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Comment Re:kinda scary (Score 5, Interesting) 278

Not to mention, google already announced you will be using this feature before. If you haven't seen this years google I/O then I'll tell you: you will be able to install apps on your phone from any device in the cloud.

And besides, it's not like google is targeting you specificaly, they target all phones with that app installed. The purpose of it is to remove a malicious app before it can do any more damage.

Example: I make an app branded as a porn site viewer, it works as one but it also sends information gathered from your sdcard/phone for some nefarious deeds. Removing it from the market would stop the app from spreading, but it has already been installed on thousands of phones, setting a flag on the market for "uninstall from phone NOW" would fix this.

I know google could be more gentle about it and warn the user and ask for the app to be removed, but it's not like they use it on every app that pisses them, only on those that disregard their stated rules. So far google has been following the rules, so articles like this are just spreading FUD.

Comment Re:Numbers (Score 2, Interesting) 65

China
Population: 1,325,639,982
% of internet users: 22
Number of internet users: 291,640,796

United States
Population: 307,006,550
% of internet users: 72
Number of internet users: 221,044,716

In other words, despise having 4 times the population of the US, china only has less than 50% more internet users. Your perspective is skewed.

Comment Re:Whatabout Virtualbox? (Score 2, Informative) 356

It's possible. Create a hardware profile in the vista partition. In that profile change the hard disk controllers to generic ones. Now you can boot your vista partition without any bluescreens. For how to boot it in VB read section 9 of the VBox manual. http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#rawdisk

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