Apple's user base is pretty large. And there have been multiple malwares created for iOS, for example WireLurker.
Which apparently requires you to download a trojan onto your OSX machine, then plug your iPhone into it. Not exactly quite so easy as auto-installing when you browse a URL with a vulnerable version of Android because your phone carrier won't let you upgrade it.
Walled garden makes no difference, as this apparently exploits old Android bugs to install itself.
The big difference is that Apple continues to support old devices with new versions of the operating system until the hardware becomes too outdated to run it. Android devices are lucky if they get two upgrades before the carrier or manufacturer declares them done.
And, yes, that's one reason I'm expecting to dump Android for Apple when Google stop supporting my Nexus tablet.
Know they're good? After all the heat and stress every part on that booster has endured you don't think there's a chance that it's degraded?
Obviously. And eventually they'll blow up.
But they won't have parts that fail at 20% of their rated load, because they would already have failed. No-one's going to be taking them apart and testing every component before the next flight, only the ones that need testing and/or replacement.
Most likely, launch reliability will peak after several flights, because the rocket stage has proven itself and not degraded to the point where things are likely to fail from wear or use. Rather like pretty much anything else in the engineering world; most failures happen early or late in a device's life.
Oh, and had the oxygen quantity gauge not failed, they would have died. The failed gauge led to them stirring the tank more often, so it blew up before the reached the Moon. In the original mission plan, that oxygen tank stir would have happened while the LEM was on the lunar surface.
So, if anything, Apollo 13 is an argument for less testing, not more.
In today's dollars, a single Saturn V launch was about $20 billion.
Uh, no, it was about $2 billion.
But I've seen estimates of SLS costs of up to $10 billion, depending on flight rate. So I wouldn't be surprised if launching a Saturn V-sized payload on it ends up costing $20 billion this time.
Ah, yes, Standard Oil. The sick bastards who slashed the price of oil and made many of their competitors millionaires in a desperate attempt to buy them all out to monopolize the market.
Can't allow that to happen again. SpaceX must be regulated until its launches cost as much as the competition.
They make most of the parts themselves, so presumably they're already doing at least random testing of those parts. Even if they did test them all, it won't add half a billion dollars to the cost of each launch, nor will they be testing many of them before reusing a stage which worked fine last time.
You have to try really, really, really hard to make your launcher anywhere near as expensive as SLS.
I'm rooting for them for sure, but After learning the hard lessons, and the inevitable expenses to correct them, their costs will increase. dramatically.
Yeah, because verifying that subcontractors built components they way they should will totally add half a billion dollars to the cost of each launch.
Besides which, once they start reusing stages, they'll know they're good because they've already flown once.
Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.
Doesn't change the fact that their search sucks. There's just no clear competitor yet who obviously sucks less.
Just look at something as simple as trying to find a review of a graphics card, as I did a few days ago. Hundreds of retail sites which list the card, just because the page mentions 'review', before I get to an actual honest-to-god review.
This might ignite a firestorm among ICE car vendors.
Why? Several of the latest ICE supercars already seem to incorporate an electric assist for acceleration, and no-one else really cares about a car that can accelerate really fast but takes longer to recharge than the amount of time you can drive on the highway between charges.
Utility of a 2.8 second 0-60 time for most ICE car owners = 0. Utility of being able to drive 500 miles and then 'recharge' in five minutes = lots.
Democrats don't want us to believe in other planets, because, once we move to other planets, they won't be able to prey on us any more. They're desperate to prevent us from escaping their Black Iron Prison.
From what I understand the problem wasn't Sonic Booms over the ocean at FL600, it's the Sonic Booms when you're flying over NYC or Boston at FL100 during takeoff/landing.
You, uh, do, uh, realize the Concorde, uh, didn't fly supersonic at 10,000 feet, right?
Last I looked, at least one major auto manufacturer's web site was entirely Flash. There's no reason for it, since there's a Flash-free version for iPads, but even Android tablets got the Flash version, which didn't work because... no Flash on Android.
To be fair, gedit has been broken ever since some hipster decided it should refuse to load a file if it can't figure out what the character set is. Get one non-plain-ASCII character in your file, and odds are gedit won't load the fscking thing.
Yes, and that "peer-pressure" comes from the users.
Generally, people want the latest and greatest. If it takes one more click to access rarely used menu items (who doesn't use keyboard shortcuts?) to have that excitement of an "upgrade," then so be it.
Yeah, that'll be why Window 8 is so popular.
Most users don't want to have to relearn how to do stuff just because some hipster decided their way was so much better.
1. Your airbag didn't cost $150,000,000. 2. We're not talking about something that will only be used once per flight. We're talking about something that will only ever be used once, because no similar stage will ever fly again. If you must have a car analogy, it's like designing a new car which you'll only make one of, and you'll set it on fire at the end of the first drive.
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Apple's user base is pretty large. And there have been multiple malwares created for iOS, for example WireLurker.
Which apparently requires you to download a trojan onto your OSX machine, then plug your iPhone into it. Not exactly quite so easy as auto-installing when you browse a URL with a vulnerable version of Android because your phone carrier won't let you upgrade it.
What is it with SJWs that makes them imagine they or [insert preferred minority] are the target of hostility.
SJWs always project. They hate everyone, so they believe everyone hates them, too.
Walled garden makes no difference, as this apparently exploits old Android bugs to install itself.
The big difference is that Apple continues to support old devices with new versions of the operating system until the hardware becomes too outdated to run it. Android devices are lucky if they get two upgrades before the carrier or manufacturer declares them done.
And, yes, that's one reason I'm expecting to dump Android for Apple when Google stop supporting my Nexus tablet.
Know they're good? After all the heat and stress every part on that booster has endured you don't think there's a chance that it's degraded?
Obviously. And eventually they'll blow up.
But they won't have parts that fail at 20% of their rated load, because they would already have failed. No-one's going to be taking them apart and testing every component before the next flight, only the ones that need testing and/or replacement.
Most likely, launch reliability will peak after several flights, because the rocket stage has proven itself and not degraded to the point where things are likely to fail from wear or use. Rather like pretty much anything else in the engineering world; most failures happen early or late in a device's life.
Oh, and had the oxygen quantity gauge not failed, they would have died. The failed gauge led to them stirring the tank more often, so it blew up before the reached the Moon. In the original mission plan, that oxygen tank stir would have happened while the LEM was on the lunar surface.
So, if anything, Apollo 13 is an argument for less testing, not more.
Apollo 13 was a near miss also likely due to quality.
No, Apollo 13 happened because of TESTING. Had they not tested the oxygen tank, it would have been fine.
In today's dollars, a single Saturn V launch was about $20 billion.
Uh, no, it was about $2 billion.
But I've seen estimates of SLS costs of up to $10 billion, depending on flight rate. So I wouldn't be surprised if launching a Saturn V-sized payload on it ends up costing $20 billion this time.
Ah, yes, Standard Oil. The sick bastards who slashed the price of oil and made many of their competitors millionaires in a desperate attempt to buy them all out to monopolize the market.
Can't allow that to happen again. SpaceX must be regulated until its launches cost as much as the competition.
Nw expand that to all the parts
They make most of the parts themselves, so presumably they're already doing at least random testing of those parts. Even if they did test them all, it won't add half a billion dollars to the cost of each launch, nor will they be testing many of them before reusing a stage which worked fine last time.
You have to try really, really, really hard to make your launcher anywhere near as expensive as SLS.
I'm rooting for them for sure, but After learning the hard lessons, and the inevitable expenses to correct them, their costs will increase. dramatically.
Yeah, because verifying that subcontractors built components they way they should will totally add half a billion dollars to the cost of each launch.
Besides which, once they start reusing stages, they'll know they're good because they've already flown once.
Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.
Doesn't change the fact that their search sucks. There's just no clear competitor yet who obviously sucks less.
Just look at something as simple as trying to find a review of a graphics card, as I did a few days ago. Hundreds of retail sites which list the card, just because the page mentions 'review', before I get to an actual honest-to-god review.
This might ignite a firestorm among ICE car vendors.
Why? Several of the latest ICE supercars already seem to incorporate an electric assist for acceleration, and no-one else really cares about a car that can accelerate really fast but takes longer to recharge than the amount of time you can drive on the highway between charges.
Utility of a 2.8 second 0-60 time for most ICE car owners = 0.
Utility of being able to drive 500 miles and then 'recharge' in five minutes = lots.
Democrats don't want us to believe in other planets, because, once we move to other planets, they won't be able to prey on us any more. They're desperate to prevent us from escaping their Black Iron Prison.
What this is about is people in the middle without any direct customer relation to Netflix or the end user, wanting Netflix to pay them too.
Which is normal, when two ISPs connect, and one sends far more data than it receives.
Alternatively, the SR-71 Blackbird did it in 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds in 1971 - apparently still the fastest record:
But the SR-71 crew had to wear daipers, while the Concorde passengers ate caviar and drank champagne.
From what I understand the problem wasn't Sonic Booms over the ocean at FL600, it's the Sonic Booms when you're flying over NYC or Boston at FL100 during takeoff/landing.
You, uh, do, uh, realize the Concorde, uh, didn't fly supersonic at 10,000 feet, right?
Last I looked, at least one major auto manufacturer's web site was entirely Flash. There's no reason for it, since there's a Flash-free version for iPads, but even Android tablets got the Flash version, which didn't work because... no Flash on Android.
Putting so much software in cars is not engineering anymore, it's a science experiment and we're the guinea pigs.
No, it's a way to justify increasing the cost of cars when they're otherwise little different from the ones we drove twenty years ago.
To be fair, gedit has been broken ever since some hipster decided it should refuse to load a file if it can't figure out what the character set is. Get one non-plain-ASCII character in your file, and odds are gedit won't load the fscking thing.
Yes, and that "peer-pressure" comes from the users.
Generally, people want the latest and greatest. If it takes one more click to access rarely used menu items (who doesn't use keyboard shortcuts?) to have that excitement of an "upgrade," then so be it.
Yeah, that'll be why Window 8 is so popular.
Most users don't want to have to relearn how to do stuff just because some hipster decided their way was so much better.
Concern troll is concerned.
Tories are right wing
Ha-ha. You're presumably one of those nutters who thinks Stalin was 'right wing'.
Yeah, I hate those damn conservationists.
1. Your airbag didn't cost $150,000,000.
2. We're not talking about something that will only be used once per flight. We're talking about something that will only ever be used once, because no similar stage will ever fly again. If you must have a car analogy, it's like designing a new car which you'll only make one of, and you'll set it on fire at the end of the first drive.
Yes, just like we ended human flight when planes commonly crashed and killed bunches of people.