If you can't reproducibly build the apks yourself, and install them without Google, that is 'bad' / 'unhappy' enough to be considered badware/unhappyware/malware.
That's up to the developer. If they want to post their source for you to build and install outside of Google Play they can do that. In fact, you can even choose to only install such apps. You can do this today.
Google could do better to protect users on Google Play, Stefanko added. "Many times it would be simply enough to scan apps with anti-virus software before uploading them on to Google Play," he said. Given Google owns an organization that could do just that, Virus Total, that shouldn't be too much of an ask.
From reading TFA, it sounds like the apps were shells with no real content (or malware), then attempted to download and install malware via "unknown sources", for users that had that enabled. In other words, the game wasn't really detectable malware, it just wasn't a game, and attempted to exploit users that ignored all of the security warnings telling them not to install from untrusted sources.
This is why the Fortnite installer was such a big deal. It forced users to allow install from unknown sources. How many people did that without knowing the holes, like this, that it opened up.
We will provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world’s consumers, now and for generations to come. As a result, consumers will reward us with leadership sales, profit and value creation, allowing our people, our shareholders and the communities in which we live and work to prosper.
I fail to see how "providing products and services of superior quality" would do anything but maximize profits.
Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night.
... and same.
Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night.
Yet somehow, you know they made that switch. And the move seems to have left you with a warm fuzzy about Nestle. Seems like pretty slick marketing to me.
The open source companies are realizing that the open source model contributes to this whole freeloading situation and want to put a stop to it. I like free software as much as the next guy, but somebody has to pay the bills.
So in other words, these companies want to put restrictions on the use of the source. That's fine, but it's not F/OSS.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
I don't see how a blockchain is better than just an item database with a log of what items were created, with what statistics, how they were modified and used, and if/when they were destroyed (sold to a NPC merchant, junked, deleted with a character, etc.) It seems a lot more work as opposed to just having a solid journal mechanism, especially if the only people using it are company internal. However, a blockchain might be useful to guard against internal tampering.
Theoretically, because it's distributed. For example, if you decide to buy a game and pay $XX a month, and invest countless hours and sometimes real $$$ into acquiring digital items... but you don't trust the developer to be able to manage a database.
Oh I see - it's changed again. Trouble is you have to sign in to use any of those features now. I never sign in to Google - their tracking is bad enough without signing in so they can tie everything together. I don't let Google applications access location, either.
Let me try to help. Google Maps is a product. It's not charity. If you don't like being tracked, then go away, and don't use the product. Go pay for something that fits your needs. You know, because products don't get built by magical elves.
Good thing Google Maps has an offline mode that allows you to select arbitrary areas to cache graphically on a map. OTOH, but it'd be better to have every cache 23GB of a map data, in case they need it.
Yeah I know! Feels good to be smarter than most everyone else in the world.
For what should be a simple mapping webpage you shouldn't have to have a quad-core 3GHz system with graphics card in a PCIE x16 slot, FFS. Face it: it's bloated as fuck.
Of course you don't need that. Phones with 1.6Ghz dual core processors load it fine.
Where Google Maps used to show the names (whether formally-adopted or not) of long-established neighborhoods in San Diego, it now shows the names of new condo complexes.
and... why should we be outraged? Something about gentrification perhaps?
Which is great, until you hit a spot in the middle of nowhere, and you don't have cell/data coverage; and you need a map to get out.
Good thing Google Maps has an offline mode that allows you to select arbitrary areas to cache graphically on a map. OTOH, but it'd be better to have every cache 23GB of a map data, in case they need it.
Is Google really beholden to Wall Street at this point in time though? My understanding is that core group of insiders still holds the stocks necessary for full control of the company regardless of happens to public stock.
If you're going to play that close to the metal (let alone doing anything further down, like, say, Assembly), at least try to know WTF you're doing, and get help if you're not sure.
If you are suggesting the solution is to just "git gud" you do not write code.
Bugs will happen, no matter how seasoned is the developer. The complexity of software makes it hard if not impossible to find find and test for all cases. Heartbleed existed for 6 years before it was discovered. One person wrote the code, but how many people viewed / reviewed the code, how many people tested it, and how many had it in production before it was discovered?
The issue at hand here is what happens when a bug occurs. Do you get undefined behavior or does the program crash? The latter is much preferred obviously.
So every police department is not entitled to a fair outcome then.
Police are humans. Punish the bad ones, and get one with your life. The fact that there are bad apples doesn't mean the entire system is crap. There are always bad apples anywhere you go.
That is why I cheer inside when someone goes on a killing spree of the asses in blue!
Got it. You are happy when people are murdered, because some minute percentage of people in the same line work have done bad things. See a therapist friend.
Just saw the video. It looks lame. A big chunk brick. Since they say the display is much much thinner (no glass, half the thickness polarizer) why does it need to be so thick? Should be thinner right?
I am getting confused. Do we hate phone companies for making thin phones, or do we hate it when they make thick phones? Can someone help? What is the acceptable thickness where I should stop trolling?
You really don't understand the clean hands doctrine. It has nothing to do with what he's talking about.
The difference is my ability to apply ideas and concepts outside the domain which they were originally applied. It's one of the things that separates us from lower animals.
And I used to be able to get the latest reference Nexus tablet for $249 CDN
And you can still get decent Android tablets for that. A Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 is ~220 USD on Amazon. Definitely not high end but it does the job. LG, Acer, and Asus all have decent low-end tablets.
If you do a crime and get caught for it shut the fuck up and do your time don't rat someone else out
In law there is something called the Clean Hands Doctrine that can be fit here. It a nutshell it says that if your hands are dirty, you are not entitled to a fair outcome.
Carl Sagan's takeaway: “the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and compa, ring notes, before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.”
The same Carl Sagan that led the committee that designed Voyager's Golden Record that shows our location in the galaxy?
The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11. It shows the location of the Solar System with respect to 14 pulsars, whose precise periods are given.
You're no better, America, and in no position to point fingers. And what's more, judging by what you've been up to in the world in the last 20 years, we should be far more afraid of you doing these things than China (as you claim).
Hello, comrade. It's late for you to be up trolling isn't it? Do your masters give extra vodka rations for overtime?
If you have a research paper showing the US re-routing Chinese traffic, go ahead and post it.
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If you can't reproducibly build the apks yourself, and install them without Google, that is 'bad' / 'unhappy' enough to be considered badware/unhappyware/malware.
That's up to the developer. If they want to post their source for you to build and install outside of Google Play they can do that. In fact, you can even choose to only install such apps. You can do this today.
Google could do better to protect users on Google Play, Stefanko added. "Many times it would be simply enough to scan apps with anti-virus software before uploading them on to Google Play," he said. Given Google owns an organization that could do just that, Virus Total, that shouldn't be too much of an ask.
From reading TFA, it sounds like the apps were shells with no real content (or malware), then attempted to download and install malware via "unknown sources", for users that had that enabled. In other words, the game wasn't really detectable malware, it just wasn't a game, and attempted to exploit users that ignored all of the security warnings telling them not to install from untrusted sources.
This is why the Fortnite installer was such a big deal. It forced users to allow install from unknown sources. How many people did that without knowing the holes, like this, that it opened up.
We will provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world’s consumers, now and for generations to come. As a result, consumers will reward us with leadership sales, profit and value creation, allowing our people, our shareholders and the communities in which we live and work to prosper.
I fail to see how "providing products and services of superior quality" would do anything but maximize profits.
Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night.
... and same.
Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night.
Yet somehow, you know they made that switch. And the move seems to have left you with a warm fuzzy about Nestle. Seems like pretty slick marketing to me.
they company doesn't have to keep growing or maximise profits.
That's absolutely not true for a public company.
The open source companies are realizing that the open source model contributes to this whole freeloading situation and want to put a stop to it. I like free software as much as the next guy, but somebody has to pay the bills.
So in other words, these companies want to put restrictions on the use of the source. That's fine, but it's not F/OSS.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
https://opensource.org/osd-ann...
These companies closing their products may find that a small slice of a big thing was better than a big slice of nothing.
Common sense would dictate that such companies aren't doing so hot in the first place, otherwise they wouldn't be changing their business model.
gearing up to launch a new game for the PS4 built around the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain
Is this just a sly attempt to hijack PCs for mining?
I don't see how a blockchain is better than just an item database with a log of what items were created, with what statistics, how they were modified and used, and if/when they were destroyed (sold to a NPC merchant, junked, deleted with a character, etc.) It seems a lot more work as opposed to just having a solid journal mechanism, especially if the only people using it are company internal. However, a blockchain might be useful to guard against internal tampering.
Theoretically, because it's distributed. For example, if you decide to buy a game and pay $XX a month, and invest countless hours and sometimes real $$$ into acquiring digital items... but you don't trust the developer to be able to manage a database.
Oh I see - it's changed again. Trouble is you have to sign in to use any of those features now. I never sign in to Google - their tracking is bad enough without signing in so they can tie everything together. I don't let Google applications access location, either.
Let me try to help. Google Maps is a product. It's not charity. If you don't like being tracked, then go away, and don't use the product. Go pay for something that fits your needs. You know, because products don't get built by magical elves.
Good thing Google Maps has an offline mode that allows you to select arbitrary areas to cache graphically on a map. OTOH, but it'd be better to have every cache 23GB of a map data, in case they need it.
Yeah I know! Feels good to be smarter than most everyone else in the world.
For what should be a simple mapping webpage you shouldn't have to have a quad-core 3GHz system with graphics card in a PCIE x16 slot, FFS. Face it: it's bloated as fuck.
Of course you don't need that. Phones with 1.6Ghz dual core processors load it fine.
Where Google Maps used to show the names (whether formally-adopted or not) of long-established neighborhoods in San Diego, it now shows the names of new condo complexes.
and... why should we be outraged? Something about gentrification perhaps?
Google Maps on my Android device literally takes longer to start than booting Windows and going to the website.
Something is wrong with your phone. Don't blame maps for that.
Wrong. Generation Z is characterized by tattered clothing, open sores, and groaning.
Which is great, until you hit a spot in the middle of nowhere, and you don't have cell/data coverage; and you need a map to get out.
Good thing Google Maps has an offline mode that allows you to select arbitrary areas to cache graphically on a map. OTOH, but it'd be better to have every cache 23GB of a map data, in case they need it.
Is Google really beholden to Wall Street at this point in time though? My understanding is that core group of insiders still holds the stocks necessary for full control of the company regardless of happens to public stock.
I'll bet that those insiders like money, too.
If you're going to play that close to the metal (let alone doing anything further down, like, say, Assembly), at least try to know WTF you're doing, and get help if you're not sure.
If you are suggesting the solution is to just "git gud" you do not write code.
Bugs will happen, no matter how seasoned is the developer. The complexity of software makes it hard if not impossible to find find and test for all cases. Heartbleed existed for 6 years before it was discovered. One person wrote the code, but how many people viewed / reviewed the code, how many people tested it, and how many had it in production before it was discovered?
The issue at hand here is what happens when a bug occurs. Do you get undefined behavior or does the program crash? The latter is much preferred obviously.
So every police department is not entitled to a fair outcome then.
Police are humans. Punish the bad ones, and get one with your life. The fact that there are bad apples doesn't mean the entire system is crap. There are always bad apples anywhere you go.
That is why I cheer inside when someone goes on a killing spree of the asses in blue!
Got it. You are happy when people are murdered, because some minute percentage of people in the same line work have done bad things. See a therapist friend.
Just saw the video. It looks lame. A big chunk brick. Since they say the display is much much thinner (no glass, half the thickness polarizer) why does it need to be so thick? Should be thinner right?
I am getting confused. Do we hate phone companies for making thin phones, or do we hate it when they make thick phones? Can someone help? What is the acceptable thickness where I should stop trolling?
You really don't understand the clean hands doctrine. It has nothing to do with what he's talking about.
The difference is my ability to apply ideas and concepts outside the domain which they were originally applied. It's one of the things that separates us from lower animals.
And I used to be able to get the latest reference Nexus tablet for $249 CDN
And you can still get decent Android tablets for that. A Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 is ~220 USD on Amazon. Definitely not high end but it does the job. LG, Acer, and Asus all have decent low-end tablets.
Good thing it was $200 million. RTFA.
You apparently don't understand the underworld
You're right, we don't.
If you do a crime and get caught for it shut the fuck up and do your time don't rat someone else out
In law there is something called the Clean Hands Doctrine that can be fit here. It a nutshell it says that if your hands are dirty, you are not entitled to a fair outcome.
Carl Sagan's takeaway: “the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and compa, ring notes, before shouting into an unknown jungle that we do not understand.”
The same Carl Sagan that led the committee that designed Voyager's Golden Record that shows our location in the galaxy?
The drawing in the lower left-hand corner of the cover is the pulsar map previously sent as part of the plaques on Pioneers 10 and 11. It shows the location of the Solar System with respect to 14 pulsars, whose precise periods are given.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You're no better, America, and in no position to point fingers. And what's more, judging by what you've been up to in the world in the last 20 years, we should be far more afraid of you doing these things than China (as you claim).
Hello, comrade. It's late for you to be up trolling isn't it? Do your masters give extra vodka rations for overtime?
If you have a research paper showing the US re-routing Chinese traffic, go ahead and post it.