You're assuming they get this malware from installing an app - more likely they get this while browsing the net.
Anyhow who's to stupid not to know how apps work or are installed won't know not to click on a dialogue that pops up while doing something "you need to update your mac - click here!".
Daisy Wheel printers and Dot Matrix printers do this - I spent several years helping accountants align okidata ml-320's to print on their 3 part forms.
I always grin when I see one of those in some shop:).
Why not? I know plenty of people who have been married, had kids but never been in any kind of serious relationship. I think if you cannot even talk about that kind sexual experimentation you probably aren't in a relationship.
Here's why that is flawed about this: a GPS system would need an address book - what if you want directions to someone in your address book? People also ask why GPS program would need access to the dialer? Remember that funny iPhone ad where they use google maps to find Sushi in SanFrancisco and then *call* the place up?
All that setting would do for the app maker is generate an angry call/comment from some idiot end user who didn't click on that permission... I agree it would be a cool tool for power users though.
I think a better solution for most end users would be for Google to highlight in bold red permissions that are typically not not needed in apps - like dialing numbers, sending text messages (anything that goes under the category "stuff that costs you money"), recording calls, reading system logs etc.
There's truth to this. I have a macbook and I went to get it fixed (again) and ran into a another customer who apparently hangs out there every day getting help with his laptop. From the questions he was asking the "genius" - it felt like a guy at a bar (hey wait - its called a genius bar right?) trying to chat up the chick behind it.
Oh come on - that was akin to racing the Bughati Vaeron against a Euro-fighter Typhoon ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA ) - would anyone reasonably conclude they shouldn't buy a Vaeron because a Eurostar fighter is faster down a straight track? The RAF invited them because it was good PR for them. This was good PR for the dog race track in Ireland.
Every episode of Top Gear they have a funny segment with a stupid race/challenge.
The Tesla actually "stopped working" on their test track - not while doing any stupid exhibition race.
Kinda - fads are good for the bottom line as long as you can keep bringing them out - because eventually your competition will come along and make a better widget for less. Look how much apple makes on Laptops/Desktops/iPods vs. the iPhone and iPad - you'll realize quickly the entire company rests on two product lines.
Microsoft makes a lot of money selling software to end users and enterprises - people who call a vendor and say "I need a computer" or "I need a thousand computers".
Ideally it would be nice to be a company who could delivery fads reliably and deliver sustainable profits year after year. MS does this sometimes (Kinect, Xbox) and unreliably other times (Zune was late and crap, Phone 7 was late and crap - both would have been great if they were released 3-4 years ago). Apple is great at delivering fads, but piss poor in (speaking from my own experience) delivering enterprise hardware/software.
I read in Gartner (yes - I know - its wild speculation that CIO's actually pay money for) that one big risk with Apple is once the visionary is gone the fad cycle will stop.
I'm left wing - and I honestly think this is a good example where the Android Market wins again. If you search for gay on Android Market - you'll find gaydar apps, and other things some in the gay community might find offensive, but since the apps are obscure they never make it to the main page.
But mainly because Google really isn't all that subjective when it comes to what is placed on "Android Market" no-one makes a big deal about it and it goes away.
Apple shouldn't make a big deal about these kinds of apps, and let them drift into obscurity - people who like them download them, but they never make any news anywhere. But no - what they have is a situation where every single app that is denied is highlighted in the press repeatedly.
It would be pretty easy actually - monitor people who use a lot of bandwidth and start analyzing their traffic based on that report. Desktop pc's/laptops use more bandwidth because most websites are tailored to deliver richer content to machines with bigger screens more cpu etc.
Anyone who has is sending user agents from desktop browsers is a likely candidate - other kinds of data that could only come from a PC (like video games like WoW or Eve or something like that).
Just because they don't have as much Buzz as apple doesn't mean people haven't been secretly buying Tablet machines running XP/Vista/7 since the dawn of the platform in 2004.
If you don't think there are any lingering effects from smoking a joint or two on the weekend when you come to work, you've obviously been smoking the stuff.
Put another way, do you want the guy who's programming the software for your mother's heart monitor to be smoking that shit?* How about the guy who codes the braking software for your car?
Honestly - speaking from real experience here - there's probably more risk from employers requiring people to come to work sick (because you don't have any more sick days left) than writing code while high.
In my own experience - while high - its just hard to concentrate on multiple things - on single things your mind is razor sharp I think. Reading a 400 page book in a single day is not a big problem (remembering any meaning what you read might be).
I think it has to do with the fact that if you aren't dealing with low end systems you don't really need to know anything about math. I have two friends - one who is a developer at sendmail and the other at blizzard (works on sc2) and they both told me they rarely have to use any math at all in there day to day job.
Here's an operator doing a telephone patch to a woman in the US from Haiti when the earthquake occured. Yeah it was a scratchy phone call, but it wasn't until later that cell phones and land lines were even semi-functional
Hah - thats the catch! S50R5 apps support touch screen, previous versions may require hardware buttons your N97 doesn't have. Symbian fragmentation is far far more nightmarish than Android or iOS.
I think that people bought a Nokia because their previous phone was a Nokia and it ran almost the same SW, and all the menus and options were the same. Now, they have to really make a choice, and as a result, they have no loyalty - and that means more sales for Google and Apple.
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You're assuming they get this malware from installing an app - more likely they get this while browsing the net.
Anyhow who's to stupid not to know how apps work or are installed won't know not to click on a dialogue that pops up while doing something "you need to update your mac - click here!".
You can't actually buy one though...
I actually work under one, but yes - most people do not.
When was the last time you worked under contract?
Daisy Wheel printers and Dot Matrix printers do this - I spent several years helping accountants align okidata ml-320's to print on their 3 part forms.
I always grin when I see one of those in some shop :).
Which makes your home pc a cloud server...
So your solution to keeping websites from being hacked is to store the website at home on your desktop pc?
Why not? I know plenty of people who have been married, had kids but never been in any kind of serious relationship. I think if you cannot even talk about that kind sexual experimentation you probably aren't in a relationship.
One thing to remember is that the scarce bandwidth (aka - airwaves) we do have belongs to the public - its the FCC's mandate to regulate this.
Here's why that is flawed about this: a GPS system would need an address book - what if you want directions to someone in your address book? People also ask why GPS program would need access to the dialer? Remember that funny iPhone ad where they use google maps to find Sushi in SanFrancisco and then *call* the place up?
All that setting would do for the app maker is generate an angry call/comment from some idiot end user who didn't click on that permission... I agree it would be a cool tool for power users though.
I think a better solution for most end users would be for Google to highlight in bold red permissions that are typically not not needed in apps - like dialing numbers, sending text messages (anything that goes under the category "stuff that costs you money"), recording calls, reading system logs etc.
You just described what it is like working at Adobe...
There's truth to this. I have a macbook and I went to get it fixed (again) and ran into a another customer who apparently hangs out there every day getting help with his laptop. From the questions he was asking the "genius" - it felt like a guy at a bar (hey wait - its called a genius bar right?) trying to chat up the chick behind it.
Oh come on - that was akin to racing the Bughati Vaeron against a Euro-fighter Typhoon ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA ) - would anyone reasonably conclude they shouldn't buy a Vaeron because a Eurostar fighter is faster down a straight track? The RAF invited them because it was good PR for them. This was good PR for the dog race track in Ireland.
Every episode of Top Gear they have a funny segment with a stupid race/challenge.
The Tesla actually "stopped working" on their test track - not while doing any stupid exhibition race.
Could have been the poor tech in India had no idea what the question was to begin with...
That quote could have been attributed to system monitoring software used to conserve battery usage for instance.
Kinda - fads are good for the bottom line as long as you can keep bringing them out - because eventually your competition will come along and make a better widget for less. Look how much apple makes on Laptops/Desktops/iPods vs. the iPhone and iPad - you'll realize quickly the entire company rests on two product lines.
Microsoft makes a lot of money selling software to end users and enterprises - people who call a vendor and say "I need a computer" or "I need a thousand computers".
Ideally it would be nice to be a company who could delivery fads reliably and deliver sustainable profits year after year. MS does this sometimes (Kinect, Xbox) and unreliably other times (Zune was late and crap, Phone 7 was late and crap - both would have been great if they were released 3-4 years ago). Apple is great at delivering fads, but piss poor in (speaking from my own experience) delivering enterprise hardware/software.
I read in Gartner (yes - I know - its wild speculation that CIO's actually pay money for) that one big risk with Apple is once the visionary is gone the fad cycle will stop.
I say this as someone who really wants an iPad :).
I'm left wing - and I honestly think this is a good example where the Android Market wins again. If you search for gay on Android Market - you'll find gaydar apps, and other things some in the gay community might find offensive, but since the apps are obscure they never make it to the main page.
But mainly because Google really isn't all that subjective when it comes to what is placed on "Android Market" no-one makes a big deal about it and it goes away.
Apple shouldn't make a big deal about these kinds of apps, and let them drift into obscurity - people who like them download them, but they never make any news anywhere. But no - what they have is a situation where every single app that is denied is highlighted in the press repeatedly.
It's funny to read the same people decry Apples appstore censorship appeal to Steve Jobs to remove the app on the basis.
Free Speech hurts doesn't it?
It would be pretty easy actually - monitor people who use a lot of bandwidth and start analyzing their traffic based on that report. Desktop pc's/laptops use more bandwidth because most websites are tailored to deliver richer content to machines with bigger screens more cpu etc.
Anyone who has is sending user agents from desktop browsers is a likely candidate - other kinds of data that could only come from a PC (like video games like WoW or Eve or something like that).
A lot of this depends on the phone though - most of the time on my Droid X the transitions are just as smooth as my friends iPhone 4.
Who says they don't? In 2004 tablet PC's were a 1.2 billion dollar market:
http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/showthread.php?36005-Tablet-PC-Market-To-Exceed-5-Billion-in-2009
Just because they don't have as much Buzz as apple doesn't mean people haven't been secretly buying Tablet machines running XP/Vista/7 since the dawn of the platform in 2004.
Honestly - speaking from real experience here - there's probably more risk from employers requiring people to come to work sick (because you don't have any more sick days left) than writing code while high.
In my own experience - while high - its just hard to concentrate on multiple things - on single things your mind is razor sharp I think. Reading a 400 page book in a single day is not a big problem (remembering any meaning what you read might be).
To be fair - Apple had a year head start.
I think it has to do with the fact that if you aren't dealing with low end systems you don't really need to know anything about math. I have two friends - one who is a developer at sendmail and the other at blizzard (works on sc2) and they both told me they rarely have to use any math at all in there day to day job.
Here's an operator doing a telephone patch to a woman in the US from Haiti when the earthquake occured. Yeah it was a scratchy phone call, but it wasn't until later that cell phones and land lines were even semi-functional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqaKzIkyBug
Hah - thats the catch! S50R5 apps support touch screen, previous versions may require hardware buttons your N97 doesn't have. Symbian fragmentation is far far more nightmarish than Android or iOS.