there are not viruses on android, so drop your scary "infected" verbiage. there is malware, but those articles you read are simply classifying things as malware because they request permissions they don't need - like a flashlight app requesting access to the internet.
oh, but on iOS, such malware doesn't exist right? can "researchers" scan the apple store and determine which apps request internet access? they can't, and that's why you see concentration on android. hiding the fact that something is malware doesn't make it not exist.
don't get your panties in a bunch because Avast's marketing posted an ad here.
you don't need a security app on android, because the security app itself doesn't have permissions to do anything useful. that's a good thing, because it means malicious apps don't have permissions to do anything malicious either.
they can't monitor network connections / traffic. they can't interfere with the browser in any way. they can't see what other apps are doing inside their sandbox. they can't read memory outside of their sandbox.
sigh... how the heck did this ad for Avast get modded up?
on a non-rooted device, any Android anti-virus / security app is pointless as it doesn't have permissions to do anything useful. and that's good, because if the security app has permissions to do something, then other apps would have permission to do something malicious. rooting your device for this reason is like leaving your home's door unlocked so the police can get in to save you when the bad guys come through your unlocked door.
it'd be really frightening if there was a company that held all of your medical records. oh wait. if you are going to be scared about what a company might do with your information, there are lots of places to point your finger.
My email providers don't. They don't because I pay them a small fee for the service.
interesting theory. can you provide documentation to back that up?
my conclusion after working for a few large companies is that anyone that has access to your data is harvesting it. that includes ISPs including your wireless carrier and ISP, makers of the applications you use, hosters of the websites you access. they don't always know what to do with it, but they are harvesting it or at least have the mechanisms in place to do so.
I don't want anyone targeting ads at me; it's just kind of annoying. For every "good ad" I have enjoyed, there has to be years of ads I've consumed that I've cared less.
and you think that's going to get better without targeted ads? interesting theory.
Why do I have to be annoyed with a shitstorm of advertisements of things I don't want and don't have money to buy?
you never eat out? you never drink coffee or soda or buy groceries or clothing? let me guess. you are one of those people that is too smart to be influenced by advertising right?
What the grown ups are talking about is Google's need to scan your email to create targeted ads.
if i'm going to see an ad, it might as well be targeted. who cares?
if the problem is your conspiracy theory that google is going to sell your email to the FBI, let me put that to rest for you. first, they have no incentive to do that. second, the FBI couldn't pay them enough. third, there are 370 some odd million people in this country, if you think anyone cares about your life enough to pay a detective to investigate you, you have a serious problem estimating your importance in the universe.
Maybe some credit agency will pay them $100 per user account to see all your e-mails.
and MAYBE they will start going out at night to users' home and wrecking them up.
but seriously, you know why that would never, ever happen? all google has is it's user base. that's the pile of f****** diamonds they are sitting on. they will never do anything to obvious to drive away users... especially not for a one-time payout.
that's the thing. you have to apply a little common sense in your life. it makes your decisions much easier.
Instead, they could have done as Amazon did, and skin Android to their liking.
skinning android puts them in competition with sony, samsung, amazon, asus, acer, HTC, and every other android device maker out there. that means they are now competing on price / latest whiz-bang feature only, a market in which they have absolutely no chance.
every mobile device manufacturer wants to be apple. apple doesn't compete on price or even features. they compete on advertising. they charge more and offer less. this is where blackberry wants to be. honestly, it's the best shot they have. try to be the "darling device for the enterprise". try to be the alternative to folks who dislike ios or android, for whatever reason.
amazon had (moderate) success with their tablets because they sold them at a loss. the only reason they were able to do that is because of the future sales of amazon content from the devices. BB doesn't have a content / media network.
That gets you part of the way there but the Internet Service Providers up here (at least the sh*thole known as Telus) reserve the right to install software on your devices. Can't get out of that without pulling the plug.
how are they installing software on your device if you are buying unlocked devices from non-carrier sources?
Does another patch change the fact that Java runs slower than new programming languages like Nimrod [nimrod-code.org], which let developers accomplish the same tasks in far less code?
there's a new latest greatest language every 6 months. customers don't like to re-write their platforms every 6 months when language X goes out of favor and they can't hire people to maintain their code or get updates for the runtime / tools.
do you think it's possible that nimrod also has security flaws, but they haven't been exposed... consider the usage of java vs. nimrod and therefore the interest of hackers in finding the security flaws?
Yeah, like Orrible's (and specifically the Java section) going to lift a finger to help Microsoft after the whole J++ fiasco
1. that was not oracle, it was sun microsystem. 2. it was 10 years ago. you think any of the same people are around, and have the same motivations? 2. it wasn't a fiasco, it made sun $700 million. they were pretty happy about it.
I am constantly amazed that there are so many services that build upon Google, Apple or Facebook web authentication systems. It's just plain stupid for anyone to do that unless they are Google, Apple or Facebook as those services can eliminate your access to your customers ANY TIME they choose without you having any say in the matter.
it's a question of having a chance at something or having no chance at all. if your idea / product requires a social graph, you are pretty must SOL if you don't incorporate facebook.
If I see a service that REQUIRES a Facebook account, I will not use it whether it is free, paid or otherwise. And I am far from alone. Any developer that forces FB authentication in their apps or services is likely giving up at least 1/3rd of potential customer/users.
so basically, your argument is that the law has to prove that you have assembled the ones and zeros into the illegal copy for it to be a crime? that's not what matters. when you SENT me bit N, you told me that it's bit N of The Latest, Greatest Movie. whatever you send must have included that meta data, or the one or zero is useless to me. you didn't assemble the file, you just transmitted the description of how to assemble the file.
by that logic, why don't you just encrypt the file and send with it the encryption key. no problem right? what you transmitted was just scrambled bits, not an illegal copy of a movie. never mind you transmitted the key to descramble the bits. good luck with that.
Not true. Any encryption applied, obscures the message (every one and zero).
encryption has nothing to do with it. obviously it's only encrypted in transit. it has to be decrypted at every client otherwise it's garbage. you now how torrent pirates get caught? the MPAA (or their agents) connect to well known torrents of their movies. they record the IPs that send them data. the only thing encryption might do is make it harder for say an ISP to bust you by watching the packets go through their network.
the 1's and 0's aren't anonymous, only the ultimate source of the 1's and 0's. every one or zero sent to you through a torrent must still have the information describing in which part of which file it it belongs.
You write this crap and you get modded "insightful"? Jesus wept! How is money earned here, spent here and taxed here different depending on the nationality of the person doing the earning/spending/taxpaying?
let me explain it to you. my parents are now around 65 years old. they've been paying taxes into the system that long. same thing for their parents, and so on. i'm 42 years old, so i've been paying taxes for that long.
all of those taxes helped to build the system that is providing these jobs. those jobs wouldn't exist if the citizens of this nation and their ancestors didn't create them, directly or indirectly. i built this system. my ancestors built that system. visa holders did not help to build that system. while they might pay taxes while they are here, it's insignificant to what i and my ancestors have paid over a lifetime.
this is my country, i built it. yes, that gives me some privileges. you think it's okay for our govt to offer the fruits of our labor to the lowest bidder?
I've known a truly huge number of Indians since I started in IT... staggeringly huge, and I really like them. I find them to be good reliable friends.
to be fair, the indians you are meeting here are here because they are intelligent, ambitious, socially adept, and cultured enough to make the transition. you aren't meeting the millions of hillbilly, redneck indians.
We seem to be the only country more interested in making everyone besides ourselves (assuming you exclude corporate 'personas') happy...at our own expense.
we are a country that is interested in making money for the 1%. anything else is lies to get the populace to go along with it. this has everything to do with putting downward pressure on high-tech wages and nothing to do with fairness or equality.
Forgive me, but I dont really understand why people in this country deserve jobs more than people in another country, particularly if theyre more skilled or asking for less money.
they deserve it because they and their ancestors have been paying taxes to build the system that allowed companies to prosper and offer those jobs in the first place. visa holders have contributed nothing to the system. why should i pay taxes for 40 years into a system that is going to sell the fruit of that system to the lowest bidder?
not to mention, because the rest of the western world doesn't offer the same privilege to US employees. jobs without borders is fine, as long as it's not just the US that implements it.
that's not what it is. it essentially uses BT to keep your files in sync across all of your devices. the only limit is the amount of space available across all of your devices.
This isn't really anything groundbreaking technologically speaking
i don't know if you call it groundbreaking, but it's fundamentally different that other file sync solutions because your data is not stored on a server somewhere. seems like a neat idea for folks that are nervous about having their data sitting out there in the cloud.
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there are not viruses on android, so drop your scary "infected" verbiage. there is malware, but those articles you read are simply classifying things as malware because they request permissions they don't need - like a flashlight app requesting access to the internet.
oh, but on iOS, such malware doesn't exist right? can "researchers" scan the apple store and determine which apps request internet access? they can't, and that's why you see concentration on android. hiding the fact that something is malware doesn't make it not exist.
don't get your panties in a bunch because Avast's marketing posted an ad here.
you don't need a security app on android, because the security app itself doesn't have permissions to do anything useful. that's a good thing, because it means malicious apps don't have permissions to do anything malicious either.
they can't monitor network connections / traffic.
they can't interfere with the browser in any way.
they can't see what other apps are doing inside their sandbox.
they can't read memory outside of their sandbox.
sigh ... how the heck did this ad for Avast get modded up?
on a non-rooted device, any Android anti-virus / security app is pointless as it doesn't have permissions to do anything useful. and that's good, because if the security app has permissions to do something, then other apps would have permission to do something malicious. rooting your device for this reason is like leaving your home's door unlocked so the police can get in to save you when the bad guys come through your unlocked door.
it'd be really frightening if there was a company that held all of your medical records. oh wait. if you are going to be scared about what a company might do with your information, there are lots of places to point your finger.
My email providers don't. They don't because I pay them a small fee for the service.
interesting theory. can you provide documentation to back that up?
my conclusion after working for a few large companies is that anyone that has access to your data is harvesting it. that includes ISPs including your wireless carrier and ISP, makers of the applications you use, hosters of the websites you access. they don't always know what to do with it, but they are harvesting it or at least have the mechanisms in place to do so.
I don't want anyone targeting ads at me; it's just kind of annoying. For every "good ad" I have enjoyed, there has to be years of ads I've consumed that I've cared less.
and you think that's going to get better without targeted ads? interesting theory.
Why do I have to be annoyed with a shitstorm of advertisements of things I don't want and don't have money to buy?
you never eat out? you never drink coffee or soda or buy groceries or clothing? let me guess. you are one of those people that is too smart to be influenced by advertising right?
What the grown ups are talking about is Google's need to scan your email to create targeted ads.
if i'm going to see an ad, it might as well be targeted. who cares?
if the problem is your conspiracy theory that google is going to sell your email to the FBI, let me put that to rest for you. first, they have no incentive to do that. second, the FBI couldn't pay them enough. third, there are 370 some odd million people in this country, if you think anyone cares about your life enough to pay a detective to investigate you, you have a serious problem estimating your importance in the universe.
Maybe some credit agency will pay them $100 per user account to see all your e-mails.
and MAYBE they will start going out at night to users' home and wrecking them up.
but seriously, you know why that would never, ever happen? all google has is it's user base. that's the pile of f****** diamonds they are sitting on. they will never do anything to obvious to drive away users ... especially not for a one-time payout.
that's the thing. you have to apply a little common sense in your life. it makes your decisions much easier.
How is it like iOS and Android?
let me turn that around. how isn't it like android? if you showed me those screenshots and said BB had skinned android, i wouldn't have argued.
really, i'm curious what you are thinking.
Instead, they could have done as Amazon did, and skin Android to their liking.
skinning android puts them in competition with sony, samsung, amazon, asus, acer, HTC, and every other android device maker out there. that means they are now competing on price / latest whiz-bang feature only, a market in which they have absolutely no chance.
every mobile device manufacturer wants to be apple. apple doesn't compete on price or even features. they compete on advertising. they charge more and offer less. this is where blackberry wants to be. honestly, it's the best shot they have. try to be the "darling device for the enterprise". try to be the alternative to folks who dislike ios or android, for whatever reason.
amazon had (moderate) success with their tablets because they sold them at a loss. the only reason they were able to do that is because of the future sales of amazon content from the devices. BB doesn't have a content / media network.
That gets you part of the way there but the Internet Service Providers up here (at least the sh*thole known as Telus) reserve the right to install software on your devices. Can't get out of that without pulling the plug.
how are they installing software on your device if you are buying unlocked devices from non-carrier sources?
Does another patch change the fact that Java runs slower than new programming languages like Nimrod [nimrod-code.org], which let developers accomplish the same tasks in far less code?
there's a new latest greatest language every 6 months. customers don't like to re-write their platforms every 6 months when language X goes out of favor and they can't hire people to maintain their code or get updates for the runtime / tools.
do you think it's possible that nimrod also has security flaws, but they haven't been exposed ... consider the usage of java vs. nimrod and therefore the interest of hackers in finding the security flaws?
Yeah, like Orrible's (and specifically the Java section) going to lift a finger to help Microsoft after the whole J++ fiasco
1. that was not oracle, it was sun microsystem.
2. it was 10 years ago. you think any of the same people are around, and have the same motivations?
2. it wasn't a fiasco, it made sun $700 million. they were pretty happy about it.
I am constantly amazed that there are so many services that build upon Google, Apple or Facebook web authentication systems. It's just plain stupid for anyone to do that unless they are Google, Apple or Facebook as those services can eliminate your access to your customers ANY TIME they choose without you having any say in the matter.
it's a question of having a chance at something or having no chance at all. if your idea / product requires a social graph, you are pretty must SOL if you don't incorporate facebook.
If I see a service that REQUIRES a Facebook account, I will not use it whether it is free, paid or otherwise. And I am far from alone. Any developer that forces FB authentication in their apps or services is likely giving up at least 1/3rd of potential customer/users.
yes, you are statistically alone.
So someone else can take all the risk of testing out a new idea, while Facebook gets to reap all the rewards when they integrate it later.
don't like it? invent your own billion user social networking system.
Prove i assembled them into some sort of file.
so basically, your argument is that the law has to prove that you have assembled the ones and zeros into the illegal copy for it to be a crime? that's not what matters. when you SENT me bit N, you told me that it's bit N of The Latest, Greatest Movie. whatever you send must have included that meta data, or the one or zero is useless to me. you didn't assemble the file, you just transmitted the description of how to assemble the file.
by that logic, why don't you just encrypt the file and send with it the encryption key. no problem right? what you transmitted was just scrambled bits, not an illegal copy of a movie. never mind you transmitted the key to descramble the bits. good luck with that.
Not true. Any encryption applied, obscures the message (every one and zero).
encryption has nothing to do with it. obviously it's only encrypted in transit. it has to be decrypted at every client otherwise it's garbage. you now how torrent pirates get caught? the MPAA (or their agents) connect to well known torrents of their movies. they record the IPs that send them data. the only thing encryption might do is make it harder for say an ISP to bust you by watching the packets go through their network.
the 1's and 0's aren't anonymous, only the ultimate source of the 1's and 0's. every one or zero sent to you through a torrent must still have the information describing in which part of which file it it belongs.
You write this crap and you get modded "insightful"? Jesus wept! How is money earned here, spent here and taxed here different depending on the nationality of the person doing the earning/spending/taxpaying?
let me explain it to you. my parents are now around 65 years old. they've been paying taxes into the system that long. same thing for their parents, and so on. i'm 42 years old, so i've been paying taxes for that long.
all of those taxes helped to build the system that is providing these jobs. those jobs wouldn't exist if the citizens of this nation and their ancestors didn't create them, directly or indirectly. i built this system. my ancestors built that system. visa holders did not help to build that system. while they might pay taxes while they are here, it's insignificant to what i and my ancestors have paid over a lifetime.
this is my country, i built it. yes, that gives me some privileges. you think it's okay for our govt to offer the fruits of our labor to the lowest bidder?
I've known a truly huge number of Indians since I started in IT... staggeringly huge, and I really like them. I find them to be good reliable friends.
to be fair, the indians you are meeting here are here because they are intelligent, ambitious, socially adept, and cultured enough to make the transition. you aren't meeting the millions of hillbilly, redneck indians.
We seem to be the only country more interested in making everyone besides ourselves (assuming you exclude corporate 'personas') happy...at our own expense.
we are a country that is interested in making money for the 1%. anything else is lies to get the populace to go along with it. this has everything to do with putting downward pressure on high-tech wages and nothing to do with fairness or equality.
Forgive me, but I dont really understand why people in this country deserve jobs more than people in another country, particularly if theyre more skilled or asking for less money.
they deserve it because they and their ancestors have been paying taxes to build the system that allowed companies to prosper and offer those jobs in the first place. visa holders have contributed nothing to the system. why should i pay taxes for 40 years into a system that is going to sell the fruit of that system to the lowest bidder?
not to mention, because the rest of the western world doesn't offer the same privilege to US employees. jobs without borders is fine, as long as it's not just the US that implements it.
that's not what it is. it essentially uses BT to keep your files in sync across all of your devices. the only limit is the amount of space available across all of your devices.
This isn't really anything groundbreaking technologically speaking
i don't know if you call it groundbreaking, but it's fundamentally different that other file sync solutions because your data is not stored on a server somewhere. seems like a neat idea for folks that are nervous about having their data sitting out there in the cloud.
it must be really frustrating for Job's fans that there's still someone around than can correct their white-washed version of history.