My cats can do things no two year old human can ever do. For one thing they have understanding of abstract spatial relationships and deep memory.
If my cats see something outside that goes behind a tree or around a corner they know instantly what other window in the house would now provide a better viewpoint, and rush to it. Even if that window is now on the opposite side of the house.
They fully understand that the picture they are looking at through the glass is actually another area outside the house they live in.
To me, that is pretty smart.
Oh plus they know how to open the drawers of my dresser and get in them to sleep and close them behind themselves. I still have not figured out how they do it really because I have never seen it in action, I only see the result.
I am not sure if you comprehend the idiocy of this policy - saying your employees are responsible for their own data backups in case you have to remote wipe the phone "to ensure data is kept safe"
How are you going to ensure that these employee data backups are kept safe? After all they will also contain all the phones contacts and confidential emails. Knowing most people they will just be on some random laptop or out in the clound someplace unencrypted.
The point being IMO if a company is going to enforce remote wiping they damn well also enforce their own backup policies and also enforce that the phone owner IS NOT ALLOWED to make their own backups.
The difference is the Market is not forced on anyone, not th emanufacturer, OR the end user.
With an AOSP ROM, anyone can download a.APK and install it on their phone.
Any lock-downs preventing this are due to the carrier, not Google. And frankly it is the norm outside the US to not prevent this. Only US carriers enable the option to prevent installing non-signed APKs and then remove it from the UI.
Google controls the Andoird Market. Sure, manufacturers can roll their own markets if they want, but they will always be dwarfed by the offical one. No one is going to buy an Android phone that does not have access to the market. And Google can cut off access to any manufacturer at any time if they get too in-bed with Baidu or Microsoft.
Not to mention, the first thing anyone does who gets the stupid Bing phone from Verizon is uninstall it and put Google back. There has been such a consumer backlash that Verizon is backing out of the deal and putting Google back in newer handsets.
Look - making remarks like iOS is better than Android because app X is better on iOS is nonsensical.
You can make very high quality apps in Android, just like you can make very shitty apps in iOS. Both platforms have great developer communities.
Android arguably gives more capabilities to the developer, while iOS arguably forces more UI consistency between apps.
Neither of these things themselves make an app great. As usual, it is not the tools that matter it is what you do with those tools.
Bashing Android as a platform because Facebook on iOS is better makes no sense. It's like saying "Java is obviously a better programming language than C++ because Eclipse is the best IDE and it is written in Java".
The only reason Facebook on iOS is better is because Facebook is putting more money into iOS. If the number of Android handsets starts dwarfing the number of iOS handsets (which it appears in all liklihood is going to happen in 2011), Facebook would be INSANE to not shift more resources toward their Android development.
The same holds true for all app developers. App makers go where the money is.
Nintendo has been raking in a metric buttload of cash off of the Wii.
Remember the fact that the Wii *hardware* made a profit from day 1, while the PS3 and the 360 sold at a loss for many many years.
What have they been doing with all that cash? R&D of course. Do you actually think Nintendo is just sitting around on their hands? They are not stupid.
In all likelihood they are just laughing their butts off at Sony and Microsoft pushing over themselves playing catch-up, meanwhile sitting on some revolutionary new console that will be surprise announced in the summer to come out next Xmas.
I am with you on the will and motive part, but the "resources" it takes to make a virus like this and unleash it into the wild in the middle east is probably $20K-$100K tops.
Even if you wanted to TEST it, you don't need nuclear weapons to do so, all you need is access to enrichment equipment, which most countries that have nuclear plants have. Basically any country in the Western would could have done this, so could India, Japan, Pakistan, AU, Brazil, the list goes on and on.
But like you said, only Israel and the US would actually want to do this.
Red Dead is not about multiplayer. It is a single player game with multiplayer tacked on due to the fact that you can't sell a single player game in today's market for ridiculous reasons. Red Dead got amazing reviews because it is an amazing single player game and I never even once saw a review that commented on the multiplayer at all.
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Look at what Rockstar has done with Red Dead. First DLC pack is free and adds totally new capabilities to the game.
Now, one might argue this pack has content that should have came with he game in the first place and all it means is the game was rushed...
Well, that explanation does not hold water with the Red Dead Undead pack, because it really is a totally new storyline and side-plot of the game, where you kill freaking zombies. It is also VERY well done and well worth the $10.
Facebook knows a lot more than you think, and they know a lot more about you than Google.
The stuff Google knows about is things on aggregate. They don't and can't "read your emails". The stuff Facebook knows is based on social networks, and very intimate.
Facebook knows what religion you are affiliated with, what part you vote for, what area of the city you live in, where you like to shop, where you work, etc. It knows your music preferences, movie preferences, and if you are likely to be a racist. And it knows all this stuff **without you inputting any of it**, simply because of the friends you keep and what **they** input, and their friends, etc etc.
And if you think Facebook *DOESN'T* know about this, you should see what their actual advertisement purchase page looks like, and the groups of people you can target - because most of the things I inputted above are specifically targettable for ads ("ie "Only show this ad to Christians living in Chicago"). Even Google does not have this creep-out factor.
I honestly can not tell if you are trolling here or not. Do you really think Facebook cares about an extra hundred of thousand or even ten thousand dollars / month on their bandwidth bill?
A company like Facebook has monthly revenues and expenses in the tens of millions of dollars. This is total chump change.
The idea of SSL adding cost overhead for any company is completely nonsensical.
Its very easy to turn off except for the fact that Google still somehow has not figured out how to save your search settings along with your Google profile for 10 fucking years.
Every PC you go to, you have to change this setting. And often you have to change it again adn again, even if you are already logged into your Google account - because for some idiotic reason your search settings are not saved with your account.
I prefer having 50 results for page so have been dealing with this annoyance for a long time, as you can tell.
It is interesting because from the point of view of any developer using Java for real work(tm), the ASF is just as important, if not more important than, Oracle at this point. I have the choice of several JVMs, but there is no real alternative to the multitude of Apache core libraries and frameworks.
As for your first paragraph - this is just obfuscation and no better than ROT-13. It doesn't make anything "harder", it just provides a very very false sense of security that is trivially defeated. Such things are better off NOT DONE so at least the user realizes how insecure it is to store their passwords on the device.
As for the second, Do you know how many cell phone users have their phone password protected at screen on? I would venture it is close to 0, as it is horrifically inconvenient to do so. So this facility is DOA for cell phones for the average user. It is a nice OS feature for the security conscious people who want it, but it is useless when targeting the casual market,
As for the third, I have no idea what you are going on about as this has nothing to do with storing passwords on a device in a manner that is reversable.
"...But that password is plain text!" "Well, the program has to read it. I can encrypt it, but then the app will just have to decrypt it, which means there will be a decryption key in plain text" "Then encrypt the key!" "...errr...."
etc etc.
Either you allow the user to save their login and password every time, and store it REVERSIBLY, or you don't allow it. If the decryption is reversible then it is totally irrelevant and might as well be plain text, since the "encryption" is no better than ROT-13 if the key is right there for anyone to get.
The OP doesn't want to play SC as a "competitive sport". He wants to play it for fun. The difference is a backyard neighborhood weekly pick-up game vs. the NFL - it is night and day.
The OP's PROBLEM is it is impossible to find that kind of game online anymore.
This is why I stopped playing FPS's online. Games to me are a way to unwind for an hour or two a week. I don't consider myself any kind of champion and have no desire to be, I just want to have some fun.
When everyone takes things too seriously it sucks the fun out of it for those who don't.
When was the last time you installed XFree86? When was the last time you heard of any X aside from X.org?
Did you think it was just re-named? Heck no! Basically this exact same process occurred.
This happens in the OSS world all the time. The firm backing a popular open source project gets bought, does not support the open source project, the other developers behind the project all leave, the new project is adopted by every major distribution and has huge success, while the original project dies a slow long death.
Every tried gaming on a non-multitouch phone? Since the screen can not report two locations at once, you can't hold down two virtual buttons at once - making the whole thing useless.
Google Search was not simply a re-invention of AltaVista. It is a vast improvement.
GMail was not simply a re-invention of Hotmail. It was a vast improvement.
etc etc. The term "re-invent the wheel" implies you are doing something identical via a new method. That is not what Google does. They make bigger, better wheels.
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My cats can do things no two year old human can ever do. For one thing they have understanding of abstract spatial relationships and deep memory.
If my cats see something outside that goes behind a tree or around a corner they know instantly what other window in the house would now provide a better viewpoint, and rush to it. Even if that window is now on the opposite side of the house.
They fully understand that the picture they are looking at through the glass is actually another area outside the house they live in.
To me, that is pretty smart.
Oh plus they know how to open the drawers of my dresser and get in them to sleep and close them behind themselves. I still have not figured out how they do it really because I have never seen it in action, I only see the result.
I am not sure if you comprehend the idiocy of this policy - saying your employees are responsible for their own data backups in case you have to remote wipe the phone "to ensure data is kept safe"
How are you going to ensure that these employee data backups are kept safe? After all they will also contain all the phones contacts and confidential emails. Knowing most people they will just be on some random laptop or out in the clound someplace unencrypted.
The point being IMO if a company is going to enforce remote wiping they damn well also enforce their own backup policies and also enforce that the phone owner IS NOT ALLOWED to make their own backups.
The difference is the Market is not forced on anyone, not th emanufacturer, OR the end user.
With an AOSP ROM, anyone can download a .APK and install it on their phone.
Any lock-downs preventing this are due to the carrier, not Google. And frankly it is the norm outside the US to not prevent this. Only US carriers enable the option to prevent installing non-signed APKs and then remove it from the UI.
Google controls the Andoird Market. Sure, manufacturers can roll their own markets if they want, but they will always be dwarfed by the offical one. No one is going to buy an Android phone that does not have access to the market. And Google can cut off access to any manufacturer at any time if they get too in-bed with Baidu or Microsoft.
Not to mention, the first thing anyone does who gets the stupid Bing phone from Verizon is uninstall it and put Google back. There has been such a consumer backlash that Verizon is backing out of the deal and putting Google back in newer handsets.
Look - making remarks like iOS is better than Android because app X is better on iOS is nonsensical.
You can make very high quality apps in Android, just like you can make very shitty apps in iOS. Both platforms have great developer communities.
Android arguably gives more capabilities to the developer, while iOS arguably forces more UI consistency between apps.
Neither of these things themselves make an app great. As usual, it is not the tools that matter it is what you do with those tools.
Bashing Android as a platform because Facebook on iOS is better makes no sense. It's like saying "Java is obviously a better programming language than C++ because Eclipse is the best IDE and it is written in Java".
The only reason Facebook on iOS is better is because Facebook is putting more money into iOS. If the number of Android handsets starts dwarfing the number of iOS handsets (which it appears in all liklihood is going to happen in 2011), Facebook would be INSANE to not shift more resources toward their Android development.
The same holds true for all app developers. App makers go where the money is.
Nintendo has been raking in a metric buttload of cash off of the Wii.
Remember the fact that the Wii *hardware* made a profit from day 1, while the PS3 and the 360 sold at a loss for many many years.
What have they been doing with all that cash? R&D of course. Do you actually think Nintendo is just sitting around on their hands? They are not stupid.
In all likelihood they are just laughing their butts off at Sony and Microsoft pushing over themselves playing catch-up, meanwhile sitting on some revolutionary new console that will be surprise announced in the summer to come out next Xmas.
"Are you a .Net developer?"
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH.... oh man that was funny.
I am with you on the will and motive part, but the "resources" it takes to make a virus like this and unleash it into the wild in the middle east is probably $20K-$100K tops.
Even if you wanted to TEST it, you don't need nuclear weapons to do so, all you need is access to enrichment equipment, which most countries that have nuclear plants have. Basically any country in the Western would could have done this, so could India, Japan, Pakistan, AU, Brazil, the list goes on and on.
But like you said, only Israel and the US would actually want to do this.
"Google Go picks up developer endorsements -
The programming language aims to combine the speed of Python with the robustness of C++"
Er.... wtf? Python is faster than native code now, eh..?
Red Dead is not about multiplayer. It is a single player game with multiplayer tacked on due to the fact that you can't sell a single player game in today's market for ridiculous reasons. Red Dead got amazing reviews because it is an amazing single player game and I never even once saw a review that commented on the multiplayer at all.
Look at what Rockstar has done with Red Dead. First DLC pack is free and adds totally new capabilities to the game.
Now, one might argue this pack has content that should have came with he game in the first place and all it means is the game was rushed...
Well, that explanation does not hold water with the Red Dead Undead pack, because it really is a totally new storyline and side-plot of the game, where you kill freaking zombies. It is also VERY well done and well worth the $10.
Facebook knows a lot more than you think, and they know a lot more about you than Google.
The stuff Google knows about is things on aggregate. They don't and can't "read your emails". The stuff Facebook knows is based on social networks, and very intimate.
Facebook knows what religion you are affiliated with, what part you vote for, what area of the city you live in, where you like to shop, where you work, etc. It knows your music preferences, movie preferences, and if you are likely to be a racist. And it knows all this stuff **without you inputting any of it**, simply because of the friends you keep and what **they** input, and their friends, etc etc.
And if you think Facebook *DOESN'T* know about this, you should see what their actual advertisement purchase page looks like, and the groups of people you can target - because most of the things I inputted above are specifically targettable for ads ("ie "Only show this ad to Christians living in Chicago"). Even Google does not have this creep-out factor.
I honestly can not tell if you are trolling here or not. Do you really think Facebook cares about an extra hundred of thousand or even ten thousand dollars / month on their bandwidth bill?
A company like Facebook has monthly revenues and expenses in the tens of millions of dollars. This is total chump change.
The idea of SSL adding cost overhead for any company is completely nonsensical.
Its very easy to turn off except for the fact that Google still somehow has not figured out how to save your search settings along with your Google profile for 10 fucking years.
Every PC you go to, you have to change this setting. And often you have to change it again adn again, even if you are already logged into your Google account - because for some idiotic reason your search settings are not saved with your account.
I prefer having 50 results for page so have been dealing with this annoyance for a long time, as you can tell.
It is interesting because from the point of view of any developer using Java for real work(tm), the ASF is just as important, if not more important than, Oracle at this point. I have the choice of several JVMs, but there is no real alternative to the multitude of Apache core libraries and frameworks.
As for your first paragraph - this is just obfuscation and no better than ROT-13. It doesn't make anything "harder", it just provides a very very false sense of security that is trivially defeated. Such things are better off NOT DONE so at least the user realizes how insecure it is to store their passwords on the device.
As for the second, Do you know how many cell phone users have their phone password protected at screen on? I would venture it is close to 0, as it is horrifically inconvenient to do so. So this facility is DOA for cell phones for the average user. It is a nice OS feature for the security conscious people who want it, but it is useless when targeting the casual market,
As for the third, I have no idea what you are going on about as this has nothing to do with storing passwords on a device in a manner that is reversable.
I have to deal with this BS at work all the time
"...But that password is plain text!"
"Well, the program has to read it. I can encrypt it, but then the app will just have to decrypt it, which means there will be a decryption key in plain text"
"Then encrypt the key!"
"...errr...."
etc etc.
Either you allow the user to save their login and password every time, and store it REVERSIBLY, or you don't allow it. If the decryption is reversible then it is totally irrelevant and might as well be plain text, since the "encryption" is no better than ROT-13 if the key is right there for anyone to get.
The OP doesn't want to play SC as a "competitive sport". He wants to play it for fun. The difference is a backyard neighborhood weekly pick-up game vs. the NFL - it is night and day.
The OP's PROBLEM is it is impossible to find that kind of game online anymore.
This is why I stopped playing FPS's online. Games to me are a way to unwind for an hour or two a week. I don't consider myself any kind of champion and have no desire to be, I just want to have some fun.
When everyone takes things too seriously it sucks the fun out of it for those who don't.
XFree86 did not split due to functionality changes. The main reason was the license change.
... to X.org. Oh wait, that DIDN'T HAPPEN AT ALL.
When was the last time you installed XFree86? When was the last time you heard of any X aside from X.org?
Did you think it was just re-named? Heck no! Basically this exact same process occurred.
This happens in the OSS world all the time. The firm backing a popular open source project gets bought, does not support the open source project, the other developers behind the project all leave, the new project is adopted by every major distribution and has huge success, while the original project dies a slow long death.
Yes, this is going to endear me to EA and Disney - basically not only making me wait through an ad, but FORCING me to pay attention to it.
Every tried gaming on a non-multitouch phone? Since the screen can not report two locations at once, you can't hold down two virtual buttons at once - making the whole thing useless.
Don't even get me started on pinch to zoom.
Google Search was not simply a re-invention of AltaVista. It is a vast improvement.
GMail was not simply a re-invention of Hotmail. It was a vast improvement.
etc etc. The term "re-invent the wheel" implies you are doing something identical via a new method. That is not what Google does. They make bigger, better wheels.
And again the rest of the world finds it appalling you only have two parties to choose from.
The fact is anyone the age of the troll would not consider this to be harassment, at least not of the criminal kind.
They would recognize him as the troll and move on.
This guy destroyed no lives here.