Security researchers have discovered a variant of the FLocker Android ransomware that not only infects mobile devices, but also can infect smart TVs running certain versions of the operating system.
Oh so you mean the malware doesn't inspect the screen resolution and block itself from running if it's a large screen? Fascinating.
What part of 'some people need to use their devices in places without access to a docking station' did you miss?
Yeah, and some people don't. FFS dude, did I say "docking stations will completely replace all possible use cases for a laptop"? The answer is no because I guess I have to spoon feed you this. We're not talking about those people obviously. We're talking about the 2 billion people that ONLY carry phones and are obviously okay without a laptop.
For those people, who need a real laptop, there's no point in having a phone that can be a desktop too.
You know what else? For people that need a card, a bike isn't good enough. Also, for people that like pizza, a carrot isn't good enough.
My point was that people who need to carry around a machine capable of doing desktop-style work should carry light laptops - rather than paying for a high-spec'd phone that can do those things
Because,
1. Bigger is better 2. I like backpacks 3. I heard a laptop battery can stop a bullet 4. More computers is better
Similarly, as the underlying platforms (hardware and software alike) evolved to provide improved UX via other containers [mobile browsers] then the need for a mobile app disappeared.
I know really, and since web sites have never been accused of tracking users, I can really see where you are coming from (*cough* tracking cookies *cough*).
Poor native apps are just web app shims. Good ones are much better than the mobile equivalent. They are faster, they look better, and integrate w/ the device's hardware.
The perfect example is Google that has very good mobile web apps for almost everything. But the native equivalents blow them away. Compare Android Google Maps to maps.google.com if you don't get it.
I want an phone running Linux, just like my pc, where I have full control.
Do tell, how do you restrict apps running on your PC in a way that isn't done / possible on a mobile OS?
Say for example if wrote an app that could read your (user) browser history, and I got you to install it and run it. What does Linux do to prevent this? The answer is nothing. You ran the process as your user, and the history is owned by your user. You are fucked.
Android is actually more secure since every app runs as a unique user ID, preventing an apps from interacting with each other in most ways. Does your Linux PC do that?
1. Good enough: devices come with the best versions of most everything you need. An Android device comes with Google maps, Google drive, Google Inbox, Google Calendar, Google Chrome, Google music etc. You don't *need* anything else.
2. Saturation: There are so many apps for every purpose it's hard to know what to install. The novelty is gone. In the early days I used to just page through new apps to see what people had done. Now everything is done 10x and I've seen it before in one form or another.
a Surface Pro probably accomplishes that better than any phone can Android-capable Chromebook will do it all for 200 bucks
A Surface nor a Chromebook are phone-form-factor. Your general point is that people should just carry laptops instead of docking phones. Do you really need an explanation why that doesn't make sense?
A dockable phone is nice because you can connect a big screen, a real keyboard, and so on. But guess what's easier to carry than all that shit? A laptop!
Um, what? The point of a dockable mobile device is to NOT carry around a keyboard, mouse, screen, etc. in any form, laptop or otherwise.
You're very funny, but it doesn't say no network access or no computer access. It's says no INTERNET access. Presumably they still have access to the intranet and all the resources therein which is probably the only thing they need to actually do their jobs.
4. The name, and the hype around is worth that much.
Not saying it was, but a suite of home automation products with the Nest name would have been pretty appealing. Nest was a company the showed they could execute on an ultra-user friendly, hip, shiny, product... albeit narrow in scope. The hope of course is that the team and management can scale to an expanding scope.
This is about it. All the rest is marketing bullshit. I have something like that in my MasterCard. Most insecure thing you can imagine.
Contactless MSD is insecure. Contactless EMV is more secure. Like all smart cards you can't just read the card data and clone it to another card. A payment requires a secure handshake between the card and terminal.
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Not really. You can buy computer monitors, but they don't get much above 32".
Usually a browser exploit coming from a pr0n or gambling site, but also from malicious apps that utilize exploits.
Security researchers have discovered a variant of the FLocker Android ransomware that not only infects mobile devices, but also can infect smart TVs running certain versions of the operating system.
Oh so you mean the malware doesn't inspect the screen resolution and block itself from running if it's a large screen? Fascinating.
Why?
I'd say you don't understand the speed of light.
and will never be == 0 ms
Nothing has 0ms latency except perhaps a hypothetical quantum computer.
Bluetooth human interface devices are self-powered, that is, they're powered by a battery inside the device.
Yes, we realize that a device not physically connected to anything else has to have an internal power source. Thank you.
Finally, Bluetooth headphones pose less of a strangulation risk during exercise than corded headphones.
Being strangled by headphones is nothing more than natural selection at work.
While I think there's some truth in there, I think you've confused "commit" with "be convicted of".
Absolutely. When you don't leave your mom's basement there is certainly no reason to describe anyway.
What part of 'some people need to use their devices in places without access to a docking station' did you miss?
Yeah, and some people don't. FFS dude, did I say "docking stations will completely replace all possible use cases for a laptop"? The answer is no because I guess I have to spoon feed you this. We're not talking about those people obviously. We're talking about the 2 billion people that ONLY carry phones and are obviously okay without a laptop.
For those people, who need a real laptop, there's no point in having a phone that can be a desktop too.
You know what else? For people that need a card, a bike isn't good enough. Also, for people that like pizza, a carrot isn't good enough.
My point was that people who need to carry around a machine capable of doing desktop-style work should carry light laptops - rather than paying for a high-spec'd phone that can do those things
Because,
1. Bigger is better
2. I like backpacks
3. I heard a laptop battery can stop a bullet
4. More computers is better
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Similarly, as the underlying platforms (hardware and software alike) evolved to provide improved UX via other containers [mobile browsers] then the need for a mobile app disappeared.
You obviously don't use a mobile browser.
I know really, and since web sites have never been accused of tracking users, I can really see where you are coming from (*cough* tracking cookies *cough*).
Poor native apps are just web app shims. Good ones are much better than the mobile equivalent. They are faster, they look better, and integrate w/ the device's hardware.
The perfect example is Google that has very good mobile web apps for almost everything. But the native equivalents blow them away. Compare Android Google Maps to maps.google.com if you don't get it.
I want an phone running Linux, just like my pc, where I have full control.
Do tell, how do you restrict apps running on your PC in a way that isn't done / possible on a mobile OS?
Say for example if wrote an app that could read your (user) browser history, and I got you to install it and run it. What does Linux do to prevent this? The answer is nothing. You ran the process as your user, and the history is owned by your user. You are fucked.
Android is actually more secure since every app runs as a unique user ID, preventing an apps from interacting with each other in most ways. Does your Linux PC do that?
1. Good enough: devices come with the best versions of most everything you need. An Android device comes with Google maps, Google drive, Google Inbox, Google Calendar, Google Chrome, Google music etc. You don't *need* anything else.
2. Saturation: There are so many apps for every purpose it's hard to know what to install. The novelty is gone. In the early days I used to just page through new apps to see what people had done. Now everything is done 10x and I've seen it before in one form or another.
You have no clue what you are talking about.
I checked, after the upgrade from ver 4, I couldn't mount a cifs share on my phone anymore.
Of course you can.
And I need to save and edit files, android puts files all over the freaking place
It puts them exactly where the app saves them, like any other OS.
a Surface Pro probably accomplishes that better than any phone can
Android-capable Chromebook will do it all for 200 bucks
A Surface nor a Chromebook are phone-form-factor. Your general point is that people should just carry laptops instead of docking phones. Do you really need an explanation why that doesn't make sense?
A dockable phone is nice because you can connect a big screen, a real keyboard, and so on. But guess what's easier to carry than all that shit? A laptop!
Um, what? The point of a dockable mobile device is to NOT carry around a keyboard, mouse, screen, etc. in any form, laptop or otherwise.
You're very funny, but it doesn't say no network access or no computer access. It's says no INTERNET access. Presumably they still have access to the intranet and all the resources therein which is probably the only thing they need to actually do their jobs.
4. The name, and the hype around is worth that much.
Not saying it was, but a suite of home automation products with the Nest name would have been pretty appealing. Nest was a company the showed they could execute on an ultra-user friendly, hip, shiny, product ... albeit narrow in scope. The hope of course is that the team and management can scale to an expanding scope.
3.2B is *always* a shit ton of money to anyone, anytime, anywhere. This idea that "well, they can afford it so it doesn't matter" is complete BS.
Wow, excellent attempt at a troll. Bravo.
This is about it. All the rest is marketing bullshit. I have something like that in my MasterCard. Most insecure thing you can imagine.
Contactless MSD is insecure. Contactless EMV is more secure. Like all smart cards you can't just read the card data and clone it to another card. A payment requires a secure handshake between the card and terminal.
or if you lose your phone they cannot use ApplePay without being able to use the fingerprint reader.
All the more reason to saw off your hand. That's not a good thing.