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Comment Re:LOL WTF LMFAO (Score 1) 117

There is a reason Mozilla is hard with the requirements to name a build for Firefox codebase "Firefox", it is their trademark, if you build Firefox and replace Mozilla addons "store" with one that doesn't do reviews (manual or automated) and is filled with malware, I am pretty sure Mozilla will make you use another name. Android is trademarked by Google, Amazon don't call their tablets Android, because they can't. Google is to light allowing forkers to call it Android, tainting their brand

Comment Re:Why the surprise? (Score 2) 135

Wrong, use the OS provided keyring (OS X Keychain, GNOME keyring, Windows Credentials API, etc.) that protect your passwords with your local user credentials and only allow direct reading by the application that stored them. It is true that if your computer is compromised passwords are not safe either, but not all compromises have the same kind of access to a decrypt a keyring, but most if not all can read plain text files.

Comment Re:really ? (Score 0) 324

Do you really think everyone that download those applications that enable access to this hidden code know what they are doing? People will download it because they saw it on the media, use it, and go to Google Play and start giving bad reviews for applications that have bad behaviour, and not only crashes, what will happen if the access to the IMEI number is hidden giving fake numbers and for some reason a crap application used that to identify the user and for some reason privacy is broken, accessing data of other users?

Google is very strict with application compatibility on Google Play. I remember they advised the Cyanogenmod team to not enable multi window feature for all applications because not all of them work without problems with dynamic screen sizes and they didn't want to alienate developers on Google Play with bad reviews for something that doesn't follow the Android APIs. There is a reason Samsung multi window feature only works with some applications and not all of them

I still think this a feature that we will see later when better developed and there is a better way to ensure old applications compatibility. We will see then

Comment Re:really ? (Score 4, Interesting) 324

It was never a feature, people access it using a third party application that calls an Activity that is not normally accessible from the OS UI. It is like when people found initial semi-working code of multiple user profiles on Android 4.1, again not accessible to the users, and later releases added the feature when the code was completed and tested. I think we will see this feature enabled on later Android versions when they get to finish it and find ways to make old applications not crash when permissions are removed.

Comment Re:Offensive (Score 1) 1251

Opposing religion and their political structures is one thing, many god(s) believing people oppose to that too, including mixing religion, government and science. Take a look at some other comments, you will see some words like "ignorant", "moron", "stupid", when they think someone believe in a god, without ever knowing or asking about his or her ideas, the same behaviour of extremist people when someone say believe on another god or none, this is what I call the "anti theist religion".

I seriously challenge those people to call, for example, to the priest Georges Lemaître and ignorant because it was a god believer, and still proposed what became the Big Bang theory, and disapproved that the Catholic church used his work as a way to validate religion

Comment Re:Giant mess. (Score 1) 77

Really, can I download all the management tools that Amazon uses in AWS? If you tell me that I can use Xen and other OSS code that Amazon uses will only tell me you don't get what I am talking about

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