Every adult has been a child and a teenager first. Most people have done something stupid that's endangered other people's life at some point. Probably didn't realise it at the time. They were just being a stupid kid.
Yes, you too, whether you want to admit it, or even remember it.
So your solution is to lock most people up from their teens to their thirties.
That same approach can be made to curtail the problem. It just requires an equal amount of energy being put into it.
People are well aware that you get a life sentence or death for a murder, and yet there are still plenty of murders each year. Merely publicising the fact there are stiff penalties does not curtail crime.
car going from place to place to change where he used the laser from he probably wouldn't have been caught.
You do realise one of the main uses of police helicopters is to track cars. They're almost inescapable.
What "technical solution" do you see to visible light being shown through a window? And how could you make it commercially viable to every aircraft in the sky? Brainstorm it. If you find something, great, but that's a pretty damned huge problem.
It already exists and is marketed to pilots. Anti-laser glasses. Commercially available lasers are of a limited number of types, each of which emit a very specific wavelength of light. It's not that difficult to produce a composite filter for those particular wavelengths.
Actually, it's what you are saying that isn't true. It's clear you have never been an iOS developer.
I've had apps rejected 3 times. Once it was a crasher bug that the reviewer spotted that I hadn't. (Mea culpa). Once was a wording issue. And one was a button that in a certain edge case should have been disabled and wasn't.
In each case the problem was spelled out clearly. Clearly I had to stop that crash, disable that button in that certain circumstance, and change the wording. Now of clearly they didn't tell me what wording I had to use - that's my job. They just told me what was wrong with the wording I'd originally used.
Apple App Store has 700,000 apps on it. Most of those apps have had several revisions. Each and every revision of those apps has been through the app review process. The examples you've read stories about are a handful. A process gets it right hundreds of thousands of times more often than it gets it wrong doesn't sound broken. Especially when there's opportunities for resubmission and appeal.
It's a store, not a national justice system. How many stores make public their deliberations about what products to stock? The Apple App Store is exceptional in having a published list of reasons for rejection, and an individual reason for rejection given to each developer who's product was rejected.
For sure it's not easy to engage them in an email dialog on the finer points of what's acceptable and what's not on the fringe of the rules. But they are still pretty much the most open and transparent store in the world as regards reasons why they will and will not accept products.*
(* Excluding of course those stores that have no rejection process whatsoever, and will stock anything submitted.)
Your conclusion doesn't match with reality. There has been virtually no malware for iOS. Yet for Windows, which doesn't use the app store model, viruses have been a perennial problem.
Typically the number is in a foreign country. The domestic carrier has a duty to pay the foreign carrier, who then pays the fraudster. The domestic carrier has no right to know the identity of the fraudster. The only way to make progress is to deal with the foreign carrier. They might shut down the premium rate number due to complaints, but they'll tend not to because they are making money from it too. There's almost no chance they'll refund you. There's always the possibility of taking legal action in the foreign country against the carrier. But that's going to be expensive, and there's no guarantee you'll win.
I wonder if any developer has released the same IQ testing app on both iOS and Android. It's be very entertaining to see the stats for each platform. I'm sure we all have our own biased perception of which way that would go!
Yes I think you're right. The iMac was the first to switch to USB as THE standard port. i.e. to remove the legacy ports. That's what made it jump start the USB peripheral business.
Be confident--you never have to check for security updates. After all, your in your new magical garden. It will magically stop all security vulnerabilities. No need to follow any security news.
It's rather amusing that what you meant as sarcasm is actually literally correct. Sysops for enterprise systems need to follow security news and check for security updates. But there is something seriously wrong with a phone platform that would require you do do that. For phones, security improvements should be just rolled up in OS updates, and those should be got on to the users phones in the most trouble free way possible. That's exactly what happens with iOS.
But all that is parallel to the major security protection, which is the single store of vetted apps.
I would never buy a phone that required me to worry about malware. That's one of the reasons I would never buy an Android phone.
You can't have it both ways. You can't cite the multiple stores of Android as an advantage, and then say that it's the user's fault they get viruses when they use these multiple stores.
Not sure if you were trying to prove your point or mine.
I'm not trying to fight any pro or anti-union argument. I was just responding to a couple of inaccuracies in your anti-union argument.
You said "It's amazing how quickly people back down when they don't bring a paycheck home at the end of the day." and thats wrong. Some strikes are long, protracted affairs. There are no general private industry lessons to be learned from the outcome of the UK miner's strike, because it was a nationalised industry, with a government that wanted to crush all unions. A whole different kettle of fish. It's just there to show that strikers don't necessarily go back quickly when they have no wages.
The company managed to start so they have a lot of foundation in place. The hardest thing about starting a company is not training the employees it's building the contracts with suppliers and customers. Assuming you can sort your mess out before they jump ship any productivity issues that last a few weeks will end up being a rounding error on the bottom line.
The company will have grown it's human resources over years, and any particular production line over months. Closing down of production lines will not just be lost productivity over the period of the strike but for a long time afterwards, and will usually result in contracts being broken and lost customers. That is rarely a rounding error on the bottom line.
A strike is a battle. Both sides have strengths and weaknesses. Either side might win or lose. And the most usual result is a compromise.
And because they are unskilled in an economy where people are looking for work you can let them all go and head out to the job market to replace them.
New people still need to be shown how to do the job, even for unskilled roles. And will take a few days to get up to speed. Not a problem when you're replacing one at a time. But if they all go at once, there's no experienced ones to train the new ones. And where you're taking a workforce of thousands, even if management know how to do all the jobs, it's going to take them a long time to get a new workforce trained and up to speed.
It's amazing how quickly people back down when they don't bring a paycheck home at the end of the day.
Android does not have >80% market share. It's something just over 50%. Windows had more than 95% at it's peak. So no, that wasn't the point of similarity. The point of similarity is it's a Typhoid Mary platform.
iOS isn't prone to malware and it's because of it's walled garden and app sandboxes, not because of marketshare.
No, it's not. Do you even know how interrupts work? Apparently you don't!
Very well. Unlike you I have coded IRQ service routines. I've also coded for multicore systems that don't even have IRQs for that matter, so I've got the full range. Once again you're showing you don't know what you are talking about. You don't know how threads are implemented.
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Every adult has been a child and a teenager first. Most people have done something stupid that's endangered other people's life at some point. Probably didn't realise it at the time. They were just being a stupid kid.
Yes, you too, whether you want to admit it, or even remember it.
So your solution is to lock most people up from their teens to their thirties.
That same approach can be made to curtail the problem. It just requires an equal amount of energy being put into it.
People are well aware that you get a life sentence or death for a murder, and yet there are still plenty of murders each year. Merely publicising the fact there are stiff penalties does not curtail crime.
car going from place to place to change where he used the laser from he probably wouldn't have been caught.
You do realise one of the main uses of police helicopters is to track cars. They're almost inescapable.
What "technical solution" do you see to visible light being shown through a window? And how could you make it commercially viable to every aircraft in the sky? Brainstorm it. If you find something, great, but that's a pretty damned huge problem.
It already exists and is marketed to pilots. Anti-laser glasses. Commercially available lasers are of a limited number of types, each of which emit a very specific wavelength of light. It's not that difficult to produce a composite filter for those particular wavelengths.
http://www.honeywellsafety.com/Pages/Article3Column.aspx?id=40266&LangType=1033
You're projecting your own dishonesty about your politics. I knew all along you were a Tory.
Nope, but you're Labour.
Clearly you missed the fact that that was already ruled out.
Shame they don't apply an IQ test for /. posters.
Sounds like you weren't good enough. For Via Negativa and Apple.
Actually, it's what you are saying that isn't true. It's clear you have never been an iOS developer.
I've had apps rejected 3 times. Once it was a crasher bug that the reviewer spotted that I hadn't. (Mea culpa). Once was a wording issue. And one was a button that in a certain edge case should have been disabled and wasn't.
In each case the problem was spelled out clearly. Clearly I had to stop that crash, disable that button in that certain circumstance, and change the wording. Now of clearly they didn't tell me what wording I had to use - that's my job. They just told me what was wrong with the wording I'd originally used.
Apple App Store has 700,000 apps on it. Most of those apps have had several revisions. Each and every revision of those apps has been through the app review process. The examples you've read stories about are a handful. A process gets it right hundreds of thousands of times more often than it gets it wrong doesn't sound broken. Especially when there's opportunities for resubmission and appeal.
It's a store, not a national justice system. How many stores make public their deliberations about what products to stock? The Apple App Store is exceptional in having a published list of reasons for rejection, and an individual reason for rejection given to each developer who's product was rejected.
For sure it's not easy to engage them in an email dialog on the finer points of what's acceptable and what's not on the fringe of the rules. But they are still pretty much the most open and transparent store in the world as regards reasons why they will and will not accept products.*
(* Excluding of course those stores that have no rejection process whatsoever, and will stock anything submitted.)
When criminals break in, do they come in through the locked door, or through the wall?
Answer: Almost always they smash down or pick the lock of the door.
Conclusion, the wall is safer than the door.
Your conclusion doesn't match with reality. There has been virtually no malware for iOS. Yet for Windows, which doesn't use the app store model, viruses have been a perennial problem.
Typically the number is in a foreign country. The domestic carrier has a duty to pay the foreign carrier, who then pays the fraudster. The domestic carrier has no right to know the identity of the fraudster. The only way to make progress is to deal with the foreign carrier. They might shut down the premium rate number due to complaints, but they'll tend not to because they are making money from it too. There's almost no chance they'll refund you. There's always the possibility of taking legal action in the foreign country against the carrier. But that's going to be expensive, and there's no guarantee you'll win.
Messy, isn't it.
I wonder if any developer has released the same IQ testing app on both iOS and Android. It's be very entertaining to see the stats for each platform. I'm sure we all have our own biased perception of which way that would go!
Hmm... IDC market share stats are improving. As a one time Symbian engineer, I've followed mobile market share for over a decade, and found Canalys to be much more reliable than IDC. But this time the stats are very, very similar.
http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/stellar-growth-sees-china-take-27-global-smart-phone-shipments-powered-domestic-vendors
Yes I think you're right. The iMac was the first to switch to USB as THE standard port. i.e. to remove the legacy ports. That's what made it jump start the USB peripheral business.
Be confident--you never have to check for security updates. After all, your in your new magical garden. It will magically stop all security vulnerabilities. No need to follow any security news.
It's rather amusing that what you meant as sarcasm is actually literally correct. Sysops for enterprise systems need to follow security news and check for security updates. But there is something seriously wrong with a phone platform that would require you do do that. For phones, security improvements should be just rolled up in OS updates, and those should be got on to the users phones in the most trouble free way possible. That's exactly what happens with iOS.
But all that is parallel to the major security protection, which is the single store of vetted apps.
I would never buy a phone that required me to worry about malware. That's one of the reasons I would never buy an Android phone.
Are you a Tory?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3166585&cid=41567091
You can't have it both ways. You can't cite the multiple stores of Android as an advantage, and then say that it's the user's fault they get viruses when they use these multiple stores.
Not sure if you were trying to prove your point or mine.
I'm not trying to fight any pro or anti-union argument. I was just responding to a couple of inaccuracies in your anti-union argument.
You said "It's amazing how quickly people back down when they don't bring a paycheck home at the end of the day." and thats wrong. Some strikes are long, protracted affairs. There are no general private industry lessons to be learned from the outcome of the UK miner's strike, because it was a nationalised industry, with a government that wanted to crush all unions. A whole different kettle of fish. It's just there to show that strikers don't necessarily go back quickly when they have no wages.
The company managed to start so they have a lot of foundation in place. The hardest thing about starting a company is not training the employees it's building the contracts with suppliers and customers. Assuming you can sort your mess out before they jump ship any productivity issues that last a few weeks will end up being a rounding error on the bottom line.
The company will have grown it's human resources over years, and any particular production line over months. Closing down of production lines will not just be lost productivity over the period of the strike but for a long time afterwards, and will usually result in contracts being broken and lost customers. That is rarely a rounding error on the bottom line.
A strike is a battle. Both sides have strengths and weaknesses. Either side might win or lose. And the most usual result is a compromise.
And because they are unskilled in an economy where people are looking for work you can let them all go and head out to the job market to replace them.
New people still need to be shown how to do the job, even for unskilled roles. And will take a few days to get up to speed. Not a problem when you're replacing one at a time. But if they all go at once, there's no experienced ones to train the new ones. And where you're taking a workforce of thousands, even if management know how to do all the jobs, it's going to take them a long time to get a new workforce trained and up to speed.
It's amazing how quickly people back down when they don't bring a paycheck home at the end of the day.
The UK miner's strike lasted a year.
There's certainly less crime if you live in a decent neighbourhood, with police who can take action against the occasional wrong-doing.
Android is living in a ghetto.
Android does not have >80% market share. It's something just over 50%. Windows had more than 95% at it's peak. So no, that wasn't the point of similarity. The point of similarity is it's a Typhoid Mary platform.
iOS isn't prone to malware and it's because of it's walled garden and app sandboxes, not because of marketshare.
"When a victim requests an application from a fake market"
Guess *you* didn't read it.
No, it's not. Do you even know how interrupts work? Apparently you don't!
Very well. Unlike you I have coded IRQ service routines. I've also coded for multicore systems that don't even have IRQs for that matter, so I've got the full range.
Once again you're showing you don't know what you are talking about. You don't know how threads are implemented.
A platform with lots of viruses. How quaint. Android truly is the Windows PC of mobile phones. The answer is a single walled garden.