It's extremely unlikely it's the hardware since it's the same one on which I ran until recently 10.04. On it Firefox crashed only once in a week or so, and IIRC most often when some Flash was involved. Maybe the difference is that I don't use Ubuntu 14.04 occassionally but 8+ hrs a day;-). (And I have 33+ tabs open in it). Ubuntu 14.04 was very instable the first week or so, each time I logged in it wanted to report 3 crashes. But those have gone after recent updates.
I am using Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04 with exactly one (1) add on (Tree Style Tab). Firefox crashes multiple times a day. As does Thunderbird. It seems slowly to get less, though, the crashing. But "add ons" (or even it's your hardware) seem to me like easy cop outs.
If I am cherry picking give the facts, simple. Don't come at me with "everybody (in this thread, and far from bias free, this is slashdot) says your wrong".
Anyway, it's simple, if malware doesn't care about country, then one certainly can look at the install base within a country and the threat risk. So if there's (a significant amount of) malware targetting iOS one must see this in the USA as well. Finally, malware targetting specific countries, even specific companies does exists and I doubt it's different with the mobile market. It all depends on what the goal is. Some try to catch as many fish as possible, others go after specific (to them) fat fish
Ah, a fanboy, or an anti-fanboy, the sheep who always goes the other way. Lemme tell you kiddo, I do have both android and apple devices (I've even considered a Surface a few times, and it still might happen, I do have a PDA running mobile windows 5, does that count?) in my house and I don't give a flying F who's on top. . Or actually, I do, I hope Apple doesn't get mainstream and on top because that will lower the quality.
And yes, it's still a good question, if the install base is 50/50 in the USA, why don't we see more mobile treats hitting iOS? Or do we?
The people at risk are also those who are several OS versions behind. Something that's easy to happen with Android. At least here in Mexico most low priced devices run 2.x or so (last time I checked).
Nope, hence why I imagine. But the question remains, if install base in the USA is roughly 50/50, why are 99% of the mobile threats Android only. I don't think the install base of android vs. iOS taking the entire world into account is 99:1.
Yup, and wrt threats install base is way more interesting to look at than market share. So why if the install base is roughly 50 50 (or 60:40 with 60 for iOS) *why* do 99% of the threats target Android.
No idea why the Kindle Fire isn't a good representation (I have no problems with it). OK, it probably depends a lot on what you do with it. But Angry Birds and Sky Cups run great on it;-). As for the credit card, haven't encountered that one. I never needed a credit card to install apps on the iPad; I just bought an Apps or iTunes card in a local shop, entered the code and got credit. I am outside of the USA, so maybe that's the difference? (Also, I use my own email address instead of icloud).
The latter is easy, you can do research and fix the numbers accordingly. I think a lot of Slashdot users are tricked by cognitive bias because they themselves prefer Android over iOS (or the vocal ones do). I have a cyanogenmodded Kindle Fire (1st gen) and an iPad (4th gen) and prefer the latter over the former; to me Android (the cyanogenmod version) looks more ugly, which is also bias, of course. Oh, I am sure I can "fix" it by installing stuff, like I can "fix" Linux distros, but that's exactly what I want to avoid;-)
yawn. In related news: the market share of christmas trees has plummeted significantly. Oh, and if you don't get that, you don't get marketshare (Hint: AUGUST 2013).
Feel free to provide those. But since it's roughly 50/50 in the USA why aren't the attacks in the USA also not 50/50? Or is the USA of no interest at all to malware writers? (I would say the opposite).
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It's extremely unlikely it's the hardware since it's the same one on which I ran until recently 10.04. On it Firefox crashed only once in a week or so, and IIRC most often when some Flash was involved. Maybe the difference is that I don't use Ubuntu 14.04 occassionally but 8+ hrs a day ;-). (And I have 33+ tabs open in it). Ubuntu 14.04 was very instable the first week or so, each time I logged in it wanted to report 3 crashes. But those have gone after recent updates.
I am using Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04 with exactly one (1) add on (Tree Style Tab). Firefox crashes multiple times a day. As does Thunderbird. It seems slowly to get less, though, the crashing. But "add ons" (or even it's your hardware) seem to me like easy cop outs.
If I am cherry picking give the facts, simple. Don't come at me with "everybody (in this thread, and far from bias free, this is slashdot) says your wrong".
Anyway, it's simple, if malware doesn't care about country, then one certainly can look at the install base within a country and the threat risk. So if there's (a significant amount of) malware targetting iOS one must see this in the USA as well. Finally, malware targetting specific countries, even specific companies does exists and I doubt it's different with the mobile market. It all depends on what the goal is. Some try to catch as many fish as possible, others go after specific (to them) fat fish
Ah, a fanboy, or an anti-fanboy, the sheep who always goes the other way. Lemme tell you kiddo, I do have both android and apple devices (I've even considered a Surface a few times, and it still might happen, I do have a PDA running mobile windows 5, does that count?) in my house and I don't give a flying F who's on top. . Or actually, I do, I hope Apple doesn't get mainstream and on top because that will lower the quality.
And yes, it's still a good question, if the install base is 50/50 in the USA, why don't we see more mobile treats hitting iOS? Or do we?
The people at risk are also those who are several OS versions behind. Something that's easy to happen with Android. At least here in Mexico most low priced devices run 2.x or so (last time I checked).
OK, so they target the globe. With an install base of 50/50 iOS v.s Android, whats the threat ratio in the USA?
Nope, hence why I imagine. But the question remains, if install base in the USA is roughly 50/50, why are 99% of the mobile threats Android only. I don't think the install base of android vs. iOS taking the entire world into account is 99:1.
Yup, and wrt threats install base is way more interesting to look at than market share. So why if the install base is roughly 50 50 (or 60:40 with 60 for iOS) *why* do 99% of the threats target Android.
No idea why the Kindle Fire isn't a good representation (I have no problems with it). OK, it probably depends a lot on what you do with it. But Angry Birds and Sky Cups run great on it ;-). As for the credit card, haven't encountered that one. I never needed a credit card to install apps on the iPad; I just bought an Apps or iTunes card in a local shop, entered the code and got credit. I am outside of the USA, so maybe that's the difference? (Also, I use my own email address instead of icloud).
I can imagine that credit card details of someone living in the USA is more useful than say someone living in Mexico (which I actually do).
Market share and actual use are 2 different figures. From the same page: installed base at the end of 2013 iPad: 51% Android: 40%.
[citation needed] And FWIW, I own a tablet running Cyanogenmod. Welcome to the real world (TM).
The latter is easy, you can do research and fix the numbers accordingly. I think a lot of Slashdot users are tricked by cognitive bias because they themselves prefer Android over iOS (or the vocal ones do). I have a cyanogenmodded Kindle Fire (1st gen) and an iPad (4th gen) and prefer the latter over the former; to me Android (the cyanogenmod version) looks more ugly, which is also bias, of course. Oh, I am sure I can "fix" it by installing stuff, like I can "fix" Linux distros, but that's exactly what I want to avoid ;-)
And to help you out a bit more: http://www.theguardian.com/tec... aptly titled "Why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users"
yawn. In related news: the market share of christmas trees has plummeted significantly. Oh, and if you don't get that, you don't get marketshare (Hint: AUGUST 2013).
http://tabtimes.com/resources/... begs to differ. Or so it seems... And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
Feel free to provide those. But since it's roughly 50/50 in the USA why aren't the attacks in the USA also not 50/50? Or is the USA of no interest at all to malware writers? (I would say the opposite).
Yawn: http://www.comscoredatamine.co...
I've never heard of that either. I have heard of Survivorship Bias, however.
wooosh ;-)
It's called Egarland's law. Funny that you've never heard of it...
The Newton platform is a personal digital assistant developed by Apple Inc.. Development of the Newton platform started in 1987 and officially ended on February 27, 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
The MessagePad is the first series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple Computer for the Newton platform in 1993. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's MessagePad devices was undertaken in Japan by the Sharp Corporation. The devices were based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and all featured handwriting recognition software and were developed and marketed by Apple. The devices ran the Newton OS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
By Jove!
"Remote Access has you covered with the ability to create up to 30 hostnames (yourname.dyndns.org)"
So, no it gives you 30. Since they are subdomains of dyndns.org if you register your own domain name you'll have way more than just 30....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
OK, I'll give Player of Games a try, thanks!
And surprise! I do like Hamilton, although his books are a bit hit or miss IMO. And I don't see anything that makes them similar in any way.