I'm no expert in history, but couldn't that be the beginning of a completely new platform that'd allow developers to securely and consentually install real apps and in-browser controls that'd run natively on the user's computer?
That'd be great! And with just a little bit of effort I'm sure it could surpass the feature-richness and security Microsoft's implementation of this process (they call it ActiveX).
As always, the innovation over at Mozilla is incredible. After only months of intense development they managed to build an application that's like a browser except it's only a Gecko control in a window. No tabs, no anything. I'm sure it would've taken years to build a similar application using.NET's Browser Control.
To my knowledge, vegetarians don't eat meat while vegans won't eat meat, eggs, milk (yeah, I know milk is usually consumed by drinking, bug you can freeze and eat it.) and any other animal products. Therefore, not all vegetarians are vegans while all vegans are vegetarians.
Opposition against humans wearing animal fur, humans hurting animals, "anything that harms animals" as you say occurs within a similar subset of the human population, but is - as far as I know - not equal to veganism or vegetarianism.
o Pressing shift while rotating the cube (actually, in my case it's only a a plane, but I've got two of those with almost 2 MPix per side) or
o Right click title bar (or taskbar entry for this app), click Move to Workspace (Right|Down|Left|1-4)
Does sound a bit better to me, don't you think? It does have disadvantages, too. For example I have to type "wine something.exe" instead of just "something.exe". Double-clicking works, though.
May I ask what the heck you need 8-10 virtual desktops for? Especially on a box like this which I wouldn't think of as being able to run some 10-30 apps simultaneously (at least one, three per desktop seems like a sensible assumption to me).
Why don't you do just that with an iPhone, Neo1973/OpenMoko or any Symbian-based phone (that's just about each and every Nokia out there and lots more)?
Right. Google's the biggest threat to Apple's "dominance" (aka <1% of market share) in the "mobile computing space" (aka cell phones). It's not BlackBerries, Treos or the usual WinMobile-PDAs every serious business-type user uses and it's obviously not Nokia with it's giant market share and multimedia-friendly "mobile computers". Also LG/Prada, Versace (IIRC they're trying to launch something like the LG/Prada phone, might be another italian fashion brand, too.) may well be more exclusive by a lot, but all those "cool types" who bought the iPhone to "be cool" won't care. Right.
Gnaah. Slash ate my whole post. Here we go again, sorry 'bout that.
It's sold out because it was very probably only made in a very small edition. It's intention from beginning to end was to be a development platform, not an actual product. With the Neo1973/OpenMoko, people opening up iPhones and similar stuff, Trolltech seems to regard the chain reaction they intended to start as either started or unstartable (my money's on the former). No reason to go on, let the actual hardware guys handle it.
1. I'd argue that a personal firewall does make a system more vulnerable in many cases, not because it's own vulnerabilities (usually few, if any), but because it makes it's user feel (more) secure. Similar to always sporting a kevlar vest, it'll certainly help in some situations, but you might forget that you still are vulnerable and, after needlessy walking through the worst part of some city, end up in an armed robbery with a gun pointed at your (un-kevlar'd) head.
Additional to that, virtualization doesn't directly secure anything. Each and every hole your machine has while running two processes on one OS will persist if the processes are running on seperate OSes/VMs. The virtualization will (should) isolate them from each other, but, by design, won't make them any more secure.
Fewer still implies more than zero, which is a few too many. Don't forget to include the severity a potential hijack might have into your equation. A bug in Slash (just an example, I know Slash doesn't and will never have any bugs;)) would usually compromise the web server, maybe just Slash itself running on a given machine. A bug in the kernel of the VM running Slash would compromise the whole VM, but a bug in a Datacentre-wide Hypervisor net certainly could render your whole facility useless (for a limited amount of time, unless it's able to turn off the A/C, fry your servers and burn down the whole building^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H planet or something).
Actually I think virtualization is somewhat able to undermine all advantages diversification has if (and only if) an attacker is able to not only gain access to one guest but also, through that guest, to the hypervisor itself. After that is done, no amount of diversity in your choice of guests will be of any help whatsoever.
Using different hypervisors is a possibility, but there doesn't seem to be real possibility to both provide security and maximum usage of capacity.
It doesn't really matter how big the hypervisor's attack surface to the outside world is, as long as a guest running on top of it is in any way able to compromise it. If this is the case (and I don't really doubt it), a hole in one of your guests and the hypervisor will allow an attacker not only to compromise all identical guests but all guests to which said hypervisor has access to. This has the potential to trade whatever efficiency gains virtualization provides for complete lack of control over the whole network from two small vulnerabilities.
This flash based player thingie Samsung's building will extremely probably be way more expensive than it'd be using a 1.8" hard drive. OTOH they can shape it more freely (why would they? Hard drives are shaped quite like widescreen displays. Perfect for portable media players) and probably shave off a few millimeters in thickness while providing the same battery runtime.
While this might turn out to be something awesome, I can't really imagine to be willing to pay double (or more?) just to have a 10-15% slimmer media player. Do you?
So that's what happens to all those people posting words like "Terrorist", "Bomb", "Bin Laden", "9/11", "Echelon" on Slashdot and all over the intertubes. Luckily I don't do that kinda stuff.
As if. According to TFA, there are royalties on whatever product is built using those specs and MSFT's patents, so quite probably redistribution of the spec itself won't be covered by the nominal one-off payment of 10'000. If the EU had actually required those specs to be made available for free, they would've included that in their ruling. They didn't and they aren't going to break laws just to make some OSS developers happy.
Sounds like a nice strategy to me, but last time I checked this PowerLine stuff was slower and less reliable than WiFi. No multi-gigabit connectivity there, unfortunately.
Right. I lost the link to this huge list of RIAA/IFPI-backed artists who lost their entire income due to piracy and are now forced to live in two-room apartments downtown. You surely got it somewhere, right?
They don't just contain a (known to the setup program) number but lots of data (which Product, what type of License, the actual ID and so on). In the early years of this millenium, several PDF documents on how to calculate your own XP CD key circulated everywhere on the interwebs, find yourself one of these for more detail.
They use letters, which gives them 35-base number set[...]
Nope, they use 0-9 and some letters, excluding O (and a few others, haven't got em handy right now).
Is this to reduce trial-and-error loop hacking?
I guess so. When switching from ME to XP back in the day, all I had was a handwritten Product ID and the CD. Long story short: Setup wouldn't want what I thought was the ID, after trying everything I could read into the handwritten key, I assumed there to be = 4 incorrect digits, after a few hours and hand-checking (unaidedly) thousands of combinations I was ready to go.
"Drink a lot[...]"
Please, feel absolutely free to do so right before riding your motorcycle. Usually you'll either relieve your government by not requiring any more health benefits and pensions or you'll help finance those by giving that nice dude with the car with flashing lights on top some of your money. Way to go, lawbreaker:)
Is this a situation where a certain joke has just flown over my head or did you really mean the HIRD of Unix-Replacing Daemons (more commonly referred to as Hurd)?
(The whole HIRD/HURD thing's a great project, but the thing I love most about it are the co-recursive acronyms. Infinitely more fun than normal recursive acronyms)
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I'm no expert in history, but couldn't that be the beginning of a completely new platform that'd allow developers to securely and consentually install real apps and in-browser controls that'd run natively on the user's computer?
That'd be great! And with just a little bit of effort I'm sure it could surpass the feature-richness and security Microsoft's implementation of this process (they call it ActiveX).
As always, the innovation over at Mozilla is incredible. After only months of intense development they managed to build an application that's like a browser except it's only a Gecko control in a window. No tabs, no anything. .NET's Browser Control.
I'm sure it would've taken years to build a similar application using
To my knowledge, vegetarians don't eat meat while vegans won't eat meat, eggs, milk (yeah, I know milk is usually consumed by drinking, bug you can freeze and eat it.) and any other animal products. Therefore, not all vegetarians are vegans while all vegans are vegetarians.
Opposition against humans wearing animal fur, humans hurting animals, "anything that harms animals" as you say occurs within a similar subset of the human population, but is - as far as I know - not equal to veganism or vegetarianism.
o Pressing shift while rotating the cube (actually, in my case it's only a a plane, but I've got two of those with almost 2 MPix per side)
or o Right click title bar (or taskbar entry for this app), click Move to Workspace (Right|Down|Left|1-4) Does sound a bit better to me, don't you think? It does have disadvantages, too. For example I have to type "wine something.exe" instead of just "something.exe". Double-clicking works, though.
May I ask what the heck you need 8-10 virtual desktops for? Especially on a box like this which I wouldn't think of as being able to run some 10-30 apps simultaneously (at least one, three per desktop seems like a sensible assumption to me).
250 Gig HD? Cute. (~4 TB here. Linux cause XP/2003 wouldn't work with Volumes >2 TB and Vista'd be a pain in the ass)
Why don't you do just that with an iPhone, Neo1973/OpenMoko or any Symbian-based phone (that's just about each and every Nokia out there and lots more)?
Right. Google's the biggest threat to Apple's "dominance" (aka <1% of market share) in the "mobile computing space" (aka cell phones). It's not BlackBerries, Treos or the usual WinMobile-PDAs every serious business-type user uses and it's obviously not Nokia with it's giant market share and multimedia-friendly "mobile computers". Also LG/Prada, Versace (IIRC they're trying to launch something like the LG/Prada phone, might be another italian fashion brand, too.) may well be more exclusive by a lot, but all those "cool types" who bought the iPhone to "be cool" won't care. Right.
Gnaah. Slash ate my whole post. Here we go again, sorry 'bout that.
Right. Google's the biggest threat to Apple's "dominance" (aka a lot, but all those "cool types" who bought the iPhone to "be cool" won't care. Right.
It's sold out because it was very probably only made in a very small edition. It's intention from beginning to end was to be a development platform, not an actual product. With the Neo1973/OpenMoko, people opening up iPhones and similar stuff, Trolltech seems to regard the chain reaction they intended to start as either started or unstartable (my money's on the former). No reason to go on, let the actual hardware guys handle it.
1. I'd argue that a personal firewall does make a system more vulnerable in many cases, not because it's own vulnerabilities (usually few, if any), but because it makes it's user feel (more) secure. Similar to always sporting a kevlar vest, it'll certainly help in some situations, but you might forget that you still are vulnerable and, after needlessy walking through the worst part of some city, end up in an armed robbery with a gun pointed at your (un-kevlar'd) head.
Additional to that, virtualization doesn't directly secure anything. Each and every hole your machine has while running two processes on one OS will persist if the processes are running on seperate OSes/VMs. The virtualization will (should) isolate them from each other, but, by design, won't make them any more secure.
Fewer still implies more than zero, which is a few too many. Don't forget to include the severity a potential hijack might have into your equation. A bug in Slash (just an example, I know Slash doesn't and will never have any bugs ;)) would usually compromise the web server, maybe just Slash itself running on a given machine. A bug in the kernel of the VM running Slash would compromise the whole VM, but a bug in a Datacentre-wide Hypervisor net certainly could render your whole facility useless (for a limited amount of time, unless it's able to turn off the A/C, fry your servers and burn down the whole building^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H planet or something).
Actually I think virtualization is somewhat able to undermine all advantages diversification has if (and only if) an attacker is able to not only gain access to one guest but also, through that guest, to the hypervisor itself. After that is done, no amount of diversity in your choice of guests will be of any help whatsoever.
Using different hypervisors is a possibility, but there doesn't seem to be real possibility to both provide security and maximum usage of capacity.
It doesn't really matter how big the hypervisor's attack surface to the outside world is, as long as a guest running on top of it is in any way able to compromise it. If this is the case (and I don't really doubt it), a hole in one of your guests and the hypervisor will allow an attacker not only to compromise all identical guests but all guests to which said hypervisor has access to. This has the potential to trade whatever efficiency gains virtualization provides for complete lack of control over the whole network from two small vulnerabilities.
This flash based player thingie Samsung's building will extremely probably be way more expensive than it'd be using a 1.8" hard drive. OTOH they can shape it more freely (why would they? Hard drives are shaped quite like widescreen displays. Perfect for portable media players) and probably shave off a few millimeters in thickness while providing the same battery runtime.
While this might turn out to be something awesome, I can't really imagine to be willing to pay double (or more?) just to have a 10-15% slimmer media player. Do you?
So that's what happens to all those people posting words like "Terrorist", "Bomb", "Bin Laden", "9/11", "Echelon" on Slashdot and all over the intertubes. Luckily I don't do that kinda stuff.
As if. According to TFA, there are royalties on whatever product is built using those specs and MSFT's patents, so quite probably redistribution of the spec itself won't be covered by the nominal one-off payment of 10'000. If the EU had actually required those specs to be made available for free, they would've included that in their ruling. They didn't and they aren't going to break laws just to make some OSS developers happy.
Sounds like a nice strategy to me, but last time I checked this PowerLine stuff was slower and less reliable than WiFi. No multi-gigabit connectivity there, unfortunately.
Right. I lost the link to this huge list of RIAA/IFPI-backed artists who lost their entire income due to piracy and are now forced to live in two-room apartments downtown. You surely got it somewhere, right?
"Drink a lot[...]" :)
Please, feel absolutely free to do so right before riding your motorcycle. Usually you'll either relieve your government by not requiring any more health benefits and pensions or you'll help finance those by giving that nice dude with the car with flashing lights on top some of your money. Way to go, lawbreaker
Make it "USB Flash Drive" then. Problem solved.
Is this a situation where a certain joke has just flown over my head or did you really mean the HIRD of Unix-Replacing Daemons (more commonly referred to as Hurd)?
(The whole HIRD/HURD thing's a great project, but the thing I love most about it are the co-recursive acronyms. Infinitely more fun than normal recursive acronyms)