I have this installed, as I have a Samsung phone - number of times I have used it... once...
Congrats. On the flip side I use it daily. It's a browser, it has an ad blocker, and it works.
That hits the trifector in things I'm looking for in a browser. The fact that it's a default means I don't need to play with others. Mind you I did play with others. Chrome is unusable on a mobile device thanks to no adblockers so it failed on the second account and Firefox... well it can't even render text at a readable size on a standard content zoom on my device so it failed on the last account.
I struggle with this too! What do those OS updates get you? An animated poo? OS updates stopped being relevant about 4 years ago when it became increasingly obvious that the smartphone industry (not just Apple, but Google as well) ran out of ideas.
I used to care about phone updates. These days I only care about security updates, and Android has pretty much solved that problem by decoupling it from the OS itself. When the most amazing new feature to roll out through the OS is a function that allows you to deliberately limit you using your phone, the ever increasing list of supported emoticons, a camera program that is only slightly different from the previous one,... it's stopped being relevant.
Google is not pretending. They did not say anywhere on their site they capture 100% of all malware as well as vet the nefarious actions of all possible malevolent developers.
Stop pretending Google said they do something they don't.
Tesla are the Apple for the car world. Expensive, extremely "loyal" fans who can't look at them objectively, and a somewhat dubious guy in charge.
Except they are well priced within their class, highly rated well beyond fans and received well by all review companies and governments, and... I agree about the guy in charge but that's not a bad thing. Quite often you *want* someone slightly unhinged to help change the world.
Give it time man. Tesla will go bankrupt any day now. This is just a brief uptick. I mean their CFO just left 11 days ago. Clearly they'll be bankrupt this month for sure!
You don't do yourself any favours by calling cars like the iPace a "compliance car".
You don't do yourself any favours by claiming other people said something which they didn't.
Wait let me check,.. switch to browsing at -1.... yep AmiMoJo is the only person who used "iPace" and "compliance car" in the discussion. Why would you do that? The iPace is not a compliance car. Shame on you AmiMoJo for saying it is, and double shame on you for pretending your opinion is that of someone else's.
One of the wonderful things about testing for unknowns is that you need to have a testing methodology designed to detect the thing you don't know is happening. Play Protect or any curation system can't ever detect all possible nefarious actions by apps. It can only detect the ones that are known and scanned for.
Stop pretending a curated experience is something it's not. If you want a white list, then just download apps listed as "Google LLC".
I want proof, and that is YOUR SIDE's responsibility to provide it.
There's proof a plenty based in theory as well as scientific experimentation at various scales, as well modelling of the effect you find questionable, as well as comparing those models to past events to validate them.
You don't want proof. You want to wallow in your own ignorance.
OK, Rei - I think we have had enough Tesla "news" to last a lifetime.
Given that this guy is making the biggest impact in the world of mobility, is using technology to do so, and his company is constantly featured in news could I suggest rather than complain to Rei (who didn't post this story) you instead consider digging a hole and burying yourself in it?
That way you may escape Elon Musk.... just check with the local government if the Boring company is due to come by anytime soon.
In time, you may change your tune a bit once you personally know someone who goes into surgery and never wakes up.
Why would I change my tune? Do you know how many people would die if we decided to ban surgeries? We're joking about the heinous abuse of statistics, not about specific people dying.
Having experienced someone die as a result of surgery puts me in an interesting position: I could take your approach and get triggered negatively every time this topic is discussed, or I could maintain a sense of humour and go on with my life, calling out bad use of statistics and comparisons as I do.
Or move to a low-income country where surgery is safer.
Jokes aside the downside of comparing percentages and rates without a basis. The basis here would be how many surgeries are conducted in rich countries vs poor countries.
The USA has been caught red handed spying on it's allies in the EU. China has not (though undoubtedly it happens).
Why the focus on the US when the subject is China?
Nice deflection, but the subject is not China. The subject is risk of technology being rolled out in Europe. You're quick to attack China under the premise that there is an alternative. So what's that alternative? Better the devil who pretends to be your ally with whom you have a struggling trade relationship and who constantly criticises your security over the devil with whom your relationship has been on the up and up?
I have looked it up. It's a great way of reducing reliance on oil, but it is not carbon neutral. Extracting CO2 from an existing sink, adding hydrogen, and then setting it on fire in a jet engine is not carbon neutral. You're taking CO2 dissolved in water and releasing it to the atmosphere.
Unlike our ability to plant trees we have no ability to create new CO2 free water beyond the natural fresh supply cycle that exists. Ultimately the CO2 will be re-dissolved into the ocean, but not at any rate that makes this process in any way "CO2 neutral"
Claiming otherwise is just a basic fail of understanding of *any* carbon based process.
It's carbon neutral because it takes carbon that's in the water as dissolved CO2
That's like saying burning oil and coal is carbon neutral because it takes carbon that is embedded in these resources which once were removed from the air. Sorry but your proposal is not only NOT carbon neutral it actually requires a shit ton of energy as well (reads expensive, and in scale likely causes carbon emissions).
The only way you make something carbon neutral is to create a new carbon sink as your fuel source. e.g. Biomass isn't carbon neutral either if you don't plant new trees.
Except national security laws don't put the state in control of the corporations.
Wow! Like have you not paid attention to anything that has been going on in the past few years in the USA? I mean next you're going to tell me that the USA government is unable to issue an order on a private corporation without any judicial oversight under the guise of national security.
Exactly my point. Let it die from it's own breakage but for the love of god stop making websites that depend at all on any specific browser, including for the purposes of breaking one specific one.
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I have this installed, as I have a Samsung phone - number of times I have used it ... once ...
Congrats. On the flip side I use it daily. It's a browser, it has an ad blocker, and it works.
That hits the trifector in things I'm looking for in a browser. The fact that it's a default means I don't need to play with others. Mind you I did play with others. Chrome is unusable on a mobile device thanks to no adblockers so it failed on the second account and Firefox ... well it can't even render text at a readable size on a standard content zoom on my device so it failed on the last account.
Would this be for any other reason than the fact that the world is littered with cheap Samsung phones??
I rather think not.
Yes, and? It should be a wake up call to both Mozilla and Opera to show that making a good browser is not enough.
Why would anyone want OS updates for 5 years
I struggle with this too! What do those OS updates get you? An animated poo? OS updates stopped being relevant about 4 years ago when it became increasingly obvious that the smartphone industry (not just Apple, but Google as well) ran out of ideas.
I used to care about phone updates. These days I only care about security updates, and Android has pretty much solved that problem by decoupling it from the OS itself. When the most amazing new feature to roll out through the OS is a function that allows you to deliberately limit you using your phone, the ever increasing list of supported emoticons, a camera program that is only slightly different from the previous one, ... it's stopped being relevant.
The link in her post goes to an image that makes the claim.
Oh so Rei is a pseudonym for a newspaper article now?
Google is not pretending. They did not say anywhere on their site they capture 100% of all malware as well as vet the nefarious actions of all possible malevolent developers.
Stop pretending Google said they do something they don't.
But the parked car being ticketed is a perfectly valid provable counterexample
A guy not paying a fine is not a valid counter point to fines being voluntary. Try again.
Tesla are the Apple for the car world. Expensive, extremely "loyal" fans who can't look at them objectively, and a somewhat dubious guy in charge.
Except they are well priced within their class, highly rated well beyond fans and received well by all review companies and governments, and ... I agree about the guy in charge but that's not a bad thing. Quite often you *want* someone slightly unhinged to help change the world.
Drill baby drill.
Give it time man. Tesla will go bankrupt any day now. This is just a brief uptick. I mean their CFO just left 11 days ago. Clearly they'll be bankrupt this month for sure!
You don't do yourself any favours by calling cars like the iPace a "compliance car".
You don't do yourself any favours by claiming other people said something which they didn't.
Wait let me check, .. switch to browsing at -1.... yep AmiMoJo is the only person who used "iPace" and "compliance car" in the discussion. Why would you do that? The iPace is not a compliance car. Shame on you AmiMoJo for saying it is, and double shame on you for pretending your opinion is that of someone else's.
One of the wonderful things about testing for unknowns is that you need to have a testing methodology designed to detect the thing you don't know is happening. Play Protect or any curation system can't ever detect all possible nefarious actions by apps. It can only detect the ones that are known and scanned for.
Stop pretending a curated experience is something it's not. If you want a white list, then just download apps listed as "Google LLC".
I want proof, and that is YOUR SIDE's responsibility to provide it.
There's proof a plenty based in theory as well as scientific experimentation at various scales, as well modelling of the effect you find questionable, as well as comparing those models to past events to validate them.
You don't want proof. You want to wallow in your own ignorance.
Have you browsed at -1? I think it's clear dogs are posting on Slashdot.
OK, Rei - I think we have had enough Tesla "news" to last a lifetime.
Given that this guy is making the biggest impact in the world of mobility, is using technology to do so, and his company is constantly featured in news could I suggest rather than complain to Rei (who didn't post this story) you instead consider digging a hole and burying yourself in it?
That way you may escape Elon Musk. ... just check with the local government if the Boring company is due to come by anytime soon.
In time, you may change your tune a bit once you personally know someone who goes into surgery and never wakes up.
Why would I change my tune? Do you know how many people would die if we decided to ban surgeries? We're joking about the heinous abuse of statistics, not about specific people dying.
Having experienced someone die as a result of surgery puts me in an interesting position: I could take your approach and get triggered negatively every time this topic is discussed, or I could maintain a sense of humour and go on with my life, calling out bad use of statistics and comparisons as I do.
Or move to a low-income country where surgery is safer.
Jokes aside the downside of comparing percentages and rates without a basis. The basis here would be how many surgeries are conducted in rich countries vs poor countries.
Taken as a group, surgical patients will probably be sicker, on average, than the population as a whole.
I'm keen to know the death rate if we stopped surgeries. I mean we really should stop them, they sound deadly.
"a" implies it's part of a group
Exactly.
More importantly, I was trying to point out it wasn't even the primary tool used.
No doubt, since the summary made no such claim.
You will notice there are other posts that ask about 3d rendering which only adds credence to the relevance of my post.
I found someone else who doesn't understand english so the english is wrong?
NSL argument aside
No. This is fundamental.
the USA is an ally to the EU and China is not.
The USA has been caught red handed spying on it's allies in the EU. China has not (though undoubtedly it happens).
Why the focus on the US when the subject is China?
Nice deflection, but the subject is not China. The subject is risk of technology being rolled out in Europe. You're quick to attack China under the premise that there is an alternative. So what's that alternative? Better the devil who pretends to be your ally with whom you have a struggling trade relationship and who constantly criticises your security over the devil with whom your relationship has been on the up and up?
I have looked it up. It's a great way of reducing reliance on oil, but it is not carbon neutral. Extracting CO2 from an existing sink, adding hydrogen, and then setting it on fire in a jet engine is not carbon neutral. You're taking CO2 dissolved in water and releasing it to the atmosphere.
Unlike our ability to plant trees we have no ability to create new CO2 free water beyond the natural fresh supply cycle that exists. Ultimately the CO2 will be re-dissolved into the ocean, but not at any rate that makes this process in any way "CO2 neutral"
Claiming otherwise is just a basic fail of understanding of *any* carbon based process.
No it doesn't, it occurs on any bottlenecked link including the backhaul. It doesn't need to be the slowest link in the chain.
Any business that hosts a blog with visitor comments
You're implying that businesses now need to be completely responsible for content produced by others? Is that expressly laid out in the legislation?
It's carbon neutral because it takes carbon that's in the water as dissolved CO2
That's like saying burning oil and coal is carbon neutral because it takes carbon that is embedded in these resources which once were removed from the air. Sorry but your proposal is not only NOT carbon neutral it actually requires a shit ton of energy as well (reads expensive, and in scale likely causes carbon emissions).
The only way you make something carbon neutral is to create a new carbon sink as your fuel source. e.g. Biomass isn't carbon neutral either if you don't plant new trees.
Except national security laws don't put the state in control of the corporations.
Wow! Like have you not paid attention to anything that has been going on in the past few years in the USA? I mean next you're going to tell me that the USA government is unable to issue an order on a private corporation without any judicial oversight under the guise of national security.
Exactly my point. Let it die from it's own breakage but for the love of god stop making websites that depend at all on any specific browser, including for the purposes of breaking one specific one.
Shit we would still be on XP if MS didn't pull the plug in 2014.
So what you're saying is that software was made obsolete and people moved away from it.