.. in the shape of a Creeper.

Maybe it didn't have what plants crave?

You guys are all forgetting that the gpl is in play and TFA is crap. The only reason google has been able to hold off on source as long as it has on some versions of android is because most open source people dont have the balls to hold them accountable and force the issue. But that does not magically mean there is no GPL or that they do not have that legal obligation. Motorola would ALSO have this obligation, they CANT close source android because its just Linux with some patches.

Bullshit. I'm blind and most of the time they are NOT accessible AT ALL.

I have karma to burn and I was going to moderate this thread, but I think its more important that I comment.

I'm legally blind. I use JAWS and other software to hear the internet when the little vision I have in one eye goes south; And let me tell you this; Nobody cares about the blind when it comes to computers.

We are a small market segment because most blind people cant afford technology, and even worse because we are small companies feel like they can get away with screwing us over because they know that not only do we not have the money statistically to buy their products, but we also don't have the money statistically to hire a lawyer and sue. So they do it knowing full well that the ADA applies, they just dont care and know they can get away with it.

I'm lucky. I have worked as a programmer for over 15 years and I have worked in fortune 100 companies on products that most people use daily; I have technical skills and thankfully my income while not as much as somebody who is sighted - my disability is often used as an excuse to not pay me correctly - I still get paid a lot better than most of the blind people I have know. You sighties don't know how good you have it. Worse, most of you sighties (sighted people) don't give a crap about the blind yourselves, despite all the hollabaloo you make publicly.

Your comments like most who are sighted, are non-consecutive and do little to help. Why don't you get off your butt and show how elite and skilled you are by solving the problem and doing some good in the world instead of putting down the best solution found? Or at least help gear up somebody who actually cares about the problem, like I did when I worked with OLPC so many years ago to help them use the correct device for the audio system so flite and other blind access tools actually worked?

Better yet, why don't you start making patches to firefox and all the other browsers that are open source to make them easier to use for the blind, since right now Internet Explorer, for all of its faults, has accessibility hooks built in? Oh I forgot, you are too good to actually write code and solve problems, its much easier for you to act like you care and then go off and not actually help, becouse its easier to waste away teh fact that you can see and so you can do things and help in ways the blind cant to help themselves, no matter how hard we try.. my bad.

You wouldn't smoke a downloaded car, would you?

Thats probably because without going into too much detail, our code is part of the treatment

Not true. It would connect, find no files, and remove them from your PC, thinking that you had deleted everything.

This makes me wish I had an easy way to contact Karen Sandle; they could probably deny her request on the basis that she is a lawyer not a software person - despite her OOS credentials it would technically be true - but I bet they couldn't turn down a guy like me who already works on FDA software projects in Dev and QA; I would be happy to help in any way I can, even if it means looking at the source code and telling them they suck.

So if I was really evil, I could just have this be part of the payload for a big, well established botnet and end up killing lots of people at once? This sounds like the FDA will not be happy..

So what you are telling me is that if I wanted to, I could - hypothetically - write an iphone app that would detect people with this exploit in their chest, and if I wanted to and was evil enough to do so make them have a heart attack?

Mod Parent Up. I am currently a software developer with an FDA regulated product, and we have to sign a form explaining what we did when we check in. Yes, a hand written form, showing and explaining what was changed, how it was changed, and its impact on the product. Not just your normal check-in comments; this is a multiple page form/essay that what we checked in is what we said we checked in. Every time. The FDA has STRICT rules about software quality and security due to what in the FDA regulated software industry is known as "negative impact events".. basically anything that hurts the patient or has the ability to risk the patients health, even if they just have a worry (as stress can create physiological pain, etc). In this case, the security exploit by itself would be so negative that it can get a product pulled and the company selling it fined into oblivion. If anything the company that build this software is trying to cover its ass, and will fight as much as it can to not release the source code.. or risk death by FDA audit. And yes they exist; all FDA projects get audited sometimes, but when it happens its a massive company wide effort not to piss off the auditors or show them things they donty ask for explicitly as they are usually only raping with no lube.. it can get MUCH worse.

Are you saying these are universal binaries?