Probably they just looked at a few libraries from Google that the apps link to. These same apps could instantaneously shut off your phone because they're linked to something in Android that has that functionality built in.
I wouldn't call apple cultists 'corrupt.' They're smarmy, pointedly ironic, always just a little bit out-of-style because to do otherwise would be so gauche. They've been that way, little 'alternative' poindexter types, going waaaay back to the days when there was just one little store in every major metropolis that sold the Macintoshes, and a little muffin fan for sale there, to shove into the hand-hold of your Mac Plus, was $300.00. (because Steve said you didn't get a fan, but you knew you needed one)
We know you're an Apple cult member. Quit trying to tell us you use an iPhone 6 Plus. Maybe you have one in a drawer that you use for regression testing, but face it, you gobbled down a new iPhone X as soon as you found out about the animated feces app.
The slider should go all the way to 'disable Anonymous Coward access on Slashdot.'
If the manufacturer has a legal obligation to increase safety, they should sell the phone sealed in a block of Lucite to begin with. Then all sorts of risks the user will be exposed to are eliminated. (of course, for the typical Apple customer this might not be enough)
If software is improved, by definition it should run faster on the same hardware as the older version.
Now, if all kinds of features and new shit have been piled on, instead of concentrating on improving the software, it proabably will run slower on the old hardware.
Why wouldn't the same software, if improved, run faster on the same old hardware.
I know that this will seem ludicrous to the kind of the dorks who cram their ego into the newest-latest-greatest framework/library/feature-set, but you're gumming up the works with your croft, dudes.
But by putting in a pop-up dialogue message informing the user what they were doing, Apple could have presented the user with the option of going to a third-party repair service to have an inexpensive battery replacement performed, instead of having to give a single additional cent to Apple.
It was so much easier for Apple to just quietly cripple the device in expectation that it would drive sales of new phones to people with noticeably slower phones.
Does it teach kids how to log off their Android phone?
Your phone still works, with a few awkward workarounds*, if you log out of your Google account and keep using it.
(*some are really awkward, actually. If you log out of your phone, your 'contacts' disappear. The workaround is to export your Contacts to a vcard file and then read that Vcard file back into your 'contacts list' after you've logged out of Google.)
Kids can also learn how to make sure they are logged out of Google on their browser. And how to have multiple browsers, including only one that their Google account is logged into.
It isn't perfect and Google still has ways of planting 'bugs' to trace you, but these are the sorts of things children need to learn.
You're really disappointing. I thought you would come back with something about POSIX compliance, testing, etc.
You pay for the license, for the piece of paper that says that your software is in compliance. It isn't worth it for Red Hat because they don't need that sort of 'bullet point' on their advertising.
What is the 'life cycle cost' of the recent MacBook with the keyboard defects that it seems Apple will never fix? Any system of that generation is tainted and potential unremarkable junk as soon as Apple decides to drop support.
Becoming a 'certified UNIX' basically means paying a fee to The Open Group who own the Unix trademark.
I own a Unix license plate that I bought on the Open Group website about 15 years ago. It' so an authentic Unix license, from the company that owns the trademark.
It's very convenient to just store your content and data on your own hardware. Your weird rant about hunting for food, etc. makes you sound deranged. Are you just another crapflooder?
Oh, I am sure they are conferring amongst themselves to try to identify a fellow-traveller who has the chops to join the SQLite team and object virulently.
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Your eighth-grade 'government' lectures are not serving you well. Such a tool.
Third wave feminism cuts a wide swath.
Probably they just looked at a few libraries from Google that the apps link to. These same apps could instantaneously shut off your phone because they're linked to something in Android that has that functionality built in.
I wouldn't call apple cultists 'corrupt.' They're smarmy, pointedly ironic, always just a little bit out-of-style because to do otherwise would be so gauche. They've been that way, little 'alternative' poindexter types, going waaaay back to the days when there was just one little store in every major metropolis that sold the Macintoshes, and a little muffin fan for sale there, to shove into the hand-hold of your Mac Plus, was $300.00. (because Steve said you didn't get a fan, but you knew you needed one)
We know you're an Apple cult member. Quit trying to tell us you use an iPhone 6 Plus. Maybe you have one in a drawer that you use for regression testing, but face it, you gobbled down a new iPhone X as soon as you found out about the animated feces app.
Fuck off, Hater:
Get the hell out of here, cultist creep.
Isn't your new Apple e-meter app just waiting there for you to plug into it?
The slider should go all the way to 'disable Anonymous Coward access on Slashdot.'
If the manufacturer has a legal obligation to increase safety, they should sell the phone sealed in a block of Lucite to begin with. Then all sorts of risks the user will be exposed to are eliminated. (of course, for the typical Apple customer this might not be enough)
If software is improved, by definition it should run faster on the same hardware as the older version.
Now, if all kinds of features and new shit have been piled on, instead of concentrating on improving the software, it proabably will run slower on the old hardware.
Why wouldn't the same software, if improved, run faster on the same old hardware.
I know that this will seem ludicrous to the kind of the dorks who cram their ego into the newest-latest-greatest framework/library/feature-set, but you're gumming up the works with your croft, dudes.
But by putting in a pop-up dialogue message informing the user what they were doing, Apple could have presented the user with the option of going to a third-party repair service to have an inexpensive battery replacement performed, instead of having to give a single additional cent to Apple.
It was so much easier for Apple to just quietly cripple the device in expectation that it would drive sales of new phones to people with noticeably slower phones.
MS-DOS isn't really good enough, because the communications has to sit somewhere on the machine queued up for the PGP program to encrypt.
Only the people in charge use desktop computers, junior.
Including the people who write the 'apps' they allow you to run on your little gadgets.
Its Closed Source. From Apple. And the iGadgets are known to send packets of encrypted data to Apple servers when linked to a wifi connection.
What's in the big packets? Who knows? It's encrypted.
You can trust Apple. You know you want to trust Apple. Just do it.
Does it teach kids how to log off their Android phone?
Your phone still works, with a few awkward workarounds*, if you log out of your Google account and keep using it.
(*some are really awkward, actually. If you log out of your phone, your 'contacts' disappear. The workaround is to export your Contacts to a vcard file and then read that Vcard file back into your 'contacts list' after you've logged out of Google.)
Kids can also learn how to make sure they are logged out of Google on their browser. And how to have multiple browsers, including only one that their Google account is logged into.
It isn't perfect and Google still has ways of planting 'bugs' to trace you, but these are the sorts of things children need to learn.
Nope.
See it and respond to it? Yes. Record it for perpetuity? Nope.
I had the fortune of shaking his hand, as every new Medtronic employee got to do back in the day. He was a truly great man.
You're really disappointing. I thought you would come back with something about POSIX compliance, testing, etc.
You pay for the license, for the piece of paper that says that your software is in compliance. It isn't worth it for Red Hat because they don't need that sort of 'bullet point' on their advertising.
So we can assume that Students at a government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow, are behind the cyberattack.
Just like students at MIT have done things in the past that they eventually regret.
What is the 'life cycle cost' of the recent MacBook with the keyboard defects that it seems Apple will never fix? Any system of that generation is tainted and potential unremarkable junk as soon as Apple decides to drop support.
Becoming a 'certified UNIX' basically means paying a fee to The Open Group who own the Unix trademark.
I own a Unix license plate that I bought on the Open Group website about 15 years ago. It' so an authentic
Unix license, from the company that owns the trademark.
It's very convenient to just store your content and data on your own hardware. Your weird rant about hunting for food, etc. makes you sound deranged. Are you just another crapflooder?
It doesn't matter how much you worry.
There will inevitably be a bit of a Streisand effect.
I've bought microcontrollers on Amazon, so... yes.
Oh, I am sure they are conferring amongst themselves to try to identify a fellow-traveller who has the chops to join the SQLite team and object virulently.
Maybe they even know somebody like that.
No, he just encourages you to post, for it's amusement value.
Don't you get it?