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They secretly run all of Facebook on Windows firesale Surface devices, but moved user profiles/timelines to a separate volume ... and upgraded to Windows 8.1 over the weekend.

Coincidence that this happens on the same day Ed Bott blogs about this exact issue with Win8.1? I don't think so ...

Name or passwords, doesn't matter - all my links show both as well as CAPTCHA forcing via the oldest method possible too now -> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/inside-indias-captcha-solving-economy/1835

* I also see you've got NOTHING TO YOUR NAME to show you've done a damn thing in the art & science of computing either (despite your 'ability to criticize others' like the "ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACK" YOU CLEARLY ARE!)

APK

P.S.=> Gotta LOVE "big talkers" like you - who haven't done shit, lol... amazing! apk

Even if Mr. Gibson did seek a patent, Google has prior art.

It's not you... this is the link:

http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13-10-a-desktop-tour-slideshow-7000021826/

ZDNet link was bad. Proper one is Here

Personally, I've found more fugly code turds in various closed source projects than I've touched than in the open source world.

Is code the only aspect of note in an open source project?

How is the project named? Is it something reminiscent of the function (like PaintShop Pro, Photoshop, Internet Explorer) or something entirely random, forcing more cognitive load on an uninformed user (Gimp, Firefox, Juice)? Does it have a newish, edgy name to give it that extra sizzle (pantyshot, upskirt).

How is the project configured? Is is a list of poorly-written technobabble? Does the installation instructions begin with the history of the project (of which I am not interested), require other packages which I have to research and choose, does it require cryptic installation actions and complex setup that has to be done by hand?

How does the project look? Are the panels laid out with ease-of-use in mind, or they just show everything and "let the user arrange them as they like"? Is the text font and color scheme appropriate, or is it default, the user can choose the one they like?

Are there lots of icons for every little action, no matter how small (the "kitchen sink" philosophy), or is there a well-chosen subset that balances functionality with ease-of-use? Do the icon shapes bring the function to mind, or are they more-or-less random shapes that rely on popups to tell the user what they do?

Is the documentation well-written by people who are good at explaining things, or is it just a wiki editable by anyone, maintained by the users, with no real structure?

Has the code been tested by someone who is not the lead coder (and not the users)? Does the project use regression tests?

Yeah, nice code you've got there. If that's all I wanted in a product, yours would be a slam dunk.

Look how well it's worked for Windows 8

I think you are correct that the current leadership has not yet proven that they can innovate in the way that Mr. Jobs did. That said, the iPhone 5s is really a nice step forward, real-world tests are showing that the A7 really is a lot faster, and the fingerprint thingy is winning a lot of accolades. And, they've sold a hell of a lot of them. Nonetheless, the stock price is actually a bit lower than before the 5c/5s announcement.

The truth is that the stock price for a lot of companies, and Apple in particular, does not reflect the financial success of that company or the company's products. Just compare Amazon's numbers to Apple's and you'll get what I mean. Stock prices today are more driven by bets on where that price will be in 15 minutes (or 15 milliseconds), not how well the company will be doing in a few years. As such, stock prices for high-tech companies are not a valid way to measure the company's success in the marketplace.

Would this be enough to get you to stop whining?

http://www.zdnet.com/apples-100m-made-in-the-usa-mac-facility-will-be-in-texas-7000015797/

Summary: Like any other enterprise, large educational institutions have existing computing infrastructures which are likely built around Windows networks. Adding Windows tablets to them is far easier than adding iPads or Android tablets

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-tablets-in-education-they-plug-right-in-7000021613/?utm_medium=App.net&utm_source=PourOver

Funny you should mention that. Guess what Nokia was doing before Elop showed up?

Open source programs have their code exposed to everyone, including those with malicious intent, and are therefor "battle hardened" for security.

While this would the expected situation, the evidence demonstrates that it isn't.

http://www.zdnet.com/six-open-source-security-myths-debunked-and-eight-real-challenges-to-consider-7000014225/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/05/does_open_source_software_enhance/
etc..

You can search this on your own. The general consensus is that the "many eyes" theory is flawed, and outside a few exceptions where a particular product has been security hardened beyond usual standards, most experts agree open source software in general tends to be no more or less secure than proprietary software. On the flip-side however, it is true that when the source code for a closed-source product does get compromised, we do generally get a new flood of exploits.

Yes, the effect would be negligible, though I think the greater good was to make the first move. This was like Napster, which will now inevitably lead to the BitTorrent analogue. Here is an article that somewhat agrees with this perspective:

http://www.zdnet.com/silk-road-and-the-potential-to-disrupt-a-truly-evil-industry-7000021498/

He doesn't have too, it appears that the Key exchange protocols were weakened and it's not necessary to break AES but extract the keys during KEP negoitiation. http://www.zdnet.com/has-the-nsa-broken-ssl-tls-aes-7000020312/

You also have to remember that it's a negotiation and unless you set your browsers up and websites to use more secure protocols you could default to say RC4-RSA under SSLv2.0. There's acknowledged flaws in TLS 1.0 (SSLv3.0) but it wasn't until a couple of months ago that Firefox supported TLS 1.1 and it still doesn't support TLS 1.2. Chrome (Version 30+) and IE (9+) support TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2. So you should see more and more websites turning on TLS 1.2 support and turning off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 if they can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

I've already had change requests come in from customers to get away from AES and to push more TLS 1.2 out there and you're already seeing companies and other government agencies distancing themselves from NIST blessed standards and that's lamentable but the credibility of the organization has been irreparably compromised by NSA influence. As a result, may see more ChaCha or more TwoFish implementations start to come into the mix over this, which is a good thing because it means that we have diversity in ciphers and less reliance on NIST and its standards processes.

These "freedoms" and more are available... but they come at a price.

For instance? No problem...

The county where I live offers an anus-puckering discount on poor families wanting to buy a home (imagine this - being offered a decent home in a neighborhood full of $250k homes for a mere $27k at 0% interest. No, that's not a typo.) Only thing is, the county gets to stop by and make sure you're still poor during the 5-year 'mortgage' period, else the rates and total price rises accordingly. Oh, and CPS gets to check in on your kids any time they want, among other governmental visits that would otherwise demand a warrant.

Groceries? No problem, present an appropriate sob story and proof that you lack income, and most states will lavish you with an EBT card. 'course, unless you get creative about how you dodge it, there's an approved list of foods you can and cannot buy.

Car payments? Well, most metro areas do subsidize free mass transit if you make less than a certain income level... but really - it's mass transit. That means you're stuck with living within walking distance of it, and no further.

How does this relate to healthcare? Well, there are folks already demanding that people be forced to wear health activity monitors if they want that subsidized health-care... but you're forced to buy the subsidized plan if you cannot otherwise afford it on your own, so guess what happens if you have the misfortune to be impoverished? Yup - the government now owns your health.

Long story short, the "freedom"s are there, but the dependencies and (IMHO) conditions you subject yourself to in order to receive them are, well... about to become rather dehumanizing.

Will security firms detect police spyware?

By Declan McCullagh, News.com
Published on ZDNet News: Jul 17, 2007 11:00:00 AM
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"A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police.

In the case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke loggerâ"call it fedwareâ"to record the typing of a suspected Ecstasy manufacturer who used encryption to thwart the police.

A CNET News.com survey of 13 leading antispyware vendors found that not one company acknowledged cooperating unofficially with government agencies. Some, however, indicated that they would not alert customers to the presence of fedware if they were ordered by a court to remain quiet.
Spyware survey

Most of the companies surveyed, which covered the range from tiny firms to Symantec and IBM, said they never had received such a court order. The full list of companies surveyed: AVG/Grisoft, Computer Associates, Check Point, eEye, IBM, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee, Microsoft, Sana Security, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense. Only McAfee and Microsoft flatly declined to answer that question. (Click here for the verbatim responses to the survey.)

Because only two known criminal prosecutions in the United States involve police use of key loggers, important legal rules remain unsettled. But key logger makers say that police and investigative agencies are frequent customers, in part because recording keystrokes can bypass the increasingly common use of encryption to scramble communications and hard drives. Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's OS X include built-in encryption.

Some companies that responded to the survey were vehemently pro-privacy. "Our customers are paying us for a service, to protect them from all forms of malicious code," said Marc Maiffret, eEye Digital Security's co-founder and chief technology officer. "It is not up to us to do law enforcement's job for them so we do not, and will not, make any exceptions for law enforcement malware or other tools." eEye sells Blink Personal for $25, which includes antivirus and antispyware features.

Others were more conciliatory. Check Point, which makes the popular ZoneAlarm utility, said it would offer federal police the "same courtesy" that it extends to legitimate third-party vendors that request to be whitelisted. A Check Point representative said, though, that the company had "never been" in that situation.

This isn't exactly a new question. After the last high-profile case in which federal agents turned to a key logger, some security companies allegedly volunteered to ignore fedware. The Associated Press reported in 2001 that "McAfee Corp. contacted the FBI⦠to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software." McAfee subsequently said the report was inaccurate.

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Later that year, the FBI confirmed that it was creating spy software called "Magic Lantern" that would allow agents to inject keystroke loggers remotely through a virus without having physical access to the computer. (In both the recent Ecstasy case and the earlier key lo

An therefore is asking the wrong questions. The first questions should be:
1) What does the current system do?
2) What should the current system do?
3) What is the value in what it does?

If what the current system does has no or little value, then throwing it away without a thought is not a bad idea. If there is value in it then what is it that gives the job it does value? What is there that the system cannot do that should be done? Also, one should ask what are the potential negative consequences from migrating to another application.

Basically The first step is to analyze the business and the current system. Then and only then will the correct software become apparent. It may be that the current software is the best solution and all effort, including hiring a temp contractor, might be best spent revamping that system.

Remember, ERP migrations have a huge failure rate http://www.zdnet.com/2013-erp-research-compelling-advice-for-the-cfo-7000011619/

So be careful

That is outright false. I challenge you to provide a citation to a reasonably authoritative site saying that - basically anybody who isn't a kook. You can't.

Clearly you phrased it that way so you could reject any site I offered, based on your own myopic view point.

So here are the rules:
You don't get to reject any source! You have to invalidate every one of these and all of their claims.
After all, extraordinary claims of something being "outright false" require extraordinary proof.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/16/has-https-finally-been-cracked/
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/05/nsa_gchq_ssl_reports/
http://www.zdnet.com/has-the-nsa-broken-ssl-tls-aes-7000020312/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-nsa-doc-says-it-can-collect-and-keep-your-encrypted-data-as-long-as-it-takes-to-crack-it/

http://www.zdnet.com/hackers-crowdfund-bounty-to-hack-iphone-5s-fingerprint-scanner-on-istouchidhackedyet-com-7000020879

I will pay the first person who successfully lifts a print off the iPhone 5s screen, reproduces it and unlocks the phone in < 5 tries $100.

Why would a lockscreen bug have anything to do with this fingerprint scanner bounty?

http://www.zdnet.com/hackers-crowdfund-bounty-to-hack-iphone-5s-fingerprint-scanner-on-istouchidhackedyet-com-7000020879

Here in Australia we just elected in a right wing government, they are intent on fucking up our Broadband network as well to protect entrenched interests such as Murdock and Foxtel, so you're not alone.

The current right wing govt still promissed FttN.
Well, for metro area, the good news: at least Optus and TPG (and, I hope, iiNet soon), are ready to offer you the FttP part with a 24 months lock-in contract.

Here in Australia we just elected in a right wing government, they are intent on fucking up our Broadband network as well to protect entrenched interests such as Murdock and Foxtel, so you're not alone.

The current right wing govt still promissed FttN.
Well, for metro area, the good news: at least Optus and TPG (and, I hope, iiNet soon), are ready to offer you the FttP part with a 24 months lock-in contract.

Because desktop linux is a suitable replacement for a 10+ year old OS, nothing more.

Yes, it will run fine on a ten year old computer. It also, unlike Windows, runs on supercomputers.

While Linux fans and critics obsess about Linux's failure to sweep Windows off the desktop, they're ignoring that Linux is winning everywhere else, and that when it comes to the highest of high-end computing, Linux rules.

Driving the point home, the top 10 fastest supercomputers all run Linux of one sort or the other. You have to go the way to the 44th fastest computer, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts box, which runs IBM's AIX Unix variant, to find one that doesn't run Linux.

Except for running Windows-only software, there isn't a single thing Windows can do that Linux can't. It isn't just a fine replacement for XP, it's also a fine replacement for Windows 7; Windows has slowed my laptop down so much in 3 years (slower every patch Tuesday) I'm putting kubuntu on it this weekend. It has functionality Windows lacks and the only thing Windows has that Linux doesn't is the ease of which it pisses me off, especially on Patch Tuesday. The fucking computer is tied up for forty five minutes or more for the download (can't do anything while it's doing that because that damned "I'm doing something! Look at me!!" balloon keeps popping up until you have to close all your programs, reboot, wait for it to not tell you DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, restart Windows, again wait five minutes while it says DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, then log on, then you have to reopen all your apps and files.

Linux tells you you have updates, you click "install" and keep on working. Rather than slowing the computer down, Linux updates usually make it run FASTER.

Windows is a toy OS.

Wait, they run desktop linux on supercomputers? Since when?

Also, you can easily set the updater in winxp/vista/7/8 to only download updates, and allows you to choose when you want to install/reboot your system. I'd google that for you, but I'm too busy being productive on my computer.

Because desktop linux is a suitable replacement for a 10+ year old OS, nothing more.

Yes, it will run fine on a ten year old computer. It also, unlike Windows, runs on supercomputers.

While Linux fans and critics obsess about Linux's failure to sweep Windows off the desktop, they're ignoring that Linux is winning everywhere else, and that when it comes to the highest of high-end computing, Linux rules.

Driving the point home, the top 10 fastest supercomputers all run Linux of one sort or the other. You have to go the way to the 44th fastest computer, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts box, which runs IBM's AIX Unix variant, to find one that doesn't run Linux.

Except for running Windows-only software, there isn't a single thing Windows can do that Linux can't. It isn't just a fine replacement for XP, it's also a fine replacement for Windows 7; Windows has slowed my laptop down so much in 3 years (slower every patch Tuesday) I'm putting kubuntu on it this weekend. It has functionality Windows lacks and the only thing Windows has that Linux doesn't is the ease of which it pisses me off, especially on Patch Tuesday. The fucking computer is tied up for forty five minutes or more for the download (can't do anything while it's doing that because that damned "I'm doing something! Look at me!!" balloon keeps popping up until you have to close all your programs, reboot, wait for it to not tell you DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, restart Windows, again wait five minutes while it says DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!, then log on, then you have to reopen all your apps and files.

Linux tells you you have updates, you click "install" and keep on working. Rather than slowing the computer down, Linux updates usually make it run FASTER.

Windows is a toy OS.

The only "civil liberty" it attacks is the ability to fraudulently sign in for someone else.

This, good sir, is actually complete and utter bullshit.

Two counterexamples: Brazilian doctors faked fingers and Australian kids need only gummi bears, but reallly, these weaknesses have been known for a long time.

I could go on, but biometrics just aren't very suitable for use outside of criminal investigation. What happens if someone gets a paper cut? While on shift? And so on. It's really not their fault they haven't figured every last objection yet, it's that the company is being a jerkass with other people's biometrics. Just like how an abusive boss has no expectation of loyal subordinates, any and all fraud incurred is their just desserts.

This is how unions get a bad name. Bio-metrics are used for time card validation on many places and it is neither "draconian" nor "an attack on civil liberties".

You are blaming the complainer, and you claim that because "everybody is doing it" it must therefore be just and righteous.

Well, in a word, no. You are wrong, they are wrong, you could've figured it out if you'd really thought about it for a short minute --I did--, and you simply don't want to admit the glaring obvious. Neither do they, because there's good money to be swindled out of the gullible, or they are the gullible. What's your angle?

http://www.zdnet.com/nokia-is-dead-newkia-rises-from-its-ashes-7000020271/

But that's not what the article said. It talked about using the "same codebase", meaning same source code, and thought it didn't state it explicitly, it sure sounded like he was implying same backend data-handling code, not UI.

To what are you referring when you speak of "the article"? There are several things linked in the posting. There's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes's ZDNet article, in which he says:

Unifying the iOS/OS X app codebase Apple openly acknowledges that moving iOS up to 64-bit brings iOS and OS X apps much closer. Take this line from Apple's 64-bit iOS 7 documentation:

The architecture for 64-bit apps on iOS is almost identical to the architecture for OS X apps, making it easy to create a common code base that runs in both operating systems.

This could be huge.

which does not seem to indicate anything about common backend data-handling code; that's not "unifying the iOS/OS X app codebase", it's "sharing part of the codebase between iOS and OS X, at least if it doesn't depend on a large address space or fast handling of 64-bit integers etc. (in which case 64-bitness isn't that relevant) or if you don't care whether the app runs on anything other than an iPhone 5S and maybe the upcoming iPad 5 and maybe maybe the iPad mini 2 if it's 64-bit", which is a lot less "huge" than "you can just recompile your app for x86 and it'll run on OS X".

And then there's the Apple document, also linked in the original post, which says

The architecture for 64-bit apps on iOS is almost identical to the architecture for OS X apps, making it easy to create a common code base that runs in both operating systems. Converting a Cocoa Touch app to 64-bit follows a similar transition process as the one for Cocoa apps on OS X. Pointers and some common C types change from 32 bits to 64 bits. Code that relies on the NSInteger and CGFloat types needs to be carefully examined.

which, with its explicit mentions of Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, makes it much clearer that you ain't going to "unify the iOS/OS X app codebase", you'll just continue to be able to share some code between iOS and OS X versions of your app.

Nice straw man Billy, might want to watch out for matches...WHOOSH! Why are you not driving your car with bike handlebars? Bikes are the #1 vehicle, are YOU afraid of innovation? Because that is exactly how retarded you sound because a SHITTY UI IS A SHITTY UI and just for the record, time it took me to "embrace innovation" with Android? About 3 minutes. OSX? Less than 10, iOS? About 4 minutes...Win 8? THREE FUCKING HOURS LATER AND THE BITCH IS STILL FIGHT ME because "herpa de derp we think a fucking touchpad and a touchscreen are the same thing, they both say touch right? herpa derpa".

I have used everything from DOS to OS/2 to BeOS, how many OSes have YOU used Billy? I have ALWAYS been on the bleeding edge, when your ass was dragging behind on XP? I was running a beta of 2K3 stripped down into a desktop and the SECOND that XP X64 hit beta my ass was on it. I know innovation sir, I'm friends with innovation and Windows 8 is NOT innovation!

But don't take MY word for it, how about some citations? here is a good one and this shows how they cocked up even the shutdown process and reviewers agree with me its THAT bad and the OEMs also know its a turkey., Face it win 8 is a joke and you can say having Ballmer take a steaming dump on your PC is "innovative" all you want Billy, its still a big pile of feces lying there.

OMG perfect! Download apps to keep track of your apps. Apps for getting apps. Apps for watching apps. Apps to launch apps. Apps to search for launching apps that launch other apps to watch other apps for all my apps to simpy get cell phone apps!

Sign me up today. I will take that Atom and my new Cryris 3 app to run inside my VMWare workstation app with emulated OpenGL/Direct X. According to www.tomshardware.com all the x87 fpu benchmarks show it can cream the hell out of AMD piledriver 8 core anyday and represents real world performance according to the fan boys on here and over at that site ... with the all so loving Metro UI on a non touchscreen.

Nice straw man Billy, might want to watch out for matches...WHOOSH! Why are you not driving your car with bike handlebars? Bikes are the #1 vehicle, are YOU afraid of innovation? Because that is exactly how retarded you sound because a SHITTY UI IS A SHITTY UI and just for the record, time it took me to "embrace innovation" with Android? About 3 minutes. OSX? Less than 10, iOS? About 4 minutes...Win 8? THREE FUCKING HOURS LATER AND THE BITCH IS STILL FIGHT ME because "herpa de derp we think a fucking touchpad and a touchscreen are the same thing, they both say touch right? herpa derpa".

I have used everything from DOS to OS/2 to BeOS, how many OSes have YOU used Billy? I have ALWAYS been on the bleeding edge, when your ass was dragging behind on XP? I was running a beta of 2K3 stripped down into a desktop and the SECOND that XP X64 hit beta my ass was on it. I know innovation sir, I'm friends with innovation and Windows 8 is NOT innovation!

But don't take MY word for it, how about some citations? here is a good one and this shows how they cocked up even the shutdown process and reviewers agree with me its THAT bad and the OEMs also know its a turkey., Face it win 8 is a joke and you can say having Ballmer take a steaming dump on your PC is "innovative" all you want Billy, its still a big pile of feces lying there.

OMG perfect! Download apps to keep track of your apps. Apps for getting apps. Apps for watching apps. Apps to launch apps. Apps to search for launching apps that launch other apps to watch other apps for all my apps to simpy get cell phone apps!

Sign me up today. I will take that Atom and my new Cryris 3 app to run inside my VMWare workstation app with emulated OpenGL/Direct X. According to www.tomshardware.com all the x87 fpu benchmarks show it can cream the hell out of AMD piledriver 8 core anyday and represents real world performance according to the fan boys on here and over at that site ... with the all so loving Metro UI on a non touchscreen.

Nice straw man Billy, might want to watch out for matches...WHOOSH! Why are you not driving your car with bike handlebars? Bikes are the #1 vehicle, are YOU afraid of innovation? Because that is exactly how retarded you sound because a SHITTY UI IS A SHITTY UI and just for the record, time it took me to "embrace innovation" with Android? About 3 minutes. OSX? Less than 10, iOS? About 4 minutes...Win 8? THREE FUCKING HOURS LATER AND THE BITCH IS STILL FIGHT ME because "herpa de derp we think a fucking touchpad and a touchscreen are the same thing, they both say touch right? herpa derpa".

I have used everything from DOS to OS/2 to BeOS, how many OSes have YOU used Billy? I have ALWAYS been on the bleeding edge, when your ass was dragging behind on XP? I was running a beta of 2K3 stripped down into a desktop and the SECOND that XP X64 hit beta my ass was on it. I know innovation sir, I'm friends with innovation and Windows 8 is NOT innovation!

But don't take MY word for it, how about some citations? here is a good one and this shows how they cocked up even the shutdown process and reviewers agree with me its THAT bad and the OEMs also know its a turkey., Face it win 8 is a joke and you can say having Ballmer take a steaming dump on your PC is "innovative" all you want Billy, its still a big pile of feces lying there.

Nice straw man Billy, might want to watch out for matches...WHOOSH! Why are you not driving your car with bike handlebars? Bikes are the #1 vehicle, are YOU afraid of innovation? Because that is exactly how retarded you sound because a SHITTY UI IS A SHITTY UI and just for the record, time it took me to "embrace innovation" with Android? About 3 minutes. OSX? Less than 10, iOS? About 4 minutes...Win 8? THREE FUCKING HOURS LATER AND THE BITCH IS STILL FIGHT ME because "herpa de derp we think a fucking touchpad and a touchscreen are the same thing, they both say touch right? herpa derpa".

I have used everything from DOS to OS/2 to BeOS, how many OSes have YOU used Billy? I have ALWAYS been on the bleeding edge, when your ass was dragging behind on XP? I was running a beta of 2K3 stripped down into a desktop and the SECOND that XP X64 hit beta my ass was on it. I know innovation sir, I'm friends with innovation and Windows 8 is NOT innovation!

But don't take MY word for it, how about some citations? here is a good one and this shows how they cocked up even the shutdown process and reviewers agree with me its THAT bad and the OEMs also know its a turkey., Face it win 8 is a joke and you can say having Ballmer take a steaming dump on your PC is "innovative" all you want Billy, its still a big pile of feces lying there.

Outercurve's president seems to be the Apache Software Foundation's cofounder though.

Jim Jagielski, a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation; a director of the Open Source Initiative; and currently a consulting software engineer for Linux giant Red Hat is now president of the Microsoft-sponsored, open-source friendly Outercurve Foundation's Board of Directors.

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-sponsored-outercurve-foundation-turns-to-apache-for-leadership-7000017596/

The link is here to give you an idea on how much people just hate change.

They've documented 2.
3 is right fucking here - http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
4 is documented in their court battle http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/google-fights-nsl/
5 was documented
6 was documented http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-wins-floating-data-center-patent/17266
7 was documented http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-nsa-google-encryption-20130907,0,3652913.story

All are verifiable and you're full of shit.

Will security firms detect police spyware?

By Declan McCullagh, News.com
Published on ZDNet News: Jul 17, 2007 11:00:00 AM
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original story url: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6197020.html

* Attention ZDNet News: Please do not move or expire articles as they age.

"The New Zealand Copyright Act 1994 specifies certain circumstances where all or a substantial part of a copyright work may be used without the copyright owner's permission. A "fair dealing" with copyright material does not infringe copyright if it is for the following purposes: research or private study; criticism or review; or reporting current events."
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"A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police.

In the case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger--call it fedware--to record the typing of a suspected Ecstasy manufacturer who used encryption to thwart the police.

A CNET News.com survey of 13 leading antispyware vendors found that not one company acknowledged cooperating unofficially with government agencies. Some, however, indicated that they would not alert customers to the presence of fedware if they were ordered by a court to remain quiet.
Spyware survey

Most of the companies surveyed, which covered the range from tiny firms to Symantec and IBM, said they never had received such a court order. The full list of companies surveyed: AVG/Grisoft, Computer Associates, Check Point, eEye, IBM, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee, Microsoft, Sana Security, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense. Only McAfee and Microsoft flatly declined to answer that question. (Click here for the verbatim responses to the survey.)

Because only two known criminal prosecutions in the United States involve police use of key loggers, important legal rules remain unsettled. But key logger makers say that police and investigative agencies are frequent customers, in part because recording keystrokes can bypass the increasingly common use of encryption to scramble communications and hard drives. Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's OS X include built-in encryption.

Some companies that responded to the survey were vehemently pro-privacy. "Our customers are paying us for a service, to protect them from all forms of malicious code," said Marc Maiffret, eEye Digital Security's co-founder and chief technology officer. "It is not up to us to do law enforcement's job for them so we do not, and will not, make any exceptions for law enforcement malware or other tools." eEye sells Blink Personal for $25, which includes antivirus and antispyware features.

Others were more conciliatory. Check Point, which makes the popular ZoneAlarm utility, said it would offer federal police the "same courtesy" that it extends to legitimate third-party vendors that request to be whitelisted. A Check Point representative said, though, that the company had "never been" in that situation.

This isn't exactly a new question. After the last high-profile case in which federal agents turned to a key logger, some security companies allegedly volunteered to ignore fedware. The Associated Press reported in 2001 that "McAfee Corp. contacted the FBI... to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software." McAfee subsequently said the report was inaccurate.

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Later that year, the FBI confirmed that it was creating spy software called "Magic Lantern" that would allow agents to inject keystroke loggers remotely through a virus without having physical access to the computer. (In both the recent Ecstasy case and the earlier key logging case involvin

If you cannot root your phone, you should return it and purchase a model you can install a custom ROM on.

If you care about your privacy, with respect to smartphone apps, you'll need root (at minimum) or a custom ROM.

At least with root, you can use DroidWall as a firewall to disallow those contact list reading apps from sending your data to the outside world.

If you're stuck with your [poor] choice of smartphone, perhaps App Ops can help.

You always have a choice!

3. Switch to Android, and become yet another Android also-ran with Huawei, HTC, LG, ZTE, and Motorola all fighting for sunlight behind Samsung's shadow. Nokia had some of the best designers in the business, but they would have been late to the game fighting other vendors for consumer attention. And they wouldn't even save much money, because Microsoft would have hit them with the same lawsuit it's used to extort patent fees from all of the other Android manufacturers.

- Even just two years ago, Samsung was not the massively dominant Android manufacturer it is today, and back then, most people had never heard of ZTE or Huawei, and HTC and LG didn't have anywhere near the brand recognition that Nokia has.

- While I think Samsung phones are good, they are often criticized for their unoriginal design and sub-par (plastic) build quality. Nokia, on the other hand, has long had a reputation for making phones of great build quality AND original (even "crazy") designs. They could have easily distinguished themselves in the Android marketplace.

- They would have been late to the game, but with their loyal brand following and great reputation, they could have easily pulled it off as being fashionably late.

- All the other Android manufacturers are not Nokia, which I think it's safe to say, has a massive war chest when it comes to mobile device patents, putting them in a great position had Microsoft gone after them for patents -- and this is assuming Google wouldn't have helped them out.

I think a previous comment nailed it: Nokia could have been the Samsung of Europe. I'm not even a staunch Nokia fan and I think it's sad to see what's become of them. It does give me hope to hear the news mentioned above about Newkia (though I'm guessing they won't be able to keep that name).

I wish I could get a Nokia one.

It's going to be called the "Nokia Sirius". I get the dog bit, but where does the star come in?

http://www.zdnet.com/lumia-tablets-surface-phablets-microsofts-tricky-new-post-nokia-positioning-challenges-7000020179/

Why isn't this done for video conferencing systems. would it be difficult to have a tiny camera embedded in the center of the screen? A small spot on the screen shouldn't be entirely too distracting. Would work great for this type of setup: http://www.zdnet.com/atlassian-builds-portal-for-video-chat-1339327884/

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-phone-outsells-iphone-in-seven-markets-blackberry-in-26-7000013236/

Nokia are doing much better than you give them credit for. Asha is doing great in emerging markets and Lumia is performing well in mid/low range battlefield markets. It's also sliding nicely into the niche Blackberry is currently vacating. That's a position Microsoft can build on - they need to keep the Nokia brands going and itterate the OS like hell until they catch up with iOS and the high-end Android set. It's a question of whether they decide to aim for the high end or consolidate and gobble up the low/mid range.

But that isn't happening is it? Do US Citizens need to fear the government...

Your not paying attention to the 100 mile rights free zone (and growing - inland). I dare you to take up some social activism then let's see how long you can go without feeling the fear (As one example: Where did all the OWS leaders go?).

Sadly, no mention of the christening in any of today's stories! Possibly the name was only for rc1 though.

The Facebook users beware. Nobody forced you to use it.

That's the end of USEFUL discussion.

Facebook is reported to have been creating profiles for peoplel who have never signed up. http://www.zdnet.com/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-profiles-leak-in-bug-7000017167/

There are many people that work on the kernel, and even more students that study it. The kernel is of little concern. What is a concern is the thousands and thousands of little executables that are in so many distros. Worse still, how many people look through all the code from an average everyday apt-get?

Doesn't really matter in the end as there is always the Underhanded C Contest to think about.

So please explain the number of kernel exploits over the past year.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/product_id-47/cvssscoremin-7/cvssscoremax-7.99/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html
http://www.zdnet.com/linux-trailed-windows-in-patching-zero-days-in-2012-report-says-7000011326/

Linux had 14 kernel vulnerabilities this year versus 7 Windows kernel-mode vulnerabilities this year. (Just going by MS announcements for Windows 7, there may have been more unannounced issues)

You just keep claiming that, while the iPhone continues to top carrier sales charts even with old models...

Citation needed. I showed you mine, now you show me yours.

If it makes you happy to pretend, it's good that you have found peace of some kind in a world that makes no sense to you.

NOBODY expects the iPhone Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the iPope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... (muttering) I'll come in again.

Google, at least, has been fighting this for a while. Probably Microsoft too.

You know, I often wonder why companies like Google even bother fighting for our privacy, when people like you are happy to whine and complain about them without looking into the facts. Why do they bother fighting the good fight when they know that no matter what they do, they'll be blamed and hated. Just think, your ignorance is helping the NSA and hurting Google and Microsoft. Bet you feel mighty proud.

The solution, as always, is knowledge. Know who to support. Know who to vote for. Know what to write your congresscritters. Learn, and always assume that there is something you don't know so you have to learn more, and look behind the curtains.

Then it looks like M$ has pulled a tooth from RH, AF and OSI in one move. Outercurve is sponsored by M$. It was founded for and by M$. Assisting there further's M$ agenda against OSS. It has been good that you have worked for Red Hat and been at AF and OSI, but why throw that all away in order to further M$ goals against OSS? Their practices haven't changed at all not even recently so why join them? Helping them only hurts OSS.

RTM means release to manufacturing, i.e to the OEMs to test on beta hardware and with beta drivers.

Take Google, which just drops the new version of the Android SDK over the wall along with the hardware running the new version of the Android OS. I didn't notice any outrage there, perhaps because they don't allow comments on their blog posts(or they don't have blog posts). Or perhaps because if Google does it, it's okay.

This is just a low-effort manufactured story quoting blog comments, by the cookie cutter Computerworld "journalists" who can't even spell "sneak peak[sic]" and submitted by them to Slashdot to troll for pageviews. Another Slashdot low.

The author of this "article"? A certain Gregg Keizer, who is most well known for inteviewing a fake CEO(who was actually a computerworld writer himself) who faked Windows 7 benchmarks to spread FUD against Windows 7, which Slashdot predictably lapped up at the time. (now, Windows 7 is the best OS ever according to Slashdot though)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158258/Most_Windows_7_PCs_max_out_memory

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/why-we-dont-trust-devil-mountain-software-and-neither-should-you/31024

ComputerWorld reporter Gregg Keizer last week quoted a company source as boasting, “Outside of Microsoft, I don't think anyone knows more about Windows performance than us.”. ..
  ComputerWorld reporter Gregg Keizer has frequently been first on the scene with details when DMS has released a new study. We found at least a dozen stories under his by-line at ComputerWorld based on reports from XPNet, many including quotes from DMS Chief Technology Officer Barth. As we note later in this report, our reporting strongly suggests that “Craig Barth” does not exist and is in fact a pseudonym for InfoWorld contributing editor Kennedy since the late 1990s

Yet Slashdot continues to fall victim to this junk on multiple stories every week, the jokes on us. However, it's apparent that readership is dropping, as people with half a brain continue to quit, the moderation becomes even more brutal towards any comment that is not hating on Microsoft(see GP comment modded down, perhaps by Computerworld sockpuppets for calling out CWMike), and people lose interest in submitted stories to a dead place, resulting in Computerworld and HotHardware's MojoKid blogspam taking over the front page as they have a vested interest to submit stories and write flamebait headlines and summaries as they know Slashdot laps it up, and this causes more people to leave.. The problem seems to be taking care of itself.

Good work, Facebook! Kinda resembles what happened at GitHub ~18 months ago: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/how-github-handled-getting-hacked/10473

If someone from Facebook reads this, and it's TL;DR; here are the next steps:

#1 apologize to the guy, acknowledge he reported the issue twice
#2 reinstate the account and pay him his reward
#3 fix the damn issue

Not practical.

If you load Symantec Endpoint even an XP machine with 1 gig of ram will slow to a crawl. There is a difference between running notepad in a bare boot vs installing things that run at startup.

If you have a pentium IV with 1 gig or less XP is a better choice to leave on their until April 2014. Core2Duo with 2 gigs and PCI-E would be in my professional opinion the bare minimum for running light tasks with Windows 7 with aero enabled. Better not break what is not broken too if such a user has an old beast he or she has 10+ years of crap and settings at this point.

And +4 gigs of ram and a Phenom or quad core core2 or a icore3+ would be the most ideal for users who have +30 tabs in a modern browser and have many apps like visual studio and photoshop open for good performance.

As stated in my other article users prefer XP as evident in the comments in this computer oriented website. If you think that is just an anomaly read Wired magazine's reactions to XP eradication day?

If Windows 7 was the best OS ever why are you seeing such angry responses at Microsoft and fearing to change?