Comment Re:boohoo (Score 1) 203
Old versions of Android are not only affected, but less sandboxed. Android phones don't get updates that often. There are huge numbers of phones 4.x, much less Lollipop.
Old versions of Android are not only affected, but less sandboxed. Android phones don't get updates that often. There are huge numbers of phones 4.x, much less Lollipop.
not quite what you meant, but a tweet of a malicious video can do this.
Mild irony if Google becomes a vector for pwning android phones with bad videos. If I was a youtube engineer, i'd be working overtime to create a filter for bad filters.
I forgot to put something in my original rant... and Slashdot doesn't allow editing of comments, so I'll post this here.
Paul Ryan rails against people getting their entitlements. He calls people who take those entitlements freeloaders. Yet he himself took an entitlement. Why is he allowed to get his entitlement, yet others, who don't want to "leave anything on the table" bad? It's duplicitous. And technically, Ryan wasn't even entitled to it directly, it was his dad's SS benefits. Also, his family had enough cash to send him to college, but he took the government entitlement. Again, leave nothing on the table is fine, but that's not my point.
I don't mind either Rand nor Ryan taking benefits. I don't even think Ryan duplicitous for trying to dismantle the same program that spawned him - though I view it short sighted. What bugs me is people who take entitlements who rail against others taking entitlements. Either don't take any, or shut up about others taking the same help you took.
Not trolling here, but you assume a lot of people think all those are a bad thing.
My check from the government is my earned entitlement. Your check from the government is an amoral welfare. Paul Ryan hates Social Security, but when he drew Social Security to get to college, it was somehow fine. Even Ayn Rand drew government checks.
Also JEB Bush is redundant, like typing your PIN Number on an ATM Machine. J.E.B. is an acronym for John Elliot Bush. The Bush is redundant, much like Bushes in general
Because there's never security holes in beta software...
Agreed, that statement from TFA is pretty stupid.
One thing lost in all this... you always hear about companies caught flat footed, and then not seeing replacement technology coming and smacking them in the face. Apple is one of the few companies that build out the tech that will eventually replace them.
iPod was worth millions/billions, lets build a phone that will replace all MP3 players. Hell, even intra-line.... they killed the Mini (our fave hard drive player) then introduced the flash based Nano, then the iPod touch. There's sure to be a large amount of cannibalization up and down the iPod touch, iPad Mini, Ipad, iPhone 6, 6+ line. Hey, we'll sell you whatever, as long as it has an apple logo on it.
I see the watch as a toe in the water of a phone screen replacement. Maybe you use the watch all day. Maybe you use the phone.
So now Apple already has a hedge. So you're saying people may buy one, and have a high margin watch on their arm? Hey, we have one with an Apple logo on it. Or you say, people want to stick to their phone? Hey, we have one with an Apple logo on it, (surprisingly high margin compared to the industry).
It's a hedge. A very interesting hedge with a brand new UI (I'm a fanboy for any new UI interaction - taptic engine + Force touch kind of makes me say WOW, i'm a UI geek like that).
Maybe it will be a Newton (don't think so, it's already way past Newton numbers). Maybe it will be an Apple TV, nice, good numbers for any company besides one the size of Apple. Or maybe it will be iPad. But Apple should be congratulated for taking the risk, for having enough foresight to see possible competitors and neither ignore nor buy them, but create them. And it has the cash to let this one percolate a bit.
The level of clownitude is high in this one. Either part would require firing. Both together require firing from a cannon.
I have no idea if A-M does this (i don't have an account there.... ) but a common thing is to keep charging credit cards for no reason. And if you fight the charge, well sure you and your wife just fill out this affidavit to A-M.com, i'm sure she'd be happy to fight the charges with you.
We just had kids... twins. $DEITY bless my wife, she's still jealous after 10 years of marriage (anniversary today), have no idea why, i'm not worth being jealous about
Anyways, i tell her often, don't worry, I just don't have time to cheat on you
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I re-read your comment with the accent of Ricardo Mantalban in my head; it was much improved.
FTFY
Always disabling Java is the recommended course of action.
Java and Flash on the web are technologies that have come and gone. Now that HTML5 video is prevalent, I'm much more likely to get pwn3d by a zero day than I am to find anything in either Java or Flash that I'd actually miss.
Lawyer jokes aside, this is a field that has expensive training, accreditation requirements (Bar Exam), and even for some folks allows you to have a title (I have a lawyer friend that tacked on Esq. to his name). The fact that they can be replaced even for a decent subset of their job doesn't make me feel happy for long term employment hopes.
Mint, Cubuntu, kubuntu...
I'm glad that we've gotten past the "complexity of a billion distros" and settled down to.. uhmmm, a billion Ubuntu distros. And yes, I know they're all downstream of Debian...
Not sure how we'd get normal people to choose.
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson