problems.
What a joke.
I can easily make a fucking bitmap that has nasty data in it.
If I can tell the computer to go download assfuck.exe I can tell it to download assfuck.bmp and execute a certain range of the file.
Your proxy doesn't fix this. Your proxy just stops people from downloading exes, zips, rars, swfs, and scrs directly.
It's not safe to stop for random strangers on the highway. That is a job for the police. My sister was robbed, raped, and then murdered by two men who were faking a flat tire. They did the same thing to a dozen other people before they got the wrong person and were shot by a passerby with a hunting rifle.
So when you see a car on the side, DON'T STOP, just CALL THE POLICE. They can deal with it.
My sister had no idea there was a second man hiding in the back seat, and just wanted to be nice. She paid for this mistake with her life. That's fact. Nobody can afford to be nice anymore. The world has changed. If you are nice, you will be taken advantage of by those who aren't. Be nice at your own risk.
Wanting to stay alive does not make me an evil person. People who are nice are killed. If you want to survive, you need to learn to TRUST NOBODY, EVER.
OBJECTION!
AC's testimony states that his sister was robbed, raped, and then murdered.
He then states that she had no idea the second man was hiding in the back seat.
If your sister died, how would we know where the second man came from?
AC is obviously one of the rapists.
There are an awful lot of sharp peaks in power consumption - I'd like to know how many runs they averaged their points over (i'm guessing it was all a single run, but i cant find the data on this test). Also, no specific hardware drivers other than the graphics driver were installed is a non-representative case on windows, where most manufacturers provide extra drivers and what not to give more features/ different power consumption. And finally, these are awfully high end machines - why not test something a normal person would have (i.e. a netbook, a 300 dollar laptop from [insert office store here], a 500 dollar desktop from [insert office store here], etc.?)
There's the rub.
Without Intel or AMD's CPU "drivers", you won't be able to get the Cool n' Quiet / EIST / whatever shit that underclocks your CPU and disables idle cores.
Intel's drivers are built into every Windows version since XP SP2, but they won't be the latest version.
AMD's drivers aren't built in, that I know of (I don't have an AMD Windows 7 system to test with).
And then you have to set your power scheme to "Minimal Power Management" to enable that shit.
I run Win 7 / Ubuntu 11.04 dual boot. I have found that my CPU (Phenom II X4 955) averages about 17-21 Celsius at low loads/idle in Ubuntu and about 30-35 in Win 7.
Install the AMD Cool n' Quiet (or whatever they call it now) "drivers".
Then, in Windows, set your power profile to "Minimal Power Management".
This lets the CPU underclock itself, turn idle cores off, etc.
I know changing from Pi to Tau seems silly but it's not at all about radius vs diameter for calculating the circumference, It's about everything else that uses Pi. When equations that use Pi are compared to other similar equations that use other constants they are always off by a factor of 2 in some way. Tau fixes that in all cases I am aware of (If you know any it does not please post them). "The Tau Manifesto" link goes over this in detail. Tau is simply a more fundamental constant then PI.
Tau is retarded. There's no point to it. Having a trig function have a 2 or not doesn't make it more elegant. 2 Pi is a constant. Tau is a constant. They're identical.
The rallying cry of this stupid meta-nerd Tau bullshit is "Pi is wrong!". That's just complete horse shit.
The main argument is
In particular, since a circle is defined as the set of points a fixed distance—the radius—from a given point, a more natural definition for the circle constant uses r in place of D:
Who gives a shit? What about when you want to define the area (you know, "the set of points a fixed distance—the radius—from a given point")? Pi R^2 is more "elegant" than Tau/2 R^2. What about when you want to use trig functions? We should be using Pi/2 for those, not Pi, and not 2 Pi.
And why are we concerned with a circle anyway? We live in 3D space (at least, for now) and we should be dealing with 3D objects. What's the volume of a sphere? 4/3 Pi R^3? Fuck that! It should be Lambda R^3 so it's more elegant!! Pi is wrong! Lambda is 4/3 Pi!
The bottom line is that if you want to talk about "elegance", you should be defining your point collections as {L = , M = x}, where L is the locus defined in your native dimension, and M is the magnitude (end to end or center to end, I don't give a shit). 1D? Line segment. 2D? Circle. 3D? Sphere. 4D? Yo Momma.
Add a Phi if you want to define a circle in 3D space, or a line segment in 2D space. Add a Theta or some shit if you want line segments in 3D.
The entire argument for Tau is imbecilic. It reeks of "I got a problem wrong on a test because instead of actually understanding trig functions, I memorized them, and memorized them wrong." This is fucking "KB = 1000B" all over again - utter horseshit that morons will point to as an excuse when they fuck up. "See? I was right!" No bro, you were wrong. At least with this Tau horseshit we won't have marketing departments behind the push for detrimental ambiguity.
Use Tau all you fucking want. Just understand that no one else gives a shit, and no one will be teaching it in schools.
Rob Malda's penis can almost control this.
How are any of your anecdotes evidence google is favoring their own properties? Are you saying the non-profit Wikipedia foundation is paying them?
Er, google has never manipulated their search ranking to favor themselves or someone in particular. If, so they would be under serious trouble!
It's evidence because the search results are extremely shitty and go against any and all logical metrics and weights, as well as against the results of their competitors who otherwise provide nearly identical results. In addition to this, Google openly admits to manually fucking with results (read their adsense blog - it's basically a semi-annual "how we're changing it and how you have to pay more / do more to keep your results/ads on top"). In addition to that, Google has been caught red-handed manually futzing with results multiple times. The term "climategate" was actively suppressed for months when the initial story broke.
Er, google has never manipulated their search ranking to favor themselves or someone in particular. If, so they would be under serious trouble!
LOL! Of course they have!
Search for any noun and you get a Wikipedia page in the top 10, guaranteed, despite it likely not being what anyone fucking wants.
Search for "email" and you get gmail as the first result every fucking time, despite both hotmail and yahoo mail having FAR more active users than gmail.
Search for any video, and you'll get endless broken links to google video. Well, you used to, but now these are being replaced with broken links to youtube.com where the video is removed or it's a shitty "reaction" video. I want my porn and shock videos and Google buries the results. Use Bing for any video content - they don't have a video site that loses millions of dollars per day they need to pimp out. (And if you don't believe me, just search for some porn on Bing. Wash your hands, then thank me.)
The Microsoft antitrust legislation was wrong. It was the result of stupid judges not understanding technology. Unfortunately the precedent has been set and it will be abused.
The court decisions regarding MS were wrong.
But you're incorrect.
Apple has been getting away with worse horseshit for about a decade now.
Google is and will continue to do so as well.
But the moment MS includes a browser or media player with an operating system, the EU fines them another billion Euros and forces them to have a "fair" (meaning, completely retarded and unfair) option that users can select from.
The precedent seems to only apply to Microsoft.
This is slashdot, where patents and MS are always bad, and common sense can go fuck itself.
Patent applications more often than not use mockups that are vague, ugly, weird, or hypothetical examples that use existing real world things.
This is done to prevent competitors from figuring out what the fuck they're doing, as well as to keep the patent as broad as possible.
If this was about a video game hardware patent from Nintendo or Sony, would Slashdot claim they were doing something wrong by using images of dildo wands and bows and arrows and whatnot in their descriptions? No. But because this is Microsoft, all reason goes out the window.
Plenty of toasters, deep fryers, crock pots, etc. came with them in the 60s and 70s.
A few electric lawnmowers used them as well, though the leashed lawnmower didn't last long at all.
I posted above, but it's because patents apply to electric and electronic devices separately, for some reason.
Basically, patent office bullshit.
This is one (and only) area I will give apple a brownie point, they have those magnetic connectors that can't really be damaged, at least on the laptop.
You hit it and it simply falls off.
I've not had one my self, so I can't say how well they work in keeping connected when they should be, but really it's not a bad start at all!
Apple didn't do anything. They just copied an existing design used in many household electric devices.
Apple's patent is for an electr[strong]onic[/strong] device, while prior designs are for electr[strong]ic[/strong].
It's a bullshit patent, basically. No one sees it as a big enough feature to challenge it, though, because honestly, if you lose a laptop due to tripping, you're just going to go right out and buy another one. You're not gonna pony up even more in unexpected costs for a Mac.
This is a good thing because MS is using Silverlight when it makes sense, and HTML 5 / canvas when that makes sense.
The problems with Flash were:
1 - Massive, frequent security holes.
2 - Performance.
3 - Everyone using Flash unnecessarily
When Silverlight came about / was in the works:
1 - People used Silverlight when it made sense (because the people that started to use it were ones that hated Flash but needed its functionality)
2 - Security issues were minimal compared to Flash
3 - Performance was pretty good
When GPU acceleration for browser shit came about, you didn't give a shit about performance.
Now that HTML5 / canvas is around, much of what needed a plugin such as Flash or Silverlight can be rendered by browsers natively.
This doesn't mean Silverlight is dead, it just means that it's not necessary for today's typical content (video and some of the fancier CSS, basically).
Idiots will bitch about MS abandoning Silverlight. They're wrong.
Zealots will cheer about MS using HTML 5 (or, on the fanboy side, laugh at them for taking so long).
Users will be happy that Silverlight is an option, is being used only when necessary, and that interface design in general is looking at functionality and usability before pointless Flashiness.
You pulled his quote out of context. His full assertion is that Dropbox is secure IF USED CORRECTLY (i.e., encrypting data before sending to Dropbox). Do you have evidence that contradicts that statement?
A public pastebin is just as secure IF USED CORRECTLY (i.e., encrypting data before sending to Dropbox). Do you have evidence that contradicts that statement?
Dropbox is all about herpderp convenience for the dumb masses. Want shit available online? Run / rent a server. Want it secure? Secure it. Want it encrypted? Encrypt it. Want it automatically synced to multiple machines? Write a script.
Want it all done for you with minimal effort, maximum handholding, and minimal attention to security?
Use dropbox.
Sooner or later Google will need to do some sort of Quality Control on their store, or they'll just keep making the Marketplace look even less trustworthy and push people to the Amazon store.
And the Amazon store requires people to turn on the "let anything install from anywhere" option, which is what lets the bad applications do their thing.
No need to trick the user into clicking a link / saying yes to a pop up. Everyone who has the Amazon store and uses something from it has that hole wide open.
Android NEEDS to have per-executable, granular permissions. I refuse to believe <your shitty app> needs full network access, phone state, and location data just to show me a picture of a cat.
Hank Hill: So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Minh Souphanousinphone: No, we are Laotian.
Bill Dauterive: The ocean? What ocean?
Kahn Souphanousinphone: From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in South East Asia between Vietnam and Thailand, population approximately 4.7 million!
Hank ponders this for a few seconds.
Hank Hill: So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn Souphanousinphone: D'oh!
Cache comes from the Latin cogere. To collect. A cache is a collection.
The modern (bastardized by the French) usage of a cache adds "hidden" to the meaning.
Apple storing location data in a specific location it knows about and consumers don't (or don't have access to / full control over) is both collecting it and hiding it.
They may not be retrieving that information, nor may they have any intent to do so.
But they are collecting it.
And they still wouldn't delete it.
If a user tried to sue, they'd say all their records were "anonymized", and thus no one user can claim any damages because they can't prove their records were used against their wishes.
If any group of users tries to start a class action, they'll point to the bullshit arbitration clause (no class action suits) in the EULA.
If a state tries to protect consumers and say "that clause is illegal", they'll just buy off the supreme court of the state.
(Protip: All of these things have already happened.)
Solar activity had nothing to do with "The Year Without a Summer". It was the eruption of Tambora that caused that.
You mean a volcanic eruption, which spews out tons of green house gasses and liquid hot magma, cooled the planet?
Yeah right buddy.
We all know CO2 will heat the planet, so we all have to drive around in electric vehicles powered by the pristine, renewable, safe, clean coal-based electricity, transmitted over our totally excellent and robust power grid with losses that are totally better than shipping a chemical fuel in a liquid state.
OH WAIT
Oh you mean like GMail. Or Google Chat. Or Google Maps. Or Google Earth. Or Google Docs. Or Google Video. Or Blogger. Or Yourube. Or...
Search and ads are the ONLY THINGS Google has made on its own (as opposed to blatantly carbon-copying / straight out buying).
This isn't necessarily bad (unless you want to believe Google is somehow great), but it definitely isn't a new trend.
Look around you. Companies have been following Apple's "lead" for years.
And what do I get? Inferior hardware, dumbed-down interfaces, and more restrictive software.
Severe damage to the federal reserve. Hahaha that made my day, thanks. Buddy, the damage has already been done. There's nothing left.
Mod parent left, obvious.
And this is why it's stupid:
Web development is a small subset of what you can do with .NET.
The other 90%+ of things you can do with .NET you're not going to write as a web application. Period.
Someone might as well ask whether HTML5 will replace C++. It'd be as about as idiotic of a question. Not only is the answer obviously no in either case, even asking the question reveals that the asker doesn't have even the most basic idea of what they're talking about.
The problem is no body fucking gives a shit because all they want is a shiny toy.
Apple shat out a shiny toy and people ate it up.
Apple said Flash was bad, and people hated Flash for all the wrong reasons.
Apple said "open standards" and people barked about HTML5 so much that the fucking implementations came out before the standard was finished, and the fucking standard doesn't even dictate what codecs you must support.
Apple made up the term "retina display" and now people think it's something more than an arbitrary DPI threshold.
Apple continues to exploit open standards as marketing points while selling a closed, locked-down system and favors closed formats.
The media then hires a bunch of morons to "report" on this "news". It's an endless cycle of dumbening, fueled by the ability of Steve Jobs to entice people to fork out hundreds for their own aluminum prison cells. The man is diving the industry, but he's fucking driving it down antiprogress lane toward stupidity cliff.
.NET is mainly used for server-side processing.
Wait, what? I make client applications... Windows apps. I don't make websites. I don't make client applications that require constant connection with a server. So your statement completely forgets about me and thousands of developers who need to make real applications that work in the real world, not some dream land in the cloud.
I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft hasn't forgotten about us too.
Oh... and this: HTML5 may excel with GUI, but it's not better than WPF. WPF is definitely better in terms of combining the power, flexibility, and ease-of-development of UIs. (Before the flaming begins... I never said WPF is better for everyone, it's just better for me and my Windows clients.)
No, his statement completely forgets about you and thousands of developers who use .NET because they don't know C/C++.