Let's see what "ordinary diligence" means according to you, then:
1. You want people to try your software for free, then upgrade to a paying version.
2. You read the Apple developer documentation
3. You find the recommended way to provide this feature, literally documented by Apple, "you should do it this way".
4. You do a full patent review for this and any other silly little feature that your app uses, digging through hundreds of thousands of patents or paying some company tens of thousands of dollars to do this for you, fully aware that you are STILL not sure you aren't violating any unpublished patents.
5. You decide not to release the software since there are way too many applicable patents about the simplest and most obvious little features that really shouldn't be patentable but have been patented nevertheless.
So basically, what you are saying is that everybody should just stop developing software. That's just ordinary diligence.
Except if you have a network of zombie bots doing the work for you. BitCoin seems to be a perfect way for worm writers to monetize their zombies, *much* easier than stealing and selling credit card numbers or other personal info.
Thanks for telling me. No, really. I mean, most people would just not say anything and avoid me instead. At least now I know and I can do something about it. So I really appreciate you telling me.
Until the next winter is warmer than usual, and then the scientists will go "see, this is global warming, we haven't had such a warm winter in decades".
I can't wait for Sony to sue Gitbrew, and then a few days later all Sony assembly lines suddenly spinning up and down uncontrollably to the tune of "this is a triumph" or whatever other tune the hackers fancy...
Germany has many highways that have no speed limit whatsoever. Germany does not have more highway deaths than neighbouring countries. In a few other European countries, experiments increasing the speed limit from 120 to 150 km/h (about 100 mph) have shown a decrease in the number of accidents. Unfortunately the wrong politicians then came to power and decided to keep the old limits anyway.
By the way, in Germany, people do tend to respect the posted speed limits a lot more because they are more realistic. If a German speed limit is low, there's normally a good reason. You won't find many Germans speeding past a school, for example. The opposite is true for countries that have ridiculously low speed limits everywhere. When people lose their respect for limits, they stop respecting them.
Exactly. Close to where I used to live, there are two roads that are both marked 50 km/h (about 30 mph). One is a curving road with one lane in each direction, lots of shops, parking spaces and pedestrian crossings. The other is perfectly straight, two lanes in each direction seperated by trees, pedestrian and bycicle path seperated from the main road by several meters and with trees in between, through the fields with no houses or shops nearby. Guess which one has a speed trap every few weeks? Guess which one NEVER gets a speed trap? Road safety my ass.
I have many similar theories about other things, reaching a conclusion as the only possible explanation because otherwise too much stupidity/uneducatedness would be involved. But I'm fully aware that that doesn't make those theories true. I'm sort of between kind and sarcastic:-)
It's beyond me how someone could go through the trouble of trying to impersonate a company, copying its letterhead, logo and visual style (which takes a decent amount of intelligent effort), but then make several accidental typos in the actual e-mail that even a Microsoft spelling checker would have caught. Surely, if you were about to commit this kind of crime, you would try to make sure you got it right?
No, "stating" is better: malware authors always leave some intentional typos to tip off the intelligent users (those who might cause trouble for them later, and in any case would not be running the malware for a long time). They only want to attack dumb people, which makes sense.
At least, that's my theory to explain the staggering amount of errors in pretty much all malware e-mails and websites I have seen so far.
I said meters because most scientists prefer SI units, but of course it could have been cubic feet, cubic chains, cubic light years, cubic shackles, or any other weird unit. But cubic anything can never be a unit of area.
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Hey, I just had a great idea! Ley's abolish copyright for a decade or so to see what difference it makes. For science.
Why not?
0.575% for having an update mechanism
0.575% for a button that displays settings
0.575% for using a different color for certain text
etc...
This has to be stopped before it goes to far (which it already has).
Exactly
Let's see what "ordinary diligence" means according to you, then:
1. You want people to try your software for free, then upgrade to a paying version.
2. You read the Apple developer documentation
3. You find the recommended way to provide this feature, literally documented by Apple, "you should do it this way".
4. You do a full patent review for this and any other silly little feature that your app uses, digging through hundreds of thousands of patents or paying some company tens of thousands of dollars to do this for you, fully aware that you are STILL not sure you aren't violating any unpublished patents.
5. You decide not to release the software since there are way too many applicable patents about the simplest and most obvious little features that really shouldn't be patentable but have been patented nevertheless.
So basically, what you are saying is that everybody should just stop developing software. That's just ordinary diligence.
On iOS, software development environment choose you!
No, use "rm -rf ~/*", much more effective, does not require a password and destroys the files the user actually cares about.
This software continuously pops up porn images for free, and people are complaining? Jeez, there's no pleasing some people...
Except if you have a network of zombie bots doing the work for you. BitCoin seems to be a perfect way for worm writers to monetize their zombies, *much* easier than stealing and selling credit card numbers or other personal info.
Yeah, the next iPhone will include one, and prices will plummet.
Thanks for telling me. No, really. I mean, most people would just not say anything and avoid me instead. At least now I know and I can do something about it. So I really appreciate you telling me.
Yes, but Cesium has a half life of 30 years! So even if it's not radioactive now...
A large body that almost formed into a planet? Pluto has more than twice the diameter (i.e. eight times the volume) and is still no planet.
If my WiFi is going to be affected by global warming, I think I'm going to go out and buy myself a big air conditioning unit to protect it!
Until the next winter is warmer than usual, and then the scientists will go "see, this is global warming, we haven't had such a warm winter in decades".
Come on, why did anyone mod that down?
I can't wait for Sony to sue Gitbrew, and then a few days later all Sony assembly lines suddenly spinning up and down uncontrollably to the tune of "this is a triumph" or whatever other tune the hackers fancy...
Maybe they are planning to switch to Windows like Nokia did?
Germany has many highways that have no speed limit whatsoever. Germany does not have more highway deaths than neighbouring countries. In a few other European countries, experiments increasing the speed limit from 120 to 150 km/h (about 100 mph) have shown a decrease in the number of accidents. Unfortunately the wrong politicians then came to power and decided to keep the old limits anyway.
By the way, in Germany, people do tend to respect the posted speed limits a lot more because they are more realistic. If a German speed limit is low, there's normally a good reason. You won't find many Germans speeding past a school, for example. The opposite is true for countries that have ridiculously low speed limits everywhere. When people lose their respect for limits, they stop respecting them.
Exactly. Close to where I used to live, there are two roads that are both marked 50 km/h (about 30 mph). One is a curving road with one lane in each direction, lots of shops, parking spaces and pedestrian crossings. The other is perfectly straight, two lanes in each direction seperated by trees, pedestrian and bycicle path seperated from the main road by several meters and with trees in between, through the fields with no houses or shops nearby. Guess which one has a speed trap every few weeks? Guess which one NEVER gets a speed trap? Road safety my ass.
I'm not sure myself ;-)
I have many similar theories about other things, reaching a conclusion as the only possible explanation because otherwise too much stupidity/uneducatedness would be involved. But I'm fully aware that that doesn't make those theories true. I'm sort of between kind and sarcastic :-)
It's beyond me how someone could go through the trouble of trying to impersonate a company, copying its letterhead, logo and visual style (which takes a decent amount of intelligent effort), but then make several accidental typos in the actual e-mail that even a Microsoft spelling checker would have caught. Surely, if you were about to commit this kind of crime, you would try to make sure you got it right?
No, "stating" is better: malware authors always leave some intentional typos to tip off the intelligent users (those who might cause trouble for them later, and in any case would not be running the malware for a long time). They only want to attack dumb people, which makes sense.
At least, that's my theory to explain the staggering amount of errors in pretty much all malware e-mails and websites I have seen so far.
Exactly. I bet the same user, if he had an anti-virus app running, would disable it to be able to run the malware.
I said meters because most scientists prefer SI units, but of course it could have been cubic feet, cubic chains, cubic light years, cubic shackles, or any other weird unit. But cubic anything can never be a unit of area.
I believe that was Richard Feynman's joke
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