But like I said, you can get around the mitigations. The best and only option should be to patch the vulnerability itself and not rely on something else to stop it.
For instance... QuadRooter, many devices are still vulnerable and won't be patched. The kernel itself is vulnerable, no amount of "Play" patches will fix this since it's a vulnerability much lower on the software stack than the "Play" services.
Same goes for Stagefright. You can mitigate some of the issues with this but mitigations can only go so far, you still need to patch the underlying library and again, no amount of "Play" patches will fix this since it's controlled by the vendor.
But if the exploit is in the kernel no amount of "Play" patches will fix it since the "Play" service is running on top of the kernel. You can't patch the kernel, only the vendor can.
You can control how many sub-processes are created by the browser using an entry at the about:config screen. If you set it to one it will only spawn one sub-process. This will of course negate the whole idea of having sub-processes since all tabs would be running in one rendering sub-process but it would fix your issue.
Why the hell can't they see how corrupt Hillary is? Why in God's name can't they see that? I just don't fucking understand it!
I just can't understand why. What is wrong with these people? Are they that fucking brain dead? Do they even have a brain to begin with?
We've seen all of the news, all of the leaks, all of the facts, all of the details and yet... What the fuck is wrong with these people? Hillary is the most corrupt bitch in Washington. If she became the President she would have destroyed this nation. TPP would have passed, nobody would be working, there would be no jobs left, everyone would be on welfare.
I don't want welfare! I want to work damn it! Give me a job where I can feel useful to society. I don't want to simply be sitting on a couch collecting money from the government, I want to work damn it! People during the Great Depression felt taking a handout from the government was beneath them, they wanted to work. Now, I don't understand it... people don't want to work, they just want free shit. No... no... no, I don't want free shit, I want to work for my stuff.
Why the hell does the left hate this country so much? Why are they so willing to watch this nation be destroyed? I can't wrap my mind around why they hate this nation so much that they would be willing to elect such a corrupt woman to be president. She would destroy this nation and every hard working American would be left poor as dirt. The Middle Class would be instantly destroyed under her reign of terror.
There have been studies for years that have proven that smoking kills. They have been called "cancer sticks" for decades. But regardless of the fact that people know that smoking kills people just keep on smoking and burning their money away.
But what do you do about the proprietary drivers that are often used by companies such as nVidia, ATi, Broadcom, and the various SoCs that are used in Android devices? Hell, I have a five year old router that's running TomatoUSB and it's still running kernel version 2.6.22.19 and there's no way to update the kernel without breaking the proprietary Broadcom SoC drivers that are needed for this router to work. Patches for security issues have to be back-ported to the 2.6.22 kernel and hope to God that the changes don't break the Broadcom drivers.
I hate to say this but this is one of the reasons why older Android devices don't get updated as well. New versions of Android made by Google are released with newer Linux kernels but this of course results in SoC drivers ending up getting broken.
That's basically the gist of it. If you look at the security bulletins that Apple publishes at here and compare the OS X El Capitan updates to the iOS updates more often than not the same fixes that made it into iOS are also part of the security release for OS X El Capitan.
iOS, WatchOS, and TVOS are all basically OS X under the hood except with a different GUI on top. Under the hood basically the same OS.
No, CyanogenMod was actually doing pretty well before a majority of Android devices started showing up on the scenes locked down like Fort Knox. Most if not all devices sold in the United States are locked down by the carriers with locked bootloaders and no way to get root because the carriers want to control everything (Verizon being the worst of them all).
The following devices are supported by iOS 9...
* iPad 2 (Released March 11, 2011, five years ago)
* iPad 3 (Released March 16, 2012, four years ago)
* iPad 4 (Released November 2, 2012, four years ago)
* iPad Air (Released November 1, 2013, three years ago)
* iPad Air 2 (Released October 22, 2014, two years ago)
* iPad mini (Released November 2, 2012, four years ago)
* iPad mini 2 (Released November 12, 2013, three years ago)
* iPad mini 3 (Released October 22, 2014, two years ago)
* iPad mini 4 (Released September 9, 2015, one year ago)
* iPhone 4s (Released October 14, 2011, five years ago)
* iPhone 5 (Released Sept. 21, 2012, four years ago)
* iPhone 5c (Released September 20, 2013, three years ago)
* iPhone 5s (Released September 20, 2013, three years ago)
* iPhone 6/6 Plus (Released September 19, 2014, two years ago)
* iPhone 6s/6s Plus (Released September 25, 2015, one year ago)
The oldest devices, the iPad 2 and iPhone 4s are still supported, five years later! Amazing, absolutely amazing! Whereas most Android OEMs give up on older devices after only a year because it's just too damn profitable to sell you a new device instead.
I don't understand how Google could have fixed this. You say that it was pushed via Google Play but how? It's a system-level binary, Google can't touch that; only an update from your particular Android OEM can fix this via an OTA update.
Oh oh, Google can push this or that via the Google Play services. WRONG! Google can update their own stuff, yes, I'm not denying that but if it's a system-level binary (like Stagefright) or kernel-related Google can't do shit about it! Meanwhile you have to sit and wait for your Android OEM to decide to grace your device with an OTA update to fix it all the while your device is vulnerable to whatever the exploit is.
Not only that but as Firefox continues to eat RAM like a pig the rendering speeds of the browser fall through the floor. What used to be nearly instantaneous to render takes at least a second of more time to render. You can see how the browser is choking on the memory load.
I guess that the reset tool is supposed to be more for the average user as versus someone who's more technically inclined. The reset tool sort of does it all in one shot without the user knowing how to do it.
It appears that this tool downloads Windows 10 installation media from Microsoft, reboots your system, wipes the whole of the OS, and reinstalls the entire OS from said downloaded installation media and after all is said and done, you have a completely clean system that has absolutely none of the OEM bloatware. It would be like you built your own system and installed a clean Windows installation. Sure, I don't discount the use of PC Decrapifier but even with that it can leave things behind since program uninstall tools can and do often leave pieces behind.
What is interesting is that when I bought a Lenovo notebook and did a clean install of Windows 10 the installation of the OS didn't at all ask for a CD key and when I got back into Windows after the installation it said that it was activated via an OEM license. Far better than how it was done in the past.
And watch Samsung do the same thing as Apple, remove the headphone jack. Hell, Intel has announced a new USB standard that supports audio over USB. Yep, what that standard gets ratified every device will drop the headphone jack. Just wait and see.
Yeah... it's amazing how many various ports/connectors/data buses that have been left on the side of the road when it comes to computer technology lately.
* Serial Port
* Parallel Port
* ISA
* VESA Local Bus
* PCMCIA
* AGP
* PCI
Just to name a few. All of them have been replaced with more modern connector types. Technology, it doesn't sit still; it's always evolving, getting better. More and more people want wireless now and Bluetooth offers that.
You can get a Bluetooth to headphone jack out (for the car's AUX port) converter for pretty cheap these days.
I have one myself that's a Bluetooth transceiver that allows me to use my Bluetooth Skullcandy headphones (way cheaper than Beats!) with my home entertainment system's headphone jack.
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But like I said, you can get around the mitigations. The best and only option should be to patch the vulnerability itself and not rely on something else to stop it.
For instance... QuadRooter, many devices are still vulnerable and won't be patched. The kernel itself is vulnerable, no amount of "Play" patches will fix this since it's a vulnerability much lower on the software stack than the "Play" services.
Same goes for Stagefright. You can mitigate some of the issues with this but mitigations can only go so far, you still need to patch the underlying library and again, no amount of "Play" patches will fix this since it's controlled by the vendor.
But if the exploit is in the kernel no amount of "Play" patches will fix it since the "Play" service is running on top of the kernel. You can't patch the kernel, only the vendor can.
You can control how many sub-processes are created by the browser using an entry at the about:config screen. If you set it to one it will only spawn one sub-process. This will of course negate the whole idea of having sub-processes since all tabs would be running in one rendering sub-process but it would fix your issue.
Why the hell can't they see how corrupt Hillary is? Why in God's name can't they see that? I just don't fucking understand it!
I just can't understand why. What is wrong with these people? Are they that fucking brain dead? Do they even have a brain to begin with?
We've seen all of the news, all of the leaks, all of the facts, all of the details and yet... What the fuck is wrong with these people? Hillary is the most corrupt bitch in Washington. If she became the President she would have destroyed this nation. TPP would have passed, nobody would be working, there would be no jobs left, everyone would be on welfare.
I don't want welfare! I want to work damn it! Give me a job where I can feel useful to society. I don't want to simply be sitting on a couch collecting money from the government, I want to work damn it! People during the Great Depression felt taking a handout from the government was beneath them, they wanted to work. Now, I don't understand it... people don't want to work, they just want free shit. No... no... no, I don't want free shit, I want to work for my stuff.
Why the hell does the left hate this country so much? Why are they so willing to watch this nation be destroyed? I can't wrap my mind around why they hate this nation so much that they would be willing to elect such a corrupt woman to be president. She would destroy this nation and every hard working American would be left poor as dirt. The Middle Class would be instantly destroyed under her reign of terror.
There have been studies for years that have proven that smoking kills. They have been called "cancer sticks" for decades. But regardless of the fact that people know that smoking kills people just keep on smoking and burning their money away.
You can't cure stupid.
But what do you do about the proprietary drivers that are often used by companies such as nVidia, ATi, Broadcom, and the various SoCs that are used in Android devices? Hell, I have a five year old router that's running TomatoUSB and it's still running kernel version 2.6.22.19 and there's no way to update the kernel without breaking the proprietary Broadcom SoC drivers that are needed for this router to work. Patches for security issues have to be back-ported to the 2.6.22 kernel and hope to God that the changes don't break the Broadcom drivers.
I hate to say this but this is one of the reasons why older Android devices don't get updated as well. New versions of Android made by Google are released with newer Linux kernels but this of course results in SoC drivers ending up getting broken.
You can't make this shit up, this shit's comedy gold.
That's basically the gist of it. If you look at the security bulletins that Apple publishes at here and compare the OS X El Capitan updates to the iOS updates more often than not the same fixes that made it into iOS are also part of the security release for OS X El Capitan.
iOS, WatchOS, and TVOS are all basically OS X under the hood except with a different GUI on top. Under the hood basically the same OS.
No, CyanogenMod was actually doing pretty well before a majority of Android devices started showing up on the scenes locked down like Fort Knox. Most if not all devices sold in the United States are locked down by the carriers with locked bootloaders and no way to get root because the carriers want to control everything (Verizon being the worst of them all).
The following devices are supported by iOS 9...
* iPad 2 (Released March 11, 2011, five years ago)
* iPad 3 (Released March 16, 2012, four years ago)
* iPad 4 (Released November 2, 2012, four years ago)
* iPad Air (Released November 1, 2013, three years ago)
* iPad Air 2 (Released October 22, 2014, two years ago)
* iPad mini (Released November 2, 2012, four years ago)
* iPad mini 2 (Released November 12, 2013, three years ago)
* iPad mini 3 (Released October 22, 2014, two years ago)
* iPad mini 4 (Released September 9, 2015, one year ago)
* iPhone 4s (Released October 14, 2011, five years ago)
* iPhone 5 (Released Sept. 21, 2012, four years ago)
* iPhone 5c (Released September 20, 2013, three years ago)
* iPhone 5s (Released September 20, 2013, three years ago)
* iPhone 6/6 Plus (Released September 19, 2014, two years ago)
* iPhone 6s/6s Plus (Released September 25, 2015, one year ago)
The oldest devices, the iPad 2 and iPhone 4s are still supported, five years later! Amazing, absolutely amazing! Whereas most Android OEMs give up on older devices after only a year because it's just too damn profitable to sell you a new device instead.
I don't understand how Google could have fixed this. You say that it was pushed via Google Play but how? It's a system-level binary, Google can't touch that; only an update from your particular Android OEM can fix this via an OTA update.
Oh oh, Google can push this or that via the Google Play services. WRONG! Google can update their own stuff, yes, I'm not denying that but if it's a system-level binary (like Stagefright) or kernel-related Google can't do shit about it! Meanwhile you have to sit and wait for your Android OEM to decide to grace your device with an OTA update to fix it all the while your device is vulnerable to whatever the exploit is.
Not only that but as Firefox continues to eat RAM like a pig the rendering speeds of the browser fall through the floor. What used to be nearly instantaneous to render takes at least a second of more time to render. You can see how the browser is choking on the memory load.
If Rust prevents people from doing stupid shit with their programming code, I'm all for it.
Not if your device has a locked boot loader like many of the US-based carrier-locked devices have.
I guess that the reset tool is supposed to be more for the average user as versus someone who's more technically inclined. The reset tool sort of does it all in one shot without the user knowing how to do it.
It appears that this tool downloads Windows 10 installation media from Microsoft, reboots your system, wipes the whole of the OS, and reinstalls the entire OS from said downloaded installation media and after all is said and done, you have a completely clean system that has absolutely none of the OEM bloatware. It would be like you built your own system and installed a clean Windows installation. Sure, I don't discount the use of PC Decrapifier but even with that it can leave things behind since program uninstall tools can and do often leave pieces behind.
What is interesting is that when I bought a Lenovo notebook and did a clean install of Windows 10 the installation of the OS didn't at all ask for a CD key and when I got back into Windows after the installation it said that it was activated via an OEM license. Far better than how it was done in the past.
Yeah... ideas are bad.
And watch Samsung do the same thing as Apple, remove the headphone jack. Hell, Intel has announced a new USB standard that supports audio over USB. Yep, what that standard gets ratified every device will drop the headphone jack. Just wait and see.
If you get an expensive pair of headphones that are $60+ or even more than $100, you want that pair of headphones to last a long time.
Yeah... it's amazing how many various ports/connectors/data buses that have been left on the side of the road when it comes to computer technology lately.
* Serial Port
* Parallel Port
* ISA
* VESA Local Bus
* PCMCIA
* AGP
* PCI
Just to name a few. All of them have been replaced with more modern connector types. Technology, it doesn't sit still; it's always evolving, getting better. More and more people want wireless now and Bluetooth offers that.
They plan on using the Lightning connector just like the current crop of iPhones use.
Watch Samsung and the other OEMs do the same thing, that is, remove the headphone jack. Monkey see, monkey do.
I've switched to using Bluetooth headphones myself, even with my computer. Most people I've seen have that Bluetooth band that wraps around the neck.
You can get a Bluetooth to headphone jack out (for the car's AUX port) converter for pretty cheap these days.
I have one myself that's a Bluetooth transceiver that allows me to use my Bluetooth Skullcandy headphones (way cheaper than Beats!) with my home entertainment system's headphone jack.