I think that Microsoft needs to bring back Bill Gates. Gates is a true hardcore geek that is into technology. When Gates was the CEO the company has never seen better revenue and guidance. The recent turn of events proves that Microsoft needs better guidance. Ballmer is a sales drone Gates is a geek and a brilliant business man. If Microsoft wants revenue like back in there pinnacle they need Gates at the helm.
AT&T did something like this with there data plans after Nextflix arrived. Every company knows netflix is high bandwidth so they shrink or cap people to make money. Wonder if nextflix is in on all this.
I can't imagine this that would be so bad. People would defiantly be build an OS ad blocker. This would defiantly turn users off users to the Mac that's like asking for problems.
This is a great move by Microsoft. They are getting the phone exposure while giving employees incentive. Plus this is great PR for Microsoft on the employee side and on the public image side.
Yeah I agree with you but its going to take a lot of convincing and good attorney to get a judge to award you 84% of a 4 billion dollar company. Contracts can defiantly be verbal or hand written but its going to take a lot for this to stand up in court.
Well I think the general problem with this is not that they collected it because anyone can collect this data with a wifi card and few pieces of software. The issue is Google stores all there information and never gets rid of it and if there was every a security breach that's a lot of information that can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
"The bottom line is people like to look at phones in the store." I don't really agree with this lots of people buy blackberrys and Iphones off web sites. I think it was the phone more then the marketing.
I have seen something like this before a friend of mine bought a new computer when we were in college and it kept having issues. One day in class we figured it it had a BIOS virus right from the factory. Easy enough to fix just flash the BIOS and everything is back to normal or pull the bios battery out over night. This is not the first time something like this has happened from computer manufactures. This is how ever the first time I have ever heard of server hardware having this issue.
Snort is not dead Snort is a superior tool for network detection. Snort can be ran as a simple dump tool all the way to integration a MySQL database for analyst. Companies build snort into there tools like AlienVault and many others. Snort is a veteran tool that can do packet sniffing, packet logging and full-blown IDS. Snort can also be used with other veteran tools like Barnyard and Sguil. Suricata looks like a great product but it's not Snort.
Small business, non-profits and home users have no idea there is an alternative and have no idea there is a security risk involved. Money is also a big issue when it comes to this to purchase an alternative and train people cost money that most people that do now about the issue cannot afford to spend and will not spend. One thing I have noticed is school districts especially rely heavily on the Adobe products and cannot change because of other school districts. This is a problem abobe can hopefully resolve and make better because this product is not going away.
I know customers that went with long very difficult passwords and may different password variation for different programs. They had a security breach because people started writing them down all over the place because of remembrance issues. But yet the short password that never changes is bad to because it can be easily guessed. This is the headache of admins across the world.
I am a big fan of reading away from my computer but with the kindle and Ipad I have started to move over to electric books. But I think you are right about the traditional paperback will take a while to die. Just like newspapers may die but I think your traditional magazine will still live on for a while.
The sad thing is Google could have spent this money else were and actually did something that would have helped the technology community if they did not have to fight this stupid law suit. They are burning money defending laws that should not need to be defended. I hope Google keeps winning.
I think its great that a major hardware vender is caring a major desktop distro this has defiantly helped the Linux community grow and is great for the ubuntu lovers (me being one of them I run ubuntu servers they run like champs) but we all know your average home user is still going buy Windows 7.
This is a great step for the open source community and this might help give a big push into cloud computing in the Linux world. I know I read the Linux Journal and they are always talking about cloud computing and Linux being a strong back end.
Microsoft is really getting picked apart security wise last few days. Probably because of Black Hat and Def Con coming up very soon always happens this time of year. Microsoft security and viruses run rapid a bit.
Microsoft would never do this they would get hackered apart worse then they do now with virus and spyware problems. There PR department would be out of control busy. Plus Microsoft patch team would have to be doubled in staff. Patch Tuesday would be every Tuesday.
Wine has gotten better over the years I remember the last version on Ubuntu sound was still an issue. I really hope they have worked those issues out I can't wait to test Ubuntu 10 with new wine 1.2
Most home user routers have the default username and passwords anyway. The average home user has no idea about security they don't know log in and change there password. Even some small business are this way this not really news.
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I think that Microsoft needs to bring back Bill Gates. Gates is a true hardcore geek that is into technology. When Gates was the CEO the company has never seen better revenue and guidance. The recent turn of events proves that Microsoft needs better guidance. Ballmer is a sales drone Gates is a geek and a brilliant business man. If Microsoft wants revenue like back in there pinnacle they need Gates at the helm.
I think this is part of them tightening up there security.
AT&T is just like any other carrier they have there good and there bad coverage areas.
AT&T did something like this with there data plans after Nextflix arrived. Every company knows netflix is high bandwidth so they shrink or cap people to make money. Wonder if nextflix is in on all this.
I can't imagine this that would be so bad. People would defiantly be build an OS ad blocker. This would defiantly turn users off users to the Mac that's like asking for problems.
This is a great move by Microsoft. They are getting the phone exposure while giving employees incentive. Plus this is great PR for Microsoft on the employee side and on the public image side.
Yeah I agree with you but its going to take a lot of convincing and good attorney to get a judge to award you 84% of a 4 billion dollar company. Contracts can defiantly be verbal or hand written but its going to take a lot for this to stand up in court.
Well I think the general problem with this is not that they collected it because anyone can collect this data with a wifi card and few pieces of software. The issue is Google stores all there information and never gets rid of it and if there was every a security breach that's a lot of information that can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
"The bottom line is people like to look at phones in the store." I don't really agree with this lots of people buy blackberrys and Iphones off web sites. I think it was the phone more then the marketing.
I have seen something like this before a friend of mine bought a new computer when we were in college and it kept having issues. One day in class we figured it it had a BIOS virus right from the factory. Easy enough to fix just flash the BIOS and everything is back to normal or pull the bios battery out over night. This is not the first time something like this has happened from computer manufactures. This is how ever the first time I have ever heard of server hardware having this issue.
Snort is not dead Snort is a superior tool for network detection. Snort can be ran as a simple dump tool all the way to integration a MySQL database for analyst. Companies build snort into there tools like AlienVault and many others. Snort is a veteran tool that can do packet sniffing, packet logging and full-blown IDS. Snort can also be used with other veteran tools like Barnyard and Sguil. Suricata looks like a great product but it's not Snort.
Small business, non-profits and home users have no idea there is an alternative and have no idea there is a security risk involved. Money is also a big issue when it comes to this to purchase an alternative and train people cost money that most people that do now about the issue cannot afford to spend and will not spend. One thing I have noticed is school districts especially rely heavily on the Adobe products and cannot change because of other school districts. This is a problem abobe can hopefully resolve and make better because this product is not going away.
I know customers that went with long very difficult passwords and may different password variation for different programs. They had a security breach because people started writing them down all over the place because of remembrance issues. But yet the short password that never changes is bad to because it can be easily guessed. This is the headache of admins across the world.
I am a big fan of reading away from my computer but with the kindle and Ipad I have started to move over to electric books. But I think you are right about the traditional paperback will take a while to die. Just like newspapers may die but I think your traditional magazine will still live on for a while.
I agree a company that makes a huge profit on ads is not adding ad blocker there just has to be a loop hole for Goggles ads to make it threw.
The sad thing is Google could have spent this money else were and actually did something that would have helped the technology community if they did not have to fight this stupid law suit. They are burning money defending laws that should not need to be defended. I hope Google keeps winning.
I think its great that a major hardware vender is caring a major desktop distro this has defiantly helped the Linux community grow and is great for the ubuntu lovers (me being one of them I run ubuntu servers they run like champs) but we all know your average home user is still going buy Windows 7.
That is just down right cool. I give who ever thought of this credit the work and time put into this project must have been intense.
This is a great step for the open source community and this might help give a big push into cloud computing in the Linux world. I know I read the Linux Journal and they are always talking about cloud computing and Linux being a strong back end.
Microsoft is really getting picked apart security wise last few days. Probably because of Black Hat and Def Con coming up very soon always happens this time of year. Microsoft security and viruses run rapid a bit.
So they know there is an issue with this but yet there is not another patch being released to fix this?
Microsoft would never do this they would get hackered apart worse then they do now with virus and spyware problems. There PR department would be out of control busy. Plus Microsoft patch team would have to be doubled in staff. Patch Tuesday would be every Tuesday.
Wine has gotten better over the years I remember the last version on Ubuntu sound was still an issue. I really hope they have worked those issues out I can't wait to test Ubuntu 10 with new wine 1.2
They also need to find a news reporter named April and a guy with a hockey mask named Casey.
Most home user routers have the default username and passwords anyway. The average home user has no idea about security they don't know log in and change there password. Even some small business are this way this not really news.