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So don't download stoopid apps just for the sake of it.
commonSense != rocketSurgery;
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If only it was just the apps...
"Common sense", as you put it, would also suggest you don't buy into an abandoned platform. I have Android devices (4.3 and 4.4) that never got a single update from their manufacturers. Total abandonware the moment I walked out the store. These versions are now known to have security holes and they're not getting patched. I also have an Android 6.0 tablet, and it also hasn't had a single update. If history's any indication, I shouldn't expect to see one throughout its lifetime either.
Yet the Windows Phones, which everybody is proclaiming as dead, are still getting plenty of updates. I'm on the Insider program. I installed the creators update on my Lumia 640 a few weeks ago, and as I'm writing this, it's just about done installing build 15210, which came out a few hours ago.
Which one do I feel compelled to use? I'll give you a hint: It's not the one that forces me to buy new hardware if I want to have a mobile OS that gets regularly patched.
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Shirley, but I have to change phones every ten minutes, anyway, because I'm notoriously good at breaking them.
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I just got a system update on my Google Pixel XL phone. Android is an open source system and it is hardly google's fault that some vendor didn't bother to provide updates.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I get that point, but unfortunately, knowing who to blame provides nothing of value to those who don't buy their devices directly from Google. And as far as I understand it, very few do.
Somebody needs to be in charge of the entire Android ecosystem--and clearly, Google has failed to do so. And I don't think they even want that job.
I've been saying since I first heard of the concept of open source in the early 90s that it's great in theory, but the real world works differently. This is the perfect example.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: rocketSurgery
LOL. Good one combining "brain surgery & rocket science". You should copyright that word.
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Sadly (for me), it's not mine, and I don't remember the source, or I'd happily cite it.
It goes back at least ten years, to a newsgroup (I don't even remember which one). I've been using it since, and offering kudos to the guy (or gal) who came up with it whenever appropriate (like now).
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I heard it first from Frank Caliendo in his impression of George Bush at least ten years ago.
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Sounds like about the same time I first saw it, so that might even be the original source, repeated in the newsgroup.
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So what you guys are saying is that George W. Bush came up with the word? 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Well, someone taking the p1ss out of Dubya.
Personally, I prefer harder targets.
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That won't stop the bad guys. It has nothing to do with installing apps of unknown origin into our phone. Android operating system itself is bugged and can be easily exploited. Also most vendors don't bother patching their products.
modified 5-May-17 23:14pm.
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So ... viruses, trojans, ransomware, and malware never target Windows devices. I wish someone had told me that ages ago: I could have saved a fortune in security products.
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Security for winio doesn't cost a penny.
Just never boot it up, and you'll be happier and safer.
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HDDs are mechanical: it's never a question of "if" it will fail, it'a always "when".
And I'm even more prone to losing files than a flaky HDD is... 
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Of course you're right! A good discipline maintaining images not only saves your behind in most cases when you are attacked by malware, but very importantly also in case of drive failures. And don't think SSDs are immune to failure. I have had two fail on me after a few years of service! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I could have saved a fortune in security products.
My tired eyes first read that as "I could have saved a fortune in sanitary products." I laughed because it was still applicable.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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And the field name?
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non_zero_claim_count
And this from the docs of a company that scores your insurance claim risk.
Even more amusingly, if you have no claims, you leave the field blank! 
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It would be nice to know the history of how it got to that point...
Was it designed as, "This field must have a non-zero value", and then the business changed?
I'm encountering items like that on a daily basis with the project I'm working with - what was asked for upfront is not what is being asked for now, so a name is a placeholder, but doesn't necessarily impart any description of actual use.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Was it designed as, "This field must have a non-zero value", and then the business changed?
We have lots of stuff like that. Display names change often and is often too much work for what it's worth to rename the actual field. Of course we never name a field with the business logic embedded into the name. That seems weird to me.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Marc Clifton wrote: non_zero_claim_count
Perfect!
Provides valuable ambiguity so you can wonder.
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I can't help but ponder that simply using "claim_count" would be enough, for an intelligent developer.
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Well, which is it? non_zero or (greater than or equal to zero) ?
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