I still think a better solution is to make it impossible to write malicious software in the first place

If it was that easy it would have been done already.

Maybe an in-between solution is for Google to vet apps that request more sensitive permissions.

And how do you determine if an app is going to request sensitive permission without umm, vetting it in the first place? Chicken and egg situation there mate.

Perhaps another step is to make it so that by default the app asks for the more sensitive permissions but the user has to confirm them individually

So you have a situation where the app is constantly asking the user for confirmation before doing things, kind of like how MS Vista used to do. We all know how well that was received.

I guess that Apple obviously thought this through properly before they released their product. Maybe Google should eat some humble pie and just emulate what Apple have done.

I heard once that London Irish rugby club used to get theirs shipped direct from Dublin because it was better than the stuff the UK distributors had.

It is a little extra special when it's fresh. If you're ever in Dublin visit the Guinness Museum at the Guinness brewery. At the end of the tour make sure you visit the Museum bar and sample a few jars. It's a real treat :)

Fizzy pap? How can you say that - there's nothing fizzy about draught guinness. The old conditioned bottled guinness you so fondly wax over was fizzy. It had no head and the bubbles were very much part of the drink. I remember it too as a young man, and my great grandmother (who lived to about 93) used to drink half a guiness 'n black (blackcurrent) every day and swore by it.

But the whole point of modern draught guinness is that the bubbles are designed to be tiny, foamy and slowly rise to the surface to form a nice creamy head. There are no bubbles left in the body of the drink once it's settled. It's just smooth black silky goodness.

The "guinness cold" pint is just an option; an advertising gimmick applied to a number of brand ales and beers.

No it's not: "Ireland" is exactly that. It's not called Southern Ireland or anything else that describes it as part of a whole - just "Ireland".

Northern Ireland may be on the same land mass and have the word "Ireland" in it, but today it's part of the UK, not Ireland. Different currency - GBP not the Euro. Different road signs - Miles not Kilometers, etc. And Guinness originates from Dublin, Ireland.
       

Exactly. Were you cold, miserable, broke, jealous, hungry, scared or have anxiety attacks before you were born? Nope, and that'll be what it's like after you're dead too. Nothing to worry about at all.

Guinness is an Irish dry stout, and Ireland is not part of the UK.

It's not fizzy either, so if you've been served "Cold, stale coffee mixed with seltzer water" and told it was guinness, then you've been had.

A colleague of mine used to work at Google and told me there is considerable pressure put on you to come up with something concrete and constructive from that 10%. It's not a free time to just dick about with whatever takes your fancy, it has to be for the betterment of Google.

Hopefully no you can't turn it off; because if you can then miscreants out there will find a way to turn it off for you, without your knowing about it. More to the point it won't be you that get hit like that, you're obviously intelligent/paranoid enough to notice. It'll be your computer illiterate friends and neighbors.

I remember Big, default "CDE" panel

Oh come now, fellow old timer, you can do better than that. Surely you remember MWM (Motif Window Manager) and twm (Tom's Window Manager)? All this fancy GNOME stuff; kids today don't know how good they've got it. Heck, I remember when, to get to the internet, we had to use special routers that used DECnet to encapsulate TCP/IP packets, because the latter was so new. The www hadn't been invented yet and spam only existed in tins.

Me too.

From the announcement it looks like a real competitor for iPhone

No multi-tasking, no cut and paste. And how many apps does it run? Applications sell smart phones, not operating systems.

They're going after somewhere between iPhone and Android, which is a sweet spot

What sweet spot? The iPhone and Android overlap, there's nothing in between. If there were and there was nothing in that space already, it would be dead zone.

They were just universally stupid in the questions they asked. They did not at all understand the kinds of positions they were hiring for and had a very much "One size fits all" attitude.

Another frustrating practice: You reply to a new job Ad the day after its published, but the recruiter says you're too late. Usually this means they've been given a job spec from the employer with instructions to vet the applicants, select the best, then submit maybe the top three. This goes out to 2-3 agencies. What happens in practice is that the first three applicants to tick the skills and experience boxes get forwarded in the first day and that's it. There's no real vetting done by the agency at all. Never mind that you might be able to run rings around the other applicants, the employer isn't even going to find out you exist. If you want in, you have to trawl the job sites 2-3 times a day and hit apply as soon as you spot anything interesting. No time to tailor your CV to the prospective job. I have two brothers who both contract and both say the same thing: it's a numbers game. You have to be quick, and then for every 10 jobs applied for expect 1 telephone interview request.

Wasn't the original old lady called Mrs Fletcher?

I remember a system crash/panic message from back in the days of Ultrix (an early version of Unix from Digital Equipment Co. that ran on MIPS). It read: "Mrs Fletcher has fallen down again and can't get up". Some engineer's idea of a joke. DEC were forced to change it though as affected customers were not amused.

Almost, but not quite. There shouldn't be a comma before "and" in the first sentence. The remainder of the sentence, "may have had the ability for some time", isn't an independent clause.

The comma before "but" was correct as, "chrome now has resource blocking abilities", is an independent clause.

Do I get my grammar nazi badge now?