The portal sites are also out of our control. In this environment, it's never possible for us to completely ensure
100% compatibility with our handsets and these sites.
Important sentence, touching the issue of "freedom" earlier in this thread.
Obviously one interesting thing with internet is the
possibilty to explore unknown places, search and find,
etc,etc, email links,etc..
But to suffer the same instability, virus infection,
crash risk, etc is maybe not enough to balance the
non-computer-nerd security, functionality of handsets.
Also especially for introducing services with small
payments billed through the operator??
However, maybe after the operator guarantees their part of
functions, services, portal and sites as OK, it might be
possible to set and isolate the handset to "unsecure mode",
surf freely on your own risk??
However, the hardware must then be secure enough to
give the operator a legal strenght when scams,etc, something
close to unplugging ones bankaccounts,etc information,
emptying memory (and old stacks) and plugging in a "free
mode" model, both cannot physically be plugged at the same
time.
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But what the quote maybe more urgently refers to is the
probable inability of their operating system to handle
combinations of "special feature" sites without crashing
other applications, operating system,etc..
That is, this "protected mode" WinCrash should have
implemented long time ago, running applications within
protected memory spaces, stopping them if they by mistake
go where they shouldn't.
The other thing is probably "running out of resources",
not being able to exit sites and really clean up, empty,
free and defragment th memory, resources they used.
(just like WinCrash 98 and ME, while NT solves it by
demanding more memory and not running some applications,
games,etc)
Ilmarinen
To give some maybe brewing examples, without going into
the magic of pointers and C++ classes, uninitialized
API calls, enough stack space.
I remember when I actually got a multitasking VAX to kind
of crash, or actually just not let the operator in to kill my
little buggy program which happened to grab and swap all
memory, slowing down the OS to maybe one billionth of normal
"speed".. (the OS still worked, but it took 15 minutes
for the operator to key in the ID of my process)
But it is more fascinating to fresh boot WinCrash, have 92% GDI
resources, open the browser, visit some java sites, do some
emailing, exit everything before WinCrash would
anyway crash, and then be back at only 75% GDI
(undefragmentable) resources, then try it all again without
an actual reboot.
And after two or three times of running a memory
defragmenter inbetween that defragmenter is sure to have
WinCrash to once again live up to its fame during
that defragmentation.
Btw, my 7110 has actually been rbooted three times by the
ASIC watchdog, and 3 times by the DSP since it's birth,
my conclusion is that the operator must have tried something
new or that it was when I opened it to measure some signals.
Btw,btw does anyone have 4-6 kid and elderly relatives
calling every time their handset stops working, disk
space on C is too low, and getting a phone bill with
calls to a pay per minute ***** number in madagasgar(sp?).
(Happens most weeks with the freedom of internet and
WinCrash. Luckily that phone bill wasn't the kids nor the
husband, but the one who pays the phone bill, the wife,
according to a quick check of the internet history,
dates of files, calls) |
