Because this is not a security problem and anyone who knows anything about security knows that.
Security through obscurity is meaningless. Having a reverseable obfuscated password is not "encrypting" the password.
The whole premise is total nonsense. If a password is saved on a device, and can be retrieved and transmitted with no user interaction, then it is not encrypted. If user interaction is required, then why save the password at all.
Netflix has comitted support to Chrome OS. Chrome OS is simply Linux. In fact there is a Netflix Chrome plugin floating around in the wild right now that supposedly works.
Maybe Mozilla should focus on making a useable Android browser, before trying to re-invent the OS.... Firefox for Android is abhorrent compared to the built-in Webkit browser.
You have to factor in more than the part cost when deciding to reapir something. When you add up dissassembly, troubleshooting, replacement, and re-assembly, you couldeasily be spending 8-10 hours to repair an LCD.
Add in $50 in parts, and you are valuing your free time at $50 / hour. I certainly value my free time higher than that.
While this is true, that a few apps mess up the behaviour of the back button, at least the back button exists. I'd rather have a back button that works 75% of the time than not have one at all and have to constantly guess.
The argument still holds. Anyone who has spent any actual time in iOS can not with a straight face argue that the look of one app to the next is in any way consistent. They are all over the map. By contrast most all Android apps (aside from ones ported from iOS) have a very consistent look, thanks namely due to the app platform.
The reason your parents sent a TV for repairs had a lot less to do with how well they were built, than how much TVs cost (WRT someone's salary). A TV used to be a MAJOR PURCHASE - along the likes of an appliance. When my parents bought a new 27 inch set back in '91, they spent $499. I remember this price because I went to help them pick it up. Nowadays you can get a very decent 42" set for $400. That's a way better set, for 20% LESS money, despite over 20 years of inflation.
TVs are comparatively cheap nowadays - very cheap. Did your parents send a toaster oven out for repair? No, they just bought a new one. A TV costs the same in today's dollars as a toaster oven in 90's dollars.
I always laugh at iOS people who talk about a "unified UI".
Tell me, how do you return to the previous screen, in an iOS application? You can't, because ever app does it differently. In Android, you *always* hit the back button.
How do you bring up preferences for every iOS application? Again, they all do it differently. In Android, it is *always* the menu button.
In fact, pretty much every single iOS application does everything differently - they throw buttons and menus all over the place. Sometimes it is top left, sometimes top right, sometimes it is press and hold... it's nearly random. And there is seldom any visual cues to figure it out either, it is pretty much random guesswork.
The main problem with WebOS is the same main problem with iOS... it only runs on one platform. As such, it is doomed to failure. Android has become the Windows of the smartphone world. The hardware platform manufacturer is now nothing but a commodity.
The lectures are done in class. They kids don't have to view them at home, they simple CAN if they want a refresher. They can do the same at the school itself after hours, or the public library.
Seriously. People think they can have it all these days.
Why should you get to live in the country, pay super low taxes, and have someone else in the city pay super high taxes to subsidize YOUR high speed?
Move to the country and pay for your own broadband hookup. Or live with satellite access. Or stay in the city. But don't ask for my tax dollars to pick up the bill for your personal choice to live in an inefficient location.
I am fairly liberal, and I disagree 100% with your above statement.
You can not compare people who live in rural areas with minorities - for the simple reason that they CHOOSE TO LIVE THERE. No one is forcing people in rural Alabama to live there vs. in the city - and frankly I find it offensive that someone who lives in the city has to subsidize high speed internet for someone who doesn't, considering these people also pay far lower property taxes.
If they want high speed in rural areas, then they should raise property taxes in these areas to pay for it - not levy it on others who choose to live more efficient lifestyles in the city.
Before Google Plus is ready for prime time, Google has a few things they really need to fix with the service
- Make +1 make sense. Currently pages you or others "+1" do not even appear in the stream. They're on a totally different page. This makes the +1 button useless.
- Either get rid of Buzz, or integrate it. it's currently nonsensical that Google is running both, yet Buzz updates don't go into your G+ stream.
- Integration with Google Reader. It sure would be nice if things from my Google Reader showed up in my G+ stream, because then you wouldn't have to leave, and it would facilitate simple sharing. This was a big oversight.
- "Sparks" (AKA Google News) needs to be in your stream. The current implementation is not useful.
- Gate for twitter. Google already has this with Buzz, why on earth did they release G+ without it, I have no clue. It makes me use G+ less because I now have to update two things.
Basically - Google needs to get as much into that stream as possible, and allow the user to filter by subsections if they want - NOT force the data into it's own little islands.
The international criminal court and international criminal tribunals have a pretty big problem in the fact that neither of them are recognized by the the world's current lone superpower.
The US does not recognize either of these bodies. That is a pretty fundamental problem for a supposedly international organization.
This is why anyone serious about security uses TrueCrypt or other encryption systems which have plausible deniability built in. If she was using TrueCrypt, she could give them the password they are looking for, without revealing ANYTHING about what is actually on the drive.
This is true. One of the best features Google+ has is the ability to disable re-sharing of your posts. This way when you post an update you can disable your friends from attributing it back to you.
Name one example please, of Google "leveraging their monopoly position to get marketshare in other areas".
Compare and contrast a few things
- Microsoft forced users to install IE. They shipped it with the OS and did not allow you to not install it. Furthermore, they wrote key web properties of theirs like OWA and Windows Update to only function in IE.
- Whereas, if you go to Google.com or YouTube.com, the word Chrome is not even mentioned most of the time. Sometimes, OCCASIONALLY, they have a link to download it. But they don't make the site ONLY work in Chrome, or make portions not work in other browsers - even though they EASILY could.
- Microsoft shipped Hotmail integrated into Windows Outlook Express and Windows Messenger, which also both ship with windows.
- Google doesn't EVER even have advertisements for GMail on their home page or result pages, even though they easily could.
- Microsoft is using their Xbox 360 platform to push Windows Phone with forced advertisements spewed throughout your dashboard, and things like giving Windows Phones to your Avatar. And also not allowing other phone platforms to access Xbox Live! data.
- Google doesn'r EVER even have advertisements for Android on their home page or result pages, even though they easily could. They don't make any of their properties not render on other phones, even though they easily could. And they don't lock down any of their web APIs to Android only, even though they easily could.
Does anyone have an example of a single instance where Google used it's dominance in one area of the market to unfairly achieve dominance in another? Because that is the definition of Anti-trust. Simply being very good at your market, or entering a lot of markets, does not define anti-trust.
I can't even really THINK of two markets Google is dominant in. They have their fingers in a lot of pies, sure, but the only market they are really dominant in is search/online advertising.
And even if you consider them a dominant player in the mobile market - I can hardly see how you could claim that they used their dominance in search to achieve that. I don't recall ever going to Google.com and them pushing me to buy an Android phone. Them achieving dominance there is purely due to having a superior product.
Microsoft on the other-hand.... every friggin time I log into Xbox live or any of their online properties, windows phone is shoved in my face. Google could easily be doing this, but they don't.
Most engineers know next to nothing about marketing and sales... to the degree that they actually despise interacting with customers. You can have the best product in the world, but if no one knows about it, your business will fail. Consistently in this world, inferior products with better marketing win over superior products. You have to know how to get your name out there, and how to get people to buy your stuff.
Twitter is not like facebook. The incredible majority of Tweets are not sent and recieved via Twitter.com, they are done via standalone apps.
I am a pretty heavy twitter user, but unless they are somehow going to implement this "wall" in API form and allow my SilverBird extension to access it, I will never even know it exists.
The thing companies seem to fail to understand is, if someone is CALLING YOU, especially in 2011, then their question / answer is LIKELY COMPLEX. If my query could be answered via a Google search or my transaction be done on your website, then why the F do you think I would be calling you? No, I am calling you because it is something only a human can do, so get me to a freaking human ASAP.
Yes, it is true that we used to be the tech-savvy minorty. This is no longer the case. Who does not bank online? Who doesn't pay their bills online? If you bank online and are calling the bank, what on earth could you be calling about that could be done by a robo-call? Nothing.
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The argument can be made that it is much cheaper to buy a $200 PC and throw it in the trash every 3 months than buy a $500 one with "3 year support".
The sad truth is the support that comes with most PCs and software is usually under-utilized and seldom needed.
Because this is not a security problem and anyone who knows anything about security knows that.
Security through obscurity is meaningless. Having a reverseable obfuscated password is not "encrypting" the password.
The whole premise is total nonsense. If a password is saved on a device, and can be retrieved and transmitted with no user interaction, then it is not encrypted. If user interaction is required, then why save the password at all.
... thanks to Chome OS.
Netflix has comitted support to Chrome OS. Chrome OS is simply Linux. In fact there is a Netflix Chrome plugin floating around in the wild right now that supposedly works.
Maybe Mozilla should focus on making a useable Android browser, before trying to re-invent the OS.... Firefox for Android is abhorrent compared to the built-in Webkit browser.
You have to factor in more than the part cost when deciding to reapir something. When you add up dissassembly, troubleshooting, replacement, and re-assembly, you couldeasily be spending 8-10 hours to repair an LCD.
Add in $50 in parts, and you are valuing your free time at $50 / hour. I certainly value my free time higher than that.
Well for one, when you install an application for the first time, it is nice to know how to navigate it.
While this is true, that a few apps mess up the behaviour of the back button, at least the back button exists. I'd rather have a back button that works 75% of the time than not have one at all and have to constantly guess.
That is mostly irrelevant because a) It is not free to license (compared to Android), and b) HP doesn't license it at all, anyway
The argument still holds. Anyone who has spent any actual time in iOS can not with a straight face argue that the look of one app to the next is in any way consistent. They are all over the map. By contrast most all Android apps (aside from ones ported from iOS) have a very consistent look, thanks namely due to the app platform.
The reason your parents sent a TV for repairs had a lot less to do with how well they were built, than how much TVs cost (WRT someone's salary). A TV used to be a MAJOR PURCHASE - along the likes of an appliance. When my parents bought a new 27 inch set back in '91, they spent $499. I remember this price because I went to help them pick it up. Nowadays you can get a very decent 42" set for $400. That's a way better set, for 20% LESS money, despite over 20 years of inflation.
TVs are comparatively cheap nowadays - very cheap. Did your parents send a toaster oven out for repair? No, they just bought a new one. A TV costs the same in today's dollars as a toaster oven in 90's dollars.
I always laugh at iOS people who talk about a "unified UI".
Tell me, how do you return to the previous screen, in an iOS application? You can't, because ever app does it differently. In Android, you *always* hit the back button.
How do you bring up preferences for every iOS application? Again, they all do it differently. In Android, it is *always* the menu button.
In fact, pretty much every single iOS application does everything differently - they throw buttons and menus all over the place. Sometimes it is top left, sometimes top right, sometimes it is press and hold... it's nearly random. And there is seldom any visual cues to figure it out either, it is pretty much random guesswork.
Android is far, far more consistent than iOS.
The main problem with WebOS is the same main problem with iOS... it only runs on one platform. As such, it is doomed to failure. Android has become the Windows of the smartphone world. The hardware platform manufacturer is now nothing but a commodity.
The lectures are done in class. They kids don't have to view them at home, they simple CAN if they want a refresher. They can do the same at the school itself after hours, or the public library.
Seriously. People think they can have it all these days.
Why should you get to live in the country, pay super low taxes, and have someone else in the city pay super high taxes to subsidize YOUR high speed?
Move to the country and pay for your own broadband hookup. Or live with satellite access. Or stay in the city. But don't ask for my tax dollars to pick up the bill for your personal choice to live in an inefficient location.
I am fairly liberal, and I disagree 100% with your above statement.
You can not compare people who live in rural areas with minorities - for the simple reason that they CHOOSE TO LIVE THERE. No one is forcing people in rural Alabama to live there vs. in the city - and frankly I find it offensive that someone who lives in the city has to subsidize high speed internet for someone who doesn't, considering these people also pay far lower property taxes.
If they want high speed in rural areas, then they should raise property taxes in these areas to pay for it - not levy it on others who choose to live more efficient lifestyles in the city.
Before Google Plus is ready for prime time, Google has a few things they really need to fix with the service
- Make +1 make sense. Currently pages you or others "+1" do not even appear in the stream. They're on a totally different page. This makes the +1 button useless.
- Either get rid of Buzz, or integrate it. it's currently nonsensical that Google is running both, yet Buzz updates don't go into your G+ stream.
- Integration with Google Reader. It sure would be nice if things from my Google Reader showed up in my G+ stream, because then you wouldn't have to leave, and it would facilitate simple sharing. This was a big oversight.
- "Sparks" (AKA Google News) needs to be in your stream. The current implementation is not useful.
- Gate for twitter. Google already has this with Buzz, why on earth did they release G+ without it, I have no clue. It makes me use G+ less because I now have to update two things.
Basically - Google needs to get as much into that stream as possible, and allow the user to filter by subsections if they want - NOT force the data into it's own little islands.
The international criminal court and international criminal tribunals have a pretty big problem in the fact that neither of them are recognized by the the world's current lone superpower.
The US does not recognize either of these bodies. That is a pretty fundamental problem for a supposedly international organization.
This is why anyone serious about security uses TrueCrypt or other encryption systems which have plausible deniability built in. If she was using TrueCrypt, she could give them the password they are looking for, without revealing ANYTHING about what is actually on the drive.
This is true. One of the best features Google+ has is the ability to disable re-sharing of your posts. This way when you post an update you can disable your friends from attributing it back to you.
Name one example please, of Google "leveraging their monopoly position to get marketshare in other areas".
Compare and contrast a few things
- Microsoft forced users to install IE. They shipped it with the OS and did not allow you to not install it. Furthermore, they wrote key web properties of theirs like OWA and Windows Update to only function in IE.
- Whereas, if you go to Google.com or YouTube.com, the word Chrome is not even mentioned most of the time. Sometimes, OCCASIONALLY, they have a link to download it. But they don't make the site ONLY work in Chrome, or make portions not work in other browsers - even though they EASILY could.
- Microsoft shipped Hotmail integrated into Windows Outlook Express and Windows Messenger, which also both ship with windows.
- Google doesn't EVER even have advertisements for GMail on their home page or result pages, even though they easily could.
- Microsoft is using their Xbox 360 platform to push Windows Phone with forced advertisements spewed throughout your dashboard, and things like giving Windows Phones to your Avatar. And also not allowing other phone platforms to access Xbox Live! data.
- Google doesn'r EVER even have advertisements for Android on their home page or result pages, even though they easily could. They don't make any of their properties not render on other phones, even though they easily could. And they don't lock down any of their web APIs to Android only, even though they easily could.
I can name many many more examples.
Does anyone have an example of a single instance where Google used it's dominance in one area of the market to unfairly achieve dominance in another? Because that is the definition of Anti-trust. Simply being very good at your market, or entering a lot of markets, does not define anti-trust.
I can't even really THINK of two markets Google is dominant in. They have their fingers in a lot of pies, sure, but the only market they are really dominant in is search/online advertising.
And even if you consider them a dominant player in the mobile market - I can hardly see how you could claim that they used their dominance in search to achieve that. I don't recall ever going to Google.com and them pushing me to buy an Android phone. Them achieving dominance there is purely due to having a superior product.
Microsoft on the other-hand.... every friggin time I log into Xbox live or any of their online properties, windows phone is shoved in my face. Google could easily be doing this, but they don't.
Most engineers know next to nothing about marketing and sales... to the degree that they actually despise interacting with customers. You can have the best product in the world, but if no one knows about it, your business will fail. Consistently in this world, inferior products with better marketing win over superior products. You have to know how to get your name out there, and how to get people to buy your stuff.
I have heard there is an underground hacking community that tracks the locations of all caches worldwide... even down to the EXACT GPS coordinates!
Twitter is not like facebook. The incredible majority of Tweets are not sent and recieved via Twitter.com, they are done via standalone apps.
I am a pretty heavy twitter user, but unless they are somehow going to implement this "wall" in API form and allow my SilverBird extension to access it, I will never even know it exists.
The thing companies seem to fail to understand is, if someone is CALLING YOU, especially in 2011, then their question / answer is LIKELY COMPLEX. If my query could be answered via a Google search or my transaction be done on your website, then why the F do you think I would be calling you? No, I am calling you because it is something only a human can do, so get me to a freaking human ASAP.
Yes, it is true that we used to be the tech-savvy minorty. This is no longer the case. Who does not bank online? Who doesn't pay their bills online? If you bank online and are calling the bank, what on earth could you be calling about that could be done by a robo-call? Nothing.