Posts by LarsG 2091 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2011
Of those 293,091 malicious apps, 68,740 were sourced directly from Google Play," writes Rik Ferguson, director of security research and communications at Trend Micro.
So there are many Android users living in blissful ignorance with a phone stuffed full of malware.
Unless Google Play address the problem it will get progressively worse.
It make Apples problems really insignificant in comparison.
They used to do it to the UK, everything from cars to electrical goods.
While not as bad as previous years, the EU rules have evened things out a bit, it still happens here but not on such a scale.
I don't often praise the Aussies, they are a particularly obnoxious bunch of convicts, but in this case I will fly the flag and cheer them on and hope that they make the lives of these money grabbing American thieves a misery.
Well done to the land of Kangaroos.
Lived with wind turbines all around us for years while living in Germany. I can see 20 from the kitchen window. However it was the nuclear power plant at the bottom of the valley (near Hameln) on the river Weser and with the prevailing winds always heading in our direction that was of more concern.
Strangely many older people in the village seem to develop cancer, though they are generally all older than 85+ when they die.
Would they have lived to 100 if there had been no power plant?
I'd be more concerned with finding the creature that coughed up this particular fur ball.
Whatever it was that ate this rat and spit it out onto the circuit board after digesting the goodness out of it, it's something that you don't want to meet on a dark night.
Are all the staff accounted for?
Why would they be?
When you consider the crap that gets into android phones on a daily basis this is really nothing to be bothered about.
Rather than being embarrassed I think they just look out of the window and think,'at least we don't use the android OS,' as they turn and go back to their Mocha-chino's with smiles on their faces.
They are pretty much all the same, they are institutionalised petty thieves, some are more successful than others and if they are caught they either use their connections or have enough dirt on people in high places that they get a lenient sentence.
Many of out Members of Parliament deserved to spend time at HM Pleasure but got the benefit of the doubt by claiming 'it was within the rules'.
'Within the rules' is obviously a game played by different rules to the rest of the population.
War is War and in the end the victors can write the history books.
So if your reasons for declaring war are vague and you do kill lots of innocents, you can dress it up in your memoirs as justified by coming up with all sorts of obscure excuses and lies.
Just make sure that all you enemies are dead, every last one of them, so that they are not in a position to contradict your side of the story.
I can think of a few people this might apply to.
Maybe if she was white and middle class she wouldn't have suffered such a disproportionate punishment.
America land of the free refers to the fact that everyone is supposedly equal infront of the law. Unfortunately in this case they are not.
Judges are political appointees, they tow the line especially when so much lobby group money is involved. She has the human right to expect to be proportionately punished for her 'crime'.
Instead this is a Salem Witch Trial and she is being made an example of to others. How much will the next fine be for a mediocre American country and western song? A billion dollars?
You say she was guilty of sharing 1700 songs yet found guilty of 24, but you still infer she was guilty of 1700?
That comment alone tells me all that I need to know about American justice.
Are you American? Figures.
Bully Boys will always club together.
The disproportionate punishment is reflected in the fact that the Supreme Court refuses to get involved and actually put right a wrong.
But hey, just goes to show the lobbying power and bribe money thrown at the political masters to pressure the courts to take a back seat so they can get what they want.
America land of the free where nothing is free....... And justice can be bought at a price.
Actually If I bought it, I'd buy it because its a phone.
Am I the only person here who has noticed how all the phone reviews go on about this feature and that feature yet no longer say how good it is as a phone!
First and foremost it is meant to be a phone so I want to know I'd it holds a signal, how clear the speakers are etc etc.
Maybe the reviewers need to get back to basics?
You buy your phone because it is the one you want, whether the OS is iOS, Win, BBS or Android.
It really doesn't matter, you chose the phone for YOU and your requirements.
I've had all sorts, Seimens, Nokia, Phillips, Sony, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, HTC, iPhone, Samsung, Nec, Motorola, not in any particular order dating back to my first in 1994.
The last five were a HTC Hero, Desire, Sensation, iPhone 4S and finally iPhone 5. To be honest I have not looked back. I use my phone for my business the iPhones worked without a hitch unlike the HTC's which required daily attention and tweaking.
On the strength of the iPhone I bought an iPad again for business, they both seamlessly update my files as I need them. Finally this year I ditched my crashing slow to start Dell 1645 XPS and bought a MacBook Pro with a I TB drive, not the retina one I might add. Now when I get home late at night I don't need to imput any documents or updated stats and daily calls from my ipad because it is already updated on my MacBook. My old Windows Software, accountancy stuff, games, Office etc runs on a Windows 7 partition or within OSX using Parallels.
I may well have bought into the Apple Ecosystem, but it saves me time and it works without giving me a headache. I no longer have to work into the small hours inputting data because it is done as I go along.
You may have made other choices, that's your choice, just as your preference in food, beverage and sexuality.
All of that is fine with me.
I sent my copy back and got the refund today from Amazon. My main reason to get rid of it was that it was almost impossible to log on to the same server and find I had to start again.
As to the Games on offer, most gamers will have a copy of them already and if they didn't its because they didn't want them first time around.
I have my money back, and if everyone who complained did the same thing maybe EA would change their tune.
Still went they turn off or reduce the server count next year or the year after, don't winge when you find your saved cities have disappeared in the ether.
Texting and driving then killing an innocent motorist is an imprisonable offence, just ask Lord Ahmed the peer who spent '16 days' in prison for that very offence.
Of course had he been drunk at the time he may have got an extra couple of days before his pals in the legal system got his sentence reduced. It should be noted that it appears he claims it was a Jewish conspiracy that put him into jail rather than the fact that he drove texted and killed a person.
We will have to see whether this is true and the statement he made on an Asian television channel actually happened though he has no recollection of the interview.
If one of the little people did this they could expect 3 years in prison, but hey, being a Peer of the Realm has its perks does it not.
I was amazed when a Spar shop here in the UK introduced a fingerprint and palm reader to be used as a clocking on and clocking off device. Apparently it was common practice to sign friends in if they were late now of course it is no longer possible...... Until now....
As an entrepreneur I will now market my silicon hand modelling kit through crowd sourcing. Investors may now que up and give me their money.
The 999 system here is abused a lot, if they use Twitter for emergency calls the poor Japanese will be up and down their hillsides like mountain goats.
Or
There is also a chance that the emergency message never gets read having disappeared in a morass of inane boring, insignificant and self important posts from people who have inane, boring and insignificant self important lives.
Absolutely, the decline is the result of businesses failing to invest in home grown talent because they can get it a few pence cheaper on the other side of the world.
The really sad point behind this is that the university education system here in Britain produces some of the best graduates in the world who are then unable to get a job or have to take on a job that bears no relationship to the studies they have undertaken.
Government policy could change this by insisting Government contracts can only be given to those who keep at least 80% of jobs within these shores. Instead they feed this outsourcing problem by taking the lowest common denominator which never actually fulfils the contract because the services are of such poor quality.
Every Government for the last 50 years has been responsible for selling off or allowing to be sold off our industries. The younger generations, the children of this country are being failed by these politicians and the politicians should be ashamed. Bunch of cretins that they are.
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