mental toolbox

Posted Oct 23, 2015 6:42 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: mental toolbox by Trelane
Parent article: How a few legitimate app developers threaten the entire Android userbase (Ars Technica)

> It seems very strange to me that we as a society are so content to keep computing weird in this regard.

I don't think anyone is "content" with the current state of computing; yet no one, absolutely no one wants to pay for the enormous quality cost of trying to make computers secure and reliable.
They're the most complex systems ever made - for both good and bad reasons.

mental toolbox

Posted Oct 23, 2015 11:19 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> no one wants to pay for the enormous quality cost of trying to make computers secure and reliable.

unless you have a finite-time algorithm for the halting problem, the cost is infinity.