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Unless Linux runs 89% of the web with just 21.2% of the servers I'd say your math was a little off friend. Desktops are even more bleak with half of a single percent for Linux while Apple has gone up to nearly 12%.

The simple fact is if you want to gain REAL share, I mean "change the world get the hardware OEMs to listen to you" kind of momentum, then you are gonna need your very own Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. You're gonna need someone to put their foot down and say "the buck stops here" and pull this big mess where everyone is scratching their own itch into a cohesive experience with concrete guidelines, especially when it comes to UI, behavior, quality, documentation, and ease of use.

Will that man be Mark Shuttleworth? I don't know but what I DO know is he has done more to get Linux out of the "CLI heavy OS for basement nerds and CS grads" mindset and into the "Linux for humans" goals. Whether he can actually pull it off while staying in the community is the question and I personally believe he'll just have to give the community the finger and fork Ubuntu away from traditional Linux, simply because making Linux friendly to the masses WILL require changes that the CLI heavy nerds and server admins won't care for one damned bit.

As TFA shows Canonical might as well fork the whole smash away from Linux, because nobody is gonna be happy with them anyway. Everyone complains they don't send upstream but the guys upstream don't want to go the way Ubuntu is going so it is just pissing in the wind anyway. But Linux has had fifteen years to get people to switch using the CLI heavy nerd way and what has it gotten you? 22% of the server and falling, and so low on the desktop it is literally below the margin for error. If Linux is gonna truly become a "third way" for the masses, to be looked at and treated as an equal to OSX and Windows 7, then changes have to be made and Shuttleworth seems ready to make those changes.

The question is whether he can make those changes without pissing off the "community" and stepping on too many toes, and I would argue he simply can't. Canonical would be better off to just ignore the community and slowly but surely fork the thing away from them and perhaps by doing so actually give us a "Linux for humans" that "just works" for the average man out there. It still has a hell of a long ways to go IMHO, but it looks to me with Wayland and Unity the man is seriously trying.

and I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that Comcast/Verizon have finally started to implement what every other responsible ISP has been doing for a decade.

Uhm, hey Rip Van Winkle, don't nap so long next time. They've been doing it for at least 7 years.
http://www.zdnet.com/news/comcast-takes-hard-line-against-spam/136518

If you're using SunSpider as your sole benchmark then you're already behind. SunSpider has outlived its usefulness (which the article touches on). In order to get a win of a few hundredths of a percent on SunSpider you have to add in premature optimizations that hurt page-load times and the performance of long running JavaScript applications. (Or you could add some dubious optimizations that are targeted specifically to the test, but that sounds a bit like cheating on a benchmark to me.)

SunSpider was good for it's time because it set a minimum bar for all browsers. However, the beta versions of all the new browsers are now within a hair's width of each other's performance on SunSpider. Rather than split those hairs, we need a new generation of tests that more accurately models real-world usage and JavaScript in the large. Mozilla and Google are both moving in that direction with Kraken and the V8 benchmark suites (respectively), but it's just a start. I'd like to see comparable benchmarks from every JS engine maker, or maybe a broadly-scoped, independent benchmark.

This article has some more information: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/libya-blocks-access-to-facebook-al-jazeera-others/302 It doesn't look like the whole Internet is blocked, yet.

You can take the internet down with a small botnet (yes 250k zombies is small). http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-to-crash-the-internet/680

You presumably missed the mass debunking of that claim a few days ago?

You can take the internet down with a small botnet (yes 250k zombies is small). http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-to-crash-the-internet/680

So, when it happens it's just a bad day, right?

To put it bluntly, as much as Outlook sucks for Email, it is in a class all by itself when it comes to being a PIM for someone in a large company.

And no other software does what Outlook does? You say there are plug-ins to allow Outlook do other things, what's thew difference between that and installing different programs? Aren't those plug-ins programs?

If it wasn't needed or people didn't want the features of Outlook, people would use something else in large companies

Nope, it's PHBs that decide what's used, not individual users. Look how Linux became a widely used server, IT/IS workers silently installed it in locations few if any others saw. Linux is now robust-able enough for stock exchanges, hedge funds, and stock trading.

Falcon

Here's my fuller story on what Moglen and company have in mind:

Freedom Box: Freeing the Internet one Server at a time
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/freedom-box-freeing-the-internet-one-server-at-a-time/698

The short version is that the idea is to make it possible for you to use the Internet as freely and privately as possible no matter what restrictions governments, businesses or ISPs have in mind.

It still won't help if your government does an Egypt and pulls the plug, but short of that, it has real possibilities.

Steven

If you require positive proof of system health then this will penalize every minority operating system or device that does not have the scanning software/certificate available for it yet.

I get your point, however, I must point out two things:
1) Zero Day exploits occur frequently.
2) An infected machine can obviously not be trusted.

Infected machines especially can not be trusted to scan themselves and report on their state of infection. Suppose you run a completely different machine in order to check the validity of another. Could not the machine doing the scan also be infected? Would not the validation apparatus be required to have a signing key somewhere within it? Would not simply extracting such a key, and forging your own certificates also be an option?

The only thing reliable about Windows security is that it has been, and will continue to be broken.

Honestly, MS does not have a good track record when it comes to cryptographically signing the system & software in order to validate that the machine is genuine... WGA certified my Linux machine as "Genuine Microsoft Windows", this is odd to me because I entirely switched to Linux after suffering a WGA false positive (no, my hardware had not been changed / upgraded).

TFA Assumes that MS can deliver a system capable of detecting insecurities -- Forgive me if I'm sceptical -- If so, would not Windows itself just do this and no longer be vulnerable at all?

AV: Are there any viruses in this directory?
Rootkit: Nope, I'm not in this directory.
AV [to bank]: All clear!
AV [to user]: Proceed to enter your banking credentials!

TL;DR: If ( ( Linux || Rootkit ) == false_negative && MS_defective_spyware == false_positive ) { MS_Plan != Secure }

Perhaps it was industry-wide, but no company out there handled it worse than Dell.

See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/dell-lawsuit-pattern-of-deceit/10165

You might call me a troll, I call you an apologist.

The CEO who brought in the TradElec joint Accenture / Microsoft solution has been fired. As for the TradElec platform itself, it was binned. The main rival of TradElec was selected. I'd call this a major SNAFU. Where are the self-indulgent comments from MCSEs that 'choosing Microsoft never got anyone fired' now?

What exactly is the X360 doing for Microsoft?

2nd Quarter, Entertainment and Devices

Revenues: $3.7 Billion Dollars. Up $1 Billion Y/Y.
Operating Profit: $637 Million Dollars.
8 million Kinect sensors sold in sixty days.
Console sales up 21%
XBox Live membership up 30%.

Microsoft's second quarter Kinects

Kinect has the potential to take the UI of "Minority Report" and the re-incarnated "Hawaii 5-0" mainstream among home users.

It can plausibly described as a breakthrough tech in robotics. Nothing this capable has ever been so cheap and its developed is being fueled and funded by the XBox 360.

The "next generation" console may not be a console - but something more like a peripheral for your OnLive gaming "app" that plugs into your Internt- enabled HDTV.

I would love to hear all the reasons this is such a bad thing.

Here's one:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsofts-windows-phone-7-code-limitation-puts-an-end-to-mobile-firefox/7785

So no more Firefox for Nokia mobiles it seems, at least until Microsoft decides to release a native development kit (if they ever do). This is all the more troubling because Firefox is also locked out of iOS:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188721/Mozilla_Forget_about_Firefox_on_iPhone

Why should Firefox be barred on the iPhone? There is no defensible reason.

So now we have two platforms for which Firefox Mobile is blocked from competing on. One for technical reasons, which are fixable but I would guess unlikely to get any love from Microsoft. One purely for policy reasons, which are eminently fixable but also unlikely to get any love from Apple. I don't want it to be as bad as it is but, regrettably, it is as bad as it is.

"Asshole", "shill" "Amateur"? Thats the best you can do? Really?

My phrase Foss Teams was not intended to be derogatory. I put it in quotes because I wasnt sure what phrase to use. There are companies that provide FOSS products, some only do FOSS, some contribute to FOSS but also sell proprietary solutions. Then there are groups of people that develop FOSS products. If FOSS Teams is not a the right phrase, then what is?

FOSS (LAMP) in particular in the sever space has a strong presence. But, I maintain it is not dominant. Microsoft sells lots of server products every year. Overall, the numbers Ive seen are more favorable to Windows server and related products. Of course, you can look at narrower markets and show different numbers. For example, in 2008, the super computer market was dominated by Linux (at like 90+%). It still is, but much less so today. Almost a year ago, Computerworld published this article, saying Windows Server had a 73.9% market share for the fourth quarter of 2009. In June of 2010, Mary Joe Foley (who loves to rake us over the coals) wrote this article saying that PP

In Q1 2010, Windows Server was installed on 75.3 percent of the servers sold worldwide. Linux was on 20.8 percent of the servers and Unix on only 3.6 percent. Both Windows Server and Linux grew in share from Q4 2009 to Q1 2010; Unix declined slightly

I found these two articles pretty easily. Im sure you can could find some others. I suspect the data wont be materially different - it is unlikely that, in aggregate, FOSS server software has a dominate market position by any stretch of the imagination. Note, Im not arguing that if you narrow things to specific sub-markets that FOSS will show much stinger numbers, but dominant ones? In major markets (not just niche things).

Said another way - what is your definition of dominant? Mine is dominate like the iPhone, or Windows, or Office.

The major FOSS products, like Linux, the LAMP stack, and MySQL (there ere others too...) are great products, developed by very capable and innovative people. They are also free. But even in the face of those characteristics, and the huge advantage of being free, MSFT has a solid and profitable market share competing with FOSS in the overall server space - its a $15 Billion market for us, and growing, and very, very profitable. That is success by any measure. We sell stuff to millions and millions of happy customers every year, year in, year out. Thats speaking with actions.

We make some really great products. Weve also built some super-crappy ones. Just like many other companies. We are a dominate number one in some big markets and were a strong number two in many others. We are committed to becoming so in some other markets (like search). We are good at growing profitable business over time and pruning ones that fail. Microsoft people almost universally have a strong and healthy respect for the people and products we compete against. The Apple iPod, iPhone, and iPad are insanely great products. Apple, Google, Oracle, and IBM all have smart, capable, innovate people. So do many FOSS projects.

Its cool that you dont like Microsoft - its a free country. But do you have such disdain for other major technology companies like Apple, Google, Oracle, IBM, Amazon, HP, or Facebook? Is the company that employees you any better? Or do you work for your self? If so, what do you do that is more moral or better? What FOSS projects have you contributed to in a material way? How many bugs have you fixed in FOSS software? Did these fixes make it into actual shipping releases? How many people did they help? 10s, 100s? Millions? Or is a sneering, cursing, hyperbolic post the best you can do to compete with Microsoft?

Its trivialy easy to b

Actually, try googling

keyboard iphone

and you will find several aftermarket solutions to the hard keyboard issue.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/want-a-slide-out-keyboard-for-your-iphone-4-youre-in-luck/10462

is the boxwave slideout keyboard/case. Talks to the iPhone via bluetooth.

Apple apparently now supports bluetooth keyboards for all of their devices.

There are various keyboard/docking stations for iDevices. A friend has a bluetooth folding keyboard that he carries around with his ipad. And he regularly uses remote desktop on his ipad to access his office computer.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols is calling it "no longer as important as it once was". See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-new-debian-linux-irrelevant/8218

Taken out of context.

Debian as a user visible distro: less relevant.

Debian as a foundation for other distros: more relevant.

But yeah, article written in quite a trolling fashion. Probably Steven had too much of Ubuntu and now can't think anything but "ooh! shiny!!".

Somebody named Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols the third. Should be working at the DMV

Steven Vaughan-Nichols is calling it "no longer as important as it once was". See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-new-debian-linux-irrelevant/8218

The service (Google search) has no substantial noninfringing use

For one thing, Google Search and Google Image Search don't have an incentive structure with the effect of deterring noninfringing use. I use Google every day to search for documents on the web that aren't obvious infringements, as do millions of other U.S. residents. For another, Google can claim safe harbor because it responds swiftly to OCILLA notices from copyright owners.

Heck you can go even further and sue Google Videos for copyright infringing video

MPAA member Viacom tried that and lost due to Google's OCILLA safe harbor.

Compare this to other devices in the same sector having a 2% return rate.

You were saying,

It's best to check your sources, rather than believing every rumour on the internet.

Notice anything...funny...about Android? Like the fact that there is not a spot of GPL V3 code to be found? Why do you think that is? I'll tell you, because thanks to "the TiVo trick" GPL V2 is about as worthless as can be. Hell you might as well release it all as BSD, because that is what's gonna happen anyway.

So... how is that a threat to Linux? Is Mac OS X a threat to *BSD?

Linus and other prominent Linux developers considered the GPL v3 and it was rejected. There are pros and cons with GPL v2, just like GPL v3, just like BSD license, etc. See e.g. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-vs-the-gplv3/1200 regarding tivoization:

The GPL v3 doesn't match what I think is morally where I want to be. I think it *is* ok to control peoples hardware. I do it myself.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree, I'm just saying they made a conscious choice about it.

In my opinion (and I'm not alone in this), software patents are clearly the threat against Linux, and will be for a long time. Just look at Android (again).

While you're correct, the one permission you speak of has to do with any app wanting to support Android 1.5 devices. Because they never had such a permission, if you say your app wants to support Android 1.5, the "Read phone state and Identity permission" is added automatically.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/whats-new-in-android-16-donut-part-2-developer-features/1369?pg=3

I wrote some info about how important the various permissions are also here:
http://alostpacket.com/2010/02/20/how-to-be-safe-find-trusted-apps-avoid-viruses/

Egypt turned off the internet by shutting down the DNS servers. It is extremely useful to have public DNS servers memorized. Google: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

The point of a rear touchpad (and this has been talked about hypothetically for PDAs/smartphones for ages without any actual results AFAIK) is that you have all the benefits of a touchscreen without obscuring your vision of the thing you're touching. It's less of an issue with resistive screens because a stylus is pretty skinny but anyone who's played a game (or typed for that matter) with thumbs on a capacitive screen has experienced the frustration of mistakes made because they can't see what they're doing.

I don't own an i/Android phone yet although I'm sure I will eventually, but my hands are freaking huge and the few times I've had to send sms from a friend's phone have proven frustrating at best. It appears I'm not the only one. A rear touchpad means a clear view of the screen at all times, which will make it a hell of a lot easier to see what you're doing, and to do it accurately.

I must be blind b/c I couldn't find the link to the article. I googled the post's title and found this article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/10-things-and-4-outrages-techies-need-to-know-about-president-obamas-state-of-the-union-address/9930 In case someone is equally blind as me, I hope that helps.

Microsoft for their honesty in marketing

PREDICTABLE ENTERPRISE SECURITY UPDATE PROCESS - security patches released 2nd Tuesday of each month

(at the last slide of the presentation: http://i.zdnet.com/gallery/6188791-672-464.jpg)

This is like questioning the fact that we have more than one set of automobile designs and assembly plants

On the contrary there is always need to question that fact.

Copyright, patents and trade secrets ensure that the best of breed solutions have as minimal an impact on the economy as possible. As a bonus they guarantee mediocre but different solutions are rewarded.

  We have these whole systems dedicated to ensuring that new automobiles and new plants have to be different. They are completely artificial systems to fight the natural behavior of world. Their operation is expensive and the side-effects are often wide-spread in the culture.

Oh, you thought the IP systems were designed to reward people for creativity? No, that's a funny idea but it sadly is at odds with what they actually do. The IP system of Industrialized nations rewards the status quo and sometimes enriches the already established, usually the middle-men and not the actual creators. And I use the term men loosely since most are now companies - fake people - who 'own' this stuff under the artificial monopolies created by all this paperwork. It does not matter that this is direct opposition to the justifications used to support creation of these systems in the first place.

Political parties are just a fine example of false dichotomies and oversimplifying the world. It's easier to demonize a group if you first label them. It's easier to make people stupid if you first make them into a group.

I will agree that people shouldn't complain about a dozen different editors, IM clients, music players when people don't blink at the latest FPS-on-some-custom-engine when it's just a slightly prettier clone of Doom with more guns and less blood.

Rice talks of a 'tax on software based on the number and severity of its security bugs.

The tax shall be called "The Apple Tax". Now we know why they're so damn expensive... they have to pay a tax based on the number and severity of security bugs...

It seems like just yesterday the Safari browser was carpet bombing hundreds of malicious files to my desktop without my permission.

Make a typo or logical error? There's a tax for that.(TM)

How about we reform EULA law such that if you pay for software, and it is full of bugs that get exploited, you can sue those responsible? Why not take the actual damages straight to the buggy software writers? Surely this would be even better a motivation than a "bug tax"; Additionally, this makes quantifying the penalty amount much easier. Developers pay according to how much damage the bugs have actually caused! </sarcasm>

I agree that bugs are bad, but this tax idea just stupid. Everyone makes mistakes, security is a moving target, computers and their applications are getting more complex faster than the economy is willing to pay for secure code.

To all that believe this sort of tax is a Good Idea(tm) I have only one word for you: BETA

Ed Burnette dug down and found the code to be unused unit-tests and unused driver code, not shipped with android.

See Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

--dave

Mueller posted a rebuttal to that also, but it seems the upshot of his argument is that the code exists in the sourcetree (which of course has been acknowledged) and that while it doesn't appear to have been actually used in Android distributions (as per the make files) since it is unit test code, Burnette can't prove that Android distributions that do use that code in some form don't exist. So it seems he his now trying to go with a 'guilty until proven innocent' argument.

In his defence of Engadget's headline Mueller also tries to - somewhat oddly - claim that code in the repositories constitutes 'shipped' code, a pretty interesting - and certainly not widely accepted - view of the term.

Ed Burnette dug down and found the code to be unused unit-tests and unused driver code, not shipped with android.

See Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android

--dave

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-wins-floating-data-center-patent/17266

this would bring data piracy to a whole new level.

Google already famously fought Bush's request to hand over search data on all users and then changed their policies to anonymize logs sooner.

They also fought the government in Brazil in handing over data on a group sharing photos over Orkut. To my knowledge, this is the only know case where Google did eventually hand over government data, after a judge forced them to. And the data was a group of child pornographers sharing pics.

And then there is this:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-wins-floating-data-center-patent/17266

Okay, so we establish that tablets have a subset of functionality as PCs. I agree with this, I don't do software development, word processing or gaming on a tablet. But then the article notes that tablets herald the end of PCs. So are we expecting the software makers to bridge that gap that prevents me from playing World of Warcraft, writing a book in Word or LibreOffice, coding in Radrails, etc? I just don't see that happening. I think there's a fundamental hardware issue with capacitive touch. I am not certain it will ever get to the point where I feel comfortable doing serious work or serious gaming using a glassy surface as my input device. Maybe I'm getting old but I just have never been impressed with even the latest cellphone displays and their response.

This being /. I will default to assume your experience is mostly with Android. Truth be told, gaming is going crazy on the iOS, both in the iPad and iPhone/iPod. The touch screen is just perfect for games like Sim City, for one, and virtual gamepads just word great for the iPhone (although I am not fond of them in the iPad.) Heck, there are MMORPGs for the thing, most notorious one being Pocket Legends.

As far as productivity, there are various office products available, from Apple's own iWorks to cross platform alternatives like QuickOffice, Documents To Go and Office2.

All these can be combined with the iPad's ability to use bluetooth keyboards. You can use simplistic on-screen keyboard for small changes to documents while standing in an elevator, or taking a potty break, while you can keep a bluetooth keyboard at your desk and just stand your tablet (if you have a case) or recline it against a wall and start typing away with your bluetooth keyboard, all without killing the viability of the device as a portable tablet.

As it stands, I have found myself not using my laptop. I have not touched it at all since about 2 weeks after I bought my iPad (been about 4 months already.) I, personally, would not get rid of the desktop machine, I still need it but I'm also a power user. I can see most users getting by just with a tablet and a bluetooth keyboard hanging around for when the need arises to type long letters.

Bill Gates and Microsoft. Microsoft didn't nosedive when Bill left. In fact, Windows 7 is a great product and Microsoft is doing fine.

1) Microsoft isn't the cult of personality Apple is.
2) Since Gates left, Microsoft has been running on inertia.
   

Are you sure it uses MJPEG? According to the spec part in reviews 1 2 3 they all say that the Sony DSC-W350 encodes video only in MPEG-4 (which is also owned by MPEG-LA). Even Sonys website for the camera states (under Features) that it records video in MP4. It takes photo's in JPEG, but according to all 4 of these sites, its videos are in MPEG-4 format.

(Shitty) video at http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/ibms-watson-wins-jeopardy-practice-round-can-humans-hang/43601?tag=content;selector-blogs

>I know H.264 has some sort of proprietary ties, but they're pretty weak

Weak is not the word I would use to describe the MPEG-LA.

1135 patents from 26 companies in 44 countries does not sound very weak either.

the request is only for a handful of accounts directly related in some fashion to Wikileaks

No, it covers all followers.

"You're way is perfectly valid... " - by catmistake (814204) on Sunday January 09, @03:43AM (#34812866)

Thank you, however again: I always knew it was.

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BIND vs. what the Chinese are doing to DNS lately? See here:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1755230/Chinese-DNS-Tampering-a-Real-Threat-To-Outsiders

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SECUNIA HIT BY DNS REDIRECTION HACK THIS WEEK:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/secunia_back_from_dns_hack/

(Yes, even "security pros" are helpless vs. DNS problems in code bugs OR redirect DNS poisoning issues, & they can only try to "set the DNS record straight" & then, they still have to wait for corrected DNS info. to propogate across all subordinate DNS servers too - lagtime in which folks DO get "abused" in mind you!)

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DNS vs. the "Kaminsky DNS flaw", here (and even MORE problems in DNS than just that):

http://www.scmagazineus.com/new-bind-9-dns-flaw-is-worse-than-kaminskys/article/140872/

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Moxie Marlinspike's found others (0 hack) as well...

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DNS provider decked by DDoS dastards:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/ddos_on_dns_firm/

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Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable: (so much for "conscientious patching", eh? Many DNS providers weren't patching when they had to!)

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/04/1525235.shtml?tid=172&tid=95&tid=218

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DDoS Attacks Via DNS Recursion:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/16/1658209.shtml

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DNS ROOT SERVERS ATTACKED:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/06/2238225.shtml

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TimeWarner DNS Hijacking:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/23/2140208

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DNS Re-Binding Attacks:

http://crypto.stanford.edu/dns/

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DNS Server Survey Reveals Mixed Security Picture:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/11/21/0315239.shtml

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Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/title/1285

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Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/has-halvar-figured-out-super-secret-dns-vulnerability/1520

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BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/08/09/123222.shtml

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Couple that list with DNSBL &/or DNS Request logs?

"configuring a single DNS is far less complicated than making sure 1000 computers have a the correct HOSTS file." - by catmistake (814204) on Sunday January 09, @03:43AM (#34812866)

Well, The REAL PROBLEM(s) HERE? DNS itself.

To wit:

NOW? Now, You may "get my point", on how HOSTS files are an EXCELLENT supplement to DNS servers (especially those set in recursive mode)... & I don't rely on HOSTS files alone.

See - I use

"You're way is perfectly valid... " - by catmistake (814204) on Sunday January 09, @03:43AM (#34812866)

Thank you, however again: I always knew it was.

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BIND vs. what the Chinese are doing to DNS lately? See here:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1755230/Chinese-DNS-Tampering-a-Real-Threat-To-Outsiders

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SECUNIA HIT BY DNS REDIRECTION HACK THIS WEEK:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/secunia_back_from_dns_hack/

(Yes, even "security pros" are helpless vs. DNS problems in code bugs OR redirect DNS poisoning issues, & they can only try to "set the DNS record straight" & then, they still have to wait for corrected DNS info. to propogate across all subordinate DNS servers too - lagtime in which folks DO get "abused" in mind you!)

---

DNS vs. the "Kaminsky DNS flaw", here (and even MORE problems in DNS than just that):

http://www.scmagazineus.com/new-bind-9-dns-flaw-is-worse-than-kaminskys/article/140872/

---

Moxie Marlinspike's found others (0 hack) as well...

---

DNS provider decked by DDoS dastards:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/16/ddos_on_dns_firm/

---

Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable: (so much for "conscientious patching", eh? Many DNS providers weren't patching when they had to!)

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/04/1525235.shtml?tid=172&tid=95&tid=218

---

DDoS Attacks Via DNS Recursion:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/16/1658209.shtml

---

DNS ROOT SERVERS ATTACKED:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/06/2238225.shtml

---

TimeWarner DNS Hijacking:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/23/2140208

---

DNS Re-Binding Attacks:

http://crypto.stanford.edu/dns/

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DNS Server Survey Reveals Mixed Security Picture:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/11/21/0315239.shtml

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Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/title/1285

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Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/has-halvar-figured-out-super-secret-dns-vulnerability/1520

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BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning:

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/08/09/123222.shtml

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Couple that list with DNSBL &/or DNS Request logs?

"configuring a single DNS is far less complicated than making sure 1000 computers have a the correct HOSTS file." - by catmistake (814204) on Sunday January 09, @03:43AM (#34812866)

Well, The REAL PROBLEM(s) HERE? DNS itself.

To wit:

NOW? Now, You may "get my point", on how HOSTS files are an EXCELLENT supplement to DNS servers (especially those set in recursive mode)... & I don't rely on HOSTS files alone.

See - I use

I thought Computerworld was the one that successfully trolled Slashdot anti-MS zealots by faking Vista and Windows 7 benchmarks? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/why-we-dont-trust-devil-mountain-software-and-neither-should-you/31024

Vista was okay if there was no OEM crap and on speedy hardware with loads of RAM and your hardware and software was supported. That's why it worked for some. Coloring all of them as sockpuppets is juvenile.

And do you have a citation for the Kin's 30k facebook friends and under 1k friends? Thought there were only 9000 earlier.
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/07/08/microsoft-kin-facebook-app-shows-over-8800-active-kin-phones-debunk/

WP7 has polish and is ultra smooth and the metro UI is really innovative and good. If it was made by Apple, people would be singing praises of it over here ad nauseum. Cut and paste is coming in an update this month and has already been demoed at CES. And there are LOTS of non-geeks who don't care about multitasking. It's a good 1.0 product but MS is not pushing updates fast enough.

MS has the financial muscle to see it through. Remember Windows 1.0, the original XBOX, Word, Excel etc.?

Bear in mind that a lot of phones get their own specialised outer casing compared to the standard version, so I doubt it would be much work to just make a small modification such as the socket.

Take for example the HTC Hero: Standard Version and the American Version.

That's not how Google DNS or the other open DNS sites work with the Content Delivery Networks. Here's how the process really works:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/changing-dns-probably-won-8217t-help-your-video-streaming/467

The bottom line is that changing your DNS is unlikely to help with your video-streaming, and if it does, it's pretty much a matter of you lucked out.

Steven

Changing DNS probably won't help your Video Streaming

It is also important to take note that IE is the second most secure browser after chrome, as it is the only one to make full use of WIC(Windows Integrity Controls), although does not have the sandboxing that Chrome has.

my opinion must be valid, and let me say here - MrHanky is right, and it's only apple fanbois who cry about Android 'fragmentation'.

Given that you'r arguments have never become ore sophisticated than a 13 year old boy giggling about blowjobs, no, your opinion is not valid. Especially as it is factually incorrect:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/angry-birds-ruffled-over-android-fragmentation/10468

Actual Android developers don't seem to share your concerns

Your assertion doesn't match the facts.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/angry-birds-ruffled-over-android-fragmentation/10468

Correlation != Causation. I can set up an XP Sp2 machine with NO patches, NO AV or antispy, and then change the background to a LOLCat. Then when I use the machine only on the LAN I will have NO viruses, but I don't really think I can claim my magic LOLCat picture done saved me, do you trollie?

Here is some more to rub your little nose in, but if you were actually capable of logic you could see why the entire HOSTS file concept is a fallacy.

Now do try to keep up: For the HOSTS file to provide a truly effective protection he will have to have ALL the websites that he crosses that can infect him, as well as any and all of the sites THOSE link to, all loaded into his magical HOSTS file. Now considering we are talking on average 100,000 to 200,000 websites PER day in a list that will literally change by the minute, with a site that was safe 20 minutes ago being dangerous now and vice versa, even if Trollie had four hand with 20 fingers on each and typed 36 hours a day he will STILL LOSE. It is simple mathematics and I really shouldn't have to give a fifth grade statistics lesson on why the odds simply aren't in his favor.

But as I said to you before Trollie, PLEASE, believe in your magical woobie. Toss ALL your AV and antispy, hell you don't even need a firewall thanks to your magical woobie. Please do so as both the repairmen and malware writers just looooove stupid people. It makes us lots of $$$. I only hope you don't end up part of a botnet running illegal activity, because those conversation with the men with crewcuts and guns really isn't pleasant from what I've been told.

HIPAA? HIPPA has nothing to do with FIPS. way to pull some stuff out your ass there. What's next? OSHA? UL? IBC? CE/EN?

just because you throw a name doesn't mean you have anything to show for it.

Lazy example 1 or how about lazy example 2.

Now shut the fuck up and stop trolling.

That was first couple results on google. No phone is secure. Storing anything company, corporate, etc is not going to be secure on any mobile device. Duh.

Youtube has nothing to do with how legitimate or not cracking is, if the first result for (device name)+(encryption cracking) shows up for every device in every search engine, which it does. If you're relying on youtube, maybe you should try checking out /b/ or any CEH website that shows the pitfalls of modern encryption done to governmental standards. Real encryption is higher grade than government allows.

Yes, on the Cr-48 there will be a jailbreaking mode. Just like the Nexus One was developer-friendly. When Motorola released the Droid X with its self-destruct feature, they even said that if someone wanted to root their phone, they should get a Nexus One instead of Motorola's device. Just becuase this prototype – which is released for hacking and beta testing – has a jail-breaking mode, we don't know how consumer-grade products made by a variety of manufacturers might be locked down. I don't anticipate Google providing any stricter mandate with Chromium OS than they have with Android.