I'm sorry AC but you are wrong as the AMD 286 ran at 20 and the harris clone ran at 25 so it was only the intel 286 that didn't clock that high. Sigh...am i the only one that misses the days of common sockets when you could just drop in whatever you wanted? didn't have Intel money? drop in an AMD, was only doing office work? Then Cyrix was for you...I miss that.
Do they ASK the user before they do it? If yes then I'm all for it and if not then the guy that got labeled a troll got a bum rap. Remember folks that BOTH Apple and MSFT are pushing for an app store model that will give them unprecedented control, so if one doesn't draw lines in the sand now frankly you may not get a chance to later.
Ultimately it should be the USER that gets to decide what stays and goes and lets be honest, we are talking about a single pop up with an explanation and a yes/no box, really not that hard to code folks.
Was it Firefox? The reason I ask is I'm not picking on FF but about a year ago I kept having customers weird emails that was just some gibberish and a single link. after some investigating it turned out when yahoo switched over to their new layout it was trivially easy to pop up a hidden iFrame that would let them log into yahoo and spam your yahoo address book with FF. Lucky it was just the usual "Buy our natural viagra!" kinda spam but what if it would have been CP? Just shows how stupid the law was before because someone would have just said "Hey I got an email from joe" and click on the link and by the law they were now a criminal.
anyway I'd like to know if it was FF because while I've switched my Win 7 users to Dragon or chrome (since it has low rights mode and FF don't) I still have some XP customers that prefer FF and would like to have a heads up if there is a new bug I haven't heard about, also got a couple of Opera users and one Safari guy so knowledge of which browser bit you would at least let me give a heads up to whomever is using that browser, thanks.
The thing that pisses me off is when we went waaaay the fuck off on a tangent and started equating cartoons and stories as the same as actual people...WTF? I'm sorry, but there is no other way to put it, that is thoughtcrime. When someone puts pen and ink together and creates their thoughts into either images or words and you jail them for it? Well FUCK YOU you fascist bastards you have crossed a line. We have so far thrown people into prison for anime, for badly drawn simpsons dirty toons, and for putting their thoughts on paper not once but twice..WTF people? I don't see how ANYONE can defend that shit.
Uhhh...but doesn't that entail putting it into "dev mode" and crippling the security? I wouldn't call it much of a "choice" if it cripples the security which is kinda the whole selling point of Chromebooks. Frankly I never got the whole Chromebook concept anyway, I mean...who is it for EXACTLY? The ones i saw cost as much or more than a full netbook which had more space and more features than the Chromebook which is pretty much crippled if you are in an area without net access. Meh I'd say if you want similar features get one of the EEEs that has Expressgate built in which is an excellent Linux based OS similar to android with a ton of apps and 6 second booting.
As for this....who cares? How many here think Win 8 is NOT going to bomb?....crickets...yeah, thought so. I've tried the dev and consumer previews and the only word that comes to mind is "half assed" which when your competition is iOS and Android? NOT a word i should be thinking of. Windows users will probably stick with Win 7 and wait for the CULV chips in the pipe from AMD and Intel which are targeted at tablets and smartphone like devices so you can actually run Windows programs on windows (I know, what a concept right?) while those that need a mobile device in the tablet or smartphone form factor will most likely skip Win 8 for Android and iOS just like they skipped WinPhone 7. Hell even my 71 year old dad skipped WinPhone for Android and he has been using Windows since Windows 2 and still likes MSFT but said the feel when we were comparing the two was just not even funny and went with the HTC Android.
So I just don't get why anybody cares, Win 8 is already a butt of jokes so its like getting upset over Vista, I mean how many here actually WANT and will use Win 8? anybody? Bueller?
Actually the Sheridan itself was a clusterfuck, with a two piece ammo that sucked and its main barrel was really designed for a missile that wasn't worth a fuck.
But frankly since Vietnam all we have gotten is generals and MIC fighting the last war to disastrous results. The B-1, B-2, F-22, F-35, all are based on fighting some Russian style superfoe when anyone that fits that description already has nukes which means instead the most we'll get is Vietnam style proxy wars where all that tech isn't worth jack shit!
If it were me the Ford would be the last carrier for at least 20 years (The next largest military has 2 to our 11) and look to make the drones easy to launch from what we have, cancel the F-35 and replace it with the Stealth Eagle, and I would take the savings and buy F-15s and F-16s for the USAF and F-18s for the Navy. I would also seriously look into building more warthogs as in a Vietnam style proxy war having a slow craft that can loiter for long times and bring devastating firepower would be a great asset and our warthogs are simply too few and getting too old.
On the ground side...sigh. There really isn't anything truly great there. As you point out the Stryker sucks, the M1 is deadly but blows through gas like the Tiger Is, frankly what we need is a modern Sherman, something solid and reliable with a decent range and easy to repair. Maybe we should do like the Israelis and think drone vehicles. You could build them small and light, since you are worried about a crew, and with a combo of the Vulcan and TOWs even a small vehicle can do serious damage.
sadly instead its gonna be Vietnam all over again, where we have crap breaking everywhere and guys getting killed because our technoturkeys simply aren't built for proxy wars. you watch, i bet the F-22 and F-35 never even get used in combat, we'll have so few and they'll be so expensive I doubt the military will even risk them. Meanwhile the Israelis will be racking up kills in F-15 and F-16 fighters like there is no tomorrow. If you ask me that is where the money should go, not more overpriced MIC technoturkeys.
Nope never had one burn yet thank goodness. BTW you don't have to stock up, both Fred's and Family dollar carry incandescent bulbs (made in china of course) and they are actually pretty good, last longer than the last couple of gens of Made in USA bulbs I had and they are 4 for a buck. At that price I keep a couple of extra boxes but just in case i have a bulb blow at 3AM or a neighbor comes knocking asking for a bulb.
Again you just can't do the old Huck Finn "paint the fence" trick with bug hunts because 1.-You have to have someone with the skills and training to know how to go line by line through code and to ID and fix the bugs they find and 2.-People smart enough to do that are gonna know a shit job when they see one.
Here I'll give you one that theoretically should be able to be done by ANYONE, even a non coder...docs and help files. The docs and help files are fucking TERRIBLE in Linux, the ones that aren't simply a copypasta of CLI switches with ZERO explanation are often nothing but a simple placeholder. Now this job should be able to be done by anyone, so why isn't it done if so many care about FLOSS? Because people don't do shit work for free and that's a fact. that's why you still can't pause a video in VLC by clicking on it even though everyone else (hell even WMP and they've never been ahead of the curve) has had it for ages, its because it'll be a PITA to code, it works as it is, so its a "WILL NOT FIX" and that is that.
And your comparison to Google again doesn't work because you read the stories from those early days and its a lot like Apple in that most of them believed in Page and Brin and NOT were just jazzed about doing free search engine work. Also most believed that Brin and Page had a great idea for a company and wanted in on the ground floor so they were getting compensated in other ways.
Like I said in the end you just can't beat human nature, not on a scale required for an OS or other large scale project. Ask someone to paint you a picture for free you'll probably get a few to choose from, some will probably be quite good, ask someone to come clean your busted shitter for free and you'll find that shitter will stay busted for eternity friend. Hell look at any bugtracker and see how many bugs are YEARS old, some of them on the Ubuntu bug tracker have been on there since 2006! People just won't do shit work for free friend, they just won't. You find a way to get people with enough skills to do bug hunts and regression testing and QA to work for free you better patent that shit and start your own business because you can be the next Steve Jobs, but many like Shuttleworth and the last head of Sun before the buyout thought they could pull it off and they failed. Good luck.
Actually anybody who has cleaned lots of infected PCs frankly has already seen it thanks to the "clickjack" bugs and their variants. I've seen plenty of those bugs that will just spray the screen with tons of sleazy topsites to get their clicks up and a lot of those thumbnails on those topsites? Fucking gross.
This is just common sense because one can see something on the net they are not hunting for. How many here have been Rickrolled? two girls? Hell there was a sick troll that hung around HERE a few years back that would put links to CP images as his version of a Rickroll just to show he didn't worry about shit with his "7 proxies". Whether those that like the red scare we have going on around CP accept it or not there are plenty of easy ways to end up seeing something you REALLY didn't want to see. I know I sure as hell didn't click on a Lemon party or Tubgirl link on purpose, thanks.
Another thing people forget to look at with older systems is heat and the increased costs in AC for running an old power hog. I had a company that was "getting by" on those piggy Prescott P4 and big old CRTs so I told the boss "Just buy two machines and see if you see a difference and then we can see about changing out the office" and I swapped out those two piggies for a couple of 19 inch LCDs with an E350 mini unit mounted behind it.
Well it wasn't two weeks later he was coming in to work out a plan to replace every unit just because he saw how much cooler it was in those two rooms than in the other offices and how much quieter it was. Even after bumping up those that said they needed more power to quads he told me a few months later he saw both his need for cooling and his electric bill both go down just by getting rid of the piggies.
So sometimes it can really help to get rid of older tech if that older tech is power sucking, I know that getting rid of those Pentium Ds and CRT hand me downs the boys were playing on for more modern multicores with flat panels certainly dropped our cooling bills. You just don't realize how power hogging that gear is until you replace it.
Exactly, I put a couple of old ISA slotted PCs that once upon a time were my gaming PCs back into service out of my shed for a customer by slapping DOS 3 on them, why? Because he had an $85,000 CNC lathe by this company that had been out of business for ages and the only controller for it was this old ISA board that ran on DOS 3. And I have to say the software was actually pretty good, it was easy to use either prebuilt designs or mix and match to come up with new columns, and of course since this machine was already paid for and still ran great it was certainly a hell of a lot cheaper to buy my old gaming PCs (Sniff, my little Compaq DOOM player, they don't build 'em like that any more!) and last I heard they were still cranking out custom columns 5 days a week at his lumber business.
So I'd have to say I'm a big believer in "If it ain't broke" myself, heck my "nettop" at the shop is a 2004 1.8GHz Sempron that a customer traded in. Its VERY quiet, puts out almost no heat, and for what it needs to do, which is download drivers and look up parts? There really isn't any point in anything faster or fancier, hell with VLC it even makes a good DVD player so why replace it?
Fuck it, I'll take the hit as I'm always brutally honest...you wanna fix the whole problem? you do? then get rid of the gay fashion designers! Every designer I've seen picking those sickly bony bitches has been queer as a three dollar bill, which hey, you wanna be gay? Not a problem with that, but what I DO have a problem with is YOU choosing what is fashionable and sexy for women! That would be like picking a straight guy like me and expecting them to make guys look sexy...WTF?
To any gay fashion designers out there as a straight man, let me give y'all a little advice, mmmkay? WE LIKE TITS! Some (like me) prefer the gal to be natural, some don't care, but we ALL like some nice soft titties. Oh and butts is nice too, don't have to be no J-Lo park a 6 pack on 'em, but something nice and grab worthy is a plus.
But what you will find most men do NOT like is a woman that is so damned starved looking that when she takes a drink you can watch it moving like Slim Goodbody, that's gross. And have you ever been around a woman that damned starved for any length of time? Man ALL they do is bitch and whine and complain! There ain't nothing more bitchy on this entire planet than a starved female on some damned diet, let me tell you! And then when you finally get her to just eat a damned sandwich to STFU, who she gonna blame if she gained 1/16th of a ounce? that would be YOU!
Of course YOU ain't having to listen to that because you are going home to some dude that probably looks like Vin Diesel and would tell you to STFU if you said shit about how many calories he's got to put away to keep them big ass arms up. So do us straight guys a favor and just knock that shit off, okay? If you want something straight lined to hang them ugly ass fashions on go get one of them jap robots, then at least we guys can see "See sweetie, its just a damned robot so quit complaining about eating that damned rabbit food and try some of this BBQ" and won't have to worry about our women trying to look like them crackheads you been modeling, mmmkay?
Yes but saying your bad guys are "smart" helps to sell a game, look at how long Far Cry I was when it came to sales because all the reviewers gushed about how the AI would gang up on you. That still don't change the fact that what we have in the vast majority of games is AI frankly barely above Daikatana levels because AI is very very hard while piling nicer models or bigger booms is not.
That also don't change the fact that we haven't seen shit from our MIC that wasn't massively over budget and underperforming in years. As one pointed out on another thread the reason we stopped short of Baghdad in GWI was that the M1 blew through so much gas the things would run dry chasing 50 year old Soviet tanks that could go twice as far on a tank, why? because they spent all the money on fancy guns and big motors and didn't look at logistics. Now to expect the same bunch of bozos that can't build a plane that can fly across the date line without shutting down to build skynet? Uh huh, not gonna happen. You'd end up with another trillion dollar turkey that would need a nuclear power plant to feed it while being dumber than a chess computer.
But would they have done all that work if they were told ahead of time they would never make a single cent? I think not. The reason tackle these problems in startups is they dream of having their own business. Of course i doubt they ever thought they'd be one of the biggest corps on the planet but you know they hoped it would at least let them live comfortably.
Now again compare this to RMS equating getting paid anything as getting rich and therefor "bad" in one of his GPL diatribes. while he says you can make money selling GPL logically it ONLY works on the services model, and that is a corp centric server side niche. Again this is why you can go to any bug tracker and look at desktop software and see bugs that are years old, because corps don't care, money don't get paid, people don't do shit work for free, so it don't get done.
You can sugar coat it all you want friend but there is no way in hell to make bug hunts anything but long tedious shit jobs because that is what they are.
Not to mention you would literally need a "New World order" style government because the Internet is planetwide. This is why when you look at maps of cybercrime you have certain countries with more of the pie and others with less, such as Nigeria and the classic 419 and the USA with spam and Eastern EU tends to go for money laundering schemes and I hear is big on skimmers for ATMs.
The only way to stop a planetwide crime problem is a planetwide police force with the authority to go into any country and pretty much do any damned thing that they wanted in pursuit of criminals. Yeah....I don't really see that going over so well, especially when I can just not include Java in my new builds and not have the problem.
That also doesn't explain why Java sucks when it comes to exploits whereas other languages haven't been nearly as badly affected. Hell Java has had an autoupdate mechanism for HOW many years? Yet its still at the top of the pwned charts? Flash frankly has had less pwning and they only just recently gave the users an easy autoupdate so I think there be something wrong with Java. Maybe its sandboxing sucks, maybe its given too high a permission, not a Java guy so I don't know, but what I do know is its even easier than ever simply not to include it at all. Hell I haven't included Java in new builds in over 3 years and can't remember a single person asking me about it, and if it weren't for LO/OO.o frankly Java wouldn't ever be seen on any boxes coming in so I'll be glad when the LO guys remove Java dependencies.
No it doesn't because the cache is just a copy of the most used files so they are still there on the drive, all win 7 has to do is dump. Can you run with zero swap? yep, I've done it myself with win 7 and 8Gb on my netbook but I got tired of some of my legacy apps bitching because i didn't have a swapfile.
If you really want to run with a low swap size (personally I'd leave 1 to 2 Gb for those legacy apps myself) and you are on a laptop or netbook (as most are) simply add a cheap SDHC class 10 or better card into your card reader and use it for Readyboost and then drop the swap to however low you want to go or zero if that is what you want. Like I said the only problems i found were legacy apps that expected a minimum amount of swap but if all you are running is modern programs I doubt you'll have that problem. As an added bonus Readyboost will move all the small file I/Os to the SDHC which will give you a nice speed boost. I've found even with my 8Gb of RAM desktop having a 4Gb flash as a readyboost cache helps load my favorite games faster as all the small reads are done off the NAND and the large reads off the HDD.
So if all you want is a yes or no then the answer is a "yes but" and the but is legacy apps. don't have those? Then no problem as long as you have plenty of RAM or aren't doing a ton of tabs or apps at the same time. Looking at my desktop in perfmon I can see the swap usage is flatline 0% usage so I don't see why if you have 8Gb or better how swap would make a difference except again legacy apps.
Because what you have on many of these projects is a classic example of what I call the "busted shitter problem" in that we humans are naturally creative creatures, ask someone to paint you a picture or write a song for free? you'll probably find plenty that will do that because that doesn't "feel' like work. Now ask someone to come by and fix that overflowing shitter of yours and see how many show up, which will be NONE.
The reason bugs don't get fixed in these projects is simple and its the same reason all the lousy jobs like QA, regression testing, writing GOOD documentation, etc, aren't done and because those jobs are long, boring, lousy, and about as "fun" as cleaning up the puke at the Chuck E Cheese.
So the problem is gonna be how to motivate someone who is doing this on their own time for nothing to tackle the shit jobs and without some sort of monetary reward, be it bounties or bonuses or something I just don't see it happening. The reason bugs get fixed on the server side is because corps pay to have those bugs fixed, the reason Apple and MSFT get bugs fixed is because they pay hundreds of millions to teams to tackle such bugs, but there really is no motivation on free projects to tackle bugs that aren't complete show stoppers, see how you still can't pause a video in VLC by clicking on it even though that has been standard on other players for ages. it would be a PITA and since it works as is? The devs don't care.
I wish there was an answer but I just don't see one using the GPL model and with RMS' open hostility to developers (such as he equates making a living as "getting rich" in one of his diatribes) frankly I don't see it getting any better any time soon. what we need is everyone to tell RMS to stick the GPL and go to a "free to look at or modify the code, but if you distribute you have to pay" license otherwise i think the new devs coming out while simply go to the appstores and ignore FOSS completely.
That depends...how crappy are we talking here? Are we talking "MST3K pile in with your buds and laugh at it" crappy, or just boring? Because i can tell you while not a big movie buff I DID buy Kane & Lynch II Dog Days simply because the reviews were so TERRIBLE I figured i'd get an MST3K laugh out of it and for $4 new I figured WTF.
While it IS pretty funny to laugh at, nekked fat characters and horrible targeting (don't bother with anything but the shotgun because even at long ranges it'll beat the rifles) for those that like to MST3K a game I'd recommend "You Are Empty" by this little Russian developer. The cut scenes make NO sense and look like an outtake reel from The Ring, you have crazy Russian coots running at you going "Wooga booga" I swear its true, oh and you get attacked by 20 foot tall MUTANT CHICKENS! That alone was worth the $6!
so the moral is if you have a stinker don't go half ass, go full crapfest because if its bad enough you can always grab some buds an MST3K the hell out of it. Hell hire the MST3K guys and have them do a rifftrax for the theater, I'd be happy to go see a film with Joel and the bots ragging the shit out of it.
I would add that it also creates sales in other ways, take myself as an example. i heard this buzz on the net about this show that starred a soap actress and the guy from the Taster's Choice commercials. Now naturally that don't sound like my kind of show and wouldn't you know it no station in my area was carrying it anyway. But I downloaded the first 2 episodes and got hooked and now have the complete BTVS,Angel, and Firefly DVD collection (didn't care for Dollhouse) along with a couple of collectible figures given to me by my late sister to be bookends for them. That right there is over $600 in sales and I'll probably buy Avengers the second it comes out on DVD because its the same director. The only reason I won't go see it in theaters is because i can't deal with all the damned talking and cell phones going off which is bad in my area.
Would I have bought them without trying the show first? Not a chance in hell, like I said its description frankly didn't sound appealing, but because i could download a few episodes to preview I bought all those DVD box sets and will go see any movies he directs.
Your points would be correct IF we had a free market, but we don't, we have government controlled monopolies. See copyrights being so long your great grandchildren will be dead before this movie leaves copyright (if it ever does) and the cartel pricing of movie theaters (ever wonder why nobody tries to undercut the ticket prices to draw more crowds? its because they CAN'T because they will be banned by the cartels from getting any prints) and your arguments simply don't hold water.
What we are talking about is frankly one of the most simple tenants of economics, if you price an item too high and use artificial scarcity to control those prices then a black market WILL arise to service those customers you ignore. Instead of following the Henry Ford model of classical capitalism, IE sell it cheap and crank them out, instead you have a bunch of MBAs (Masters of Being Assholes) that figure out what the absolute limit is and try to charge at that price or even above. You wanna know why piracy exists MAFIAA? Look in the mirror, you don't offer the customers what they want at a price they can afford.
If you were smart you'd do like Valve has with Steam, where they sell it cheap and crank it out but that wouldn't allow you to screw over the consumers like you screw the artists with Hollywood Accounting (which if EVER there existed a reason for an antitrust investigation that would be it) while making record profits. In the end the only ones you hurt are yourselves, no amount of propaganda is gonna make the public turn on piracy simply because your prices are too high. Many former game pirates that I know switched to Steam simply because it allows them to get games quickly at an easily affordable price point.
But as long as the means of distribution and copyrights are controlled by the cartels friend then your argument simply does not hold because there is no real chance for competition to spring up and lower the prices. This is the main point of a cartel after all, to control access so only those that are part of the cartels have any real chance of success.
Is the paranoia finally starting to get to you? Notice any...glitches..in your net lately? might want to watch out because the MSFT ninjas are out in their black helicopters looking for you...BOO! LOL if there is anyone MSFT should cut a check to its tinfoil hatters like you that make the entire Linux community a laughing stock that nobody pays attention about anymore because you are all so damned batshit .
Actually I'd argue that at least on x86 we don't even have to worry about bloatware anymore because we are up to our asses in cheap RAM. I mean I used to be insane about lowering memory footprint, I'd go to all the sites, learn what services are required for specific tasks and then write batch scripts to turn them on and off when needed, etc and now? I've got all the bling on (except for those stupid windows animations, I hate that zooming crap) and I really don't care because in resmon I've got over 6Gb being used for cache because even with everything turned on there is no way for the OS and services to even take a fourth of what I've got! Hell I slapped 8Gb of RAM in my little E350 netbook because it was a whole $6 difference between 4Gb and 8Gb so WTF, why settle for less?
Frankly these kids don't know how good they have got it, to them swap is some legacy crap that never gets used not something to have to worry about like us old timers did. Hell my youngest boy's hand me down PC has 4Gb of RAM and his GPU has more RAM on it than my first 4 PCs put together! So while I'm all for these changes, especially if they lower power usage so that tablets can end up with assloads of RAM I do have to wonder if there is any point in it for those of us who are already swimming in the stuff. Now get off my lawn!
Sorry Belits but the USSR did collapse under the effort of paying for the military, just not in a dollars and cents kinda way. It collapsed because so much of its limited production capacity was diverted to the military there were huge lines for everything from shoes to toilet paper and one could bribe another with lipstick or fancy foods simply because they were so hard to come by they were quite valuable.
This is outlined and explained with the figures here but I'll quote one of the relevant bits "Soviet leaders since the late 1920s have emphasized military production over investment in the civilian economy. As a result, the Soviet Union has produced some of the world's most advanced armaments, although it has been unable to produce basic consumer goods of satisfactory quality or in sufficient quantities" end quote.
So I'm afraid it WAS military spending that caused the collapse, but it was in using up industrial capacity not in money. Oh and I vote independent so you can put away your "republican propaganda' brush.
Uh huh...you DO know we spend upwards of 100 million on a triple A rated game and are damned lucky if the "AI" doesn't run into walls or parks its moronic ass right in the middle of a field with zero cover to get picked off while it stands there with a thumb up its ass, yes?
While I'm sure you are just trying to make a long winded skynet joke frankly we are so far away from AI that is as smart as a drunk rat it ain't even funny, much less being able to build something that was smart enough not to drool on its circuits. When these bunches talk about "AI" they are talking about the boring "fly in a straight line for 20 hours" kinda thing, maybe if you are lucky you program in enough to avoid bad weather.
So sorry friend, but we are about a billion times more likely to be wiped out by a "My God says to spread this virus in the name of Holy war Ai ai ai e!" than to actually make something smart enough to actually hurt us in more than an ED209 "Oh shit everybody duck because its fried a circuit again!" kinda way. Sorry I can't find the link but I heard they actually lost a couple at a test range in South Africa thanks to an ED209 style fuckup.
Hell if the contractors in other nations are like ours they'll piss trillions away only to be given in return a half assed barely functional technotoy that will be lucky if it can fly to the left without having its CPU lock when it cross a time zone. We have blown a trillion and can't get the F35 into production, you think these same bunch of bozos in the MIC could give us a T-101? If they managed to get even a T-1 that went more than 15 minutes without having a breakdown or shooting itself (or everybody around it including itself) they would consider it mission accomplished and ask for bonuses.
We better hope like hell there ain't a war with China because i have a feeling it'd be WWII all over again, only we'd be Germany with these contractors cranking out beautiful but PITA aircraft that's a bitch to keep in the air while the Chinese will just crank out MiG knockoffs like a Henry Ford assembly line.
What is sad is how little you seem to know about ARM which has no ASLR except in ICS and it has been found wanting so YES YOU CAN screw the boot sector by simply writing to the correct memory address (which since we are talking hundreds of thousands of identical handsets isn't hard) but since you are such the brainiac perhaps you'd like to tell the engineers at Google they are idiots since they are doing the EXACT SAME THING as MSFT? quote "Google claimed that Chrome OS would be the most secure consumer operating system due in part to a verified boot ability, in which the initial boot code, stored in read-only memory, checks for system compromises" unquote. But hey, what can one expect with troll in their name except trolling.
The ONLY difference between MSFT's version and Google's is that Google has a "dev mode" that will cripple the security while leaving it open to develop on, MSFT has VS so didn't bother with a switch. But hey, if your argument was correct then how do you explain that EVERY OS has malware? Are they ALL soooo stupid they haven't ever heard of defense in depth? or maybe, just maybe, it doesn't work on social engineering which is where all the malware comes from, dumbass.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry AC but you are wrong as the AMD 286 ran at 20 and the harris clone ran at 25 so it was only the intel 286 that didn't clock that high. Sigh...am i the only one that misses the days of common sockets when you could just drop in whatever you wanted? didn't have Intel money? drop in an AMD, was only doing office work? Then Cyrix was for you...I miss that.
Do they ASK the user before they do it? If yes then I'm all for it and if not then the guy that got labeled a troll got a bum rap. Remember folks that BOTH Apple and MSFT are pushing for an app store model that will give them unprecedented control, so if one doesn't draw lines in the sand now frankly you may not get a chance to later.
Ultimately it should be the USER that gets to decide what stays and goes and lets be honest, we are talking about a single pop up with an explanation and a yes/no box, really not that hard to code folks.
Was it Firefox? The reason I ask is I'm not picking on FF but about a year ago I kept having customers weird emails that was just some gibberish and a single link. after some investigating it turned out when yahoo switched over to their new layout it was trivially easy to pop up a hidden iFrame that would let them log into yahoo and spam your yahoo address book with FF. Lucky it was just the usual "Buy our natural viagra!" kinda spam but what if it would have been CP? Just shows how stupid the law was before because someone would have just said "Hey I got an email from joe" and click on the link and by the law they were now a criminal.
anyway I'd like to know if it was FF because while I've switched my Win 7 users to Dragon or chrome (since it has low rights mode and FF don't) I still have some XP customers that prefer FF and would like to have a heads up if there is a new bug I haven't heard about, also got a couple of Opera users and one Safari guy so knowledge of which browser bit you would at least let me give a heads up to whomever is using that browser, thanks.
The thing that pisses me off is when we went waaaay the fuck off on a tangent and started equating cartoons and stories as the same as actual people...WTF? I'm sorry, but there is no other way to put it, that is thoughtcrime. When someone puts pen and ink together and creates their thoughts into either images or words and you jail them for it? Well FUCK YOU you fascist bastards you have crossed a line. We have so far thrown people into prison for anime, for badly drawn simpsons dirty toons, and for putting their thoughts on paper not once but twice..WTF people? I don't see how ANYONE can defend that shit.
Uhhh...but doesn't that entail putting it into "dev mode" and crippling the security? I wouldn't call it much of a "choice" if it cripples the security which is kinda the whole selling point of Chromebooks. Frankly I never got the whole Chromebook concept anyway, I mean...who is it for EXACTLY? The ones i saw cost as much or more than a full netbook which had more space and more features than the Chromebook which is pretty much crippled if you are in an area without net access. Meh I'd say if you want similar features get one of the EEEs that has Expressgate built in which is an excellent Linux based OS similar to android with a ton of apps and 6 second booting.
As for this....who cares? How many here think Win 8 is NOT going to bomb?....crickets...yeah, thought so. I've tried the dev and consumer previews and the only word that comes to mind is "half assed" which when your competition is iOS and Android? NOT a word i should be thinking of. Windows users will probably stick with Win 7 and wait for the CULV chips in the pipe from AMD and Intel which are targeted at tablets and smartphone like devices so you can actually run Windows programs on windows (I know, what a concept right?) while those that need a mobile device in the tablet or smartphone form factor will most likely skip Win 8 for Android and iOS just like they skipped WinPhone 7. Hell even my 71 year old dad skipped WinPhone for Android and he has been using Windows since Windows 2 and still likes MSFT but said the feel when we were comparing the two was just not even funny and went with the HTC Android.
So I just don't get why anybody cares, Win 8 is already a butt of jokes so its like getting upset over Vista, I mean how many here actually WANT and will use Win 8? anybody? Bueller?
Actually the Sheridan itself was a clusterfuck, with a two piece ammo that sucked and its main barrel was really designed for a missile that wasn't worth a fuck.
But frankly since Vietnam all we have gotten is generals and MIC fighting the last war to disastrous results. The B-1, B-2, F-22, F-35, all are based on fighting some Russian style superfoe when anyone that fits that description already has nukes which means instead the most we'll get is Vietnam style proxy wars where all that tech isn't worth jack shit!
If it were me the Ford would be the last carrier for at least 20 years (The next largest military has 2 to our 11) and look to make the drones easy to launch from what we have, cancel the F-35 and replace it with the Stealth Eagle, and I would take the savings and buy F-15s and F-16s for the USAF and F-18s for the Navy. I would also seriously look into building more warthogs as in a Vietnam style proxy war having a slow craft that can loiter for long times and bring devastating firepower would be a great asset and our warthogs are simply too few and getting too old.
On the ground side...sigh. There really isn't anything truly great there. As you point out the Stryker sucks, the M1 is deadly but blows through gas like the Tiger Is, frankly what we need is a modern Sherman, something solid and reliable with a decent range and easy to repair. Maybe we should do like the Israelis and think drone vehicles. You could build them small and light, since you are worried about a crew, and with a combo of the Vulcan and TOWs even a small vehicle can do serious damage.
sadly instead its gonna be Vietnam all over again, where we have crap breaking everywhere and guys getting killed because our technoturkeys simply aren't built for proxy wars. you watch, i bet the F-22 and F-35 never even get used in combat, we'll have so few and they'll be so expensive I doubt the military will even risk them. Meanwhile the Israelis will be racking up kills in F-15 and F-16 fighters like there is no tomorrow. If you ask me that is where the money should go, not more overpriced MIC technoturkeys.
Nope never had one burn yet thank goodness. BTW you don't have to stock up, both Fred's and Family dollar carry incandescent bulbs (made in china of course) and they are actually pretty good, last longer than the last couple of gens of Made in USA bulbs I had and they are 4 for a buck. At that price I keep a couple of extra boxes but just in case i have a bulb blow at 3AM or a neighbor comes knocking asking for a bulb.
Again you just can't do the old Huck Finn "paint the fence" trick with bug hunts because 1.-You have to have someone with the skills and training to know how to go line by line through code and to ID and fix the bugs they find and 2.-People smart enough to do that are gonna know a shit job when they see one.
Here I'll give you one that theoretically should be able to be done by ANYONE, even a non coder...docs and help files. The docs and help files are fucking TERRIBLE in Linux, the ones that aren't simply a copypasta of CLI switches with ZERO explanation are often nothing but a simple placeholder. Now this job should be able to be done by anyone, so why isn't it done if so many care about FLOSS? Because people don't do shit work for free and that's a fact. that's why you still can't pause a video in VLC by clicking on it even though everyone else (hell even WMP and they've never been ahead of the curve) has had it for ages, its because it'll be a PITA to code, it works as it is, so its a "WILL NOT FIX" and that is that.
And your comparison to Google again doesn't work because you read the stories from those early days and its a lot like Apple in that most of them believed in Page and Brin and NOT were just jazzed about doing free search engine work. Also most believed that Brin and Page had a great idea for a company and wanted in on the ground floor so they were getting compensated in other ways.
Like I said in the end you just can't beat human nature, not on a scale required for an OS or other large scale project. Ask someone to paint you a picture for free you'll probably get a few to choose from, some will probably be quite good, ask someone to come clean your busted shitter for free and you'll find that shitter will stay busted for eternity friend. Hell look at any bugtracker and see how many bugs are YEARS old, some of them on the Ubuntu bug tracker have been on there since 2006! People just won't do shit work for free friend, they just won't. You find a way to get people with enough skills to do bug hunts and regression testing and QA to work for free you better patent that shit and start your own business because you can be the next Steve Jobs, but many like Shuttleworth and the last head of Sun before the buyout thought they could pull it off and they failed. Good luck.
Actually anybody who has cleaned lots of infected PCs frankly has already seen it thanks to the "clickjack" bugs and their variants. I've seen plenty of those bugs that will just spray the screen with tons of sleazy topsites to get their clicks up and a lot of those thumbnails on those topsites? Fucking gross.
This is just common sense because one can see something on the net they are not hunting for. How many here have been Rickrolled? two girls? Hell there was a sick troll that hung around HERE a few years back that would put links to CP images as his version of a Rickroll just to show he didn't worry about shit with his "7 proxies". Whether those that like the red scare we have going on around CP accept it or not there are plenty of easy ways to end up seeing something you REALLY didn't want to see. I know I sure as hell didn't click on a Lemon party or Tubgirl link on purpose, thanks.
Another thing people forget to look at with older systems is heat and the increased costs in AC for running an old power hog. I had a company that was "getting by" on those piggy Prescott P4 and big old CRTs so I told the boss "Just buy two machines and see if you see a difference and then we can see about changing out the office" and I swapped out those two piggies for a couple of 19 inch LCDs with an E350 mini unit mounted behind it.
Well it wasn't two weeks later he was coming in to work out a plan to replace every unit just because he saw how much cooler it was in those two rooms than in the other offices and how much quieter it was. Even after bumping up those that said they needed more power to quads he told me a few months later he saw both his need for cooling and his electric bill both go down just by getting rid of the piggies.
So sometimes it can really help to get rid of older tech if that older tech is power sucking, I know that getting rid of those Pentium Ds and CRT hand me downs the boys were playing on for more modern multicores with flat panels certainly dropped our cooling bills. You just don't realize how power hogging that gear is until you replace it.
Exactly, I put a couple of old ISA slotted PCs that once upon a time were my gaming PCs back into service out of my shed for a customer by slapping DOS 3 on them, why? Because he had an $85,000 CNC lathe by this company that had been out of business for ages and the only controller for it was this old ISA board that ran on DOS 3. And I have to say the software was actually pretty good, it was easy to use either prebuilt designs or mix and match to come up with new columns, and of course since this machine was already paid for and still ran great it was certainly a hell of a lot cheaper to buy my old gaming PCs (Sniff, my little Compaq DOOM player, they don't build 'em like that any more!) and last I heard they were still cranking out custom columns 5 days a week at his lumber business.
So I'd have to say I'm a big believer in "If it ain't broke" myself, heck my "nettop" at the shop is a 2004 1.8GHz Sempron that a customer traded in. Its VERY quiet, puts out almost no heat, and for what it needs to do, which is download drivers and look up parts? There really isn't any point in anything faster or fancier, hell with VLC it even makes a good DVD player so why replace it?
Fuck it, I'll take the hit as I'm always brutally honest...you wanna fix the whole problem? you do? then get rid of the gay fashion designers! Every designer I've seen picking those sickly bony bitches has been queer as a three dollar bill, which hey, you wanna be gay? Not a problem with that, but what I DO have a problem with is YOU choosing what is fashionable and sexy for women! That would be like picking a straight guy like me and expecting them to make guys look sexy...WTF?
To any gay fashion designers out there as a straight man, let me give y'all a little advice, mmmkay? WE LIKE TITS! Some (like me) prefer the gal to be natural, some don't care, but we ALL like some nice soft titties. Oh and butts is nice too, don't have to be no J-Lo park a 6 pack on 'em, but something nice and grab worthy is a plus.
But what you will find most men do NOT like is a woman that is so damned starved looking that when she takes a drink you can watch it moving like Slim Goodbody, that's gross. And have you ever been around a woman that damned starved for any length of time? Man ALL they do is bitch and whine and complain! There ain't nothing more bitchy on this entire planet than a starved female on some damned diet, let me tell you! And then when you finally get her to just eat a damned sandwich to STFU, who she gonna blame if she gained 1/16th of a ounce? that would be YOU!
Of course YOU ain't having to listen to that because you are going home to some dude that probably looks like Vin Diesel and would tell you to STFU if you said shit about how many calories he's got to put away to keep them big ass arms up. So do us straight guys a favor and just knock that shit off, okay? If you want something straight lined to hang them ugly ass fashions on go get one of them jap robots, then at least we guys can see "See sweetie, its just a damned robot so quit complaining about eating that damned rabbit food and try some of this BBQ" and won't have to worry about our women trying to look like them crackheads you been modeling, mmmkay?
Yes but saying your bad guys are "smart" helps to sell a game, look at how long Far Cry I was when it came to sales because all the reviewers gushed about how the AI would gang up on you. That still don't change the fact that what we have in the vast majority of games is AI frankly barely above Daikatana levels because AI is very very hard while piling nicer models or bigger booms is not.
That also don't change the fact that we haven't seen shit from our MIC that wasn't massively over budget and underperforming in years. As one pointed out on another thread the reason we stopped short of Baghdad in GWI was that the M1 blew through so much gas the things would run dry chasing 50 year old Soviet tanks that could go twice as far on a tank, why? because they spent all the money on fancy guns and big motors and didn't look at logistics. Now to expect the same bunch of bozos that can't build a plane that can fly across the date line without shutting down to build skynet? Uh huh, not gonna happen. You'd end up with another trillion dollar turkey that would need a nuclear power plant to feed it while being dumber than a chess computer.
But would they have done all that work if they were told ahead of time they would never make a single cent? I think not. The reason tackle these problems in startups is they dream of having their own business. Of course i doubt they ever thought they'd be one of the biggest corps on the planet but you know they hoped it would at least let them live comfortably.
Now again compare this to RMS equating getting paid anything as getting rich and therefor "bad" in one of his GPL diatribes. while he says you can make money selling GPL logically it ONLY works on the services model, and that is a corp centric server side niche. Again this is why you can go to any bug tracker and look at desktop software and see bugs that are years old, because corps don't care, money don't get paid, people don't do shit work for free, so it don't get done.
You can sugar coat it all you want friend but there is no way in hell to make bug hunts anything but long tedious shit jobs because that is what they are.
Not to mention you would literally need a "New World order" style government because the Internet is planetwide. This is why when you look at maps of cybercrime you have certain countries with more of the pie and others with less, such as Nigeria and the classic 419 and the USA with spam and Eastern EU tends to go for money laundering schemes and I hear is big on skimmers for ATMs.
The only way to stop a planetwide crime problem is a planetwide police force with the authority to go into any country and pretty much do any damned thing that they wanted in pursuit of criminals. Yeah....I don't really see that going over so well, especially when I can just not include Java in my new builds and not have the problem.
That also doesn't explain why Java sucks when it comes to exploits whereas other languages haven't been nearly as badly affected. Hell Java has had an autoupdate mechanism for HOW many years? Yet its still at the top of the pwned charts? Flash frankly has had less pwning and they only just recently gave the users an easy autoupdate so I think there be something wrong with Java. Maybe its sandboxing sucks, maybe its given too high a permission, not a Java guy so I don't know, but what I do know is its even easier than ever simply not to include it at all. Hell I haven't included Java in new builds in over 3 years and can't remember a single person asking me about it, and if it weren't for LO/OO.o frankly Java wouldn't ever be seen on any boxes coming in so I'll be glad when the LO guys remove Java dependencies.
No it doesn't because the cache is just a copy of the most used files so they are still there on the drive, all win 7 has to do is dump. Can you run with zero swap? yep, I've done it myself with win 7 and 8Gb on my netbook but I got tired of some of my legacy apps bitching because i didn't have a swapfile.
If you really want to run with a low swap size (personally I'd leave 1 to 2 Gb for those legacy apps myself) and you are on a laptop or netbook (as most are) simply add a cheap SDHC class 10 or better card into your card reader and use it for Readyboost and then drop the swap to however low you want to go or zero if that is what you want. Like I said the only problems i found were legacy apps that expected a minimum amount of swap but if all you are running is modern programs I doubt you'll have that problem. As an added bonus Readyboost will move all the small file I/Os to the SDHC which will give you a nice speed boost. I've found even with my 8Gb of RAM desktop having a 4Gb flash as a readyboost cache helps load my favorite games faster as all the small reads are done off the NAND and the large reads off the HDD.
So if all you want is a yes or no then the answer is a "yes but" and the but is legacy apps. don't have those? Then no problem as long as you have plenty of RAM or aren't doing a ton of tabs or apps at the same time. Looking at my desktop in perfmon I can see the swap usage is flatline 0% usage so I don't see why if you have 8Gb or better how swap would make a difference except again legacy apps.
Because what you have on many of these projects is a classic example of what I call the "busted shitter problem" in that we humans are naturally creative creatures, ask someone to paint you a picture or write a song for free? you'll probably find plenty that will do that because that doesn't "feel' like work. Now ask someone to come by and fix that overflowing shitter of yours and see how many show up, which will be NONE.
The reason bugs don't get fixed in these projects is simple and its the same reason all the lousy jobs like QA, regression testing, writing GOOD documentation, etc, aren't done and because those jobs are long, boring, lousy, and about as "fun" as cleaning up the puke at the Chuck E Cheese.
So the problem is gonna be how to motivate someone who is doing this on their own time for nothing to tackle the shit jobs and without some sort of monetary reward, be it bounties or bonuses or something I just don't see it happening. The reason bugs get fixed on the server side is because corps pay to have those bugs fixed, the reason Apple and MSFT get bugs fixed is because they pay hundreds of millions to teams to tackle such bugs, but there really is no motivation on free projects to tackle bugs that aren't complete show stoppers, see how you still can't pause a video in VLC by clicking on it even though that has been standard on other players for ages. it would be a PITA and since it works as is? The devs don't care.
I wish there was an answer but I just don't see one using the GPL model and with RMS' open hostility to developers (such as he equates making a living as "getting rich" in one of his diatribes) frankly I don't see it getting any better any time soon. what we need is everyone to tell RMS to stick the GPL and go to a "free to look at or modify the code, but if you distribute you have to pay" license otherwise i think the new devs coming out while simply go to the appstores and ignore FOSS completely.
That depends...how crappy are we talking here? Are we talking "MST3K pile in with your buds and laugh at it" crappy, or just boring? Because i can tell you while not a big movie buff I DID buy Kane & Lynch II Dog Days simply because the reviews were so TERRIBLE I figured i'd get an MST3K laugh out of it and for $4 new I figured WTF.
While it IS pretty funny to laugh at, nekked fat characters and horrible targeting (don't bother with anything but the shotgun because even at long ranges it'll beat the rifles) for those that like to MST3K a game I'd recommend "You Are Empty" by this little Russian developer. The cut scenes make NO sense and look like an outtake reel from The Ring, you have crazy Russian coots running at you going "Wooga booga" I swear its true, oh and you get attacked by 20 foot tall MUTANT CHICKENS! That alone was worth the $6!
so the moral is if you have a stinker don't go half ass, go full crapfest because if its bad enough you can always grab some buds an MST3K the hell out of it. Hell hire the MST3K guys and have them do a rifftrax for the theater, I'd be happy to go see a film with Joel and the bots ragging the shit out of it.
I would add that it also creates sales in other ways, take myself as an example. i heard this buzz on the net about this show that starred a soap actress and the guy from the Taster's Choice commercials. Now naturally that don't sound like my kind of show and wouldn't you know it no station in my area was carrying it anyway. But I downloaded the first 2 episodes and got hooked and now have the complete BTVS,Angel, and Firefly DVD collection (didn't care for Dollhouse) along with a couple of collectible figures given to me by my late sister to be bookends for them. That right there is over $600 in sales and I'll probably buy Avengers the second it comes out on DVD because its the same director. The only reason I won't go see it in theaters is because i can't deal with all the damned talking and cell phones going off which is bad in my area.
Would I have bought them without trying the show first? Not a chance in hell, like I said its description frankly didn't sound appealing, but because i could download a few episodes to preview I bought all those DVD box sets and will go see any movies he directs.
Your points would be correct IF we had a free market, but we don't, we have government controlled monopolies. See copyrights being so long your great grandchildren will be dead before this movie leaves copyright (if it ever does) and the cartel pricing of movie theaters (ever wonder why nobody tries to undercut the ticket prices to draw more crowds? its because they CAN'T because they will be banned by the cartels from getting any prints) and your arguments simply don't hold water.
What we are talking about is frankly one of the most simple tenants of economics, if you price an item too high and use artificial scarcity to control those prices then a black market WILL arise to service those customers you ignore. Instead of following the Henry Ford model of classical capitalism, IE sell it cheap and crank them out, instead you have a bunch of MBAs (Masters of Being Assholes) that figure out what the absolute limit is and try to charge at that price or even above. You wanna know why piracy exists MAFIAA? Look in the mirror, you don't offer the customers what they want at a price they can afford.
If you were smart you'd do like Valve has with Steam, where they sell it cheap and crank it out but that wouldn't allow you to screw over the consumers like you screw the artists with Hollywood Accounting (which if EVER there existed a reason for an antitrust investigation that would be it) while making record profits. In the end the only ones you hurt are yourselves, no amount of propaganda is gonna make the public turn on piracy simply because your prices are too high. Many former game pirates that I know switched to Steam simply because it allows them to get games quickly at an easily affordable price point.
But as long as the means of distribution and copyrights are controlled by the cartels friend then your argument simply does not hold because there is no real chance for competition to spring up and lower the prices. This is the main point of a cartel after all, to control access so only those that are part of the cartels have any real chance of success.
Is the paranoia finally starting to get to you? Notice any...glitches..in your net lately? might want to watch out because the MSFT ninjas are out in their black helicopters looking for you...BOO! LOL if there is anyone MSFT should cut a check to its tinfoil hatters like you that make the entire Linux community a laughing stock that nobody pays attention about anymore because you are all so damned batshit .
Actually I'd argue that at least on x86 we don't even have to worry about bloatware anymore because we are up to our asses in cheap RAM. I mean I used to be insane about lowering memory footprint, I'd go to all the sites, learn what services are required for specific tasks and then write batch scripts to turn them on and off when needed, etc and now? I've got all the bling on (except for those stupid windows animations, I hate that zooming crap) and I really don't care because in resmon I've got over 6Gb being used for cache because even with everything turned on there is no way for the OS and services to even take a fourth of what I've got! Hell I slapped 8Gb of RAM in my little E350 netbook because it was a whole $6 difference between 4Gb and 8Gb so WTF, why settle for less?
Frankly these kids don't know how good they have got it, to them swap is some legacy crap that never gets used not something to have to worry about like us old timers did. Hell my youngest boy's hand me down PC has 4Gb of RAM and his GPU has more RAM on it than my first 4 PCs put together! So while I'm all for these changes, especially if they lower power usage so that tablets can end up with assloads of RAM I do have to wonder if there is any point in it for those of us who are already swimming in the stuff. Now get off my lawn!
Sorry Belits but the USSR did collapse under the effort of paying for the military, just not in a dollars and cents kinda way. It collapsed because so much of its limited production capacity was diverted to the military there were huge lines for everything from shoes to toilet paper and one could bribe another with lipstick or fancy foods simply because they were so hard to come by they were quite valuable.
This is outlined and explained with the figures here but I'll quote one of the relevant bits "Soviet leaders since the late 1920s have emphasized military production over investment in the civilian economy. As a result, the Soviet Union has produced some of the world's most advanced armaments, although it has been unable to produce basic consumer goods of satisfactory quality or in sufficient quantities" end quote.
So I'm afraid it WAS military spending that caused the collapse, but it was in using up industrial capacity not in money. Oh and I vote independent so you can put away your "republican propaganda' brush.
Uh huh...you DO know we spend upwards of 100 million on a triple A rated game and are damned lucky if the "AI" doesn't run into walls or parks its moronic ass right in the middle of a field with zero cover to get picked off while it stands there with a thumb up its ass, yes?
While I'm sure you are just trying to make a long winded skynet joke frankly we are so far away from AI that is as smart as a drunk rat it ain't even funny, much less being able to build something that was smart enough not to drool on its circuits. When these bunches talk about "AI" they are talking about the boring "fly in a straight line for 20 hours" kinda thing, maybe if you are lucky you program in enough to avoid bad weather.
So sorry friend, but we are about a billion times more likely to be wiped out by a "My God says to spread this virus in the name of Holy war Ai ai ai e!" than to actually make something smart enough to actually hurt us in more than an ED209 "Oh shit everybody duck because its fried a circuit again!" kinda way. Sorry I can't find the link but I heard they actually lost a couple at a test range in South Africa thanks to an ED209 style fuckup.
Hell if the contractors in other nations are like ours they'll piss trillions away only to be given in return a half assed barely functional technotoy that will be lucky if it can fly to the left without having its CPU lock when it cross a time zone. We have blown a trillion and can't get the F35 into production, you think these same bunch of bozos in the MIC could give us a T-101? If they managed to get even a T-1 that went more than 15 minutes without having a breakdown or shooting itself (or everybody around it including itself) they would consider it mission accomplished and ask for bonuses.
We better hope like hell there ain't a war with China because i have a feeling it'd be WWII all over again, only we'd be Germany with these contractors cranking out beautiful but PITA aircraft that's a bitch to keep in the air while the Chinese will just crank out MiG knockoffs like a Henry Ford assembly line.
What is sad is how little you seem to know about ARM which has no ASLR except in ICS and it has been found wanting so YES YOU CAN screw the boot sector by simply writing to the correct memory address (which since we are talking hundreds of thousands of identical handsets isn't hard) but since you are such the brainiac perhaps you'd like to tell the engineers at Google they are idiots since they are doing the EXACT SAME THING as MSFT? quote "Google claimed that Chrome OS would be the most secure consumer operating system due in part to a verified boot ability, in which the initial boot code, stored in read-only memory, checks for system compromises" unquote. But hey, what can one expect with troll in their name except trolling.
The ONLY difference between MSFT's version and Google's is that Google has a "dev mode" that will cripple the security while leaving it open to develop on, MSFT has VS so didn't bother with a switch. But hey, if your argument was correct then how do you explain that EVERY OS has malware? Are they ALL soooo stupid they haven't ever heard of defense in depth? or maybe, just maybe, it doesn't work on social engineering which is where all the malware comes from, dumbass.