Honestly, I haven't been incredibly impressed with Google Docs. The other day, a couple of friends and I tried to collaboratively edit a document, but each person would only think that one other person was editing the document, and the only way we could see each other's updates was to refresh the page. Furthermore, changes are only pushed out every 15 seconds from the Google server, making real-time collaboration difficult.
If only Google Docs were more like Etherpad...
TFA even says that the worm can update itself, so how does BitDefender plan to distribute the worm if the worm can be updated to shut down everything that may harm it?
Yes, I did. That part would have been more interesting if they had provided more evidence of what they did, but it just seemed like a permissions issue (perhaps they had created the files as administrator and could not change it afterwards). However, this does not change the fact is that the first two arguments presented are worthless.
Seriously, what sort of conclusions does this "article" even make? They say that it is somehow Window's fault that their software stops working because a DLL is replaced, because you know, somehow programs are supposed to run after you change parts of them. Next thing you know, they'll blame Windows for breaking their graphics card after they deleted their graphics driver.
As for programs modifying the firewall, that has been implemented since the Windows XP firewall at least. Run an iTunes install and you'll see all the exceptions that Apple puts into the firewall for their own software. Hell, perhaps we should blame Windows for letting the iTunes installer put Bonjour and Apple Updater and QuickTime on your computer as well? Clearly, they are allowing software vendors to put crapware on your machine!
Actually, I believe Windows Vista fixed this vulnerability. To bad MS did such a poor job with UAC that a lot of people might end up catching this virus anyways.
Wikipedia says that the first worm spread through BSD UNIX.
(1988):
November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively "in the wild", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
The EU's issue with Microsoft is that it is limiting competition among web browsers by including IE with its product, so a removal of the GUI wrapper would probably be sufficient. Inclusion of the rendering engine won't do anything if you can't use it to browse the Internet in any reasonable fashion.
Do you honestly think that foreign intelligence agencies won't write Linux or Macintosh viruses if it would get them into the DoD network? The OS might be part of the problem, but users are the much bigger one.
I am not a web app developer, but as far as I can tell Flash and Silverlight will still have their own place for a long while, especially until browsers (most notably IE) get their act together with regards to standards compliance and Javascript performance. The iPhone is a single platform, and the apps only need to work on that one platform. Considering that no browser is completely standards compliant and they all have their own Javascript and HTML quirks, I would imagine it very difficult to program any complex game in purely JS and HTML and have it provide a quality experience in all browsers and platforms, either because it is too slow on some platforms and broken on others because of the lack of certain features. At the very least, Flash and Silverlight provides a uniform platform across all systems for a developer to work on, making life that much easier for everyone.
If Microsoft really cared about education so much, why wouldn't they just give Windows to the OLPC project for free? $3 may be a lot when you multiply it by the numbers of copies that will be sold, but that's still less than 1/30 the price of a retail copy of Windows, and their brand image would probably improve as a result.
It ain't free if you have to buy a computer to use it. It ain't free if you have to pay for internet service to use it. It ain't free if you have to buy food to get the energy to walk to the library to use it.
There's no reason to be against some feature just because it emulates what MS Office does. MS Office does some things well, and it'd be foolish to not implement those features just because it's like Office. Similarly, it'd be just as foolish for Microsoft to ignore the features that OSX does well just because it's made by Apple. Imitating competitors and improving their features is part of what makes good software.
but the ways that it is being used are. With more powerful processors being smaller and cooler, now devices like the iPhone and the Surface can be built. In addition, these devices have only really become applicable in a time where people are already linked by technology, not 20 years ago when there was no processing power for such a device. One of the more interesting features of Surface is that it can detect digital cameras or cell phones placed on it and (somehow) download photos and videos from it, this too was worthless back in the day before these devices existed or became as common as the wristwatch. The iPhone would have been worthless without the processing power to run the animations used with multi-touch features and the desire for a device more versatile (in user interaction) than the traditional mobile phone or smart phone, which was already pretty good. Having an open source multi-touch kit doesn't provide the software that make devices like the iPhone and Surface what they are, but merely demonstrates to the average guy that multitouch is not a new idea and is easily implemented.
Um, not much of a newsflash. Hell the major monotheistic religions figured this out way back. If God is omniscient, then he knows what I am about to do and everything I will do in my life. If he knows that, than I can't truly have free will. (Even if you try to weasel out that God decides to blind himself to my future, if it is knowable then its pre-ordained.) So unless you are willing to say God isn't omniscient, then there is no free will, kids. Actually there's an argument (by St. Augustine, I think) that says that there is no contradiction between an omniscient God and free will. The idea is that God is just an "observer"; every decision we make in our lives are still our own, even though God knows how the result will turn out. Essentially, God is just "watching a replay" of what actually happened, so although God knows what happens God does not know it in "advance" because our notions of time do not apply to God.
Seriously, they sure took their time didn't they? I might have thought that with the poor reception of Vista they would be quick to push service packs, but apparently something held them up, even some quick fixes would be nice (though at least they still have updates coming through Windows Update). Personally though I'm scared to pirate it from BitTorrent, not because of viruses but I'm afraid it will break compatibility with stuff; one patch earlier this year prevented me from booting into Windows, and it was one of the "Recommended" patches that would automatically update.
Huh? Providing an SDK is additional functionality in itself. So are all the firmware upgrades. What makes this any different than anything else, except that it makes Apple money and gives an incentive for developers to make apps?
So that the Hymn Project people can buy their own island nation to continue their work.
More realistically, what's to stop them from hosting everything in a different country? Could they get arrested in the United States for "exporting" DRM cracking software?
I agree. The saddest part is that the NSF only secures $20 million for this type of funding, while the Pentagon launches $10 million missiles at satellites tonight.
For most things, no 3 cores isn't really going to be much benefit at this point. While there are now multithreaded games out there that make use of 2 cores pretty well, they don't really scale past that at this point. But now you can play games and encode a dvd at the same time. It's still useful. And at some point or another there will be games that support use of multiple processors, just like there are games now that support physics processors (though few) even though most people don't have one.
I never understood why people could be against Microsoft yet for Ron Paul at the same time. Isn't Ron Paul for small government hence no anti-trust laws (not mandated in the Constitution, right) which means that Microsoft wouldn't be punished for being a monopoly?
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Honestly, I haven't been incredibly impressed with Google Docs. The other day, a couple of friends and I tried to collaboratively edit a document, but each person would only think that one other person was editing the document, and the only way we could see each other's updates was to refresh the page. Furthermore, changes are only pushed out every 15 seconds from the Google server, making real-time collaboration difficult. If only Google Docs were more like Etherpad...
TFA even says that the worm can update itself, so how does BitDefender plan to distribute the worm if the worm can be updated to shut down everything that may harm it?
Yes, I did. That part would have been more interesting if they had provided more evidence of what they did, but it just seemed like a permissions issue (perhaps they had created the files as administrator and could not change it afterwards). However, this does not change the fact is that the first two arguments presented are worthless.
Seriously, what sort of conclusions does this "article" even make? They say that it is somehow Window's fault that their software stops working because a DLL is replaced, because you know, somehow programs are supposed to run after you change parts of them. Next thing you know, they'll blame Windows for breaking their graphics card after they deleted their graphics driver. As for programs modifying the firewall, that has been implemented since the Windows XP firewall at least. Run an iTunes install and you'll see all the exceptions that Apple puts into the firewall for their own software. Hell, perhaps we should blame Windows for letting the iTunes installer put Bonjour and Apple Updater and QuickTime on your computer as well? Clearly, they are allowing software vendors to put crapware on your machine!
Just managed to get worse? That's ignoring things like the Sony rootkit fiasco, right?
Actually, I believe Windows Vista fixed this vulnerability. To bad MS did such a poor job with UAC that a lot of people might end up catching this virus anyways.
November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively "in the wild", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
The EU's issue with Microsoft is that it is limiting competition among web browsers by including IE with its product, so a removal of the GUI wrapper would probably be sufficient. Inclusion of the rendering engine won't do anything if you can't use it to browse the Internet in any reasonable fashion.
Do you honestly think that foreign intelligence agencies won't write Linux or Macintosh viruses if it would get them into the DoD network? The OS might be part of the problem, but users are the much bigger one.
I am not a web app developer, but as far as I can tell Flash and Silverlight will still have their own place for a long while, especially until browsers (most notably IE) get their act together with regards to standards compliance and Javascript performance. The iPhone is a single platform, and the apps only need to work on that one platform. Considering that no browser is completely standards compliant and they all have their own Javascript and HTML quirks, I would imagine it very difficult to program any complex game in purely JS and HTML and have it provide a quality experience in all browsers and platforms, either because it is too slow on some platforms and broken on others because of the lack of certain features. At the very least, Flash and Silverlight provides a uniform platform across all systems for a developer to work on, making life that much easier for everyone.
Alternatively, we could always just try the Slashdot effect.
If Microsoft really cared about education so much, why wouldn't they just give Windows to the OLPC project for free? $3 may be a lot when you multiply it by the numbers of copies that will be sold, but that's still less than 1/30 the price of a retail copy of Windows, and their brand image would probably improve as a result.
It ain't free if you have to buy a computer to use it. It ain't free if you have to pay for internet service to use it. It ain't free if you have to buy food to get the energy to walk to the library to use it.
There's no reason to be against some feature just because it emulates what MS Office does. MS Office does some things well, and it'd be foolish to not implement those features just because it's like Office. Similarly, it'd be just as foolish for Microsoft to ignore the features that OSX does well just because it's made by Apple. Imitating competitors and improving their features is part of what makes good software.
but the ways that it is being used are. With more powerful processors being smaller and cooler, now devices like the iPhone and the Surface can be built. In addition, these devices have only really become applicable in a time where people are already linked by technology, not 20 years ago when there was no processing power for such a device. One of the more interesting features of Surface is that it can detect digital cameras or cell phones placed on it and (somehow) download photos and videos from it, this too was worthless back in the day before these devices existed or became as common as the wristwatch. The iPhone would have been worthless without the processing power to run the animations used with multi-touch features and the desire for a device more versatile (in user interaction) than the traditional mobile phone or smart phone, which was already pretty good. Having an open source multi-touch kit doesn't provide the software that make devices like the iPhone and Surface what they are, but merely demonstrates to the average guy that multitouch is not a new idea and is easily implemented.
Seriously, they sure took their time didn't they? I might have thought that with the poor reception of Vista they would be quick to push service packs, but apparently something held them up, even some quick fixes would be nice (though at least they still have updates coming through Windows Update). Personally though I'm scared to pirate it from BitTorrent, not because of viruses but I'm afraid it will break compatibility with stuff; one patch earlier this year prevented me from booting into Windows, and it was one of the "Recommended" patches that would automatically update.
I'd agree that anarchy would solve the problem quite nicely.
Huh? Providing an SDK is additional functionality in itself. So are all the firmware upgrades. What makes this any different than anything else, except that it makes Apple money and gives an incentive for developers to make apps?
So that the Hymn Project people can buy their own island nation to continue their work. More realistically, what's to stop them from hosting everything in a different country? Could they get arrested in the United States for "exporting" DRM cracking software?
I agree. The saddest part is that the NSF only secures $20 million for this type of funding, while the Pentagon launches $10 million missiles at satellites tonight.
I never understood why people could be against Microsoft yet for Ron Paul at the same time. Isn't Ron Paul for small government hence no anti-trust laws (not mandated in the Constitution, right) which means that Microsoft wouldn't be punished for being a monopoly?
You'd think that with $300k worth of sales his website can be hit harder than that.
So you're what... 13 years old right now?