Welcome to the dragnet-police-state that is America in the new millenium.
I used to be thankful I don't live their, but that was until the G20 in Toronto. Looks like your country's government's attitude towards citizen's rights its (respective) constitution has started infecting ours as well.
I'm thinking more of the tracking that they may do without releasing to the public. Or their ability to aggregate this data with their many other tracking/statistics pieces. They aren't doing this just to be nice ya'know!
The title of TFA is "E-mail infections decline as exploits propagated via social media increase"
yet it likes to bounce around to
"The rise in popularity of smart phones powered by Google's Android operating system for smart phones has been accompanied by an increase in attacks targeting these devices."
Then to
There has also been a great deal of commotion around two serious zero-day flaws in Microsoft OS code, one of which was exploited to attack SCADA systems (specifically in, nuclear power stations).
This article really has nothing to say about the rise of use of social media as a vector, other than mentioning the recent twitter exploits--in the last paragraph. Why did this article make it to the front page again?
I guess this just means you might actually have to go back to the old way of finding applications that do what you need them to.
This has worked for PCs for decades. Keep in mind there are a plethora of garbage apps for PCs out there on cnet.Download.com, tucows, sourceforge, or whatever other application site you may browse through. Having some central dictator saying which app is "good enough" to be on its marketplace simply isn't a solution that creates value for the platform in the long-term; except of course creating value for that dictator through lock-in.
Also keep in mind that Android is still an evolving platform. Who are we to say what the marketplace will look like in 5 years? If "quality" becomes a major problem, it would not be inconceivable for some enterprising developer to come along and usurp the Google Marketplace.
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This is also the plan of most venture capitalists. VCs are not looking to watch a company grow long-term. They are looking to buy into a company at the startup, and sell it for several times the original price in just one or two years.
enforcement of copyleft could become extremely difficult at some point for the government. The government cannot take for granted that you just post some code or a media file, slap a CC license on it and you had every right to do that.
How is that ANY different from proprietary copyright?? I will rewrite that for you:
enforcement of copyright could become extremely difficult at some point for the government. The government cannot take for granted that you just post some code or a media file, slap a proprietary license on it and you had every right to do that.
In fact, proprietary makes it HARDER to enforce since no-one can see the code and say "Hey! I wrote that! You stole it!"
Also, since when does the government enforce copyleft? Enforcement is a civil matter that is left up to the rights-holders.
Mods, please tell me again why this ignorant comment is modded up?
Javascript and Java are two completely different languages. The syntax looks similar (c-like), but other than that they really have nothing in common. Swapping one out for the other is not as easy as you might think.
Just because it doesn't have any effect on you doesn't mean it doesn't affect anyone, say, in Argentina. Although most/. readers may be anti-corporate, the idea that a government can just hand-wave and shutdown a major ISP is somewhat unsettling. Even though this doesn't affect me personally, I would still consider this a "rights" issue - as in the right to choose one's ISP, without the government interfering and saying who can and who can't be an ISP.
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Welcome to the dragnet-police-state that is America in the new millenium.
I used to be thankful I don't live their, but that was until the G20 in Toronto. Looks like your country's government's attitude towards citizen's rights its (respective) constitution has started infecting ours as well.
You mean that still exists? I thought it was replaced by internet streaming!!
Warning: the above link points to a youtube URL I have not visited it myself (as I'm at work), but I'm guessing it is most likely a Rick Roll.
-- Saving people from Rick Rolls since 2006
I'm thinking more of the tracking that they may do without releasing to the public. Or their ability to aggregate this data with their many other tracking/statistics pieces. They aren't doing this just to be nice ya'know!
As in, one more place where Google gets to track you and make you a statistic.
+1 tell it like it is mod.
yet it likes to bounce around to
"The rise in popularity of smart phones powered by Google's Android operating system for smart phones has been accompanied by an increase in attacks targeting these devices."
Then to
There has also been a great deal of commotion around two serious zero-day flaws in Microsoft OS code, one of which was exploited to attack SCADA systems (specifically in, nuclear power stations).
This article really has nothing to say about the rise of use of social media as a vector, other than mentioning the recent twitter exploits--in the last paragraph. Why did this article make it to the front page again?
Well at least we all took high school math with Mr. Monroe, amirite?
I guess this just means you might actually have to go back to the old way of finding applications that do what you need them to.
This has worked for PCs for decades. Keep in mind there are a plethora of garbage apps for PCs out there on cnet.Download.com, tucows, sourceforge, or whatever other application site you may browse through. Having some central dictator saying which app is "good enough" to be on its marketplace simply isn't a solution that creates value for the platform in the long-term; except of course creating value for that dictator through lock-in.
Also keep in mind that Android is still an evolving platform. Who are we to say what the marketplace will look like in 5 years? If "quality" becomes a major problem, it would not be inconceivable for some enterprising developer to come along and usurp the Google Marketplace.
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I would rather this than the other way around, where companies can still turn a profit even when making garbage games. Just sayin...
+1 spot on. Everyone needs to read this comment, instead of RTFA. TFA in this case is a load of horse-shit.
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Hence why I believe in Proportional representation.
Sadly, that referendum was voted down a couple years back.
+1 Sudden Outburst of Common Sense
He could have distanced his work with Wikileaks from his personal life.
And you really think the media would let him do this? Pffffttt
This is also the plan of most venture capitalists. VCs are not looking to watch a company grow long-term. They are looking to buy into a company at the startup, and sell it for several times the original price in just one or two years.
enforcement of copyleft could become extremely difficult at some point for the government. The government cannot take for granted that you just post some code or a media file, slap a CC license on it and you had every right to do that.
How is that ANY different from proprietary copyright?? I will rewrite that for you:
enforcement of copyright could become extremely difficult at some point for the government. The government cannot take for granted that you just post some code or a media file, slap a proprietary license on it and you had every right to do that.
In fact, proprietary makes it HARDER to enforce since no-one can see the code and say "Hey! I wrote that! You stole it!"
Also, since when does the government enforce copyleft? Enforcement is a civil matter that is left up to the rights-holders.
Mods, please tell me again why this ignorant comment is modded up?
It does, but this has nothing to do with buffer overflows. Please RTFA.
2 letters: NO
as in NO, that doesn't do anything to fix this.
without the government interfering and saying who can and who can't be an ISP.
Why should the government be interfering? Do they say who can and can't sell chocolate bars? How about pour cement?
Javascript and Java are two completely different languages. The syntax looks similar (c-like), but other than that they really have nothing in common. Swapping one out for the other is not as easy as you might think.
Just because it doesn't have any effect on you doesn't mean it doesn't affect anyone, say, in Argentina. Although most /. readers may be anti-corporate, the idea that a government can just hand-wave and shutdown a major ISP is somewhat unsettling. Even though this doesn't affect me personally, I would still consider this a "rights" issue - as in the right to choose one's ISP, without the government interfering and saying who can and who can't be an ISP.