Yes, it is possible. Many people have died many years before someone even noticed that person still gets paid, and it came up at Co-determination.
The workload have been just shared among people without anyone knowing that what really happened to people whos responsibility they were. Usually it has been just tought that they are fired, at somekind leave or...
Professional == You are paid what you do Amateur == You are not paid what you do
Skilled == You have learn to do well what you do Talented == You are fast learner or adapt quickly what you do
Someone can be a amateur, but still skilled programmer. Someone else can be professional but still bad programmer.
And on what point did we really turn out that ranking of people is based their wealth and not to what they do? I rank a school teacher higer than a CEO of big company. I rank a worker higher than a CEO of that company where that worker works.
After all, technology should help people, allow people to enjoy the life. Not work harder or longer. People should have less working time, more free time and we should have already taken care of poor and other people who can not get their life working so they do get their life working. We have technology, we have way to do so. But we do not do so if CEO do not profit from it so much that you can buy a few airplanes and fifth house. And we rank those people so high that people coming after them, are ready to do anything to get their positions before them.
Competition does not help anyone, alternativies does.
We can have alternativies without competition. Prise the alternativies and freedom, not competition and suffering.
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It is sad that Tribes 2 died so fast because its too deep learning curve (even for T1 players) As it had best balance between players and vehicles and between every weapon and armor class.
Or unless you want to say you are a product of TV manufacturer or even your government as they want to sell your information to every advertiser out there, on streets, television, radio....
While the collected geodata doesn’t reveal specific addresses for locations you’ve visited, it can still leave a pretty rich trail of a user’s movements. Combine this data with other pieces of information on the iPhone, like your messages and photos, and you’ve got a device that knows more about you than you do yourself, says The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal.
(even that you quoted that, I quote it from your message)
Me and my friend made a check when this Apples "tracking" hulabaloo started in Media.
It was found with the tools that my friend was last time at home when he bought the phone. Did not go to work and had skills of teleportation as the gathered data in non-synced & non-backupped datafile in iPhone had lots of time and place caps.
I have now CM7, how I can reject per application every permission that I do not want it to have? Not just internet connection but like, permission to read contacts?
Advertisers never receive data about users when ads are shown to the users what Google has collected.
It is always User Google Advertiser
It is never User Google -> Advertiser Or it is never User Advertiser
Google always stands between user and third party. And it does not give information to advertisers what can be linked anyway to any user.
Basicly Google says to advertisers "We have shown your ad 15 287 times, so you pay 1 cent per time so it is 15,29 to us.
Advertiser does not get any more information than placing a advertiser next to the street where every person passing by can see it. The advertiser placement price is about calculations how many possible views that advertisement, how long it is there and on what season.
Of course on streets, advertiser can pay someone to sit next it and count people or order a camera system to be installed and then count view counts. But with Google, they cant as Google does the calculations for them.
I'm afraid you're the one, that inadvertantly or otherwise, is spreading false information. Some models of Android phone will not let you even use the calendar or contacts unless you sign up with Google.
I was talking about the Android, not about a Android what manufacturer or carrier has modified so the Android experience is different.
Android allows to use calenders and contacts without any connections to or apps from Google. Android allows user to sync calenders and contacts without Google at all, or any other internet service.
BUT, if carrier or manufacturer modifies their distributed Android such way that the Android experience can not be found from them, it is not reason to blame the Android but reason to blame those carriers and manufacturers.
It should be very easy by tech-oriented people to already understand that it is different thing when third party modifies product what the just distribute than having a original product.
That is one reason why GPL exist so that every modification can be seen and even disabled if wanted. That is one reason why Google added to Android 4.0 a feature to disable a carrier or manufacturer bundled applications.
Of course it is different to buy a Windows from shelf and installing it to empty HD in computer than bying a computer what has HD where OEM windows is preinstalled with bundled software.
If you buy a Acer and its bundled OEM software makes it slow and ugly, do you blame Microsoft or Acer because that? If you blame Microsoft, then you don't have logic or you don't understand how preinstalled OEM versions differs from vanilla Windows experience.
Why does tech-oriented people usually remove those bundled softwares? Why does corporations have custom installation medias what they use to overwrite the preinstalled Windows by OEM when they buy new computers?
Hardware can be good by OEM, but their modifications to Windows might not. So they simply overwrite it with their own version or pure Windows installation.
Now, Google does not manufacture phones, like Microsoft does not manufacture PC's. Google only offers a software system freely to be used, Microsoft does same thing but with license fee.
Smartphones and PC's are little different position but not actually far away. Most PC's are OEM's what are "infected" with OEM Windows. But at least there is a change to buy or at least build a PC without Windows, somehow (can be easy or very hard) At least people can re-install shelf version of Windows instead OEM version if wanted. Or they can even install other OS and chosen software system including the OS if just technically possible.
Smartphones.... You can not buy anywhere a empty smartphone or build a own. But at least there is a change to some models to be re-installed with wanted version and not Carrier or OEM version, when using Android. You can not do that with iOS or Windows Phone. Android is more close to PC than neither those two other.
Now, Google offers the Android experience with their own branded phone model with partner. That is like a flag ship how the Android should be felt. But even then, some carriers can do SIM lock or other nasty things. But in some countries every phone is SIM-free, and some phones are without DRM so you can just root the phone and install non-OEM version of the Android in them.
That is one of the beautiful things in Android, user can have better freedom than with iOS or Windows Phone.
Google > OEM > Carrier > User
That is the typical order in U.S In EU, some countries it is Google > Carrier > User Google > OEM > User Google > non-modified Android by Carrier/OEM > User
If carrier makes modification and you don't like it, do you blame manufacturer or Google because that? If OEM makes modification and you dont like it.... do you blame Carrier or Google? If Google does modification and you dont like it, do you blame Carrier or OEM?
No it is not perfectly appropriate at all. It is not even close. When you just change your Maemo 6.0 brand to MeeGo/Harmattan while MeeGo project is totally different branch, it "perfectly appropriate" at all.
Lets change Ubuntu branding as Windows 8 and it is perfectly appropriate that everyone else refers computers using it as Windows 8-based computer.
Marketing and branding are some things what does not matter at all what technology is. You can sell same technology under different brands but the different branding does not mean it is different technology. Or you can sell different technologies under same brand, but it does not mean the technologies are same.
Nokia lied and misleads customers and media to sell N9 as MeeGo. And they get off from it because MeeGo is DEAD. If MeeGo would came a success so there would be real MeeGo phones, N9 would be incompatible with them as it does not have MeeGo but Harmattan.
Of course they are because they needed to bring the MeeGo what people waited and what (?) Intel deal ruled that Microsoft needs to bring at least single MeeGo device.
Nokia LIES (whoa, who would believe marketing is just about truth?) to customers and even for media.
Harmattan and MeeGo has some same parts, like Qt. But so does Symbian have a Qt and it is even being ported to Android and even Qt is ported to Linux and many other. Still those ain't MeeGo.
MeeGo and Harmattan were (and are) just Linux distributions among others like Android for mobile devices.
Harmattan is the name of the software program that comes after Fremantle / Maemo 5. In the Maemo Summit we already announced it as "Maemo 6" in order to bring a clear signal about the major update, change of toolkit, etc.
Now MeeGo comes to the picture. "Maemo 6" will not be used by Nokia as a brand since all the marketing effort around the software platform will be around MeeGo.
- For those caring about the platform in depth, Harmattan =! MeeGo. If we would make Harmattan identical to MeeGo then we would need to postpone dates and, really not for a good reason. Not a reason for app developers (the API is there anyway) and not a good reason for end users, who could not care less about packaging and some obscure middleware components. This is the only reason making Ari Jaaksi refer to Harmattan as a "MeeGo instance" instead of just "MeeGo product".
Nokia lied and Nokia fans wanted MeeGo and Media wanted to get money from ads by getting readers by following Nokia marketing that N9 has MeeGo while it has Harmattan.
Nokia never toke MeeGo project seriously. Ever, never. If they would have. They would have dropped whole Maemo 6.0 development and jumped 100% to MeeGo development. But they divided the development and slowed down everything with their own....
They just rebranded Harmattan as MeeGo/Harmattan so they have even legal side covered that somewhere it is not said it is MeeGo but still said it is MeeGo. compability Differences like.deb or.rpm does not matter or that not 100% API compability exist?
N9 does not have MeeGo, it has Harmattan what is just officially branded as MeeGo/Harmattan.
If you don't want to share your contacts in the cloud, Android indeed doesn't provide an easy way to sync them.
vcard..... ain't it easy to be synced every time you connect your phone to computer via USB or even via WLAN, you contacts and calender is synced?
Example of Akonadi (service what belongs to KDE SC) and Android phone. We can turn to old fashion contact and calender syncing.
1. Configure your phone to export calenders as.ics file (you might need own app for that if your chosen calender does not do it already) 2. Configure akonadi to automatically sync them to computer when phone is connected as mass storage or connects to local network (WLAN) 3. Configure your phone to import files back to phone by action or automatically
When calenders and contacts are text files, you can sync and manage them without any server
Rooting voids warranty only in some countries. Not in all.
At least some countries understands that hardware malfunction or design flaw is hardware feature and has nothing to do with the software.
Many EU countries you can root your phone, install what ever software you want and then even avoid braking your warranty. But IF your phone gets malfuctioned by the software, warranty does not touch it at all. So if you brick your phone with your actions, it is your fault and warranty does not help you at all.
In my country if someone sends a custom ROM phone to repair where CPU has burn out, they do check settings was the phone overclocked. If it were not, warranty applies. If it was overclocked, warranty is invalid and user needs to pay the repair.
At some countries there are at least tech people who understands there is difference between software and hardware. But some new people are only teached the US laws and US warranty by education and marketing materials without even knowing what are the laws in the country (non-US).
So stop running all around internet saying that warranty is avoid if you root your phone or you root + install custom ROM. As warranty policy is different in other countries and manufacturers want to rip off all possibilities to even following local law. So easiest way is to teach users that if they do anything to their phones, warranty is off.
With Android you do not even need to setup Exchange to get maintain your own private data. Still you can sync them to your own wanted computer with standard files like vcards and others.
IF and only IF, you have specific carrier or manufacturer phone where they have disabled all those. It is not fault of the Android but fault of the carrier and manufacturer.
All Android phones in my country are unlocked. Carriers do not modify them to block users from swapping cards or even selling phones forward or anything. Every Android phone is vanilla or as manufacturer made it as pure form. Carriers can not block users.
You can use Exchange with Android as well. You do not need to give your contacts, emails or anything to Google even if you activate your phone to Google.
Windows Phone 7 has not so good privacy as does Android.
Android user can choose from the beginning to not store or send any data to Google.
Linux is just operating system, so show a active malware what attacks to Linux and causes people to suddenly need reinstall? Mac is just a computer (like a PC), so show a active malware what attacks to UEFI or other firmwares on it, what causes people to reflash or buy a new motherboard?
If you meant Linux with whole software system instead just operating system, then choose your words more accurately. And don't blame Linux if third party software has hole in it (like Firefox or Apache or Bash) and if you meant with Mac a whole software system instead just computer, then again, choose words more accurately and don't bring it up with Linux what is just monolithic operating system as they are not comparable.
There are always crackers writing malware and hackers testing how they can hack devices or software for better things. But question is how easy it is to do and how widely it will spread because easiness.
I red it and understood but now Windows fans are defending Linux users and blaming Linux with same arguments as they defended Windows.
Still, Linux arguments holds while Windows fans arguments dont. Proof is simple. Linux is most used operating system in mobile devices, internet servers, supercomputers etc. But still lacks the malware infections what Windows had.
And other proof is, since Windows Vista, Microsoft has improved the code quality and with sane settings and suddenly malware infections has been dropping.
The fact is, the market share does not matter how easily software gets infected. It is about quality of the software itself what rules it.
Do you know that in EU there is a law passed to every EU country that they need to store every tele communication information for 6-12 months? And that is by automatically by some countries passed to US intelligence agencies?
The data are Every phone number called and received Every fax sent and received Every email sender and receiver and subject Every SMS receiver and sender Every URL typed to browser address bar Every IP connected by the client
(The messages itself ain't stored, just the mattering data who to whom and when and from where)
And now there is idea to even store every phone location data as well, and you can not affect at all that is it possible or not without shutting down the phone.
You can secure so much as you want your SSL/SSH but operator is always man in the middle. And you know what risks does it give.
Even sweden millitary has permission to intercept every connection what just goes trough their country. That was one reason why even Russia is building a own cable since then to germany just to pass Sweden authorities.
How about then every bank and shop? They can see what you buy and when. Bonus cards are used to track personal habits and even locations. Stores can build with bonus cards very accurate maps of personality. They can even find out when you are cheating your wife and with time if people buy with own cards separetely.
You can say it is nitpicking or offer a tinfoil hat, but it does not change the facts that already big corporations are tracking your habits. They even know when you are having a baby and which gender it will be by tracking your bonus cards. They can send advertisements to your home then about baby products. And usually you have given them a permission to share collected data to third parties.
And all that is possible because first they rised the prices of products, so they can present a "bonus card" what gives a user a normal price. And those who do not have bonus card, pays extra fee from everything.
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Yes, it is possible. Many people have died many years before someone even noticed that person still gets paid, and it came up at Co-determination.
The workload have been just shared among people without anyone knowing that what really happened to people whos responsibility they were. Usually it has been just tought that they are fired, at somekind leave or...
It was stick what predates spoon and shovel.
Professional == You are paid what you do
Amateur == You are not paid what you do
Skilled == You have learn to do well what you do
Talented == You are fast learner or adapt quickly what you do
Someone can be a amateur, but still skilled programmer.
Someone else can be professional but still bad programmer.
And on what point did we really turn out that ranking of people is based their wealth and not to what they do?
I rank a school teacher higer than a CEO of big company.
I rank a worker higher than a CEO of that company where that worker works.
After all, technology should help people, allow people to enjoy the life. Not work harder or longer. People should have less working time, more free time and we should have already taken care of poor and other people who can not get their life working so they do get their life working. We have technology, we have way to do so. But we do not do so if CEO do not profit from it so much that you can buy a few airplanes and fifth house. And we rank those people so high that people coming after them, are ready to do anything to get their positions before them.
Competition does not help anyone, alternativies does.
Competition != Alternativies
Alternativies != Competition
We can have alternativies without competition.
Prise the alternativies and freedom, not competition and suffering.
It is sad that Tribes 2 died so fast because its too deep learning curve (even for T1 players)
As it had best balance between players and vehicles and between every weapon and armor class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLwd5Zy9Tcg
Not many even remember how deep and tactical fights there were in bases as most seems just want speed with brainless minedisking.
Yes, many has done all kind games and mods to old games.
Example game using Quake 2 engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtJKrIngTIs
Or original Doom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrZThqBIibQ using Doomengine (GPLv2 version of Id released Doom engine) http://dengine.net/
Fans can do awesome things with old Id engines. Like with Quake 1 with new optimized DarkPlaced version of Quake engine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D2VGkZNItE
Or with tenebrae version of the quake engine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOMl26bpJ6U
Not like that....
Or unless you want to say you are a product of TV manufacturer or even your government as they want to sell your information to every advertiser out there, on streets, television, radio....
CyanogenMod ain't operating system. It is a project to bring a latest vanilla Android with their own mod (CM) to Android phones.
The Linux is still the operating system in the Android and CyanogenMod version of Android.
CM community would be stupid to switch Linux to other operating system in Android, like HURD. As Android would not work so well anymore.
Thats why we have lockscreens so EVERYTHING would be secure behind it.
Too bad if user just use slider and not at least PIN code.
Older than Linux operating system since 1991?
Operating System what RIM use in blackberryes ain't older than at least 1995....
So Linux wins and so on Android as Linux is used operating system in it.
While the collected geodata doesn’t reveal specific addresses for locations you’ve visited, it can still leave a pretty rich trail of a user’s movements. Combine this data with other pieces of information on the iPhone, like your messages and photos, and you’ve got a device that knows more about you than you do yourself, says The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal.
(even that you quoted that, I quote it from your message)
Me and my friend made a check when this Apples "tracking" hulabaloo started in Media.
It was found with the tools that my friend was last time at home when he bought the phone. Did not go to work and had skills of teleportation as the gathered data in non-synced & non-backupped datafile in iPhone had lots of time and place caps.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.stericson.permissions that is what Chinggisk posted few post up...
I have now CM7, how I can reject per application every permission that I do not want it to have? Not just internet connection but like, permission to read contacts?
Advertisers never receive data about users when ads are shown to the users what Google has collected.
It is always User Google Advertiser
It is never User Google -> Advertiser
Or it is never User Advertiser
Google always stands between user and third party. And it does not give information to advertisers what can be linked anyway to any user.
Basicly Google says to advertisers "We have shown your ad 15 287 times, so you pay 1 cent per time so it is 15,29 to us.
Advertiser does not get any more information than placing a advertiser next to the street where every person passing by can see it.
The advertiser placement price is about calculations how many possible views that advertisement, how long it is there and on what season.
Of course on streets, advertiser can pay someone to sit next it and count people or order a camera system to be installed and then count view counts.
But with Google, they cant as Google does the calculations for them.
I'm afraid you're the one, that inadvertantly or otherwise, is spreading false information. Some models of Android phone will not let you even use the calendar or contacts unless you sign up with Google.
I was talking about the Android, not about a Android what manufacturer or carrier has modified so the Android experience is different.
Android allows to use calenders and contacts without any connections to or apps from Google.
Android allows user to sync calenders and contacts without Google at all, or any other internet service.
BUT, if carrier or manufacturer modifies their distributed Android such way that the Android experience can not be found from them, it is not reason to blame the Android but reason to blame those carriers and manufacturers.
It should be very easy by tech-oriented people to already understand that it is different thing when third party modifies product what the just distribute than having a original product.
That is one reason why GPL exist so that every modification can be seen and even disabled if wanted.
That is one reason why Google added to Android 4.0 a feature to disable a carrier or manufacturer bundled applications.
Of course it is different to buy a Windows from shelf and installing it to empty HD in computer than bying a computer what has HD where OEM windows is preinstalled with bundled software.
If you buy a Acer and its bundled OEM software makes it slow and ugly, do you blame Microsoft or Acer because that? If you blame Microsoft, then you don't have logic or you don't understand how preinstalled OEM versions differs from vanilla Windows experience.
Why does tech-oriented people usually remove those bundled softwares? Why does corporations have custom installation medias what they use to overwrite the preinstalled Windows by OEM when they buy new computers?
Hardware can be good by OEM, but their modifications to Windows might not. So they simply overwrite it with their own version or pure Windows installation.
Now, Google does not manufacture phones, like Microsoft does not manufacture PC's.
Google only offers a software system freely to be used, Microsoft does same thing but with license fee.
Smartphones and PC's are little different position but not actually far away.
Most PC's are OEM's what are "infected" with OEM Windows.
But at least there is a change to buy or at least build a PC without Windows, somehow (can be easy or very hard)
At least people can re-install shelf version of Windows instead OEM version if wanted. Or they can even install other OS and chosen software system including the OS if just technically possible.
Smartphones.... You can not buy anywhere a empty smartphone or build a own.
But at least there is a change to some models to be re-installed with wanted version and not Carrier or OEM version, when using Android. You can not do that with iOS or Windows Phone. Android is more close to PC than neither those two other.
Now, Google offers the Android experience with their own branded phone model with partner. That is like a flag ship how the Android should be felt. But even then, some carriers can do SIM lock or other nasty things.
But in some countries every phone is SIM-free, and some phones are without DRM so you can just root the phone and install non-OEM version of the Android in them.
That is one of the beautiful things in Android, user can have better freedom than with iOS or Windows Phone.
Google > OEM > Carrier > User
That is the typical order in U.S
In EU, some countries it is
Google > Carrier > User
Google > OEM > User
Google > non-modified Android by Carrier/OEM > User
If carrier makes modification and you don't like it, do you blame manufacturer or Google because that?
If OEM makes modification and you dont like it.... do you blame Carrier or Google?
If Google does modification and you dont like it, do you blame Carrier or OEM?
The Android is
No it is not perfectly appropriate at all. It is not even close.
When you just change your Maemo 6.0 brand to MeeGo/Harmattan while MeeGo project is totally different branch, it "perfectly appropriate" at all.
Lets change Ubuntu branding as Windows 8 and it is perfectly appropriate that everyone else refers computers using it as Windows 8-based computer.
Marketing and branding are some things what does not matter at all what technology is. You can sell same technology under different brands but the different branding does not mean it is different technology.
Or you can sell different technologies under same brand, but it does not mean the technologies are same.
Nokia lied and misleads customers and media to sell N9 as MeeGo. And they get off from it because MeeGo is DEAD.
If MeeGo would came a success so there would be real MeeGo phones, N9 would be incompatible with them as it does not have MeeGo but Harmattan.
Of course they are because they needed to bring the MeeGo what people waited and what (?) Intel deal ruled that Microsoft needs to bring at least single MeeGo device.
Nokia LIES (whoa, who would believe marketing is just about truth?) to customers and even for media.
Harmattan and MeeGo has some same parts, like Qt. But so does Symbian have a Qt and it is even being ported to Android and even Qt is ported to Linux and many other. Still those ain't MeeGo.
MeeGo and Harmattan were (and are) just Linux distributions among others like Android for mobile devices.
Harmattan is the name of the software program that comes after Fremantle / Maemo 5. In the Maemo Summit we already announced it as "Maemo 6" in order to bring a clear signal about the major update, change of toolkit, etc.
Now MeeGo comes to the picture. "Maemo 6" will not be used by Nokia as a brand since all the marketing effort around the software platform will be around MeeGo.
- For those caring about the platform in depth, Harmattan =! MeeGo. If we would make Harmattan identical to MeeGo then we would need to postpone dates and, really not for a good reason. Not a reason for app developers (the API is there anyway) and not a good reason for end users, who could not care less about packaging and some obscure middleware components. This is the only reason making Ari Jaaksi refer to Harmattan as a "MeeGo instance" instead of just "MeeGo product".
Nokia lied and Nokia fans wanted MeeGo and Media wanted to get money from ads by getting readers by following Nokia marketing that N9 has MeeGo while it has Harmattan.
Nokia never toke MeeGo project seriously. Ever, never. If they would have. They would have dropped whole Maemo 6.0 development and jumped 100% to MeeGo development. But they divided the development and slowed down everything with their own....
They just rebranded Harmattan as MeeGo/Harmattan so they have even legal side covered that somewhere it is not said it is MeeGo but still said it is MeeGo. .deb or .rpm does not matter or that not 100% API compability exist?
compability
Differences like
N9 does not have MeeGo, it has Harmattan what is just officially branded as MeeGo/Harmattan.
If you don't want to share your contacts in the cloud, Android indeed doesn't provide an easy way to sync them.
vcard..... ain't it easy to be synced every time you connect your phone to computer via USB or even via WLAN, you contacts and calender is synced?
Example of Akonadi (service what belongs to KDE SC) and Android phone.
We can turn to old fashion contact and calender syncing.
1. Configure your phone to export calenders as .ics file (you might need own app for that if your chosen calender does not do it already)
2. Configure akonadi to automatically sync them to computer when phone is connected as mass storage or connects to local network (WLAN)
3. Configure your phone to import files back to phone by action or automatically
When calenders and contacts are text files, you can sync and manage them without any server
Rooting voids warranty only in some countries. Not in all.
At least some countries understands that hardware malfunction or design flaw is hardware feature and has nothing to do with the software.
Many EU countries you can root your phone, install what ever software you want and then even avoid braking your warranty.
But IF your phone gets malfuctioned by the software, warranty does not touch it at all. So if you brick your phone with your actions, it is your fault and warranty does not help you at all.
In my country if someone sends a custom ROM phone to repair where CPU has burn out, they do check settings was the phone overclocked. If it were not, warranty applies. If it was overclocked, warranty is invalid and user needs to pay the repair.
At some countries there are at least tech people who understands there is difference between software and hardware. But some new people are only teached the US laws and US warranty by education and marketing materials without even knowing what are the laws in the country (non-US).
So stop running all around internet saying that warranty is avoid if you root your phone or you root + install custom ROM. As warranty policy is different in other countries and manufacturers want to rip off all possibilities to even following local law. So easiest way is to teach users that if they do anything to their phones, warranty is off.
With Android you do not even need to setup Exchange to get maintain your own private data.
Still you can sync them to your own wanted computer with standard files like vcards and others.
IF and only IF, you have specific carrier or manufacturer phone where they have disabled all those. It is not fault of the Android but fault of the carrier and manufacturer.
All Android phones in my country are unlocked. Carriers do not modify them to block users from swapping cards or even selling phones forward or anything.
Every Android phone is vanilla or as manufacturer made it as pure form. Carriers can not block users.
Stop spreading lies!
You can use Exchange with Android as well. You do not need to give your contacts, emails or anything to Google even if you activate your phone to Google.
Windows Phone 7 has not so good privacy as does Android.
Android user can choose from the beginning to not store or send any data to Google.
Linux is just operating system, so show a active malware what attacks to Linux and causes people to suddenly need reinstall?
Mac is just a computer (like a PC), so show a active malware what attacks to UEFI or other firmwares on it, what causes people to reflash or buy a new motherboard?
If you meant Linux with whole software system instead just operating system, then choose your words more accurately. And don't blame Linux if third party software has hole in it (like Firefox or Apache or Bash)
and if you meant with Mac a whole software system instead just computer, then again, choose words more accurately and don't bring it up with Linux what is just monolithic operating system as they are not comparable.
There are always crackers writing malware and hackers testing how they can hack devices or software for better things. But question is how easy it is to do and how widely it will spread because easiness.
I red it and understood but now Windows fans are defending Linux users and blaming Linux with same arguments as they defended Windows.
Still, Linux arguments holds while Windows fans arguments dont. Proof is simple. Linux is most used operating system in mobile devices, internet servers, supercomputers etc. But still lacks the malware infections what Windows had.
And other proof is, since Windows Vista, Microsoft has improved the code quality and with sane settings and suddenly malware infections has been dropping.
The fact is, the market share does not matter how easily software gets infected. It is about quality of the software itself what rules it.
They just don't contain same microkernel but totally same whole NT operating system.
NT operating system is used in every Windows since Microsoft killed MS-DOS line (last of it being Windows ME) and continued NT line with Windows XP.
That Windows desktop and server versions use same NT operating system is not secret.
Neither is that CE operating system is used in Windows Phone.
Bing is Your Friend
Erh, wait.... it was Microsoft service... Who maintains Windows Phone
Do you know that in EU there is a law passed to every EU country that they need to store every tele communication information for 6-12 months? And that is by automatically by some countries passed to US intelligence agencies?
The data are
Every phone number called and received
Every fax sent and received
Every email sender and receiver and subject
Every SMS receiver and sender
Every URL typed to browser address bar
Every IP connected by the client
(The messages itself ain't stored, just the mattering data who to whom and when and from where)
And now there is idea to even store every phone location data as well, and you can not affect at all that is it possible or not without shutting down the phone.
You can secure so much as you want your SSL/SSH but operator is always man in the middle. And you know what risks does it give.
Even sweden millitary has permission to intercept every connection what just goes trough their country. That was one reason why even Russia is building a own cable since then to germany just to pass Sweden authorities.
How about then every bank and shop? They can see what you buy and when. Bonus cards are used to track personal habits and even locations. Stores can build with bonus cards very accurate maps of personality. They can even find out when you are cheating your wife and with time if people buy with own cards separetely.
You can say it is nitpicking or offer a tinfoil hat, but it does not change the facts that already big corporations are tracking your habits. They even know when you are having a baby and which gender it will be by tracking your bonus cards. They can send advertisements to your home then about baby products. And usually you have given them a permission to share collected data to third parties.
And all that is possible because first they rised the prices of products, so they can present a "bonus card" what gives a user a normal price. And those who do not have bonus card, pays extra fee from everything.