Have you seen the permissions the Facebook App has on the HTC Rezound? (And I'm sure on other phones.) Oh BTW you cant actually remove the FB App from this phone unless you root it.
This is exactly what it says on my phone...
Permissions: This application can access the following on your phone.
- Your personal information Read contact data, write contact data
-Services that cost you money Send SMS Messages
-Your messages Edit SMS or MMS, read SMS or MMS, receive SMS
-Your location fine(GPS) location
-Network communication full Internet access
-Your accounts act as an account authenticator, manage the accouns list
-Storage modify/delete SD card contents
-Phone calls read phone state and identity
-System Tools prevent phone from sleeping, write sync settings
What hacks me off about ISP's is the available packages for internet.
I just moved up to Colorado, and I had to sign up for internet at my new apartment. It was DSL, and the available packages were as follows...
1.5mb 3.0mb 7.0mb 10.0 mb
When in reality all that I need for gaming, and some Hulu action is perhaps 5mb, but they get you to take that extra jump to 7mb so they can charge you more. All that most anyone needs is maybe 3mb and even that would allow you to some some video streaming (Perhaps not in HD) 5mb would do most American's just fine.
Typically I'd agree with you, but this statement here...
"Tatro said she was 'looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy"
Is reason enough to be concerned. When some kind of school shooting happens, there is typically a message before hand. Sure, you can shrug off the "I wana cuta bitch" but when you make statements like the one posted above, there needs to be some kind of action.
I've never had to use a tool to remove a virus. The thing is, those tools are designed to remove some of the key entries of the virus, but it's still just registry keys and temp files. I've seen those fake anti-virus programs, and if you know your way around the registry, you CAN remove it without the need of a 3rd party tool.
To you, removing a virus from Linux is easy, because you are obviously an intelligent Linux user.
(Someone posted above the removal instructions)
For you to write out: sudo rm -f/usr/bin/Auto.bash/usr/bin/run.bash/etc/profile.d/gnome.sh index.php run.bash && sudo dpkg -r app5552
seems like nothing at all, but what about the average computer user? Do you think they know what sudo is? Hell I don't use Linux and I have no idea what the shit any of that stuff means. So no, that would only work with someone who really knows what they are doing with Linux.
Now on the flip side, you say...
"On Windows and the like, things are so complicated that Anti-virus software is almost required to remove some of their malware"
Ah, but this is going off the assumption that we are dealing with an average Windows user, not an expert user (Such as your self with Linux)
An expert Windows user like myself would say "Removing Malware is easy, just go into the registry's run section, remove what looks suspicious, delete temp files, prefetch, and search for the malware running process (Example: virus.exe) in the registry, and delete it"
Ah see that to me is easy, I've done things like that all the time, and it's just cake.
So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that...To you, removing a virus like this from Linux can be really simple...to someone who knows Linux, but the same can be said to a Windows user...who knows about Windows.
I hope that's something new, because I've had terrible experience with Lenovo laptops. I loved it when it was IBM but since then, it's been terrible.
We had about 6 Lenovo T-60 Laptops, and they had this bug where if you removed the power cord, or connected it, or docked/undocked, the keyboard and mouse would just stop working. This would force you to hold down the power button.
We had this issue, and tried to send it into Lenovo 6 times. Each time they assured us that they would fix the issue, but all that happened was them replacing the keyboard or some BS thing.
Then they told us we needed to order some rubber boots for the docking station. After all that trouble, we got rid of the T-60's and purchase Dell now.
I had nothing but terrible experience with Lenovo support, and the T-60 series. They were first gen, so I'll give it that it most likely had bugs, but they still should have taken care of the issue.
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Have you seen the permissions the Facebook App has on the HTC Rezound? (And I'm sure on other phones.) Oh BTW you cant actually remove the FB App from this phone unless you root it.
This is exactly what it says on my phone...
Permissions: This application can access the following on your phone.
- Your personal information
Read contact data, write contact data
-Services that cost you money
Send SMS Messages
-Your messages
Edit SMS or MMS, read SMS or MMS, receive SMS
-Your location
fine(GPS) location
-Network communication
full Internet access
-Your accounts
act as an account authenticator, manage the accouns list
-Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
-Phone calls
read phone state and identity
-System Tools
prevent phone from sleeping, write sync settings
Actually no, you can't filter out Idle. It's never worked right for me.
Seriously this is stuff that does not belong on the front page of a technology website.
It's easy to tell when someone has lost an argument. :-D
If your proven wrong, just start name calling!
So the last thing you can show me regarding this was from the Vietnam War.....
The thing is, we don't show enough of "Babies being blown up" and it sounds wrong, but think about it.
If Americans saw what war really did to people, there would be more people against the war. You see, American's don't like that kind of stuff.
Wait so this was on Fox news? CNN? NBC?
Oh you mean it's on the internet, with tons of other gross images that most Americans really don't care about.
I'm sorry, care to show me the latest TV show that displays the blowing up of a real life baby?
That's right, you can't, because it's not shown on TV.
News for nerds? Stuff that matters? This is not front-page material.
"Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Slashdot Headline." ... ..... /Head explodes
"Hugh Pickens writes..."
"David Carr writes that..."
Well yeah? How else would they have gotten into that kind of power?
And Bikers would be more of a threat to me than terrorist if I tried to outlaw motorcycles.
Christians would be more of a threat than street thugs if I tried to ban religion.
It's stating the obvious here....
What hacks me off about ISP's is the available packages for internet.
I just moved up to Colorado, and I had to sign up for internet at my new apartment. It was DSL, and the available packages were as follows...
1.5mb
3.0mb
7.0mb
10.0 mb
When in reality all that I need for gaming, and some Hulu action is perhaps 5mb, but they get you to take that extra jump to 7mb so they can charge you more. All that most anyone needs is maybe 3mb and even that would allow you to some some video streaming (Perhaps not in HD) 5mb would do most American's just fine.
I have a Blackberry Curve with Verizon, and I still have Google listed.
How about we link directly to the simulation and dodge all the blog spam.
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news146.html
Typically I'd agree with you, but this statement here...
"Tatro said she was 'looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy"
Is reason enough to be concerned. When some kind of school shooting happens, there is typically a message before hand. Sure, you can shrug off the "I wana cuta bitch" but when you make statements like the one posted above, there needs to be some kind of action.
Bah your right man. My mistake, should have said "Sptite based games" or something.
Seriously! There is obviously a market for people who like retro games, and the developers need to take advantage of this.
Do you understand how many people would buy a new 8-bit RPG game similar to something like Chrono Trigger? Holy crap, I'd jump all over that.
This is when games were about the story, and not about the shiny graphics.
I've never had to use a tool to remove a virus. The thing is, those tools are designed to remove some of the key entries of the virus, but it's still just registry keys and temp files. I've seen those fake anti-virus programs, and if you know your way around the registry, you CAN remove it without the need of a 3rd party tool.
Ah but here is the problem.
To you, removing a virus from Linux is easy, because you are obviously an intelligent Linux user.
(Someone posted above the removal instructions)
For you to write out: sudo rm -f /usr/bin/Auto.bash /usr/bin/run.bash /etc/profile.d/gnome.sh index.php run.bash && sudo dpkg -r app5552
seems like nothing at all, but what about the average computer user? Do you think they know what sudo is? Hell I don't use Linux and I have no idea what the shit any of that stuff means. So no, that would only work with someone who really knows what they are doing with Linux.
Now on the flip side, you say...
"On Windows and the like, things are so complicated that Anti-virus software is almost required to remove some of their malware"
Ah, but this is going off the assumption that we are dealing with an average Windows user, not an expert user (Such as your self with Linux)
An expert Windows user like myself would say "Removing Malware is easy, just go into the registry's run section, remove what looks suspicious, delete temp files, prefetch, and search for the malware running process (Example: virus.exe) in the registry, and delete it"
Ah see that to me is easy, I've done things like that all the time, and it's just cake.
So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that...To you, removing a virus like this from Linux can be really simple...to someone who knows Linux, but the same can be said to a Windows user...who knows about Windows.
Well if you experience this issue from an update, would "Last known good configuration" not resolve this?
My recommendation is to find an older version of the application and install that. That's what I've done so far.
I run version 3.8, and at the moment it's taking up about 16MB of memory (Vista 64-bit)
I've seen the newer versions, and would stay far away from that.
That's a good way of taking what I said out of context.
Anyone that installs Anti-Virus on their PC and expects it to protect them from their own stupidity deserves what they get.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/
The only real difference is that this one went a bit higher (100,000 ft) where as the MIT guys made it 93,000. Still pretty close though.
I hope that's something new, because I've had terrible experience with Lenovo laptops. I loved it when it was IBM but since then, it's been terrible.
We had about 6 Lenovo T-60 Laptops, and they had this bug where if you removed the power cord, or connected it, or docked/undocked, the keyboard and mouse would just stop working. This would force you to hold down the power button.
We had this issue, and tried to send it into Lenovo 6 times. Each time they assured us that they would fix the issue, but all that happened was them replacing the keyboard or some BS thing.
Then they told us we needed to order some rubber boots for the docking station. After all that trouble, we got rid of the T-60's and purchase Dell now.
I had nothing but terrible experience with Lenovo support, and the T-60 series. They were first gen, so I'll give it that it most likely had bugs, but they still should have taken care of the issue.
As for the X series, we had no problems.
Just a word of caution....