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By way of balance, Android marketing department (not really, don't sue me) is promoting the following link, whereby there are multiple security patches, including remote vulnerabilities, for pretty well everything from Apple...
CERT[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Playing back an old december 8th 2015 message ?
...Original release date: December 08, 2015 | Last revised: December 11, 2015...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Apologies, I was looking for a story reported in the last couple of days. Evidently failed. My bad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And here's a better link - still can't find the news article I was referring to, but at least this is from the horse's mouth:
Apple security updates - Apple Support[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Well, I assume they have the same "base" OS security software that is applied to all their devices.
So if they update one, they update everything.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm confused. Do Android fanbois think Apple is perfect and never issues security updates?
I have a couple Macs, an iPhone, an iPad and an Apple TV. Each get a handful of security updates each year. Some are stand-alone security updates - others are included in feature enhanced OS updates.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I'm no fanbois - simply read an Android-related security post and thought I'd balance it with a similar Apple-related post.
Personally I sit in the smugness of a WinPhone user - so few of us no one can be bothered to hack it
(A bit like Macs back in the day)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Millions of Android phones, including the entire line of Nexus models, are vulnerable to attacks that can execute malicious code and take control of core functions almost permanently, Google officials have warned. This hack brought to you by Apple's marketing team (OK, not really. Please don't sue me, nice Apple people)
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Won't the FBI be thrilled!
Marc
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Employees could be losing more than two work weeks each year trying to get their computer equipment to work. Installing a Windows update cost me two weeks of lost productivity today
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Installing a Windows update cost me two weeks of lost productivity today whoaa, that is 1000% productivity lost in a single day !!!! Did you call Guiness ?
You should buy a lottery ticket, because today you are against odds.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Quote: whoaa, that is 1000% productivity lost in a single day !!!!
I do try to be efficient like that.
But when an install keeps me away from Freecell, I get antsy.
TTFN - Kent
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I understand, I am a little like you.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey wrote: keeps me away from Freecell,
Freecell? Wait a second...were you updating Windows XP?
No wonder!
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Yeah, but those are Canadian weeks, you need to allow for the conversion.
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I thought Canada was metric
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Only 4% of working time lost due to IT issues. That's great.
But what happened with the remaining 96%?
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And technology itself is resulting in the loss of the other 50 weeks.
Marc
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In general, astronomy is reactive—we spot something unusual by chance and point as many telescopes as we can manage to try to figure out what's going on. It's rare that we have something pointing in the right direction to catch an event right as it starts. "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are"
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he company whose former CEO once compared open source licences like GPL to spreading tumours is now regularly open sourcing tools, components and even the occasional product, as well as coming out with more cross-platform products than ever – even for Linux. "Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up."
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Imagine a world in which Windows was open source. Jack Wallen believes it is now time for such a reality. As opposed to the earlier million requests that Microsoft open source Windows
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Think they will also trow Office to Open Source ?
So one can put back classical menu
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I would settle for integrating .Net so we're not stuck with Visual Basic for Applications.
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One bad side of open source is that the software tends to stagnate at that point. Boost is stuck in 2003 and Linux in 1985.
(The best open source libraries I've used were written and currently led by just one person, who is very open minded about taking pull requests.)
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How on earth can Boost be regarded as stuck in 2003?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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