My observation of facts was - "Just don't uncheck the box allowing third party software to be installed and you thwart this type of attack ."(Emphasis added)
(If this is in fact a theory, you certainly haven't disproved it.) Which is true in the case we are actually talking about. I never claimed that having that box checked would prevent ALL types of malware, but it certainly will prevent third party apps form being installed. If you can cite a source showing that an un-rooted Android phone somehow installed a third party app when the box was checked, you may have something. Posting articles saying a few malicious apps made it into the Google Play store is a strawman at best. That isn't what we were talking about originally, and changing the subject isn't helping your arguments any. And considering TFA states explicitly that this particular malware WAS installed using a third party app, you really have no argument.

If this is the case, you posting a citation proving it should be trivial. Or maybe your theory is nice, but it doesn't match reality...
Considering right in TFA it states this particular malware was installed using infected third-party apps, saying this would work even on a phone set to not install third party apps seems a bit inaccurate.

So say I sell you a house with a door with locks. The door locks by default when you shut it, but you decide to change it, and leave your door unlocked all the time, and as a result, get robbed. Obviously this is my fault for selling you a house with a "known security defect", the manufacturer of the door for allowing it to be unlocked, the lock manufacturer, and anybody in the else in the world you can think of but yourself. Sorry, but at some point the user has to take some responsibility for his own actions. Even with it's walled garden an iPhone user could still leave his phone on the bus. Is that Apple fault for making a phone you can put down? Hardly. Any Android user who gets owned by a third-party app has allowed that to happen by playing with the default security. If you don't know what you are doing, you have no business changing the security settings in the first place.

Anytime you think of an operating system as your security, you have already lost the battle. Security is a process and procedures, not a product, not software, and not an operating system. Android can be locked down securely as well as iOS. Just don't uncheck the box allowing third party software to be installed and you thwart this type of attack.

But if the need arose for more storage space, buying a bigger SD card for under $150 would be preferable to upgrading to the next fixed size storage tablet at over $500. Plus if you get a new tablet, you can use the same SD card in that, and easily and almost instantly transfer all of your data.

I have never seen a MicroSD card "stick out" of anything, that is not even valid here. It isn't a USB thumb drive we are talking about, or something external you need to carry. Install it once and you are done. It is basically "built-in" once installed. The Cloud is useless if you are in an area with no internet access. I want access to all of my files 100% of the time and quickly. Time is valuable to me. I could care less what MS is "touting" about the Cloud. Microsoft includes an expansion slot for additional local storage in their tablet, something lacking in the Apple tablets.

Sure but with an iPad you have NO options for expanding the memory - you are stuck with what you purchased. Most other tablets, Surface included, have expansion slots that will accept cards giving you more storage space. The exclusion of this by Apple tells you how often they want their users to upgrade and buy a brand new iPad. For about $130 you can get a 128 GB microSDXC card - compare that to buying an entire new iPad once it is out of storage space.

I can attest to this. The previous TV I owned was a 35" Panasonic tube TV I bought in 1995. I paid about $1100 or so at the time. I just bought a 46" Samsung LED LCD 3D TV, and it was under $1000. And considering adjusting for inflation rates and such, that is a lot cheaper than what I paid for my old TV. $1100 was a lot of dough in the Clinton years...

However, my previous TV lasted 17 years and I have no doubt that the new one won't last anywhere near that long.

Yes, for an employee who was transferred off site and never used her system.

Err, no. The system sat there for over 9 months of non-use. Works just fine even today. Of course once someone started using it for real it needed about an hour and a half of updating, but still running on the original OS install after sitting for a while not being used.

No, the law doesn't work like that.

Yes if only there was some sort of policy regarding privacy that sites like Google would make public... Something that was easy to find, perhaps right on the bottom of every page. Something that said something like Privacy & Terms that you could simply click on to get information.

So we should just infect the most brilliant doctors and scientists with AIDS - then we would have a cure quickly.

All I stated was the technology behind 3D glasses is polarization. I didn't claim polarized sunglasses are the same as 3D glasses anywhere. I wasn't trying to imply anything beyond the fact that most 3D glasses use polarization. Anything else is inference by others, not what was stated.

Nobody uses the red/blue or color blocking anymore, that is ancient technology now. And LCD shutters use polarization.

And what do you think the technology behind 3D glasses is? Hint: polarization