Posts by dgurney

Patching a fragmented, Stagefrightened Android isn't easy

What a shoddily designed OS.

This is what happens when you release a hacked-together, poorly conceived platform and allow it to be subverted.

Android was supposed to be the open-source OS that freed us from the tyranny of Apple and telcos. IT ISN'T. Why? Because it has become dozens of hacked, proprietary flavors that are controlled and doled out by those very telcos. And they do it one version at a time for every device from every telco, so users wait months or years or forever.

Meanwhile, Windows runs on millions if not billions of disparate configurations, and users can pretty much upgrade the day the new OS is released.

Google's failure to design a proper abstraction layer and hardware reference model make Android a sorry, amateurish excuse for a platform. They blew it. And now where is our great open-source savior?

Adobe shuts down Connect user forum, confirms passwords raided

What about this stupid policy?

"An advisory from the software giant goes on remind everyone to use different login credentials across different websites and services."

Yes, but some amateur-hour companies force you to use YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS as a user ID. This policy is a security disaster, in addition to being annoying for users. Look at the numerous debacles already: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/forcing-people-to-use-e-mail-address-as.html

Firefox 3 downloads hit 7m despite server FAIL

English, maybe?

"...despite server FAIL"?

The word is FAILURE. "Fail" is not a noun, just as "transition" is not a verb.

Sad.

Why do we open our mouths to yawn properly?

What an absolute crock.

The question is "why do we yawn", not "what is a yawn". This asinine paragraph is talking about why we open our mouths to yawn? WTF, that's what yawning IS.

And it also incorrectly asserts that yawns are associated with a deep breath. You hear this all the time, but a yawn does NOT induce a deep breath; they may sometimes happen at the same time, or perhaps people simply feel a yawn is also a good time to take a sighing breath. But a yawn is limited to the musculature of the jaw, and that's it. Try it. You do not need a take a breath when yawning; it has nothing to do with it.