That's all good and fine but just realise that you are in fact the minority. 2 years is not an accepted life span for many devices, but for many phones it most definitely is. You can thank contracts that last that long and come with a "free" phone.

I wonder how many of these are due to incorrect details. I've been living at my house for over 5 years now and I'm still getting letters from a debt collector for the previous tenant.
Apparently he owes $75. Apparently the debt collection has "confirmed the address as correct" and take immediate action if it's not paid.

I wonder with whom they confirmed the address. Certainly not with the people living there.

So are you 100% google free? No Android, no Google browser, no Gmail?

The reason I ask is because when I type something into the Firefox search bar in it's default configuration, shortly after it will appear as a suggested search in Chrome's universal address bar.

It's not Chrome leaking user data.

Are you trying to be clever or do you not understand how the legal system works at all?

I know who they are, but the brand has zero recognition where I live. That is despite a large portion of the population having their products. For the most part here they produce all the 3G / 4G dongles that every other person has but they are all re-branded.

Also the advert was for their smartphone which isn't sold here so I would say they aren't succeeding even in the slightest.

Does the windows licence agreement say that Balmer won't throw a chair at you? Does that give him the automatic right to do it?

Licence agreements are globally inclusive, not exclusive.

Oh? Please expand on that logic. What malware am I currently running?

I think the take home message here is that in London internet users somehow ended up receiving relevant ads from well known brands.

I seem to have nothing but crap. Right now I'm staring at an advert for a phone from a brand which is virtually unheard of (though quite prevailent, Huawei), and some company called Brocade who have something to do with bridges from what I can tell?

Where do I get these mythical well known brands?

They should have hired the DICE Beta department.

I wonder what the opposite would look like.

Just imagine a world where you had no libraries and had to manually code everything. What would that world look like? No developers? No consistency for end users? Do you think security would be better when developers are forced to write more code?

Somehow I don't think the libraries are necessarily the problem.

Who's perspective are you talking about?
The risk of the user being compromised? Or the risk of the programmer being held accountable?

For the most part we're not talking about fixing all bugs. For the most part the argument isn't even about being "secure enough".

No. For the most part some of the bugs are outright inexcusable.

Won't somebody think of the code!

In an information database as vast as the internet, what is the difference? There's enough people who will happily believe that if it doesn't exist on Google then it doesn't exist.

I didn't say your experience was invalid. I just said that the word is wrong. I myself have seen it in a schematic produced only a few years ago by Aker Solutions issued to us for checking. We requested them to amend the spelling.

No. Bus ducts are installed because of their high current and extremely low maintenance requirements.

Most bus duct systems I've worked on are on 10-20 year inspection regimes, and I have yet to encounter one, even some which are 50+ years old that actually needed maintenance. They are, or at least should be, sealed systems without so much as a spec of dust to cause problems.