Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 20:17:18 -0500 From: "Chris Uppal" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: <6dv7v9p4lrb9fv2h6g9kft59dhum8pnqn3@4ax.com> <53f7a3bc$0$295$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Subject: Re: JDK 1.8.0_20 and JDK 1.7.0_67 released Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 02:18:59 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-7sxaozl+NWDCQFbw7wnzeEJMUW36ngLoZpn+9IQolezPDpjGFwfDOxD5Of+dxNRrhuUm1j5UGiKn7mc!GIF482p6BlPiqz6zqkeFc5dhXxi676zMZVwi+k0z+jN3N58yEgHCYP6UEy0hnIYBUpfx7Sk4Nrs= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2130 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29814 Arne Vajhøj wrote: > > There also should be a set of sandboxes they can run in. The OS > > enforces the sandbox. You then don't have to be so careful about > > loading a little app that can only play with its own limited size > > files and cannot print. > > MS introduced that concept 2 years ago. This is how Windows Store > apps work on Windows 8.x+. > > I will consider it a big failure. It has definitely not caught > on. In what context has it not "caught on" ? As I understand it, that is the basic security model of Android (can't speak for Apple stuff). Oh, and Android got there before MS (or at least got there > 2 years ago). And I /seriously/ doubt whether Android was the first. Come to that I /seriously/ doubt whether the model is sufficiently strong. -- chris