My Black and Decker drill has never exploded, which is what the NSW police are warning people about.

As you'd expect from today's Slashdot, the title and summary of TFA are deceptive.

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Petitions

Android outsells iPhone globally by about 4 to 1. Given that their search hits are ballpark similar to those of iOS, a sensible person must conclude that Android is around 4 times safer.

Or that you've chosen a pointless metric to measure by.

Yep, it's another AV vendor beat-up.

"The Australian Communications and Media Authority has published detailed statistics of malware infections identified by their online security team (AISI). The team scans and identifies and compromised computers on Australian IP addresses and reports daily to around 130 participating ISPs.

Their breakdown shows about infected 16,500 devices are online at any one time. The malware type for all infections is available on the site."

http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD..PC/pc=PC_600121

If you look at the breakdown of malware infected IPs, there are around 16,500 active infections at any one time. Around 20 Windows viruses make up more than 99% of all infections. In the "Other" section, there are around 100 active IPs with rarer Windows viruses, and Mac, iOS, Linux and Android infections.

In other words, the total of all Android malware is competing with space in the fraction of 1% of malware instances that aren't on Windows.

To drop any sand or grit out once per revolution. You wouldn't want it to build up.

Nothing.

Poverty and pain are good for people. "'the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ"

How can they be sure you're a citizen if they don't spy on you?

Be reasonable.

"Diplomats" is a clearly defined set. The set "suspected spies and terrorists" already contains everybody.

That's sort of the point of WebRTC.

It's not my computer, it's a work one, but yeah, you're right, it's running Windows and IE.

If IBTimes wants to piss people off with autoplay videos, why link to them?

Here's El Reg's version of the same story:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/17/lulzsec_analysis/

It's going to be a lot more interesting, and presumably compelling when it's completed. Hangouts isn't intended as a simple chat client replacement.

Google dropping XMPP support is only mildly interesting, but the reason behind it is far more ambitious than TFA discusses. The Verge has a better article, but TLDR is that It's part of a long-term plan to change the way communication works on phones and computers.

XMPP obviously won't be suitable for unifying so many different communication paths. Given Google's efforts with WebRTC, I suspect that'll be the underlying standard for their new platform, though it hasn't been stated as such anywhere I'm aware of.

Or walk around an IKEA. There's plenty of existing furniture that does the job.

While all the news and discussion on Slashdot revolves around Apple, there actually IS a fork of Android for DoD and business.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/mobile/solution/security/samsung-knox

I expect most of the security improvements will also be available for standard Android before too long.