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Who will pay for it?Who will pay for it?Posted Oct 31, 2011 15:22 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Who will pay for it? by khim Parent article: The embedded long-term support initiative
...and obviously, an entertainment centre that has bugs is fine, because it is not safety critical and cannot be used to steal money from you. My point is that things which are important must be held to a higher standard than that used for video games.
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Who will pay for it? Posted Oct 31, 2011 15:35 UTC (Mon) by KSteffensen (subscriber, #68295) [Link]
An entertainment center used to show movies from some Netflix-like service could conceivably hold credit card information. so even things that don't immediately seem critical might be.
And some of us certainly wouldn't mind video games being held to a higher standard than what is currently the case.
Actually it CAN steal money from you - and that's the point Posted Oct 31, 2011 16:48 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] ...and obviously, an entertainment centre that has bugs is fine, because it is not safety critical and cannot be used to steal money from you.... It can be used for that - and that's the point. Money themselves (coins and banknotes) were one of the first objects which employed "security updates" in it's design. "Security updates" are not something invented with software - on the contrary, they have centuries long history! And yes, they worked. Frauds happened all the time, but as long as they were rare enough "security patches" worked. They worked for so long - why do you think tomorrow everything will suddenly collapse? What exactly changed today?
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