Well, it's actually quite factual, (if rather breathless, but what do you expect from a headline - deadpan?), Balmer is indeed taking direct charge. Probably while he works out who the replacement should be; quite sensible. This late in the game, Balmer will probably do little more than supervise the implementation of the existing plan.
Hard to see how this is amazing news, through possibly good for venting a little more MS hate, which will probably drag in the same anti-Sony crowd, as usual. *sigh*
Followed the advice of some kind folks here, updated my HOSTS file, and use IE with BING exclusively!!! Also installed the latest Oracle Java with that helpful toolbar thing, it's AWESOME!!!
It's good to see the link to OpenStreetMap. It's not very good where I live, so I'm actually contributing instead of just bitching about it on/. (Yeah, just this once)
Now that Waze has been absorbed by the Gorg, I'd love to see a Kickstarter for a no-brainier device and app (android & iOS please) to enable both navigation, OSM updates, (but make it easy, please), and the social features that Waze got pretty well right.
C'mon somebody, I'll put a 1000 bucks down for the first two devices...for 500 each you could throw in a decent camera and some memory for Streetview-like
I'm sure you could get people like Samsung to contribute to the costs for the servers...imagine, genuinely free maps and Streetview
If you have an XP system, you either: 1. Have an old hack that you are never going to update, since it just works, or 2. Are a corp user with (hopefully) a decent tech team which will ensure you don't buy & support hardware where this will be an issue...
Or (obscure security-related issues aside) am I missing something?
It is an interesting point... Sugget you do some research, (look into the big G's T&Cs), and write down exactly what you think the issue may be. Try and be balanced, then fire it off to yor boss. Your duty is then done, and your ass covered.
Indeed - so is entrepreneurship. I'm sure some Chinese cable producer is gearing up right now. Why the heck MS need to go to an additional expense just to upset their customers eludes me...unless, of course, the windows/USB version will be much more expensive? FTA the only way to get it (so far) is via a 399 'developers kit' bundle...madness...
Of course the real stupidity is that the vast majority of people would never had transferred the thing between two devices anyway
Well, in my usual attempt to stay current despite my greying neckbeard, I was prepared to tryout this regardless of the hatestorm regarding the new UI. Hell, maybe I could work around that in exchange for the alleged increased performance?
Downloaded the "upgrade assistant" which helpfully informed me that my nicely-tuned Windows 7 PCs (both 32 and 64 bit) would require shitloads of work, (some hardware 'might not work' and several screenfuls of software would 'not function' or 'require an upgrade').
Oh yes, and all of this for the modest sum of Euros 250-plus... Per PC.
So, no thanks...
(I keeping trying to "like" the latest versions of Linux too - Mint is OK- but am sticking with BSD for my severs...maybe I'm not hip enough, or maybe I've finally realised there's more to life than fucking around with stuff when what you have works fine.)
You will probably realise you're not even close. This is truly nerdy, and I love it. Stuff like this makes putting up with all the daily bitcoin etc crap worthwhile. Thanks!
Hired a car the other car; had the 'all singing & dancing' integrated GPS, bluetooth 'infotainment' thingie.
Fired up the music; car's storage already full of thousands of songs... Fired up the navigation; history full of previous hirers departures & destination points, plus route details. (Don't know what the "Blue Angel Club" is, but I think I can guess...) Fired up the phone app; car full of contact names & addresses, helpfully cross-linked to navi history with previous routes & times.
So, in a nightmarish future with this car, you get shunted at the lights, then: - You get a ticket for every traffic violation you committed since you bought the car, thanks to GPS/Navi history, backed up by black box - Your spouse divorces you because of your dubious club habits, - You get fired because someone stole all your customer data, and - Cherry on the cake, you get ass-raped by the MPAA for having illegal MP3s on your stereo!
It's a fair argument. If you are not compiling your binaries, how do you know what you have is compiled from the source you have available?
Truth? You don't. If you suspect something, you should investigate.
You're right, of course. But that's not quite the (non) argument he was making, I think. My understanding was that he wanted to check how easy it was to get the same result if compiled the public-available source and compared it to the objects. Turns out that, due to datestamps etc. slightly different, but no biggie.
Anyway, in a production environment you should be compiling from source, since - security concerns aside - that's the only way to be sure you've got the correct source for your objects.
Q: What's the similarity between a woman's breasts, and a toy railway? A: Well, they're both designed for kids, but it's always Daddy who's playing with them!
capable of bypassing the latest existing mitigations in the newest version of Windows
So if someone finds a juicy exploit in Windows 7, then his only potential choices are (a) a pat on the back from Balmer, or (b) sell it to the bad guys?
With a well-written and refreshingly non-partisan review of why and how this happened, showing that, as with many cluster-fsuks, it's the result of a chain of decisions where each seemed sensible at the time.
Everybody dropped the ball here: - website owners & authors too incompetent or lazy to keep abreast of standards and changing conditions, - Microsoft for being, well, Microsoft (not really respecting standards), - Google (Chrome) & Mozilla for changing the default behaviour of their browsers to store https traffic instead of not, (although this, ironically, is the standard unless the site properly says "do not store"; see point 1.)
Raises the interesting question; who on earth thought, in this era of increasing bandwidth, that it would be a good idea to store https data locally?
A depressing extract from the undercover researcher/journalist who went to get advice on a (fictional) abusive husband:
“He hits me,” she maintained. Should she leave her home? Should she go to the police?
“The police, that is the very last resort,” said Dr Hasan. Instead, apparently, she should ask her husband: “Is it because of my cooking? Is it because I see my friends? So I can correct myself.”
Right. "Correct yourself"
Rather than continuing to undermine the hard-won universal values and freedoms on which our western democracies are (supposed to be) based, with crap like this porn-filtering and spying on our data, how about working to ensure that people who need help actually get it? People like the Boston Bombers were not stopped by the NSA; they might not have acted if we all, individually and collectively, had manged to convince them that the 'western way' is better. Or failing that, just invited them not leave if they don't like our society.
We're failing on both fronts...the people who need help don't get it, and the ones who fight our values from within don't get stopped and/or thrown out. so yeah, just filter the porn...much easier
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Even more specific, it's the nth root of the product of n numbers, but your example explains better why it's used in this case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean
Of course, the median is another useful indicator of central tendancy, less effected by extreme values...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
Well, it's actually quite factual, (if rather breathless, but what do you expect from a headline - deadpan?), Balmer is indeed taking direct charge.
Probably while he works out who the replacement should be; quite sensible.
This late in the game, Balmer will probably do little more than supervise the implementation of the existing plan.
Hard to see how this is amazing news, through possibly good for venting a little more MS hate, which will probably drag in the same anti-Sony crowd, as usual. *sigh*
Since you're most likely to contract a hard to cure infection....in hospital..
Followed the advice of some kind folks here, updated my HOSTS file, and use IE with BING exclusively!!!
Also installed the latest Oracle Java with that helpful toolbar thing, it's AWESOME!!!
Nothing to worry about, rite???
Thanks; I'll take a look!
It's good to see the link to OpenStreetMap. It's not very good where I live, so I'm actually contributing instead of just bitching about it on /.
(Yeah, just this once)
Now that Waze has been absorbed by the Gorg, I'd love to see a Kickstarter for a no-brainier device and app (android & iOS please) to enable both navigation, OSM updates, (but make it easy, please), and the social features that Waze got pretty well right.
C'mon somebody, I'll put a 1000 bucks down for the first two devices...for 500 each you could throw in a decent camera and some memory for Streetview-like
I'm sure you could get people like Samsung to contribute to the costs for the servers...imagine, genuinely free maps and Streetview
If you have an XP system, you either:
1. Have an old hack that you are never going to update, since it just works, or
2. Are a corp user with (hopefully) a decent tech team which will ensure you don't buy & support hardware where this will be an issue...
Or (obscure security-related issues aside) am I missing something?
Ahem, "your"...touchpad too complex for old fart...
It is an interesting point...
Sugget you do some research, (look into the big G's T&Cs), and write down exactly what you think the issue may be.
Try and be balanced, then fire it off to yor boss.
Your duty is then done, and your ass covered.
When people pointed out two key typos, the military bosses thanked them and said they were 'exactly the kind of people they are looking for.
And the people were from Reddit...yeah, exactly the kind of people you should be looking for!
Indeed - so is entrepreneurship. I'm sure some Chinese cable producer is gearing up right now.
Why the heck MS need to go to an additional expense just to upset their customers eludes me...unless, of course, the windows/USB version will be much more expensive? FTA the only way to get it (so far) is via a 399 'developers kit' bundle...madness...
Of course the real stupidity is that the vast majority of people would never had transferred the thing between two devices anyway
Nice quote
Well, in my usual attempt to stay current despite my greying neckbeard, I was prepared to tryout this regardless of the hatestorm regarding the new UI. Hell, maybe I could work around that in exchange for the alleged increased performance?
Downloaded the "upgrade assistant" which helpfully informed me that my nicely-tuned Windows 7 PCs (both 32 and 64 bit) would require shitloads of work, (some hardware 'might not work' and several screenfuls of software would 'not function' or 'require an upgrade').
Oh yes, and all of this for the modest sum of Euros 250-plus...
Per PC.
So, no thanks...
(I keeping trying to "like" the latest versions of Linux too - Mint is OK- but am sticking with BSD for my severs...maybe I'm not hip enough, or maybe I've finally realised there's more to life than fucking around with stuff when what you have works fine.)
You will probably realise you're not even close. This is truly nerdy, and I love it.
Stuff like this makes putting up with all the daily bitcoin etc crap worthwhile.
Thanks!
Not trolling, straight question. I know nothing about webRTC; are communications 'secure' by default?
Well, there was Babbage...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage
Hired a car the other car; had the 'all singing & dancing' integrated GPS, bluetooth 'infotainment' thingie.
Fired up the music; car's storage already full of thousands of songs...
Fired up the navigation; history full of previous hirers departures & destination points, plus route details.
(Don't know what the "Blue Angel Club" is, but I think I can guess...)
Fired up the phone app; car full of contact names & addresses, helpfully cross-linked to navi history with previous routes & times.
So, in a nightmarish future with this car, you get shunted at the lights, then:
- You get a ticket for every traffic violation you committed since you bought the car, thanks to GPS/Navi history, backed up by black box
- Your spouse divorces you because of your dubious club habits,
- You get fired because someone stole all your customer data, and
- Cherry on the cake, you get ass-raped by the MPAA for having illegal MP3s on your stereo!
It's a fair argument. If you are not compiling your binaries, how do you know what you have is compiled from the source you have available?
Truth? You don't. If you suspect something, you should investigate.
You're right, of course. But that's not quite the (non) argument he was making, I think.
My understanding was that he wanted to check how easy it was to get the same result if compiled the public-available source and compared it to the objects.
Turns out that, due to datestamps etc. slightly different, but no biggie.
Anyway, in a production environment you should be compiling from source, since - security concerns aside - that's the only way to be sure you've got the correct source for your objects.
Yes, insanely great! Better than wild monkey sex!
Now you can run all your favourite Windows applications even faster than before!
Oh wait...
Well it was so ridiculously gushing and inaccurate that I thought at first he was going for the "funny" mod...
Time for an old joke:
Q: What's the similarity between a woman's breasts, and a toy railway?
A: Well, they're both designed for kids, but it's always Daddy who's playing with them!
capable of bypassing the latest existing mitigations in the newest version of Windows
So if someone finds a juicy exploit in Windows 7, then his only potential choices are (a) a pat on the back from Balmer, or (b) sell it to the bad guys?
With a well-written and refreshingly non-partisan review of why and how this happened, showing that, as with many cluster-fsuks, it's the result of a chain of decisions where each seemed sensible at the time.
Everybody dropped the ball here:
- website owners & authors too incompetent or lazy to keep abreast of standards and changing conditions,
- Microsoft for being, well, Microsoft (not really respecting standards),
- Google (Chrome) & Mozilla for changing the default behaviour of their browsers to store https traffic instead of not, (although this, ironically, is the standard unless the site properly says "do not store"; see point 1.)
Raises the interesting question; who on earth thought, in this era of increasing bandwidth, that it would be a good idea to store https data locally?
As compared to spying on our own citizens?
Would be interesting to know....
The UK already operates 85 Sharia courts. They have limited power, for now. .
I found this hard to believe, so looked. It's true...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10011260/Panorama-Inside-Britains-Sharia-Courts-BBC-One-review.html
(One of many references)
A depressing extract from the undercover researcher/journalist who went to get advice on a (fictional) abusive husband:
“He hits me,” she maintained. Should she leave her home? Should she go to the police?
“The police, that is the very last resort,” said Dr Hasan. Instead, apparently, she should ask her husband: “Is it because of my cooking? Is it because I see my friends? So I can correct myself.”
Right. "Correct yourself"
Rather than continuing to undermine the hard-won universal values and freedoms on which our western democracies are (supposed to be) based, with crap like this porn-filtering and spying on our data, how about working to ensure that people who need help actually get it?
People like the Boston Bombers were not stopped by the NSA; they might not have acted if we all, individually and collectively, had manged to convince them that the 'western way' is better. Or failing that, just invited them not leave if they don't like our society.
We're failing on both fronts...the people who need help don't get it, and the ones who fight our values from within don't get stopped and/or thrown out.
so yeah, just filter the porn...much easier