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Governance of the Swift project is firmly under the control of Apple, as stated here. How can Swift ever be a true community project if Apple controls it? Look no further than Java to see what can go wrong when a corporation controls a language.

Universities have never been more than a bottom-line for-profit business that uses cult-like recruiting tactics and has absolutely no shame or loyalty to anything or anyone but themselves.

Just like the folks in Washington, representing this government funded university. Read this article to see how Feinstein responded to pleas for help from affected workers.

A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help. Feinstein's office sent back a letter ... and offered the worker no assistance.

LOL, it's in the very first line of TFA: http://www.computerworld.com/a...

1) Who suggested that it dead?

2) Oh wait, there's no link to an article to state who it said it.

I mean really.....

Welcome to the internet! Since you are apparently new to the internet and don't know how it works, I'll point out that that funny colored text you see in the article summary is a link to the article.

Click on it and you'll be taken to the article where you'll find the link you're seeking:

This post is in response to a story published on December 6th 2016 by ComputerWorld titled “Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt” and its follow-up article “Follow-up: MS-DOS lives on after all“.

Aluminum machining for iPhone cases produces combustible metallic dust that can cause classic thermite reactions. This dust ignited in the Chinese manufacturing facility, turning it into a crematorium that killed four people.

Responsible management, union regulations, and OSHA largely make that impossible in the United States.

Apple should insist on higher standards. And this is hardly their only excess that has taken lives.

We've already seen ransomware that either allows a victim to pay, or to infect at least two other paying victims, using a customized version of the malware for tracking purposes.

And where I'm from, you call EEs "unemployed".

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Who cares? Hardware is a mature, dead-end industry. This is why EE is a moronic career choice these days.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

How else but with .5mm surface mount BGAs and HDI technology do you expect to build something like a modern cell phone?

OF COURSE they're going to be nearly impossible to work on at home... SO WHAT? It's all about the software. Phone breaks? Chuck it. Get a new one. It'll be better anyways.

The "choice" you are thinking about no longer has anything to do with the hardware, which is basically a paint-by-numbers commodity these days. (Which is why EE is a dead-end industry.)

Just picking on what I regard as the two biggies, though if Microsoft does reach the trillion-dollar market cap, it will largely depend on stealing Apple's business models (more effectively than the google can steal them).

No. They will make it based on their cloud offerings, Azure is their growth right now. Windows isn't a big deal for Microsoft anymore, just a small portion of revenue. That is why they are willing to move so much to Linux.

History lesson for the newbies here

Your history lesson is incomplete.

"When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory.
— William Gates, chairman of Microsoft"

Those words appeared at the beginning of an article written by James Fawcette in the April 29, 1985 issue of InfoWorld magazine. But, no reference was given, and the words do not occur as part of any interview.

... ought to be enough market capitalization for anyone.

History lesson for the newbies here

We've deployed 60 Surface Pro 4s this year to DRP folks with docks for their desks and VPN capabilities for home. We've seen our helpdesk volume bump up expectedly as a result, but have yet to see that normalize.

Meanwhile, IBM have deployed more than 90,000 Macs to replace PCs (at users' discretion -- 3 out of 4 choose a Mac over a PC) and have seen helpdesk volumes decline dramatically: 3.5% of Mac users call a helpdesk each year, vs 40% of PC users....

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Exactly. But you know IBM are such Mac Fanboys...

We've deployed 60 Surface Pro 4s this year to DRP folks with docks for their desks and VPN capabilities for home. We've seen our helpdesk volume bump up expectedly as a result, but have yet to see that normalize.

Meanwhile, IBM have deployed more than 90,000 Macs to replace PCs (at users' discretion -- 3 out of 4 choose a Mac over a PC) and have seen helpdesk volumes decline dramatically: 3.5% of Mac users call a helpdesk each year, vs 40% of PC users....

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

I always hope this Quartz Glass storage that can last for claimed billions of years can make it to a product.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

We then get into the file formats issues but solving half the problem is a good start.

The implication is that an actor with ill-intent (like the NSA) obtains the CA's private key and uses it to generate certificates of their own for MITM attacks. Any browser that trusts the CA will automatically trust the new certificates, and the user will be none-the-wiser.

This has already happened several times, resulting in browser vendors pushing out updates that removes compromised CAs from their trusted lists.

And think of the electrical service you would need to order to charge your EV in (to be similar to gas) say 2-3 minutes.

This says 4.5 megawatts to get down to 15 minutes and involves intermediate storage. Scary stuff!

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft

Not true.

Windows is a relatively small portion of Microsoft's revenue now. They see huge potential in the cloud (and that is Nadella's specialty, what he did before becoming CEO), so that is the point of all that they are doing. They've been trying to draw users into their cloud, and will do it with many different enticements.

Not like in the Ballmer days. Windows is only a small part of Microsoft revenue now.

Two in the last week and more in the last few months.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

I was sort of wondering why only Notes were catching fire. Evidently the S7 Edges are too.

Yes its all been done for the "ads", forget PRISM :)
Facebook doesn't listen through your phone's mic -- except when it does (Jun 6, 2016)
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
Is your smartphone listening to you? (2 March 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
Google looks to patent tech that listens to calls to promote ads (23 March 2012)
https://www.cnet.com/au/news/g...
Is nothing off limits? Now Google plans to spy on background noise in your phone calls to bombard you with tailored adverts (23 March 2012)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
The jokes are a way to soften the creepy dystopian live mic feeling as the ads play back and the security services get their daily take?

There are other risks as well, such as Android's default Web browser lets attackers spoof the URL shown in the address bar, allowing for more credible phishing attacks.

I'm sure there's more, but it's too depressing to keep searching for them. Honestly, as an academic/scientific programmer I feel like I could never try to write a commercial application. Any idea you have is already present in an overbroad patent owned by someone with deeper pockets than you.

The 2015 documentary "Under the Dome" was produced by a CCTV presenter whose unborn baby developed a tumor in the womb. She tries to find out why there is so much pollution in China, and why nothing is being done about it. The Communist Party's publicity department banned the film three days after release, which should tell you it's something you need to see. (Like how the Democratic National Committee told everyone not to read the leaked emails). When powerful people tell you to do something, you do the opposite. Under the Dome is available on Youtube, which is of course blocked in China. Worth a watch. No relation to the CBS TV series.

I can name one stock exchange that tried to run on Windows and regretted it. (Now happily running on Linux.)

Here is a different take on the story: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3032976/microsoft-windows/there-s-something-fishy-about-those-windows-10-market-share-numbers.html

I like the author's last paragraph and I quote:

Me? I still rely on Linux — Mint 17.3 to be exact — for my main desktop. With it, I, and not some company, get to decide when to update and when to patch. I like having control over my desktop. If you don’t care, go and follow the Windows 10 lemmings. I’ll go my own way.

For those of use who do use a Linux distribution as our main desktop we only need to change "Mint 17.3" to whatever distribution we are currently running and the sentence pretty much says it all.

Here is a different take on the story:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3032976/microsoft-windows/there-s-something-fishy-about-those-windows-10-market-share-numbers.html

The issue with North Korea's sites isn't really ads.

North Korea's official news website serves malware

The Attack on Sony

North Korea's cyberattack on Sony Pictures exposed a new reality: you don't have to be a superpower to inflict damage on U.S. corporations

Shared malware code links SWIFT-related breaches at banks and North Korean hackers

Of course if they can get some hard currency from them I doubt those pages will be ad free forever .... if they are now.

This layoff may have huge implications. That's because the university's IT services agreement with HCL can be leveraged by any institution in the 10-campus University of California system, which serves some 240,000 students and employs some 190,000 faculty and staff.

On April 8, 2014, Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. The day after, Windows XP began having keyboard problems. Keys were stuck; it was not possible to login. That was acknowledged by Microsoft and mostly fixed, although all Windows operating systems seem to have that problem occasionally. I wasn't able to find an article about that, although I saved it somewhere.

One article about Microsoft's abuses and mismanagement: Windows at 30: Microsoft's biggest blunders (Nov 25, 2015).

Quotes:

"Microsoft has been its own worst enemy."

"... disastrous Windows ME..."

"Microsoft was found to have a monopoly in Windows, which isn't a crime. Microsoft used that monopoly to crush Netscape. Microsoft execs stupidly documented every step of the process in emails that ended up in court. None of the Microsoft senior executives came across well on the stand."

"Microsoft got off the hook in 2001 because the new Bush administration's DOJ didn't want to pursue the case." ("didn't want"???)

"With [IE6, Internet Explorer version 6], Microsoft lost an enormous amount of goodwill, as users began to understand that their computer was at risk because of a bad piece of Microsoft software."

"From my point of view, ever since IE6, Microsoft has blatantly put its own financial interests ahead of its customers' security, for about a decade and a half."

"Windows 8 and Windows RT: Killing the Windows brand"

"Why would anyone in their right mind name an operating system "Windows RT," knowing full well that it won't run Windows programs? Beavis, meet Butthead, and a billion-dollar write-off."

Geez, can't you just do a quick google check before posting these "refutations"?

Melania Trump, who in 2005 married Republican president nominee Donald Trump, has had a career as a fashion model and later became a citizen. ...

The story pointed to her own comments around her use of a visa. In January, for instance, Harper's Bazaar quoted Trump saying: "Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process."

The H-1B visa does not require people to get a visa stamped "every few months." The visa is issued for three years and can be renewed for another three. Visa holders who are seeking a green card can stay beyond the maximum six years.

The controversy prompted Trump to respond Thursday in a Tweet that said in part: "I have at all times been in full compliance with immigration laws of this country. Period. Any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue. In July 2006, I proudly became a U.S. citizen."

Edge has extensions now.

It's still not a usable browser. Even Paul Thurrott can't endorse it yet. He talked recently about its many small frustrations, about how basic copy and paste features don't work, or how when you scale text up on a single page, ALL other tabs get scaled as well. Stupid, annoying stuff like that creates a terrible user experience.

What have we seen of their stewardship? A cray number of stupid domain names which screech spam and malware, and inflating domain name fees which are disproportionate to their cost of provision: basically rent seeking and profiteering. ICANN is technically non-profit, but it pays out big salaries, nice junkets and favors to industry.

"Last week, ICANN said Public Technical Identifiers, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, had been incorporated in California, to eventually run the IANA functions under contract from ICAAN, after the transition was complete." So who are "Public Technical Identifiers"? These articles say they were incorporated by ICANN who designed the "transition plan". No body ever willingly gives up power. Is PTI an ICANN facade? http://www.computerworld.com/a... https://www.icann.org/news/ann...

If you were finding the summary to be less than clear on WTF it was referring to.. WPAD = Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol.

I've done well over the past 20 years by just looking for marketingspeak and deactivating pre-emptively.

Insert a CD or device and then manually run SETUP.EXE? Fine. Insert a CD and let Autorun do it? Presume insecure. Disable.

DHCP is "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol." No marketing name, but it works just fine and automagically gets me an IP. Something like Web Proxy Auto Discovery of an external service on the LAN? Presume insecure.

TV? Monitor? Fine. Smart TV? Literally a device with unpatchable firmware sitting on your network. Disable/block it.

Mounting a remote filesystem? Fine. Bonjour/Zeroconf = Presume insecure. (And while we're at it, File and Print "Sharing" done over port 137/138/139? NetBIOS/NetBEUI? REALLY?!?!?!)

Plug-and-Play (as the replacement for setting interrupts)? Works just fine. The totally related Universal Plug-and-Play, as in UDP Port 1900?) Presume insecure.

Setting up WPA2 with PSK? Works. WPS, originally known as "Wi-Fi Simple Config" with a push-button? Again, insecure

Actual programs that you run and that aren't tightly integrated to the OS? Fine. Windows Widgets and Gadgets because oooh, they're on the desktop and not in their own separate windows? No. Insecure.

Any service with a marketing-friendly name like "Smart" "Auto" "Easy" - and especially one enabled by default - must be presumed insecure and must be disabled.

He's literally ignoring that Apple was the only company to ever fight against DRM in their products. Every other company just said, well they're they rights holders, they can do that.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman yesterday rejected in no uncertain terms Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' suggestion earlier this week that the major music label companies should abandon digital tunes copy protection.

Ah, you're right.

Comparing Windows 10 to iOS for adoption rates isn't a fair comparison since one is aimed for desktops and the other for phones and tablets. A better comparison would be against Mac OS X which would be Apples desktop OS. The latest version, El Capitan, had a 44.8% adoption rate after 4 months according to this article. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Microsoft sees themselves as less and less of an OS company, and more of a business services company, especially with the cloud. Windows is only a small portion of Microsoft revenue now, so they don't feel such a need to support it. It's possible that within the next decade, they may become to view it as a cost center, rather than a profit center.

Nice try, Shill "John Smith". The GAO--you know, Congress' non-partisan investigative arm--reported that a full 50% of entry level--yes, entry level--jobs went to H-1B visa holders, not to candidates with high skills. That's a myth pushed by the big tech companies. They just want cheap labor, at the expense of US citizens.

Microsoft is going to start charging 7 dollars per user, per month for the windows 10 enterprise edition. http://www.computerworld.com/a...

No thanks.

Why?

94% of AppleWatch owners are still happy after a year of ownership. Not many cars have better satisfaction ratings (though some do).

Not need more computing power? I think you're on the wrong site, maybe you should be over here, or maybe here, because no one will ever need more than 640 kb.

Perhaps Mrs. Clinton has observed that discussing any aspect of immigration in a negative way makes her more like Donald Trump -- a man whom she very often implies is pretty much the worst thing ever.

It's a bit interesting that when Mrs. Clinton talks negatively about immigration, she's described as empathetic for Americans.

Contrastingly, when Donald Trump talks about immigration, he's described as a racist.

I think people are wise to be suspicious of anyone running for public office. But, of Clinton, Johnson, and Trump, Trump is the only one that has ever said he wants to limit and reform immigration for the benefit of Americans who are seeking American jobs. He's also the one talking about punishing American companies who engage in behaviors that subvert American workers and jobs so replace them with foreign workers and jobs.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

If you are upset with companies abusing immigration law to the detriment of American workers, and you wish someone would finally do something about it, Trump would seem like your candidate.

This election promises to be another "hold your nose" affair, but there do seem to be legitimate differences in what the candidates want to accomplish and how they want to do it.

If their marketshare went down so much it's not because of "some user somewhere", it has to be the majority of them and it means Firefox is just making one extremely bad decision after another, non-stop, for years.

OK, I probably should have checked the reference before releasing the hounds. If this is to be believed then Musk was simply speculating on such a possibility and actually advocating for a right to manual control. If their quotes are accurate, then I must stand corrected. Ahh, the perils of Slashdot, which lacks reddit's delete button. My errors are all there for posterity, not the first time and probably not the last.

I read the article... it says that the CFAA somehow prevents people from doing legitimate research, but fails to even give a single example of actually how this happens. How does the law that is supposed prevent computer fraud stop a person from doing research, exactly?

How's this?

https://www.databreaches.net/c...

Or this?

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

640,000 chickens should be enough for anyone.

Wouldn't it be 640KB(irds) should be enough for anyone?

Although there are some doubts if he really ever said that http://www.computerworld.com/a...
  Ah modern memes.

Apple has been accused of doing this sort of things many, many many many many times. Even before OS X ("macOS") and iOS, I also remember all kinds of features back in System 7/8/9 that started off as 3rd party extensions/programs but were pretty much fucked when Apple added something nearly identical.

I'm trying to think of a few examples where overnight a web site would be like "well, a clone of our app is basically in the new release of OS X...so we're out of business now." Can anyone with a better memory offer some examples?

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The amount of data that Microsoft has purchased, and will be able to harvest on a continual basis, has just increased by orders of magnitude.

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Data harvesting appears to be Microsoft's new strategic focus.

Expect them to resurrect the BSOD any day now...

It never went away - still an integral part of the Windows experience. http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

W10, 8.1, and 7. BSOD - suposedly long gone.

I've had zealots declare me a liar while cleaning "There is no BSOD any more!" with great conviction. It stil happens, even as documented on Microsoft pages.

Watch me get marked as a troll for pointing out the truth.