It will be that the only people who have these bracelets will be Criminals and Children....
When it is normal for children to be treated the same as criminals, how do we punish young criminals when the freedoms we are tanking away from them, they never had in the first place....
The current IT guy is laughing.... it is out of his hands and he cannot do anything about it and everyone knows this...the person who outsourced it to Google however.....!
It reads more as a consortium of Software companies.....except software companies do not give each other their source code, so the only contributor will only ever be Microsoft...
It's entire system appears to be that it is OpenSource for people who do not want, like, or understand OpenSource.... and it appears they want to achieve this by not being OpenSource.... however this already exists and does not need a foundation....
If you can run code that you did not load then your system is broken, if it is at a random location then you should not have access to it, at all, ever
ASLR is all very well but if it ever succeeds in stopping something it just proves the rest of your security is not working.......and most exploits *still* just ask a user to run a program, at which point all this is moot....
Discouraging the use of is not the same as providing an upgrade path away from....
Where are the tools to transform the IE6/ActiveX web application written with Microsoft tools, into a Ie7/8 webstandards friendly application? Microsoft does not seem to have put any effort into this, just saying you know those tools we gave you, well we don't support them any more there is no way of converting the apps, and we would prefer you to rewrite your code from scratch is not a good way to get people to stop using them...
If the previous model of the car was still the most popular by far, I would expect the servicing to be cheap and the parts to be available, simply because it is the most popular.....
No matter how old it is if it is the most popular and used version I would still expect it to be supported completely simply because it was still popular, you have to remember this is more like an engine than a complete car, Microsoft make most of their money selling other software that runs on Windows rather than on windows itself....
Stopping updates of any kind to XP is simply that they either cannot be bothered or do not want to because they want to force people to upgrade
Not supporting a product you still sell, as new (even as a downgrade) and is still used by more people than the newer versions is simply bad marketing
"We will continue to support it for as long as the majority of people are using it...." would be good marketing
Forcing people to upgrade away from a system you made next to no money on, just so you can sell they the new version which you will also make almost nothing on, is a bad idea when they might just get the idea of trying alternatives first....and then they won't need your other products which are your real money spinners...
This is a botnet of 10 manually hacked Linux webservers (probably with poor passwords) controlling a network of 100 Windows machines....which were proably automatically compromised...
So to hack a Linux machine you have to do it manually find poorly configured machines and it is at least 10 times as hard to do...?...oh and the hackers prefer to use Linux machines to control their botnet, I wonder what they don't like about the Windows machines?
Graphics/Sound/interface/engine let you suspend disbelief, and succeed well if they don't get in the way (a bad interface, or engine makes the gameplay annoying)
The mechanics have to engage you in order for you to continue playing
The social aspects will extend the gameplay because people are not bots and act in ways the you never expect....
Some of the older games I still play are purely down to an engine and interface that do not annoy/get in the way, and enough variety through user levels and network players that I do not lose interest..... I have no idea what the plot is, and the graphics are only good enough....
Good enough graphics (Not the best but good enough)
Great gameplay, mainly because the engine did not get in the way (you did not have to jump up steps) there were no artificial restrictions due to engine limitations
Extensibility, there were new levels available, and complete mods, this made it last beyond the initial first completion...
Multiplayer, simply added more interest, you could learn the bots, but cannot learn all the possible opponents....
1) People who use windows are not stupid, they either like it, prefer it, are unaware of alternatives, or are forced to.... people who constant claim it is the most wonderful thing and flawless however consider stupid.... just like mindless Linux advocates
2) Yes this has happened in Linux, but as you pointed out Windows is a mainstream commercial product and has, I assume, a whole department paid to do regression testing, checking for likely flaws, checking and rechecking.... and this slipped through
If it was worth watching I would have watched in the the Cinema.....since it is on TV it is either old hat, or is about to go straight to DVD... neither is High Value...
I live in the UK so if this ever comes here they will discover that besides a flat fee TV licence, most people do not pay for TV at all....and it is generally good quality
There is very little "high value" content that people can be bothered to pay for... except for live broadcasts....
Colossus and it's succesors (Manchester M1 etc...) are all destroyed, dismantled or lost, the ones in museums are all just parts, or replicas... this is an original potentially working computer
No it will be like the Current HDTV, a small number of the most popular programs, in 3D at extra cost, with no new content at all...
What is the point, the program on a small screen, on a large screen, on and HDTV, in Steroscopic 3D all look basically the same to me, and in most cases the program itself is so badly written and acted it is not worth watching....
Given enough tape and enough time it is a universal Turing machine, so it can emulate any computer... slowly....
Even ENIAC was a Turing machine and so could run anything....it would be even slower and more cumbersome but could still run Linux!
If you read the details then you will see that they left it running unattended over Christmas and the New year once and it did a lot of calculations in that time... not just a "simple" loop...
Any machine that is Turing complete is a computer,
The "older" computers have all been dismantled and the ones in museums are all replicas
the Colossus MkI was upgraded to MkII All the MkII's were deliberately destroyed, except one, and that was thrown away by the secret services (who were using it)
the Manchester M1's were all dismantled years ago.
Nobody thinks heritage is important until it is old, and these early computers did not survive being obsolete long enough to get old and thought to be worth keeping, the ENIAC was for years thought to the the worlds first electronic computer, and only a few parts survive....
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Haggis: brought to Scotland (before it was Scotland) by either the Romans, Vikings, or another group, via most of Europe ....
Not a regional food at all ...
It will be that the only people who have these bracelets will be Criminals and Children....
When it is normal for children to be treated the same as criminals, how do we punish young criminals when the freedoms we are tanking away from them, they never had in the first place ....
The current IT guy is laughing .... it is out of his hands and he cannot do anything about it and everyone knows this ...the person who outsourced it to Google however .....!
It reads more as a consortium of Software companies.... .except software companies do not give each other their source code, so the only contributor will only ever be Microsoft ...
It's entire system appears to be that it is OpenSource for people who do not want, like, or understand OpenSource .... and it appears they want to achieve this by not being OpenSource.... however this already exists and does not need a foundation ....
If you can run code that you did not load then your system is broken, if it is at a random location then you should not have access to it, at all, ever
ASLR is all very well but if it ever succeeds in stopping something it just proves the rest of your security is not working .... ...and most exploits *still* just ask a user to run a program, at which point all this is moot ....
Discouraging the use of is not the same as providing an upgrade path away from ....
Where are the tools to transform the IE6/ActiveX web application written with Microsoft tools, into a Ie7/8 webstandards friendly application? Microsoft does not seem to have put any effort into this, just saying you know those tools we gave you, well we don't support them any more there is no way of converting the apps, and we would prefer you to rewrite your code from scratch is not a good way to get people to stop using them ...
The proverbially never mind the gameplay look at the amazing graphics uber game Myst for one ...
Microsoft gave people the tools to make IE6 only websites and pushed hard to get people to use them
So IE6 Only Web applications are very common inside businesses (and the Navy)
Microsoft have not given an easy upgrade path for any of these applications, and IE7/8 break them, and so it is 100% Microsoft fault ....
If the previous model of the car was still the most popular by far, I would expect the servicing to be cheap and the parts to be available, simply because it is the most popular .....
No matter how old it is if it is the most popular and used version I would still expect it to be supported completely simply because it was still popular, you have to remember this is more like an engine than a complete car, Microsoft make most of their money selling other software that runs on Windows rather than on windows itself ....
Stopping updates of any kind to XP is simply that they either cannot be bothered or do not want to because they want to force people to upgrade
Not supporting a product you still sell, as new (even as a downgrade) and is still used by more people than the newer versions is simply bad marketing
"We will continue to support it for as long as the majority of people are using it ...." would be good marketing
Forcing people to upgrade away from a system you made next to no money on, just so you can sell they the new version which you will also make almost nothing on, is a bad idea when they might just get the idea of trying alternatives first ....and then they won't need your other products which are your real money spinners ...
This is instead of the fabled WinFS then ....
This is a botnet of 10 manually hacked Linux webservers (probably with poor passwords) controlling a network of 100 Windows machines ....which were proably automatically compromised ...
So to hack a Linux machine you have to do it manually find poorly configured machines and it is at least 10 times as hard to do...? ...oh and the hackers prefer to use Linux machines to control their botnet, I wonder what they don't like about the Windows machines?
Plot gets you interested in playing the game ....
Graphics/Sound/interface/engine let you suspend disbelief, and succeed well if they don't get in the way (a bad interface, or engine makes the gameplay annoying)
The mechanics have to engage you in order for you to continue playing
The social aspects will extend the gameplay because people are not bots and act in ways the you never expect ....
Some of the older games I still play are purely down to an engine and interface that do not annoy/get in the way, and enough variety through user levels and network players that I do not lose interest..... I have no idea what the plot is, and the graphics are only good enough ....
Quake had :
Good enough graphics (Not the best but good enough)
Great gameplay, mainly because the engine did not get in the way (you did not have to jump up steps) there were no artificial restrictions due to engine limitations
Extensibility, there were new levels available, and complete mods, this made it last beyond the initial first completion ...
Multiplayer, simply added more interest, you could learn the bots, but cannot learn all the possible opponents ....
So you think Microsoft should make a Unix based system, perhaps call it Xenix?
They did that, sold it to Santa Cruz Operation, who sold it to Caldera, Who Became SCO ..... Hmmm perhaps not ....
Slashdot is not the Linux Community
1) People who use windows are not stupid, they either like it, prefer it, are unaware of alternatives, or are forced to .... people who constant claim it is the most wonderful thing and flawless however consider stupid .... just like mindless Linux advocates
2) Yes this has happened in Linux, but as you pointed out Windows is a mainstream commercial product and has, I assume, a whole department paid to do regression testing, checking for likely flaws, checking and rechecking.... and this slipped through
3) Slashdot is not the Linux Community
4) Slashdot is not the Linux Community
If you don't understand the cloud do not use it
If you understand the cloud then you will also understand how vulnerable you are and should not use it ...
the cloud is wonderful, if :
* Your network connection is working
* You trust the cloud provider
* The cloud provider stays in business
* They warn you about updates/changes to the software or interface so you can cope ...
If the cloud provider is a smaller company then they will not have the infrastructure to make it reliable enough
If the cloud provider is a larger company then they will not care greatly about your downtime/data loss/complaints ....
Do you have a single ID number that everyone demands to see to identify yourself
Do you have photo ID that everyone has that is used to identify yourself
Do your passports have biometrics ...which one of use lives in a country with totalitarian tendencies
Studio time, no longer required, you can make publishable music in your back room
The music companies do little more than promote music now, the rest they overcharge the artists for things they do not need....
If it was worth watching I would have watched in the the Cinema .....since it is on TV it is either old hat, or is about to go straight to DVD ... neither is High Value ...
I live in the UK so if this ever comes here they will discover that besides a flat fee TV licence, most people do not pay for TV at all ....and it is generally good quality
There is very little "high value" content that people can be bothered to pay for ... except for live broadcasts ....
Colossus and it's succesors (Manchester M1 etc ...) are all destroyed, dismantled or lost, the ones in museums are all just parts, or replicas ... this is an original potentially working computer
No it will be like the Current HDTV, a small number of the most popular programs, in 3D at extra cost, with no new content at all ...
What is the point, the program on a small screen, on a large screen, on and HDTV, in Steroscopic 3D all look basically the same to me, and in most cases the program itself is so badly written and acted it is not worth watching ....
Given enough tape and enough time it is a universal Turing machine, so it can emulate any computer ... slowly ....
Even ENIAC was a Turing machine and so could run anything ....it would be even slower and more cumbersome but could still run Linux!
If you read the details then you will see that they left it running unattended over Christmas and the New year once and it did a lot of calculations in that time ... not just a "simple" loop ...
Any machine that is Turing complete is a computer,
It was built in 1951 and used for teaching until 1973, and then donated to a museum, it is the earliest surviving British computer
All the earlier ones (Colossus, Manchester M1 etc.. ) were destroyed, dismantled, or lost, just like their American counterparts (ENIAC etc ..)
The earlier ones you can see in museums are all only parts, or reconstructions, this is a complete and when restored potentially working computer
The "older" computers have all been dismantled and the ones in museums are all replicas
the Colossus MkI was upgraded to MkII
All the MkII's were deliberately destroyed, except one, and that was thrown away by the secret services (who were using it)
the Manchester M1's were all dismantled years ago.
Nobody thinks heritage is important until it is old, and these early computers did not survive being obsolete long enough to get old and thought to be worth keeping, the ENIAC was for years thought to the the worlds first electronic computer, and only a few parts survive....