That's not really the question posed though. He's asking whether or not a massive increase in market share would be possible without the marketing efforts of Microsoft and Apple. He even stated "It's not that I don't find Linux worthy...."
And it's a fair point. I don't see GNU/Linux "making it" in the desktop marketplace for a while. Most people aren't willing to go out of their way to try something different if they get what they want quickly and easily just by using their wallets.
http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/LX.RFN02.122
Not quite $600, but close.
Even if it's not half price for non-Apple laptops, it's no secret that MBPs are way overpriced. A quarter of the price is the shiny Apple logo.
I see your point, but Ubisoft will have to stick with this longer if they want to win. For Assassin's Creed 2, this was probably a loss, as the draconian DRM gave them a ton of bad press. In the long run though, people will most likely get used to the crap they have to eat and buy the games anyway.
A lot of germans that I've come across refuse to speak English. I actually sat down and spoke to a German guy about this a few years ago. He said that most germans know how to speak English just fine, but they choose not to. When I went to Germany I had to use my rusty, no-good German to communicate as people simply wouldn't reply when I spoke English.
Static analysis tools are quite nice to point out the problems that are present in your existing code. I've used Fortify for Java code and was quite pleased with that. Just remember to be wary of false negatives. You need to review the code manually as well, but automated tools help you get started quickly.
The approach might be the same, but the widespread use of credit cards and personal information online surely means that in the past few years, it is a much larger problem than it was 10 years ago. But I'd say that as for 2008, this is nothing new.
The article didn't say anything about how they measured this. It did mention that EA was sceptica to their statistics (EA downplaying piracy? Nooooo). However, I can't seem to figure out how they measured this. There are a vast number of trackers out there, and a lot of them aren't public.
I suspect that the statistics for such trackers is quite similar, but there's no real way to know, is there?
Slightly redundant. WPA isn't really secure when everyone knows the PSK, because when WPA-PSK is used, then the PSK acts as the Pairwise Master Key, from which encryption and integrity keys are made.
If you ask me, each receipt (or other source of info) should contain a automatically generated username and password that goes to a RADIUS (or similar) server. Allow the username and password to stay alive for as long as the user is connected. Once he disconnects, he needs a new set.
Getting stuck has little to do with the profession, and more to do with the person in question.
Helpdesk is a good place to start. It's not much, but it's something. People who never try to get anything better or are not qualified for anything better are usually the ones who are stuck there.
Calling it career death is like saying that any other job is career death. Any experience you add to your curriculum vitae is likely to place your application higher in the deck even if it is helpdesk. Granted, that depends on the job you're applying for, but I see no reason for people to get stuck there. If you don't like it, quit. A friend of mine did, and I doubt that he's gonna have great difficulties getting a job once he's done with his education.
If you have the right qualifications, helpdesk need not be a career killer.
I don't see how that obligation stands in the way of responsible disclosure. How would it take Mozilla any longer to fix the problem if they tell Opera about it in good time?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that Mozilla has done something extremely wrong here. I'm just saying they could have done it better, followed responsible disclosure properly and given Opera developers time to fix it before they went for full disclosure.
Ermh... duh... it was clearly a joke.
The [i]name[/i] Heidi Grande Røys has been translated to Heidi Praktfull Røys, which I, as a norwegian, found hilarious.
We've actually discussed this at university. There's something clearly wrong about handing out access to everyone who wants it. A Ph.D. student and a professor who wrote an article on the vulnerability before the attack on Tele2 actually took place spoke with the people in charge of the registry, and the people they spoke to were quite proud of the fact that they had given access to 1400 or 1700 or so different businesses. There's something disturbing about that, and it's clear that a lot of people need to be educated about the dangers.
You could probably raise questions about the practices of all the involved parties in the theft, from the article discussing the vulnerabilities, to the registry to the Norwegian Data Inspectorate who might have been a tad too polite when informing Tele2 about the vulnerabilty (like I mentioned earlier, they knew about the flaw for 8 months before the attack) to the people who actually wrote the software used (among them, a 16 year old kid inspired by the article). The contract businesses have with the registry however, states that no information they have access to, can be given to a third party. That's where Tele2 failed and they were even in violation of Norwegian law in doing so.
Norwegian Birth Numbers are not secret. The structure of these numbers is known, and it's trivial to generate valid numbers. The problem lies in the fact that a lot of organizations and governmental organs choose to use it as an authenticator rather than an identificator, which is it's intended purpose. By using the generated numbers, it was possible (and still is in some cases) to aquire a wealth of additional information about an individual (or 100 000). That's clearly the wrong way to use the numbers, and it's a flaw that's seen everywhere, from private businesses, to official governmental services.
That's odd. This summer in Norway, over 100 000 people got their identity stolen when web-services using the registry of all norwegian citizens (to perform tasks like credit check etc.) leaked personal information. I was one of the victims after 60 000 of those thefts happened through Tele2's website (and I have never had anything to do with Tele2 before). Funny thing is, Tele2 knew about the flaw for about 8 months (after several warnings from the Norwegian Data Inspectorate) before the attack and did nothing to fix it. With that kind of mentality and ignorance among people who have access to our personal information, why should I believe that it is declining? Because someone somewhere have statistics that might suggest that it is?
You're saying that banks should be held responsible for everything? That's a tall order. What if the user was a dumb twit who lost his pin code and calculator? Naturally, it's dreadful that banks don't take the issue seriously enough, but to expect them to take all of the responsibility is somewhat optimistic. I've seen first hand the poor security in web-based banking services, and other web services. In fact, I've been victim of identity theft due to poor security in web services, and the lack of responsibilty, expertise and general knowledge or interest in the security issues is alarming, but the responsibility lies with everyone. Next week, we'll begin looking at BankID (a PKI for banking systems in Norway) at univeristy, and I expect to see quite a few flaws that they will be reluctant to fix because of business concerns.
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That's not really the question posed though. He's asking whether or not a massive increase in market share would be possible without the marketing efforts of Microsoft and Apple. He even stated "It's not that I don't find Linux worthy ...."
And it's a fair point. I don't see GNU/Linux "making it" in the desktop marketplace for a while. Most people aren't willing to go out of their way to try something different if they get what they want quickly and easily just by using their wallets.
Ah, I see. I was under the impression that the JooJoo was first released in December 2009.
Apple wasn't really the first either. The JooJoo (although it sucked) was released before the iPad was even announced.
http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/LX.RFN02.122 Not quite $600, but close. Even if it's not half price for non-Apple laptops, it's no secret that MBPs are way overpriced. A quarter of the price is the shiny Apple logo.
If you're lucky enough to live in North America that is. Google Voice isn't internationally available as far as I know.
Well, I'm a bit of an exebitionist, so yes!
SETI is the way to go here. Think of the possibilities. You can spend the next 50 years of your life fruitlessly listening to static from outer space!
Some people have brainfarts... my brain just shat itself.
I see your point, but Ubisoft will have to stick with this longer if they want to win. For Assassin's Creed 2, this was probably a loss, as the draconian DRM gave them a ton of bad press. In the long run though, people will most likely get used to the crap they have to eat and buy the games anyway.
A lot of germans that I've come across refuse to speak English. I actually sat down and spoke to a German guy about this a few years ago. He said that most germans know how to speak English just fine, but they choose not to. When I went to Germany I had to use my rusty, no-good German to communicate as people simply wouldn't reply when I spoke English.
NRK isn't funded with commercials.
Static analysis tools are quite nice to point out the problems that are present in your existing code. I've used Fortify for Java code and was quite pleased with that. Just remember to be wary of false negatives. You need to review the code manually as well, but automated tools help you get started quickly.
The approach might be the same, but the widespread use of credit cards and personal information online surely means that in the past few years, it is a much larger problem than it was 10 years ago. But I'd say that as for 2008, this is nothing new.
The article didn't say anything about how they measured this. It did mention that EA was sceptica to their statistics (EA downplaying piracy? Nooooo). However, I can't seem to figure out how they measured this. There are a vast number of trackers out there, and a lot of them aren't public. I suspect that the statistics for such trackers is quite similar, but there's no real way to know, is there?
I'm more worried about hackers spoiling my coffee: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/17/1941200
Well they won't bite if they're trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVÃRDENBRÃTBÃRDA.
Slightly redundant. WPA isn't really secure when everyone knows the PSK, because when WPA-PSK is used, then the PSK acts as the Pairwise Master Key, from which encryption and integrity keys are made. If you ask me, each receipt (or other source of info) should contain a automatically generated username and password that goes to a RADIUS (or similar) server. Allow the username and password to stay alive for as long as the user is connected. Once he disconnects, he needs a new set.
Getting stuck has little to do with the profession, and more to do with the person in question.
Helpdesk is a good place to start. It's not much, but it's something. People who never try to get anything better or are not qualified for anything better are usually the ones who are stuck there.
Calling it career death is like saying that any other job is career death. Any experience you add to your curriculum vitae is likely to place your application higher in the deck even if it is helpdesk. Granted, that depends on the job you're applying for, but I see no reason for people to get stuck there. If you don't like it, quit. A friend of mine did, and I doubt that he's gonna have great difficulties getting a job once he's done with his education.
If you have the right qualifications, helpdesk need not be a career killer.
I don't see how that obligation stands in the way of responsible disclosure. How would it take Mozilla any longer to fix the problem if they tell Opera about it in good time? Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that Mozilla has done something extremely wrong here. I'm just saying they could have done it better, followed responsible disclosure properly and given Opera developers time to fix it before they went for full disclosure.
Ermh... duh... it was clearly a joke. The [i]name[/i] Heidi Grande Røys has been translated to Heidi Praktfull Røys, which I, as a norwegian, found hilarious.
Great point. But I'd rather say that it is equally unfortunate that the US ever got the bomb as it is that the USSR stole it.
We've actually discussed this at university. There's something clearly wrong about handing out access to everyone who wants it. A Ph.D. student and a professor who wrote an article on the vulnerability before the attack on Tele2 actually took place spoke with the people in charge of the registry, and the people they spoke to were quite proud of the fact that they had given access to 1400 or 1700 or so different businesses. There's something disturbing about that, and it's clear that a lot of people need to be educated about the dangers.
You could probably raise questions about the practices of all the involved parties in the theft, from the article discussing the vulnerabilities, to the registry to the Norwegian Data Inspectorate who might have been a tad too polite when informing Tele2 about the vulnerabilty (like I mentioned earlier, they knew about the flaw for 8 months before the attack) to the people who actually wrote the software used (among them, a 16 year old kid inspired by the article). The contract businesses have with the registry however, states that no information they have access to, can be given to a third party. That's where Tele2 failed and they were even in violation of Norwegian law in doing so.
Norwegian Birth Numbers are not secret. The structure of these numbers is known, and it's trivial to generate valid numbers. The problem lies in the fact that a lot of organizations and governmental organs choose to use it as an authenticator rather than an identificator, which is it's intended purpose. By using the generated numbers, it was possible (and still is in some cases) to aquire a wealth of additional information about an individual (or 100 000). That's clearly the wrong way to use the numbers, and it's a flaw that's seen everywhere, from private businesses, to official governmental services.
You can read more if you want, in a short draft from an article about these kinds of attacks here. Your point is discussed in section 2.2:
http://www.nowires.org/Papers-PDF/idtheft_draft.pdf
That's odd. This summer in Norway, over 100 000 people got their identity stolen when web-services using the registry of all norwegian citizens (to perform tasks like credit check etc.) leaked personal information. I was one of the victims after 60 000 of those thefts happened through Tele2's website (and I have never had anything to do with Tele2 before). Funny thing is, Tele2 knew about the flaw for about 8 months (after several warnings from the Norwegian Data Inspectorate) before the attack and did nothing to fix it. With that kind of mentality and ignorance among people who have access to our personal information, why should I believe that it is declining? Because someone somewhere have statistics that might suggest that it is?
You're saying that banks should be held responsible for everything? That's a tall order. What if the user was a dumb twit who lost his pin code and calculator? Naturally, it's dreadful that banks don't take the issue seriously enough, but to expect them to take all of the responsibility is somewhat optimistic. I've seen first hand the poor security in web-based banking services, and other web services. In fact, I've been victim of identity theft due to poor security in web services, and the lack of responsibilty, expertise and general knowledge or interest in the security issues is alarming, but the responsibility lies with everyone. Next week, we'll begin looking at BankID (a PKI for banking systems in Norway) at univeristy, and I expect to see quite a few flaws that they will be reluctant to fix because of business concerns.
It's filled with blacks and whites and they keep killing eachother for land?