Next you'll tell me that Macs have so few viruses because they are super secure, and not because they are so greatly outnumbered by Windows machines...
This again? Ca. 70% of the web is driven on Linux boxes. Where's all the Linux malware?!?
The only effective solution I've seen for this is LBE Privacy Guard. Cyanogenmod [grudgingly] added a similar feature, but it causes apps to crash...
Feature. I fail to see anything negative in that sort of behaviour. Bad apps should crash. It may be a bit distracting when surfing pr0n, but at least your device isn't getting rooted.
I hope the programmers among us actually read some of this study before chiming in based on it's veracity...
Not to worry. At least for some of us, "Unauthorized iOS Apps Leak Private Data Less" is pretty much like saying "the Sun's going to rise, yet again." [Ditto Android apps, btw. That is what Google does, after all.] How much less? "Don't be evil" less? "Ah, just roll the damned dice, ffs!"
Of course, this's all about proprietary software. *Of course* it's going to leak private data! It is the 21st Century, you know.
Magazines, radio stations, and TV stations have collected demographic information on their consumers since these media came around.
No, they've tried to. "Send us email, go to our Facebook page, watch our twitter feed,..."
Now, they're distributing malware that sends your personal information back to the mother ship without your knowledge of it going, and it's being processed and parsed into an rdb that's cross-referenced with other rdbs,...
You people are fools for putting up with this crap, especially if it's just to get a *free game*. Holy !@#$.
If the users disrupt the data stream with 'dummy' data, the ad providers don't know how well they're targeting the ads, and the value to the ad purchasers diminishes.
Yeah? Well !@#$ 'em. !@#$ you too for drinking the Koolaid. I do not surf the web in order to be presented with advertisements. I do it to communicate with like minds. Thank $deity for AdBlockPlus!!!111
I enjoyed the web before it was taken over by advertisers. I go waaaaayy out of my way to ignore their existence these days, and I resent having to expend the effort. Now, we have "advertisers" distributing malware as free software that compromises personal information. Holy !@#$ing yay, NOT!
YMMV, and if so, to hell with you (since you're one of *them*).
I hate Apple as much as the next non-fanboy but I don't expect the official Android app store to be much better.
Both iPhone and Android users *ought* to be jailbreaking their devices, as a matter of course. This story proves it. Apps DLed from any "store" shouldn't be trusted out of the box to run as system services; IT 101. 20% are borderline malicious?!? Eeeew!
I trust Debian to not !@#$ me up the *&^. Google and Apple, not so much. They both have agendas/ulterior motives of their own which don't consider our interests are of much need of their consideration.
This is just CPU ID all over again. It takes control over a user's privacy away from the user.
Yes. These are "free" apps. Not News: corporations aren't the only predatory entities out there. There's still individuals mugging and raping people all on their own.
Windows has viruses and trojans, iBaubles do the same thing in different ways 20% of the time. Who knew?!?:-O
Tell your friends: free is not necessarily equal to benign. Even FLOSS advocates learned that a long time ago. You go with your distro's software repository, not just random tarballs you stumble across and hope for the best.
Apparently, that's not necessarily the case outside of FLOSS.
And you think they 'loaned' us trillions of dollars because... ?
They wanted you to get your asses kicked in Iraq and Afghanistan, not theirs. They're not that smart. Bad gamblers, and they don't understand that the US uses wars to test out its new weaponry.
... there is always somebody who will suggest it's some kind of reverse psychology and still an example of superior Western sophistication.
I believe you're overreacting a bit. Perhaps they will, and they'll be wrong. I don't think I've heard anyone around here lately suggesting "Western sophistication" has existed for quite some time, certainly not of the "superior" variety. Western based business (well, North American based, anyway) is dominated by nanosecond long attention span imbeciles these days.
Cf. the story we're commenting on. Doofuses, or an inside/collusion job?
I believe Nortel execs are still in court trying to save their butts.
Because unlike China and Mexico its possible to run a secure plant in the USA.
I think it would be possible to run a secure plant in China, Mexico, and even Canada. However, since the reason you're over there is to have access to dirt cheap labour, minimal overhead, and access to a billion+ potential consumers, operating a secure plant is considered an unnecessary expense.
Harper government also previously called anyone who was opposed to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline an "enemy of the government of Canada" and an "enemy of the people of Canada".
So, in one day, I'm now considered to be facilitating child pornography, in cahoots with organized crime, and am a traitor. Monday's not going well for me this week.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the law will give the tools to police to adequately deal with 21st-century technology, and said anyone opposing the laws favours "the rights of child pornographers and organized crime ahead of the rights of law abiding citizens."
Do we no longer have laws concerning slander and libel? My Public Safety Minister just slandered me. I doubt I would be alone in thinking this, so a class action suit is in order.
He just said out loud that I, and others like me, are facilitating child pornography and are in cahoots with organized crime?!? Holy !@#$. By extension, he just accused Michael Geist of the same thing, merely for opposing this!
WHY would you need three in the corner of each classroom? To have three students working on that instead of listening to the teacher?
I'm always shocked to hear about deployments like this. Three PCs == three students using them?!?
Back in the '70s, I was working for a geophysical data processing outfit. We had about fifteen teams of three or four people each. Every one of them had a vt100 on their desk, all hooked into a couple of VAXes. Fast forward to ca. '96. I was working with a nuclear waste management outfit. Thousands of programmers and scientists, many with an X terminal on their desk, others with their own workstation, all hooked back to a cluster of VAXes.
Three PCs == three students using them?!? What monumental waste! You've got to be trying to be taken advantage of to fall for that pathetic deployment. Cf. Userful.
So if I want to watch, it is tax free. If I don't want it, or don't watch at all, it is taxed. Huh?
You're trying to make sense of a nonsensical situation. You should take Mark Twain's advice at times like that: "Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the urge goes away."
I like to imagine Mark Twain and Richard Feynman in a sitting room together shooting the !@#$.
Unfortunately, can-con rules are insane. We have Canadian artists producing works that aren't considered "Canadian enough" to fit because they were produced in conjunction with USA-ians. Holy !@#$ing nanny-state overreach!
BTW, how many of you knew that William Shatner played a central character in "Judgement at Nuremburg"? He did a damned good job, too. I nearly fell off my chair when I saw it.
I'm trying to promote the idea that the very existence of the CRTC is unconstitutional.
First, you'll have to prove that the concept "unconstitutional" actually exists in Canada. I'm not sure that's the case. Either the feds have jurisdiction, or the provinces have jurisdiction, or something has jurisdiction. The idea that, "No, that's not allowed", is a fiction here.
Agreed, I misread him and replied in a kneejerk reaction.
Still, other employers do think this way, are backed up by laws and lawyers, and a 9 to 5 employee ends up treated like indentured servitude. It ain't right. From 5:01 to 08:59, the employer should have neither say nor claim on said employee nor his works. The law's an ass.
The issue with the patent system is not with the system itself. The issue is with timing, and uniformity.
I appreciate the effort you took to explain your position and point of view, however it comes across as equivocating. As in, we've already determined someone's a whore, and now we're just haggling over the price (no offence to whores intended, btw).
Further, you (and many) seem to speak of the free market as a goal and not a means. The Free Market is not a religion. It's a good idea. Under certain conditions, it's a perfect solution. But in the real, limited world, it's an option. It's a widely-used option that works in many areas of society, but not all.
There you go again. Either the market's free, or it's not free. Yes, it's binary. Either you believe in the invisible hand, and that supply and demand *should* determine worth, and that buyers and sellers are equals, or you don't. Either you believe in truth in marketing, or you want to fiddle with the market's guts until it works the way you want it to. Nuh, uh! I'll stick with my original point:
There's that, and then there's the bit that the whole patent system is a gov't granted monopoly hack intended to skew the workings of the free market. In programmer terms, it's as bad as a goto. There are lots of ways to do what that intends to do without doing it in such an ugly way.
And, I wonder when the tsunami of refugees pouring across the 49th parallel into Canada, and the Rio Grande into Mexico, is going to start. Good luck containing that, DHS.
Why would they want to contain it? Those people would be leaving the sink^H^H^H^Hcountry, wouldn't they?
THEY'D BE TAKING THEIR CDs, DVDs, AND BLUERAYS WITH THEM! USA IP would be leaving Hollyweird's sphere of influence. ICE would have no control over it! The horror! *Napster, redux!!!111* Canadians or Mexicans deciding whether Megaupload's legal or not! Aiieeee!
Well politicians and corporations LOVE globalization. So if a corporation can go and outsource, or buy things in a different country, then why should it be ok for consumers to be limited by borders?
ACK, ACK, and ACK![*] Most people think we're long past the Age of Enlightenment. I think we're still in the thick of it, and that war's still yet to be won. It's not at all a sure thing that we will win.
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Next you'll tell me that Macs have so few viruses because they are super secure, and not because they are so greatly outnumbered by Windows machines...
This again? Ca. 70% of the web is driven on Linux boxes. Where's all the Linux malware?!?
The only effective solution I've seen for this is LBE Privacy Guard. Cyanogenmod [grudgingly] added a similar feature, but it causes apps to crash ...
Feature. I fail to see anything negative in that sort of behaviour. Bad apps should crash. It may be a bit distracting when surfing pr0n, but at least your device isn't getting rooted.
I hope the programmers among us actually read some of this study before chiming in based on it's veracity...
Not to worry. At least for some of us, "Unauthorized iOS Apps Leak Private Data Less" is pretty much like saying "the Sun's going to rise, yet again." [Ditto Android apps, btw. That is what Google does, after all.] How much less? "Don't be evil" less? "Ah, just roll the damned dice, ffs!"
Of course, this's all about proprietary software. *Of course* it's going to leak private data! It is the 21st Century, you know.
Magazines, radio stations, and TV stations have collected demographic information on their consumers since these media came around.
No, they've tried to. "Send us email, go to our Facebook page, watch our twitter feed, ..."
Now, they're distributing malware that sends your personal information back to the mother ship without your knowledge of it going, and it's being processed and parsed into an rdb that's cross-referenced with other rdbs, ...
You people are fools for putting up with this crap, especially if it's just to get a *free game*. Holy !@#$.
If the users disrupt the data stream with 'dummy' data, the ad providers don't know how well they're targeting the ads, and the value to the ad purchasers diminishes.
Yeah? Well !@#$ 'em. !@#$ you too for drinking the Koolaid. I do not surf the web in order to be presented with advertisements. I do it to communicate with like minds. Thank $deity for AdBlockPlus!!!111
I enjoyed the web before it was taken over by advertisers. I go waaaaayy out of my way to ignore their existence these days, and I resent having to expend the effort. Now, we have "advertisers" distributing malware as free software that compromises personal information. Holy !@#$ing yay, NOT!
YMMV, and if so, to hell with you (since you're one of *them*).
I hate Apple as much as the next non-fanboy but I don't expect the official Android app store to be much better.
Both iPhone and Android users *ought* to be jailbreaking their devices, as a matter of course. This story proves it. Apps DLed from any "store" shouldn't be trusted out of the box to run as system services; IT 101. 20% are borderline malicious?!? Eeeew!
I trust Debian to not !@#$ me up the *&^. Google and Apple, not so much. They both have agendas/ulterior motives of their own which don't consider our interests are of much need of their consideration.
Caveat emptor, FFS.
no, in other words, iphones are gay.
Stop bad mouthing lesbians, you faggot.
This is just CPU ID all over again. It takes control over a user's privacy away from the user.
Yes. These are "free" apps. Not News: corporations aren't the only predatory entities out there. There's still individuals mugging and raping people all on their own.
Windows has viruses and trojans, iBaubles do the same thing in different ways 20% of the time. Who knew?!? :-O
Tell your friends: free is not necessarily equal to benign. Even FLOSS advocates learned that a long time ago. You go with your distro's software repository, not just random tarballs you stumble across and hope for the best.
Apparently, that's not necessarily the case outside of FLOSS.
And you think they 'loaned' us trillions of dollars because... ?
They wanted you to get your asses kicked in Iraq and Afghanistan, not theirs. They're not that smart. Bad gamblers, and they don't understand that the US uses wars to test out its new weaponry.
... there is always somebody who will suggest it's some kind of reverse psychology and still an example of superior Western sophistication.
I believe you're overreacting a bit. Perhaps they will, and they'll be wrong. I don't think I've heard anyone around here lately suggesting "Western sophistication" has existed for quite some time, certainly not of the "superior" variety. Western based business (well, North American based, anyway) is dominated by nanosecond long attention span imbeciles these days.
Cf. the story we're commenting on. Doofuses, or an inside/collusion job?
I believe Nortel execs are still in court trying to save their butts.
Because unlike China and Mexico its possible to run a secure plant in the USA.
I think it would be possible to run a secure plant in China, Mexico, and even Canada. However, since the reason you're over there is to have access to dirt cheap labour, minimal overhead, and access to a billion+ potential consumers, operating a secure plant is considered an unnecessary expense.
Harper government also previously called anyone who was opposed to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline an "enemy of the government of Canada" and an "enemy of the people of Canada".
So, in one day, I'm now considered to be facilitating child pornography, in cahoots with organized crime, and am a traitor. Monday's not going well for me this week.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the law will give the tools to police to adequately deal with 21st-century technology, and said anyone opposing the laws favours "the rights of child pornographers and organized crime ahead of the rights of law abiding citizens."
Do we no longer have laws concerning slander and libel? My Public Safety Minister just slandered me. I doubt I would be alone in thinking this, so a class action suit is in order.
He just said out loud that I, and others like me, are facilitating child pornography and are in cahoots with organized crime?!? Holy !@#$. By extension, he just accused Michael Geist of the same thing, merely for opposing this!
WTF?!?
WHY would you need three in the corner of each classroom? To have three students working on that instead of listening to the teacher?
I'm always shocked to hear about deployments like this. Three PCs == three students using them?!?
Back in the '70s, I was working for a geophysical data processing outfit. We had about fifteen teams of three or four people each. Every one of them had a vt100 on their desk, all hooked into a couple of VAXes. Fast forward to ca. '96. I was working with a nuclear waste management outfit. Thousands of programmers and scientists, many with an X terminal on their desk, others with their own workstation, all hooked back to a cluster of VAXes.
Three PCs == three students using them?!? What monumental waste! You've got to be trying to be taken advantage of to fall for that pathetic deployment. Cf. Userful.
You leave Gordon Pinsent the fuck alone, he's a Canadian icon. The Supreme Newfoundlander. The Codfather.
Fuck that. He's Benton Fraser's dad!
So if I want to watch, it is tax free. If I don't want it, or don't watch at all, it is taxed. Huh?
You're trying to make sense of a nonsensical situation. You should take Mark Twain's advice at times like that: "Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lie down until the urge goes away."
I like to imagine Mark Twain and Richard Feynman in a sitting room together shooting the !@#$.
Someone needs to explain to them that an ISP is just a "communication medium"
I prefer to think of them as a medium through which we foment revolution, but that may just be wishful thinking on my part.
Unfortunately, can-con rules are insane. We have Canadian artists producing works that aren't considered "Canadian enough" to fit because they were produced in conjunction with USA-ians. Holy !@#$ing nanny-state overreach!
BTW, how many of you knew that William Shatner played a central character in "Judgement at Nuremburg"? He did a damned good job, too. I nearly fell off my chair when I saw it.
... our culture definitely needs protection because of our geographic position.
I take it you're fully in favour of Quebec's language laws?
If your "culture" needs to be protected via gov't fiat, what's that say about your population's view of your culture?
I'm trying to promote the idea that the very existence of the CRTC is unconstitutional.
First, you'll have to prove that the concept "unconstitutional" actually exists in Canada. I'm not sure that's the case. Either the feds have jurisdiction, or the provinces have jurisdiction, or something has jurisdiction. The idea that, "No, that's not allowed", is a fiction here.
Agreed, I misread him and replied in a kneejerk reaction.
Still, other employers do think this way, are backed up by laws and lawyers, and a 9 to 5 employee ends up treated like indentured servitude. It ain't right. From 5:01 to 08:59, the employer should have neither say nor claim on said employee nor his works. The law's an ass.
The issue with the patent system is not with the system itself. The issue is with timing, and uniformity.
I appreciate the effort you took to explain your position and point of view, however it comes across as equivocating. As in, we've already determined someone's a whore, and now we're just haggling over the price (no offence to whores intended, btw).
Further, you (and many) seem to speak of the free market as a goal and not a means. The Free Market is not a religion. It's a good idea. Under certain conditions, it's a perfect solution. But in the real, limited world, it's an option. It's a widely-used option that works in many areas of society, but not all.
There you go again. Either the market's free, or it's not free. Yes, it's binary. Either you believe in the invisible hand, and that supply and demand *should* determine worth, and that buyers and sellers are equals, or you don't. Either you believe in truth in marketing, or you want to fiddle with the market's guts until it works the way you want it to. Nuh, uh! I'll stick with my original point:
There's that, and then there's the bit that the whole patent system is a gov't granted monopoly hack intended to skew the workings of the free market. In programmer terms, it's as bad as a goto. There are lots of ways to do what that intends to do without doing it in such an ugly way.
And, I wonder when the tsunami of refugees pouring across the 49th parallel into Canada, and the Rio Grande into Mexico, is going to start. Good luck containing that, DHS.
Why would they want to contain it? Those people would be leaving the sink^H^H^H^Hcountry, wouldn't they?
THEY'D BE TAKING THEIR CDs, DVDs, AND BLUERAYS WITH THEM! USA IP would be leaving Hollyweird's sphere of influence. ICE would have no control over it! The horror! *Napster, redux!!!111* Canadians or Mexicans deciding whether Megaupload's legal or not! Aiieeee!
Well politicians and corporations LOVE globalization. So if a corporation can go and outsource, or buy things in a different country, then why should it be ok for consumers to be limited by borders?
ACK, ACK, and ACK![*] Most people think we're long past the Age of Enlightenment. I think we're still in the thick of it, and that war's still yet to be won. It's not at all a sure thing that we will win.
[*] Not to be confused with "Mars Attacks!"
Fox in Canada? You did your countrymen an incredible dis-service. :/
If we didn't have Fox in Canada, how the hell would we make any sense of the Daily Show?
"Newt Gingrich? Mitt Romney? Are those some kind of Middle-Eastern sandwiches, or what?"