Your cells process carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen into carbonic acid, which your red cells carry to your lungs, which then process it back into carbon dioxide and water vapor to be exhaled. You didn't actually think gaseous CO2 traveled through your veins, did you? You must also think gaseous oxygen flows alongside your red and whites; try injecting a bubble of it and let me know how that works out. Actually, don't, you'll most likely die from it.
Your body converts basically everything it uses to a different form depending on whether it is transporting it, using it, or storing it. Carbon dioxide is no different.
Carbonic acid is an intermediate step in the transport of CO2 out of the body via respiratory gas exchange. The hydration reaction of CO2 is generally very slow in the absence of a catalyst, but red blood cells contain carbonic anhydrase, which both increases the reaction rate and dissociates a hydrogen ion (H+) from the resulting carbonic acid, leaving bicarbonate (HCO3) dissolved in the blood plasma. This catalysed reaction is reversed in the lungs, where it converts the bicarbonate back into CO2 and allows it to be expelled. This equilibration plays an important role as a buffer in mammalian blood.
Adding additional carbonic acid to your system in sufficient quantities (as in drinking only or primarily carbonated beverages) stresses your lungs they try to decompose the excess.
Don't feel bad about not knowing this, it's new information to me, too. It also explains why I run out of breath walking up 2 flights of stairs after drinking a large soda when I otherwise have excellent stamina and doctors say there is nothing wrong.
It's still not known whether phosphoric acid ingestion actually causes any problems. It could well aid digestion, but nobody has done a credible study either way. In any case, phosphoric acid travels through your digestive tract and exits your body along with the rest of your waste.
Carbonic acid, on the other hand... Your body expels *that* in the form of CO2 and H2 before expelling the CO2 it creates through its own means, leading to acidification of the blood.
Soda may or may not be worse, but you're not doing yourself the favor you think you are.
I never said they don't exist, just that I've never seen them exploited as I've seen the (supposedly fewer and less serious) vulnerabilities in iOS exploited. You sure talk a big game for someone who can't even spell a username correctly that's on the screen right in front of him. But you're right, this is a prime example of my denial that any issue exists:
I know my platform is no more or less secure than any other
Carbonic acid forms in carbonated water. Your body creates its own carbonic acid to transport carbon dioxide through your bloodstream and to your lungs, where it is reacted back to gaseous CO2 and Hydrogen. Adding more of that to your system probably isn't good; and that's the more immediate issue with soda consumption.
You're right phase, this Bronsco guy sounds like a real douche. Care to point to the specific vulnerabilities you're referring to, along with any documented cases of them being actively exploited? No, 3rd-party browsers injecting their own ads do not count; it's easy to avoid that by not being the idiot that uses that browser, and it's certainly not a vulnerability in the platform.
I asked you to elaborate, that's precisely the opposite of sticking my head in the sand. I know my platform is no more or less secure than any other; that's why I take steps to safeguard my own security; something made more difficult on iOS (which is why my iPad is reserved for specific non-sensitive uses). If I had my head buried in the iOS garden, like you seem to, I might be a bit less secure with my iPad.
So I'll ask you again, please elaborate about all these instances of random ads popping up while browsing the web and all the credential theft that happens on Android. I keep looking for it (no, not in the sand) and I'm just not seeing it. You'd think, though, knowing about 5x as many Android users as iOS users (even accounting for overlap), I'd see at least 5x as many Android phones get pwned than iOS devices (actually more if, as you claim, Android is less secure), but it seems the reality is that iOS gets compromised more frequently outside of China (where people install sketchy shit on their Android phones just as often as they do on their iPhones; if you get to ignore China when talking about how secure iOS is, we must ignore it when discussing Android, as well).
Examples, please? I've seen iPhones pwned by malicious SMS, as well. It happens to the best of us, get over yourself. What's funny about it is that even after my best friend fell victim to one of several iPhone SMS vulns, he still swears the platform is secure. He refuses to let facts cloud his argument and I don't expect you'll be any different.
What advantage do you get by changing to a different bootloader when the one on the device will load whatever you tell it to anyway? S-ON also prevents malicious entities (or software) from modifying your bootloader (e.g. to inject malicious processes at boot time) and radios (e.g. to force connection to rogue towers), in case you're an interesting enough target for those types of attacks. For the record, S-OFF is possible on HTC models that I have seen; I had it on my M7 and my friend's M8, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Personally, I moved from HTC to LG, then on to Nexus devices when the N6 came out. I do my research before buying and buy the least restrictive device with the highest-end specs I can find so I get the most use out of the device before it needs to be replaced. If someone else doesn't do their research and select the device that actually fits their requirements, well, that's on them.
The N6 marked the moment a Nexus device met both of my criteria, a great day for Android, IMNSHO.
The problem is the stupid skins manufacturers are putting on top of Android to "diferentiate" themselves from the competition. Those need to be updated to work properly with whatever has changed under the hood in the new Android version. And they don't want to do it.
Not sure what you're talking about re: HTC locking down their bootloaders, they have a developer site where you enter your IMEI and get instructions for unocking your bootloader. Unless you're on AT&T or Verizon; they *require* locked bootloaders, but that's your carrier requiring it; and before you say HTC doesn't have to pander to the carriers, yes, they do if they want the carriers selling their phones. You can actually buy bootloader-unlocked phones directly from HTC, though, so it's somewhat of a moot point.
It's not that they're no longer updating it, but rather that they're going to update directly to Marshmallow. If you don't get that update when HTC releases it, perhaps it's time to switch to a carrier that doesn't block updates in the name of selling phones.
Also, what do you find so craptastic about 5.0? And shouldn't that be 5.0.1 if you're actually up to date? Nothing really changed (on my Nexus 6 at least) from 5.0.1. to 5.1.1, so you're not really missing out on anything exierience-wise. As for security, AT&T pushed HTC's patch for Stagefright (and other known and already-patched-in-AOSP vulns) back in August, it was a patch coming in between 28 and 55MB depending on device configuration, so I'm not sure what you're considering craptastic there, either.
If your complaint is that you're not on Marshmallow (which we were told would be out last quarter) yet, can it. Neither am I and I'm running a Nexus 6. Know why? Because it isn't out yet.
Android is fine if you get a Nexus device and either install something like Cyanogen or make sure you install Google's updates as they're released. I took the latter route and the updates are flowing.
Sure, they only promise to keep those updates flowing for 18 months after they stop selling it (or 3 years from when they started, whichever is longer) but I'm likely to have already replaced this phone by that point, anyway; and if not, Cyanogen.
I've had luck with a USB keyboard on my iPad Air, after dismissing several "unsupported device" dialogs. No such luck with mass storage devices and definitely not a mouse. I understand there are some instrument controllers that work, though; I haven't tried my M-Audio gear yet.
Certainly, though I doubt you'd find drivers for the VGA adapter. I've had 2 SSDs attached via a hub before, to copy files between them, worked fine. A bit slower than optimal, being USB2, but it was enough to get my buddy's laptop working again without another PC handy.
Also the reason $1 for 50GB of iCloud storage is no replacement for an SD card for expanded storage; even ignoring that the SD card will be cheaper over time, if you're not connected or there is a service interruption, your iCloud storage is useless; even if you are connected and the service is up, if your connection is slow or you have a single-digit-GB cap, it's neigh useless anyway.
My Nexus 6 may lack an SD slot, but it supports USB host mode, so I can plug in an SD reader (micro, mini, full, whatever), a hard disk, hell I can plug in a keyboard and mouse if I so choose (and yes, Android provides a mouse cursor). I say it's a fair enough trade, as A) it allows the phone to be slimmer and more water resistant and B) it allows a wider range of devices to be used with the phone.
Only offer it on the highest capacity model? Someone buying that obviously cares to carry a bunch of data in their pocket, so I say let them; everyone else will buy the lower capacity models anyway.
Really? Mind walking me through it, then? The best I can seem to get on mine is sidebar apps; not two persistent split-screen apps, which is only supported on the Air 2. Sitting next to my wife's Air 2, there's definitely a difference.
and need them less because the iOS sandboxing model isn't nearly as braindead as the Android one
I wanted to address this separately, as it's entirely a separate issue.
They're both equally braindead, just in different ways. Android provides apps with a sandbox, as well as a shared filesystem; they can use either or both. Many use only the shared filesystem and that is an app issue; I do wish Google would crack down on that and only allow use of the shared filesystem for sharing data between applications, requiring the use of the sandbox in most cases, but, at the end of the day it is an app problem. Perhaps making filesystem access a permission an app has to request; though, if memory serves, it already is and most apps (at least the ones I use) make use of the sandbox rather than the shared filesystem already, anyway; a few exceptions include image end document editors (which are often used to edit images and documents from other apps) and my dash cam app (which puts recorded videos on the shared filesystem so I can get them off the device easily). Where sandboxing is used by apps, it works and works well. Android also has a concept called "device administrator", which allows you to specify one or more apps which can have full control of your device; apps like Lookout, which is a security suite, can be assigned that role, which allows them to traverse sandboxes, enabling (in the case of lookout) scanning for malware based on more than just app name and version, or lock the device or turn on location tracking briefly in order to record the last location of the phone before it powers down. It's nice having a pinpoint on the map showing me where my phone is chilling when I can't remember where I left it.
The flaws are more or less related to lack of enforcement, not requiring apps to use the sandbox for their own data and only access the shared filesystem for actual sharing of data. I think making the File Open dialog a system dialog and requiring its use in order to access the shared filesystem would solve that, mostly. It might break things like my dash cam app, but there should be a solution for that, as well; perhaps by making app sandboxes browseable via MTP (which is how Android devices transfer files to/from a computer). Device administrators would be able to read/write anywhere, anyway, so it wouldn't break apps like Lookout, which need to do that
Now, iOS sandboxing is much more strict. It's been in the OS from day one, so there's never been a share filesystem to speak of. It's really braindead when you need to share a large number of files consistently between two or more apps, because in order to share files between apps, the app that owns the file must support sharing and must recognize the app you want to open the file in as being able to open the file; and the app that owns the file has to initiate the sharing every single time for every single file, there is no way to authorize sharing of an entire folder, nor to remember that app X is allowed to access file Y. This often fails and, even when it doesn't, it adds steps to the process.
I keep Git repositories for several projects on both my iPad and my Android phone; I prefer to edit on the iPad when a computer is not available, since I've got a full keyboard for it, but I typically end up making smaller (e.g. in one file) edits on my iPad and anything larger on my phone because it's just quicker. On the iPad, I have to launch my Git app, navigate to the repo, navigate to the file, choose "Open In", then choose my editor. Fine, if I just need to edit one file; if I need to make changes in a handful of files, I can't just open them all in my editor, I have to work on them one at a time; and when you share a new file, it closes the old one, you can't share more than one file between two apps at a time, so if I need to refer to two files side by side, I have to make a copy in my editor; and I have to remember I did that so I remember to go back and re-open the original before makin
You bought a phone from a Google subsidiary, not a Nexus device built to Google's specs and supported by Google directly; you're at the mercy of Motorola and your carrier. Have fun with that and next time get a Nexus.
And yes, I install all of my updates. II did my research and bought a phone that lets me do that. Of course, after getting burned by Motorola, HTC, and LG promising updates that either never came or were blocked by my carrier, I learned the lesson the same way you're learning it right now.
Of course, if you think you'd like an iPhone better, go for it. It has its warts just like Android. Having used both, it's Android on my phone and iOS on my tablet; Nexus and iPad for me. Yes, they really can coexist, quite peacefully at that.
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Your cells process carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen into carbonic acid, which your red cells carry to your lungs, which then process it back into carbon dioxide and water vapor to be exhaled. You didn't actually think gaseous CO2 traveled through your veins, did you? You must also think gaseous oxygen flows alongside your red and whites; try injecting a bubble of it and let me know how that works out. Actually, don't, you'll most likely die from it.
Your body converts basically everything it uses to a different form depending on whether it is transporting it, using it, or storing it. Carbon dioxide is no different.
Carbonic acid is an intermediate step in the transport of CO2 out of the body via respiratory gas exchange. The hydration reaction of CO2 is generally very slow in the absence of a catalyst, but red blood cells contain carbonic anhydrase, which both increases the reaction rate and dissociates a hydrogen ion (H+) from the resulting carbonic acid, leaving bicarbonate (HCO3) dissolved in the blood plasma. This catalysed reaction is reversed in the lungs, where it converts the bicarbonate back into CO2 and allows it to be expelled. This equilibration plays an important role as a buffer in mammalian blood.
Adding additional carbonic acid to your system in sufficient quantities (as in drinking only or primarily carbonated beverages) stresses your lungs they try to decompose the excess.
Don't feel bad about not knowing this, it's new information to me, too. It also explains why I run out of breath walking up 2 flights of stairs after drinking a large soda when I otherwise have excellent stamina and doctors say there is nothing wrong.
It's still not known whether phosphoric acid ingestion actually causes any problems. It could well aid digestion, but nobody has done a credible study either way. In any case, phosphoric acid travels through your digestive tract and exits your body along with the rest of your waste.
Carbonic acid, on the other hand... Your body expels *that* in the form of CO2 and H2 before expelling the CO2 it creates through its own means, leading to acidification of the blood.
Soda may or may not be worse, but you're not doing yourself the favor you think you are.
I know my platform is no more or less secure than any other
Right. That's denial right there. Dumbass.
Carbonic acid forms in carbonated water. Your body creates its own carbonic acid to transport carbon dioxide through your bloodstream and to your lungs, where it is reacted back to gaseous CO2 and Hydrogen. Adding more of that to your system probably isn't good; and that's the more immediate issue with soda consumption.
You're right phase, this Bronsco guy sounds like a real douche. Care to point to the specific vulnerabilities you're referring to, along with any documented cases of them being actively exploited? No, 3rd-party browsers injecting their own ads do not count; it's easy to avoid that by not being the idiot that uses that browser, and it's certainly not a vulnerability in the platform.
I asked you to elaborate, that's precisely the opposite of sticking my head in the sand. I know my platform is no more or less secure than any other; that's why I take steps to safeguard my own security; something made more difficult on iOS (which is why my iPad is reserved for specific non-sensitive uses). If I had my head buried in the iOS garden, like you seem to, I might be a bit less secure with my iPad.
So I'll ask you again, please elaborate about all these instances of random ads popping up while browsing the web and all the credential theft that happens on Android. I keep looking for it (no, not in the sand) and I'm just not seeing it. You'd think, though, knowing about 5x as many Android users as iOS users (even accounting for overlap), I'd see at least 5x as many Android phones get pwned than iOS devices (actually more if, as you claim, Android is less secure), but it seems the reality is that iOS gets compromised more frequently outside of China (where people install sketchy shit on their Android phones just as often as they do on their iPhones; if you get to ignore China when talking about how secure iOS is, we must ignore it when discussing Android, as well).
Examples, please? I've seen iPhones pwned by malicious SMS, as well. It happens to the best of us, get over yourself. What's funny about it is that even after my best friend fell victim to one of several iPhone SMS vulns, he still swears the platform is secure. He refuses to let facts cloud his argument and I don't expect you'll be any different.
What advantage do you get by changing to a different bootloader when the one on the device will load whatever you tell it to anyway? S-ON also prevents malicious entities (or software) from modifying your bootloader (e.g. to inject malicious processes at boot time) and radios (e.g. to force connection to rogue towers), in case you're an interesting enough target for those types of attacks. For the record, S-OFF is possible on HTC models that I have seen; I had it on my M7 and my friend's M8, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
Personally, I moved from HTC to LG, then on to Nexus devices when the N6 came out. I do my research before buying and buy the least restrictive device with the highest-end specs I can find so I get the most use out of the device before it needs to be replaced. If someone else doesn't do their research and select the device that actually fits their requirements, well, that's on them.
The N6 marked the moment a Nexus device met both of my criteria, a great day for Android, IMNSHO.
Sounds like a phone problem, not an Android problem. Shoddy drivers, perhaps? Google doesn't write (most of) those. My N6 is rock solid.
The problem is the stupid skins manufacturers are putting on top of Android to "diferentiate" themselves from the competition. Those need to be updated to work properly with whatever has changed under the hood in the new Android version. And they don't want to do it.
Not sure what you're talking about re: HTC locking down their bootloaders, they have a developer site where you enter your IMEI and get instructions for unocking your bootloader. Unless you're on AT&T or Verizon; they *require* locked bootloaders, but that's your carrier requiring it; and before you say HTC doesn't have to pander to the carriers, yes, they do if they want the carriers selling their phones. You can actually buy bootloader-unlocked phones directly from HTC, though, so it's somewhat of a moot point.
Samsung, though. Yeah. Fuck Samsung.
It's not that they're no longer updating it, but rather that they're going to update directly to Marshmallow. If you don't get that update when HTC releases it, perhaps it's time to switch to a carrier that doesn't block updates in the name of selling phones.
Also, what do you find so craptastic about 5.0? And shouldn't that be 5.0.1 if you're actually up to date? Nothing really changed (on my Nexus 6 at least) from 5.0.1. to 5.1.1, so you're not really missing out on anything exierience-wise. As for security, AT&T pushed HTC's patch for Stagefright (and other known and already-patched-in-AOSP vulns) back in August, it was a patch coming in between 28 and 55MB depending on device configuration, so I'm not sure what you're considering craptastic there, either.
If your complaint is that you're not on Marshmallow (which we were told would be out last quarter) yet, can it. Neither am I and I'm running a Nexus 6. Know why? Because it isn't out yet.
popping up unrelated ads when I surf the net
Yes, we know iOS has ad blockers now. Don't worry, Android has had them for years. Not sure WTF you're talking about here.
sniffing my credentials when I connect to my bank
Or here. Elaborate?
Get the Nexus 6 and a HOTG SD reader if you need SD card support. You won't regret it.
Android is fine if you get a Nexus device and either install something like Cyanogen or make sure you install Google's updates as they're released. I took the latter route and the updates are flowing.
Sure, they only promise to keep those updates flowing for 18 months after they stop selling it (or 3 years from when they started, whichever is longer) but I'm likely to have already replaced this phone by that point, anyway; and if not, Cyanogen.
As long as the API doesn't allow you to actually send it...
the difference ceases to be money.
I've had luck with a USB keyboard on my iPad Air, after dismissing several "unsupported device" dialogs. No such luck with mass storage devices and definitely not a mouse. I understand there are some instrument controllers that work, though; I haven't tried my M-Audio gear yet.
Certainly, though I doubt you'd find drivers for the VGA adapter. I've had 2 SSDs attached via a hub before, to copy files between them, worked fine. A bit slower than optimal, being USB2, but it was enough to get my buddy's laptop working again without another PC handy.
Also the reason $1 for 50GB of iCloud storage is no replacement for an SD card for expanded storage; even ignoring that the SD card will be cheaper over time, if you're not connected or there is a service interruption, your iCloud storage is useless; even if you are connected and the service is up, if your connection is slow or you have a single-digit-GB cap, it's neigh useless anyway.
My Nexus 6 may lack an SD slot, but it supports USB host mode, so I can plug in an SD reader (micro, mini, full, whatever), a hard disk, hell I can plug in a keyboard and mouse if I so choose (and yes, Android provides a mouse cursor). I say it's a fair enough trade, as A) it allows the phone to be slimmer and more water resistant and B) it allows a wider range of devices to be used with the phone.
Only offer it on the highest capacity model? Someone buying that obviously cares to carry a bunch of data in their pocket, so I say let them; everyone else will buy the lower capacity models anyway.
I ask because multiple sources confirm, split-view multitasking only works on iPad Air 2 and newer.
If it's working on your iPad Air 1, you must have one of those rare ones that lacks a mute slider; e.g. an Air 2.
Really? Mind walking me through it, then? The best I can seem to get on mine is sidebar apps; not two persistent split-screen apps, which is only supported on the Air 2. Sitting next to my wife's Air 2, there's definitely a difference.
spitting and peeing cause autism
I think it's actually the other way around.
(and doesn't work on iOS because Apple removed the ability for apps to even see that much)
should read:
(and doesn't work on iOS 9 because Apple removed the ability for apps to even see that much)
and need them less because the iOS sandboxing model isn't nearly as braindead as the Android one
I wanted to address this separately, as it's entirely a separate issue.
They're both equally braindead, just in different ways. Android provides apps with a sandbox, as well as a shared filesystem; they can use either or both. Many use only the shared filesystem and that is an app issue; I do wish Google would crack down on that and only allow use of the shared filesystem for sharing data between applications, requiring the use of the sandbox in most cases, but, at the end of the day it is an app problem. Perhaps making filesystem access a permission an app has to request; though, if memory serves, it already is and most apps (at least the ones I use) make use of the sandbox rather than the shared filesystem already, anyway; a few exceptions include image end document editors (which are often used to edit images and documents from other apps) and my dash cam app (which puts recorded videos on the shared filesystem so I can get them off the device easily). Where sandboxing is used by apps, it works and works well. Android also has a concept called "device administrator", which allows you to specify one or more apps which can have full control of your device; apps like Lookout, which is a security suite, can be assigned that role, which allows them to traverse sandboxes, enabling (in the case of lookout) scanning for malware based on more than just app name and version, or lock the device or turn on location tracking briefly in order to record the last location of the phone before it powers down. It's nice having a pinpoint on the map showing me where my phone is chilling when I can't remember where I left it.
The flaws are more or less related to lack of enforcement, not requiring apps to use the sandbox for their own data and only access the shared filesystem for actual sharing of data. I think making the File Open dialog a system dialog and requiring its use in order to access the shared filesystem would solve that, mostly. It might break things like my dash cam app, but there should be a solution for that, as well; perhaps by making app sandboxes browseable via MTP (which is how Android devices transfer files to/from a computer). Device administrators would be able to read/write anywhere, anyway, so it wouldn't break apps like Lookout, which need to do that
Now, iOS sandboxing is much more strict. It's been in the OS from day one, so there's never been a share filesystem to speak of. It's really braindead when you need to share a large number of files consistently between two or more apps, because in order to share files between apps, the app that owns the file must support sharing and must recognize the app you want to open the file in as being able to open the file; and the app that owns the file has to initiate the sharing every single time for every single file, there is no way to authorize sharing of an entire folder, nor to remember that app X is allowed to access file Y. This often fails and, even when it doesn't, it adds steps to the process.
I keep Git repositories for several projects on both my iPad and my Android phone; I prefer to edit on the iPad when a computer is not available, since I've got a full keyboard for it, but I typically end up making smaller (e.g. in one file) edits on my iPad and anything larger on my phone because it's just quicker. On the iPad, I have to launch my Git app, navigate to the repo, navigate to the file, choose "Open In", then choose my editor. Fine, if I just need to edit one file; if I need to make changes in a handful of files, I can't just open them all in my editor, I have to work on them one at a time; and when you share a new file, it closes the old one, you can't share more than one file between two apps at a time, so if I need to refer to two files side by side, I have to make a copy in my editor; and I have to remember I did that so I remember to go back and re-open the original before makin
You bought a phone from a Google subsidiary, not a Nexus device built to Google's specs and supported by Google directly; you're at the mercy of Motorola and your carrier. Have fun with that and next time get a Nexus.
And yes, I install all of my updates. II did my research and bought a phone that lets me do that. Of course, after getting burned by Motorola, HTC, and LG promising updates that either never came or were blocked by my carrier, I learned the lesson the same way you're learning it right now.
Of course, if you think you'd like an iPhone better, go for it. It has its warts just like Android. Having used both, it's Android on my phone and iOS on my tablet; Nexus and iPad for me. Yes, they really can coexist, quite peacefully at that.