The Dalvik VM doesn't accept Java VM bytecode. The Java language is what all the tools work on currently for creating executable images for the VM, and precompiled class files are also converted. If someone were so inclined, Dalvik could use lisp or c or befunge in much the same way that other languages have been compiled to work on the Java VM.
That's just it though, Oracle wants to be able to collect a fee. There isn't one now, but if Oracle wins then they could demand a fee for use of Android.
... my point was the Android at least doesn't require the tethering fee...
The Android OS doesn't. Your carrier usually does. AT&T only "allows" tethering on their system if you pay for it. If they catch you doing it they'll just add it to your account and backbill you for how long they think you've been doing it. Verizon is the same way (with their Blackberries, anyway).
When I was in high school we were required to wear our id badges on lanyards around our necks. The lanyard was small plastic tubing with a break in it "for safety". My sister and I were not particularly interested in wearing it, and began just clipping the badges to our shirts. Still clearly visible, just not on the lanyard.
Instantly, a shit storm erupted. Detentions and a suspension for insubordination and for failure to follow school policy (and for destruction of school property when we told them we'd thrown the plastic lanyard away).
Our father went to see the principal; he was told that the lanyards had "a safety release" to prevent choking and that we should feel safe. My father offered to demonstrate how holding on to the lanyard's "safety release" would allow someone to successfully choke a person wearing the lanyard. The principal declined (sadly), and back pedalled on his original stance. If we wore the badges "visibly" and carried our "excuse notes" for the lanyard, we would be excluded from the policy.
Ironically, within two weeks, a student was strangled during a fight with another student using the plastic lanyard from their id badge.
Honestly, were I writing malware, the first thing I'd do after something like that came out was try and figure out how to disable it. You can't trust anything on a compromised computer.
Sure, it might catch a few. Most likely the user will just ignore the warning, hoping it'll go away; then once the malware has an update that disables the warning, it will go away. Problem solved.
About the only thing that will fix the current spyware/malware problem would be smarter computer use and privilege separation. But in my experience users will click on anything just to get their shiny pointers.
take the prosecutor's face and photoshop it onto a picture of a dead body, that photoshop artist would be arrested for murder?
In your case, however, the original photo is that of a dead body. It in and of itself is not illegal. A photo of a minor is. I think what the noise is about is that someone's trying to say that a pornographic image can be made into a pedographic by pasting the head of a minor onto it. What if you put Miley's head on a dead naked body? Pedo-necrophilia? Could be, in that state.
during the attack, the attacker could publish his own SSL cert as a DNS record. The attacker can pretend to be the dns server as well as the webserver or other server the victim is going to connect to.
This isn't much different from the case of a MITM with normal SSL. With someone in the middle, most bets are off.
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[...] it does not deliver a high enough amount of vitamin A.
I'm sure that some is better than none in this case. By your argument, the only cereals that should be sold are Total or Product 19 because they have 100% USRDA (or whatever it's called now) of many nutrients. I'm sure you remember the commercials for Total demonstrating how many bowls of various cereals would be needed for "nutritional equivalence".
I'm sure that even a quarter "serving" of this rice would help at least some of the nations with severe Vitamin A deficiency (map) get off clinical deficiency into just severe sub-clinical.
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Not even that.
The Dalvik VM doesn't accept Java VM bytecode. The Java language is what all the tools work on currently for creating executable images for the VM, and precompiled class files are also converted. If someone were so inclined, Dalvik could use lisp or c or befunge in much the same way that other languages have been compiled to work on the Java VM.
That's just it though, Oracle wants to be able to collect a fee. There isn't one now, but if Oracle wins then they could demand a fee for use of Android.
... my point was the Android at least doesn't require the tethering fee ...
The Android OS doesn't. Your carrier usually does. AT&T only "allows" tethering on their system if you pay for it. If they catch you doing it they'll just add it to your account and backbill you for how long they think you've been doing it. Verizon is the same way (with their Blackberries, anyway).
Ah, but who trolls the fair trolls?
When I was in high school we were required to wear our id badges on lanyards around our necks. The lanyard was small plastic tubing with a break in it "for safety". My sister and I were not particularly interested in wearing it, and began just clipping the badges to our shirts. Still clearly visible, just not on the lanyard.
Instantly, a shit storm erupted. Detentions and a suspension for insubordination and for failure to follow school policy (and for destruction of school property when we told them we'd thrown the plastic lanyard away).
Our father went to see the principal; he was told that the lanyards had "a safety release" to prevent choking and that we should feel safe. My father offered to demonstrate how holding on to the lanyard's "safety release" would allow someone to successfully choke a person wearing the lanyard. The principal declined (sadly), and back pedalled on his original stance. If we wore the badges "visibly" and carried our "excuse notes" for the lanyard, we would be excluded from the policy.
Ironically, within two weeks, a student was strangled during a fight with another student using the plastic lanyard from their id badge.
I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING.
Just like the Spanish Inquisition?
And look at you now. You don't even have a name...
I already am...
Really, who is surprised by this? What's the cost of an ad and fake credentials compared to getting a chance to infect millions of computers?
The days of the Spanish inquisition are over.
I wasn't expecting that...
Honestly, were I writing malware, the first thing I'd do after something like that came out was try and figure out how to disable it. You can't trust anything on a compromised computer.
Sure, it might catch a few. Most likely the user will just ignore the warning, hoping it'll go away; then once the malware has an update that disables the warning, it will go away. Problem solved.
About the only thing that will fix the current spyware/malware problem would be smarter computer use and privilege separation. But in my experience users will click on anything just to get their shiny pointers.
Sounds like someone's been a victim of one too many Rickrolls....
take the prosecutor's face and photoshop it onto a picture of a dead body, that photoshop artist would be arrested for murder?
In your case, however, the original photo is that of a dead body. It in and of itself is not illegal. A photo of a minor is. I think what the noise is about is that someone's trying to say that a pornographic image can be made into a pedographic by pasting the head of a minor onto it. What if you put Miley's head on a dead naked body? Pedo-necrophilia? Could be, in that state.
during the attack, the attacker could publish his own SSL cert as a DNS record. The attacker can pretend to be the dns server as well as the webserver or other server the victim is going to connect to.
This isn't much different from the case of a MITM with normal SSL. With someone in the middle, most bets are off.
What a titanic misreading. :D
You are obviously not married.
just as hating your wife's lasagna is not the same as hating your wife.
Yeah, but good luck getting her to see it that way...
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If I want actual Intellectual articles with in-depth discussions, I come to slashdot.
Oh, man. That's quality entertainment right there. Looks like you're new here. Welcome aboard. :D
[...] it does not deliver a high enough amount of vitamin A.
I'm sure that some is better than none in this case. By your argument, the only cereals that should be sold are Total or Product 19 because they have 100% USRDA (or whatever it's called now) of many nutrients. I'm sure you remember the commercials for Total demonstrating how many bowls of various cereals would be needed for "nutritional equivalence".
I'm sure that even a quarter "serving" of this rice would help at least some of the nations with severe Vitamin A deficiency (map) get off clinical deficiency into just severe sub-clinical.
I, for one, welcome or new self-pwning overlords?
I am slightly frightened that this was modded "Insightful"...
omg PONIES!!!!111111
I dunno, Netcraft confirmed that PC gaming was dead a few months ago...
Are you really that surprised?