did any of you read the article?
"No word on when the debit card version will reach US shores."
It's talking about the London version, and certain versions available in France and Germany, not every version ever made, nor the original.
Just... wow.
It's not up to applications to protect people, it's up to people themselves. If one is too stupid to take care of their personal data, it is, after all, their own fault. Especially when they go selling it to someone else...
I beleive you're wrong. You see, currently, there exists virtually no spyware/malware for the Linux world, so for now it is not an issue. If Linux does, however become more popular, I'm sure the number will rise.
I think you've missed how spyware/malware spread themselves, user stupidity. So, in theory, on a Linux system, you would need root privalege to install such an item system wide. The problem here is that if Joe Sixpack begins using Linux, he is also his own system admin, and has root access. So I pose the question: Would Joe stop to think for even a moment if there was some 'cool' program he wanted to try out, but it was loaded with spyware?
I'd tend to think he would not in fact stop to think, because this is how most adware/spyware/whateverware end up on Windows machines in the first place, people make stupid decisions. For instance, in my case, back in my Windows days, I simply did not install things with spyware and did not stupidly click on random popups, and thus I had a very clean and well running Windows system.
decided they killed the pace of the movie before it even got started hahaha... what pace..the damn thing is 3.5 hours long...another 10 minutes of drag would barely be noticed and yes, my friends have forced me to sit through all three regular editions..at once..that was like 10 hours of lotr
With the advent of all-in-one devices, I think the naming scheme is slowly going a little off whack. This device is called a "phone"...yet it seems like an mp3 player or gaming platform AND a phone. So is it right to be calling it a "phone" anymore? The industry needs some new names for all the new stuff they're coming up with... any suggestions?
Where do they plan on finding super-high bandwidth connections for home users?
For me at least, it is and would remain much faster to to spend five minutes walking the two blocks to the video rental shop and just get one there, rather than waiting a couple hours for the movie to download.
This article brings to mind a sort of question that has been bugging me for quite a while. My biology teacher explained that, in the US, Calorie (capital C) is actually a kilo-calorie, while a calorie (little c) is just one calorie. Now what happens if I want to use calorie (reffering to just one..not 1000) at the beginning of a sentence?
Do I capitalize it?..no..that would make it 1000 calories.
Do I leave it uncapitalized? No..that would break grammar rules..
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did any of you read the article? "No word on when the debit card version will reach US shores." It's talking about the London version, and certain versions available in France and Germany, not every version ever made, nor the original. Just... wow.
It's not up to applications to protect people, it's up to people themselves. If one is too stupid to take care of their personal data, it is, after all, their own fault. Especially when they go selling it to someone else...
I beleive you're wrong. You see, currently, there exists virtually no spyware/malware for the Linux world, so for now it is not an issue. If Linux does, however become more popular, I'm sure the number will rise.
I think you've missed how spyware/malware spread themselves, user stupidity. So, in theory, on a Linux system, you would need root privalege to install such an item system wide. The problem here is that if Joe Sixpack begins using Linux, he is also his own system admin, and has root access.
So I pose the question: Would Joe stop to think for even a moment if there was some 'cool' program he wanted to try out, but it was loaded with spyware?
I'd tend to think he would not in fact stop to think, because this is how most adware/spyware/whateverware end up on Windows machines in the first place, people make stupid decisions. For instance, in my case, back in my Windows days, I simply did not install things with spyware and did not stupidly click on random popups, and thus I had a very clean and well running Windows system.
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decided they killed the pace of the movie before it even got started
hahaha... what pace..the damn thing is 3.5 hours long...another 10 minutes of drag would barely be noticed
and yes, my friends have forced me to sit through all three regular editions..at once..that was like 10 hours of lotr
With the advent of all-in-one devices, I think the naming scheme is slowly going a little off whack. This device is called a "phone" ...yet it seems like an mp3 player or gaming platform AND a phone. So is it right to be calling it a "phone" anymore?
The industry needs some new names for all the new stuff they're coming up with... any suggestions?
Where do they plan on finding super-high bandwidth connections for home users? For me at least, it is and would remain much faster to to spend five minutes walking the two blocks to the video rental shop and just get one there, rather than waiting a couple hours for the movie to download.
This article brings to mind a sort of question that has been bugging me for quite a while. My biology teacher explained that, in the US, Calorie (capital C) is actually a kilo-calorie, while a calorie (little c) is just one calorie. Now what happens if I want to use calorie (reffering to just one..not 1000) at the beginning of a sentence?
Do I capitalize it?..no..that would make it 1000 calories.
Do I leave it uncapitalized? No..that would break grammar rules..
It just doesnt make any sense!