Andriod would not be useful if it was forced to use X. [citation needed]
Sorry, no, network transperancy is not an important feature anymore. Probalby implemented by
An no, nobody cares if it's tehnically inferior. It's hundreds of times easier to implment and use. [citation needed]
Modern toolkits pretty much ignore 95% of X's built in features [citation needed]
Now stop. - Yes you, stop. I know you're about to type up a 10 paragraph screed about how you ported X ap to obscure platform Y, or remotely managed 10,000 servers with facial twitches and GTK.
Actually, that was not what I was about to type, but still:
Your use case does not represent the vast majority of computer users. It doesn't even represent a full fraction of a percent. [citation needed]
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* Uses a Session-ID,
called UID: the hex
representation of a
32Bit value
* We only need to test
11 Bit of the UID in
order to gain access
* We can log in with a
simple Perl script
Who would leave such a door open by mistake?
There are only two differences between communism and capitalism:
1. which small group gets to make the decisions
2. which small group (same as in #1) is controlling the surveillance.
In communism, it's government/political leaders. In capitalism, it is the upper corporate echelon.
In the extreme case, when this "upper corporate echelon" gets powerful enough to pass laws, and challenge the elected government, they effectively become a part of the country's political leadership, and thus we are back to communism.
Foursquare yanked the Girls Around Me app's access to its data, which in turn led to the app's developer removing it
The exact same people that would lose profits from increased awareness.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
