Comment Curious... (Score 2, Funny) 390
Comment home router still safe (Score 1) 213
Comment Re:Next technology, next cassandra (Score 1) 386
Comment Re:Next technology, next cassandra (Score 1) 386
Comment Next technology, next cassandra (Score 2, Insightful) 386
Comment Welcome.... (Score 1) 179
Comment Re:Hahaha (Score 2, Insightful) 179
if you are one of a hundret selling android devices you need something to be distinguished with from the others. So they add on their on UI so customers see it as a better android handset as the ones from other manufacturers. If you submitt it back to android then all will eventually have it and you are just one in the android soup again....
Comment Re:there is a problem (Score 1) 261
The opposite is true. Since every car must take any technical problems of other cars into consideration, such as communication problems, you old cars are covered.
It needs to be designed in a way that the whole system improves marginally just with every car which gets assimilated into this rolling fleet of borg drones. Then you can deploy it car by car.
Comment Re:PDF files should not "execute" (Score 2, Informative) 216
Leaving out the "executable content" from PDFs does not shield you from exploits at all. Hostile input can still trigger all sorts of bad reactions including complete takeover. A bug can turn any simple viewer into executing the document.
Comment Re:Waste of time. (Score 1) 951
Thats the exact timeframe. The feature was introduced in Windows 2000.
Comment Re:All about dates now. (Score 1) 366
When it comes to Arthur C. Clarke quotes, I like the following one at least as much:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The one likely exception to that is that we probably won't ever come up with a way to travel faster than light.
are you a distinguished but elderly scientist ?
Comment Re:How is it different from LILIO and Grub? (Score 1) 261
- Faber