I think they're aiming at a different market - looking to recruit people who are already familiar with Ubuntu but not Solaris, and making that transition a little easier. If you know Solaris already, then you'll already know how to work around the issues that this release tries to address.
Still, it raises an interestig point about how to bridge the gap between newer Linux users and 'oldies but goodies' such as BSD...
I tell this to users all the time. Email is for communicating... not storing documents and information.
You're so right - How often do you see people looking for an important file, or minutes of a meeting etc. via their Lotus Notes / Outlook, (where the file itself will be buried in some PST file in a sub-directory of C:\windows... and not backed up as part of the 'user' files...)
I think it's because they find it easier to use one interface for storing & searching, so if all else fails I suggest Google Desktop Search or something (depend on platform etc)
I'm sure they'd be interested in this - after all, a similar problem exists for YouTube/GVideo rankings, (which are not great, based on my experience). Of course, if they have/ever do crack it, they'd hardly hand it over to Netflix.
Maybe it's the 'Napoleon Dynamite' factor mentioned in the article - perhaps humans are too strange to be completely understood after all. Good news if you've been wearing a tinfoil hat ever since seeing 2001 or Terminator...
I've no problem accepting the terms of use for music that I've paid to download from Apple et al. If you don't want to accept their terms, don't do it.
The only problem is when the entire protection system is so screwed that you cannot ALSO use the software - and legally-acquired songs - of your choice, rather than exclusively Big Brother's mandated stuff. Hiding behind the 'closed is required to make it safe and easy to use' figleaf just does not cut it anymore. Apple is the new IBM.
It's all hubris anyway, since the vast majority of content played on iStuff does not come from iTunes. No doubt Jobs would like to change this, and get us to download all our content via expensive mobile-phone tie-ins. That's - urm - not working so far.
So, the net effect is to push smart people into Songbird and Mediamonkey's arms, not to mention also in the direction of the nearest torrent site.
"This would be less of an issue if the widely released patch from two weeks ago had been fully deployed"
And:
Moving to the more DNSSEC system would have solved this problem, and that idea was apparently floated, but it was dismissed on account of the tremendous overhead required by this protocol. The patch that currently exists is not a foolproof solution, but it minimizes the chances that the attack will succeed. "The exploit is now tens of thousands of times harder, but still possible," Kaminsky stated during his Black Hat webcast. "one in several hundred million to one in a couple billion."
Not slashvert, just a happy user, with loads of Macs & PCs, iPods, bluetooth in the cars...and three teenage girls. Junked iTunes early on, never looked back.
You make a good point, but nobody forced him to stay senator. If he'd wanted to do another job, for more money, all he had to do was resign and go get one, just like anybody else.
Sadly, you are probably correct. However, this problem has been around for a very long time, so it's not probable that anything new will be found for 'traditional' bullying.
However, new technologies raise new opportunities, and concerns, and thus require new responses.
I believe there was a case recently where some poor child committed suicide after being persecuted online. So, yes, I think they should do something specfic about this.
Having said that, as a parent I recognise that the best thing to do is to keep a close and protective eye on your kids. If technology could help me with that, (a warning SMS / email that your kid is geting lost of IMs or mails with bad keywords), then I'd go for that.
Can't see that kind of thing getting past privacy concerns, though...
Something in the energy industry. What's that got to do with the current argument?
Something in the energy industry? C'mon. Let me refresh your memory. When in power, (well, just before losing it) Schroder massively subsidised the Gazprom 'Nord Stream' project. After leaving Government, he then took a major post with...Nord Stream! No corruption there, then...
What's that got to do with the current argument? Well, I was just suggesting that corruption has many faces, and 'bribes' come in many colours... Is it OK for lobbyists to pay for prostitues for MEPs? By their twisted definition, not a bribe...
BTW, no personal attack from me against Germany - same thing everywhere I've worked...USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, China...
But having worked with these guys, I'm not so sure.
other telcos don't have monopolies and most likely didn't make bribes.
If you're not a monopoly, all the more reason to use 'alternative' tactics to beat the incumbent. There's bribes, then there's 'old boys networks' (traditionally the most powerful of all, especially in Germany), then there's lobbyists... Brussels is thick with them. Remind me, what job did the former German Chancellor get when he left office?
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for individual accounts (I've heard this is the case in parts of the Republic of Korea).
Yeah, like all of it. IE domination, and not just for banks. Also Japan. I think it's because of the double-byte thing, which was supported in IE before the alternatives, (but I'm sure someone here will clarify)
Hmmm...Intel were not really microscopic (sorry) at that time, and their CPUs were already well-established, and had a realistic technology growth roadmap.
That's why IBM selected them as the CPU-provider for the original PC. (I worked at IBM at the time). We did not have a chip that would do the job, and not enough time, (and maybe not capacity / competence) to develop one.
But we sure as hell knew that if the PC worked, we'd need an XT, then AT... Intel already had that capability.
Damn, wished I'd bought a ton of their stock then...
Your right, should be a two-step process. The summary uses two terms, identification & authentication, as if they were interchangeable. They are not.
Identification is the process by which the identity of a user is established, and authentication is the process by which a service confirms the claim of a user to use a specific identity by the use of credentials (usually a password or a certificate).
So the biometrics would identify you, not authentify.
Oh yes - Direct-X. Yet another failed USP for Vista. Shame OpenGL is - still - not 'there' yet. Optimised drivers for Linux or BSD - where are they, outside of high-end CAD cards? Real Soon Now (c) Pournelle.
You're right - it's always the 'emotional' apps that somehow fire people up. Funny how the business case evaporates in front of the VP.
Still, the user still hates you forever for saying 'no'. Lose/lose. I'm now handing out 200$ Asus EeePCs for those situations. Dual boot in Linux/Win, and user can restore from 'bricked' to original config in 30 seconds...high CPU and FPS game playing - unfortuantely - impossible;-)
Agree, neat & easy. I do this for the kids. (I've been around a while too..started with an RM 380Z then IBM S/3).
Is it ready for prime time on corporate desktops? Has been tried, (not just via virtualisation, which I agree has come on a lot), but also more simply by just 'locking' the client desktop. In each case, result similar - users complaining about lost settings, tweaks and sometimes (OK, illegally-installed) apps.
Will the growth of Google Apps, Salesforce.com et al. neuter the desire of PC users to do what the hell they want with their desktop, (even if that means screwing it up?), nope.
I remember the glow in my clients' eyes when they said 'you mean if we buy a System/36 we can buy and run the programs we WANT?'
Many continuous distributions are not normally distributed, and no discrete distributions are. So don't understand the 'especially if it is a continuous variable' part. Should be 'only if'.
He said the average, not the median. Sure, for a perfect normal distribution all 3 measures of central tendancy are the same - mean, median & mode. Of course, in real life this never happens.
So the other AC got it right...'fully half if even number' is only right interpretation for all cases.
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I think they're aiming at a different market - looking to recruit people who are already familiar with Ubuntu but not Solaris, and making that transition a little easier.
If you know Solaris already, then you'll already know how to work around the issues that this release tries to address.
Still, it raises an interestig point about how to bridge the gap between newer Linux users and 'oldies but goodies' such as BSD...
I tell this to users all the time. Email is for communicating... not storing documents and information.
You're so right - How often do you see people looking for an important file, or minutes of a meeting etc. via their Lotus Notes / Outlook, (where the file itself will be buried in some PST file in a sub-directory of C:\windows... and not backed up as part of the 'user' files...)
I think it's because they find it easier to use one interface for storing & searching, so if all else fails I suggest Google Desktop Search or something (depend on platform etc)
I'm sure they'd be interested in this - after all, a similar problem exists for YouTube/GVideo rankings, (which are not great, based on my experience). Of course, if they have/ever do crack it, they'd hardly hand it over to Netflix.
Maybe it's the 'Napoleon Dynamite' factor mentioned in the article - perhaps humans are too strange to be completely understood after all. Good news if you've been wearing a tinfoil hat ever since seeing 2001 or Terminator...
I've no problem accepting the terms of use for music that I've paid to download from Apple et al.
If you don't want to accept their terms, don't do it.
The only problem is when the entire protection system is so screwed that you cannot ALSO use the software - and legally-acquired songs - of your choice, rather than exclusively Big Brother's mandated stuff. Hiding behind the 'closed is required to make it safe and easy to use' figleaf just does not cut it anymore. Apple is the new IBM.
It's all hubris anyway, since the vast majority of content played on iStuff does not come from iTunes. No doubt Jobs would like to change this, and get us to download all our content via expensive mobile-phone tie-ins. That's - urm - not working so far.
So, the net effect is to push smart people into Songbird and Mediamonkey's arms, not to mention also in the direction of the nearest torrent site.
Own goal, Steve.
As often, Ars Technica has had this for a while.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080726-new-dns-exploit-now-in-the-wild-and-having-a-blast.html
I quote:
"This would be less of an issue if the widely released patch from two weeks ago had been fully deployed"
And:
Moving to the more DNSSEC system would have solved this problem, and that idea was apparently floated, but it was dismissed on account of the tremendous overhead required by this protocol. The patch that currently exists is not a foolproof solution, but it minimizes the chances that the attack will succeed. "The exploit is now tens of thousands of times harder, but still possible," Kaminsky stated during his Black Hat webcast. "one in several hundred million to one in a couple billion."
Yawn.
I might stop being spitting mad.
I hate:
2. Stupid itunes making it a hassle to give my wife a copy of something WE own legally (or often was free in the first place).
Try Mediamonkey. http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Works as advertised.
Not slashvert, just a happy user, with loads of Macs & PCs, iPods, bluetooth in the cars...and three teenage girls. Junked iTunes early on, never looked back.
You make a good point, but nobody forced him to stay senator. If he'd wanted to do another job, for more money, all he had to do was resign and go get one, just like anybody else.
Urm, think that should be modded 'insightful', rather than 'funny' guys..
Sadly, you are probably correct. However, this problem has been around for a very long time, so it's not probable that anything new will be found for 'traditional' bullying.
However, new technologies raise new opportunities, and concerns, and thus require new responses.
I believe there was a case recently where some poor child committed suicide after being persecuted online. So, yes, I think they should do something specfic about this.
Having said that, as a parent I recognise that the best thing to do is to keep a close and protective eye on your kids. If technology could help me with that, (a warning SMS / email that your kid is geting lost of IMs or mails with bad keywords), then I'd go for that.
Can't see that kind of thing getting past privacy concerns, though...
Something in the energy industry. What's that got to do with the current argument?
Something in the energy industry? C'mon. Let me refresh your memory. When in power, (well, just before losing it) Schroder massively subsidised the Gazprom 'Nord Stream' project. After leaving Government, he then took a major post with...Nord Stream! No corruption there, then...
What's that got to do with the current argument? Well, I was just suggesting that corruption has many faces, and 'bribes' come in many colours...
Is it OK for lobbyists to pay for prostitues for MEPs? By their twisted definition, not a bribe...
BTW, no personal attack from me against Germany - same thing everywhere I've worked...USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, China...
A similar sting for Bin Laden.
I'll let you guys suggest drafts for the job advert.
Well Tom, I admire your confidence.
But having worked with these guys, I'm not so sure.
other telcos don't have monopolies and most likely didn't make bribes.
If you're not a monopoly, all the more reason to use 'alternative' tactics to beat the incumbent.
There's bribes, then there's 'old boys networks' (traditionally the most powerful of all, especially in Germany), then there's lobbyists...
Brussels is thick with them.
Remind me, what job did the former German Chancellor get when he left office?
It's not Google's device. It's T-Mobile's device.
No. If I'm paying for it, then it's MY device.
for individual accounts (I've heard this is the case in parts of the Republic of Korea).
Yeah, like all of it. IE domination, and not just for banks. Also Japan.
I think it's because of the double-byte thing, which was supported in IE before the alternatives, (but I'm sure someone here will clarify)
Yes, and a damn fine combination (for the time) it was too. So much better than Win98 and beige boxes.
Damn expensive though.
Hmmm...Intel were not really microscopic (sorry) at that time, and their CPUs were already well-established, and had a realistic technology growth roadmap.
That's why IBM selected them as the CPU-provider for the original PC. (I worked at IBM at the time). We did not have a chip that would do the job, and not enough time, (and maybe not capacity / competence) to develop one.
But we sure as hell knew that if the PC worked, we'd need an XT, then AT... Intel already had that capability.
Damn, wished I'd bought a ton of their stock then...
Urm, right. Looking at the typos in my previous posts, it's clear I need to stop doing several things at once - back to work!
Presumably ;-) OK, I typed that a little fast. Having said that...urm...'perform authtication' then? Anybody got a less clumsy way to say it?
Your right, should be a two-step process.
The summary uses two terms, identification & authentication, as if they were interchangeable. They are not.
Identification is the process by which the identity of a user is established, and authentication is the process by which a service confirms the claim of a user to use a specific identity by the use of credentials (usually a password or a certificate).
So the biometrics would identify you, not authentify.
I'm confused - can anyone explain how and why tagging this 'fuckthenavy' is helpful?
Oh yes - Direct-X. Yet another failed USP for Vista.
Shame OpenGL is - still - not 'there' yet. Optimised drivers for Linux or BSD - where are they, outside of high-end CAD cards? Real Soon Now (c) Pournelle.
You're right - it's always the 'emotional' apps that somehow fire people up. Funny how the business case evaporates in front of the VP.
Still, the user still hates you forever for saying 'no'. Lose/lose. I'm now handing out 200$ Asus EeePCs for those situations. Dual boot in Linux/Win, and user can restore from 'bricked' to original config in 30 seconds...high CPU and FPS game playing - unfortuantely - impossible ;-)
Agree, neat & easy. I do this for the kids. (I've been around a while too..started with an RM 380Z then IBM S/3).
Is it ready for prime time on corporate desktops? Has been tried, (not just via virtualisation, which I agree has come on a lot), but also more simply by just 'locking' the client desktop. In each case, result similar - users complaining about lost settings, tweaks and sometimes (OK, illegally-installed) apps.
Will the growth of Google Apps, Salesforce.com et al. neuter the desire of PC users to do what the hell they want with their desktop, (even if that means screwing it up?), nope.
I remember the glow in my clients' eyes when they said 'you mean if we buy a System/36 we can buy and run the programs we WANT?'
Plus ca change...
If you're going to show off, do it right.
Many continuous distributions are not normally distributed, and no discrete distributions are. So don't understand the 'especially if it is a continuous variable' part. Should be 'only if'.
He said the average, not the median. Sure, for a perfect normal distribution all 3 measures of central tendancy are the same - mean, median & mode. Of course, in real life this never happens.
So the other AC got it right...'fully half if even number' is only right interpretation for all cases.
Meanwhile, your point was?
Your're right to publicise a good product that I also use and reccommend. However:
Most people that get caught by malware don't understand all these arcane details.
Most people use IE, (no noscript here..) and blindly click 'OK' when they cannot see the porn.
Bad web sites / pages don't just install viruses.*
Good catch, thanks.
As always, the useful stuff never seems to get modded up...