A sufficiently "virtualised" data centre could potentially be distributed around the country/world, negating any local effects, naturally for any clients willing to pay a disaster premium.
Sarcasm aside, I would never consider running a VPN sever or a proxy of any kind unless I had a log retention policy of 30 seconds, and/or all personally identifying information was scrubbed from all logfiles prior to their being written to disk.
There's a bash.org quote that I can't find right now (at work) where the guy was doing transfers in cents to a friend with a word or two attached, and apparently managed to carry out a conversation. I'm suddenly put in mind of that - if you can only encrypt a certain class of "communication", then why not encode & communicate over that?
It sounds like its time to fire the CEO. They paid billions just a few months ago for WebOS from Palm and now have nothing to show for it.
Well... not quite "a few months ago". They paid $1.2bn in April-June 2010; the purchase was complete on July 1; CEO Mark Hurd resigned August 6 2010. August 18 2011, new CEO Leo Apotheker (formerly of SAP) announced they were getting out of the business.
Either way that was a very expensive bad investment if you blow billions just to dump it a very short time later. If patents were that bad the CEO should have made sure their employees did a risk analysis and investigate this. I mean this is why you pay the employees right? Idiots
Maybe the patents are worth more than the price paid for Palm in 2010 - after all, we've since seen a lot more litigation on the basis of these patents, and two multi-billion dollar deals that look to be driven by patents. The asset has appreciated, so it could have ended up being a very smart buy. Guess we'll see in the next few weeks as it plays out.
In the "mobile PC" segment, if you could iPads as PCs, Apple emerges as a clear winner. The CNet article states total PC sales as 19 million for the quarter - the link there says Apple sold a smidge over 10 million iPads in the same period, so Apple could certainly hold its own in an overall "PC" sales ranking.
(don't feed the trolls... don't feed the trolls....argh)
Where are you going to buy your used car from? you really think the ideal is for everyone to buy a car and hold onto it until it falls apart?
Circumstances change. I started working in a relatively rural location, and had occasions where I needed to take people long distances - so a large sedan was comfortable and a sensible purchase. 3 years later, I moved to a major city - and I traded in for a compact more suited to my needs and more fuel efficient. It's now 3 years down the track, and my wife & I plan to have a child. The compact isn't going to fit the baby seat, so it's time to change.
Maybe I could have kept the large sedan all this time... or, y'know, I could have adapted to my circumstances. My previous car went to a family who could use it; this one will likely go to a single or a couple who can use it similarly to mine. My next will last me some time until my circumstances next change. Nothing wasteful about that.
A web page and a web app are distinct things. Unless you're writing bare HTML with no Javascript or CSS, you're going to bump up against the rendering quirks of most major browsers.
You've never worked in a corporate IT environment, have you? Testing is a factor - the people selling these things to companies can with confidence say "if you use version x, y or z it will work as expected." So when Mozilla jumps to a new version number, the expectation would be that the testing is done against version x, y, z and the new one - until then, there's no guarantee that because of a new rendering preference or change in API, the previous system will work.
It's not that these are edge cases that exploit cutting edge features - it's just that level of control that a certain amount of money going into these things engenders.
The PS3's Other OS support was there for 4 years. If you'd bought it prior to the 3.21 system software version, you didn't need to upgrade if you wanted to retain that functionality. Hardly "didn't last long", if you consider it such a bargain.
(that said, the artificial limitation of the hypervisor restricting access to the GPU certainly was petty)
- The sidebar has been given a mystifying bath to get rid of any hints of colour, so you have to actually look at the shape or read the word before clicking - "Devices" isn't there by default, and when you restore it's at the bottom of the sidebar, unlike every release of OS X up until now. - Where'd my scrollbar go? Why am I scrolling the wrong way? - Luna-like buttons? Weren't they a poor imitation of Aqua? Not that that is still there... all hints of Aqua's 3D-popping is gone for flat rounded corners (not necessarily a bad thing...) - There's a new window button to go "Full Screen". But it's not consistent - the app has to support it. So you can't expect the feature on all your old apps. - "System Preferences have been shuffled, consolidated, and renamed in every major releases of Mac OS X. Lion doesn't disappoint." http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/17
You can say Apple's interface is better, but you can't say it's stable.
The current method to prevent this adaption is giving "cocktails" of several different kinds of drugs, that have different ways of killing viruses/bacteria. The idea being that a single bacteria in the presence of say, three different drugs, will have to randomly mutate a resistance to all three, on the same roll of the dice. The odds of this are a great deal lower, and help offset the short life cycle advantage. But lets face it, eventually it will happen, and when it does, if we don't find a way to eradicate it immediately, we're screwed, because now we have a bug in the wild that we have no way to kill.
"Secret" is not the same thing as "obscure". Your password is not "obscure", it's a secret - the same goes for all your examples. Yes, security-through-obscurity is more often cited in the example of "but my port wasn't 8080!", but I mention that here because the claim that teams of for-profit hackers will most likely not be targeting your system.
Sure, that might be the case - but that shouldn't set your mind at ease when it comes to security. Chances are you're going to be using an off-the-shelf or open source mail handling software - and that means you're as vulnerable to attacks on that. If that particular program is cracked elsewhere, spammers looking for mail servers to cover their activities will find a way to identify systems running the software on default settings and exploit it. So while your particular instance might not be the primary target, you could still get hit by issues.
I'm not saying that you should stick with Google - just don't believe that you can slack on security just because you're small and so unlikely to be a target. In a fair percentage of cases, this means leaving it up to a larger entity with expertise - be it Google, Microsoft or some other provider - can be worth the trade-off.
tl;dr version: this future technology can't use today's manufacturing techniques so it's not yet ready to go mainstream. And we don't yet know if the future technology will beat out the future version of today's technology.
In other words, just like every other promising future technology out there... at least until it does become mainstream, or falls by the wayside because of impracticalities.
We have the concept of "third parties". Or, indeed, fourth, fifth and sixth parties. Rather than the practicalities of the political system forcing everyone into the R/D camps, why not splinter out these people/groups who represent a difference of opinion? It's not like the US hasn't had multiple/different parties in the past, so why is it that the "Tea Party" operates within the Republican party? Why not go out and say that they're an entirely separate party that represent a different-yet-still-conservative point of view?
Modern bankers are like that with Java. COBOL is gradually dying as mainframes get replaced, but it's the Java behemoth that replaces it, so six o' one, as the saying goes.
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You've made two claims there that you have no evidence for.
1. That they're not doing this voluntarily.
2. That they don't agree to the salary.
Can't wait to see the orange-stained pools afterwards. Something tells me they'll look positively radioactive.
A sufficiently "virtualised" data centre could potentially be distributed around the country/world, negating any local effects, naturally for any clients willing to pay a disaster premium.
*again*? I think he's been rolling steadily faster since the mid-nineties.
Sarcasm aside, I would never consider running a VPN sever or a proxy of any kind unless I had a log retention policy of 30 seconds, and/or all personally identifying information was scrubbed from all logfiles prior to their being written to disk.
Why log at all?
There's a bash.org quote that I can't find right now (at work) where the guy was doing transfers in cents to a friend with a word or two attached, and apparently managed to carry out a conversation. I'm suddenly put in mind of that - if you can only encrypt a certain class of "communication", then why not encode & communicate over that?
It sounds like its time to fire the CEO. They paid billions just a few months ago for WebOS from Palm and now have nothing to show for it.
Well... not quite "a few months ago". They paid $1.2bn in April-June 2010; the purchase was complete on July 1; CEO Mark Hurd resigned August 6 2010. August 18 2011, new CEO Leo Apotheker (formerly of SAP) announced they were getting out of the business.
Either way that was a very expensive bad investment if you blow billions just to dump it a very short time later. If patents were that bad the CEO should have made sure their employees did a risk analysis and investigate this. I mean this is why you pay the employees right? Idiots
Maybe the patents are worth more than the price paid for Palm in 2010 - after all, we've since seen a lot more litigation on the basis of these patents, and two multi-billion dollar deals that look to be driven by patents. The asset has appreciated, so it could have ended up being a very smart buy. Guess we'll see in the next few weeks as it plays out.
HP Quality Center, which they bought from (or with?) Mercury Software.
If you've ever had the... pleasure... of working with that pile of steaming proverbial, you'll find a way to short HP shares soon enough.
In the "mobile PC" segment, if you could iPads as PCs, Apple emerges as a clear winner. The CNet article states total PC sales as 19 million for the quarter - the link there says Apple sold a smidge over 10 million iPads in the same period, so Apple could certainly hold its own in an overall "PC" sales ranking.
With a URL like that, it's no surprise they couldn't make a 21st century technology sell.
(don't feed the trolls... don't feed the trolls....argh)
Where are you going to buy your used car from? you really think the ideal is for everyone to buy a car and hold onto it until it falls apart?
Circumstances change. I started working in a relatively rural location, and had occasions where I needed to take people long distances - so a large sedan was comfortable and a sensible purchase. 3 years later, I moved to a major city - and I traded in for a compact more suited to my needs and more fuel efficient. It's now 3 years down the track, and my wife & I plan to have a child. The compact isn't going to fit the baby seat, so it's time to change.
Maybe I could have kept the large sedan all this time... or, y'know, I could have adapted to my circumstances. My previous car went to a family who could use it; this one will likely go to a single or a couple who can use it similarly to mine. My next will last me some time until my circumstances next change. Nothing wasteful about that.
A web page and a web app are distinct things. Unless you're writing bare HTML with no Javascript or CSS, you're going to bump up against the rendering quirks of most major browsers.
Testability and repeatability.
You've never worked in a corporate IT environment, have you? Testing is a factor - the people selling these things to companies can with confidence say "if you use version x, y or z it will work as expected." So when Mozilla jumps to a new version number, the expectation would be that the testing is done against version x, y, z and the new one - until then, there's no guarantee that because of a new rendering preference or change in API, the previous system will work.
It's not that these are edge cases that exploit cutting edge features - it's just that level of control that a certain amount of money going into these things engenders.
The PS3's Other OS support was there for 4 years. If you'd bought it prior to the 3.21 system software version, you didn't need to upgrade if you wanted to retain that functionality. Hardly "didn't last long", if you consider it such a bargain.
(that said, the artificial limitation of the hypervisor restricting access to the GPU certainly was petty)
Are you fucking kidding? There's an EIGHT? There's a sane fork of firefox somewhere, I'll find it.
That's nothing. Mine goes to 11.
Given Chrome's already on 13 for its stable release, and 15 for its "Canary" release... 11's nothing!
Use fsck_hfs (man page: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/fsck_hfs.8.html )
Buh? Have you seen 10.7 yet?
- The sidebar has been given a mystifying bath to get rid of any hints of colour, so you have to actually look at the shape or read the word before clicking
- "Devices" isn't there by default, and when you restore it's at the bottom of the sidebar, unlike every release of OS X up until now.
- Where'd my scrollbar go? Why am I scrolling the wrong way?
- Luna-like buttons? Weren't they a poor imitation of Aqua? Not that that is still there... all hints of Aqua's 3D-popping is gone for flat rounded corners (not necessarily a bad thing...)
- There's a new window button to go "Full Screen". But it's not consistent - the app has to support it. So you can't expect the feature on all your old apps.
- "System Preferences have been shuffled, consolidated, and renamed in every major releases of Mac OS X. Lion doesn't disappoint." http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/17
You can say Apple's interface is better, but you can't say it's stable.
The current method to prevent this adaption is giving "cocktails" of several different kinds of drugs, that have different ways of killing viruses/bacteria. The idea being that a single bacteria in the presence of say, three different drugs, will have to randomly mutate a resistance to all three, on the same roll of the dice. The odds of this are a great deal lower, and help offset the short life cycle advantage. But lets face it, eventually it will happen, and when it does, if we don't find a way to eradicate it immediately, we're screwed, because now we have a bug in the wild that we have no way to kill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_drug_resistance
I was tl;dr'ing the (GP) comment - and in that also attempting to point out its negative/pessimistic mindset.
Yes, because the alternative is... no, wait, Android devices don't let you access root so easily either. Hang on, I'll come up with something...
"Secret" is not the same thing as "obscure". Your password is not "obscure", it's a secret - the same goes for all your examples. Yes, security-through-obscurity is more often cited in the example of "but my port wasn't 8080!", but I mention that here because the claim that teams of for-profit hackers will most likely not be targeting your system.
Sure, that might be the case - but that shouldn't set your mind at ease when it comes to security. Chances are you're going to be using an off-the-shelf or open source mail handling software - and that means you're as vulnerable to attacks on that. If that particular program is cracked elsewhere, spammers looking for mail servers to cover their activities will find a way to identify systems running the software on default settings and exploit it. So while your particular instance might not be the primary target, you could still get hit by issues.
I'm not saying that you should stick with Google - just don't believe that you can slack on security just because you're small and so unlikely to be a target. In a fair percentage of cases, this means leaving it up to a larger entity with expertise - be it Google, Microsoft or some other provider - can be worth the trade-off.
tl;dr version: this future technology can't use today's manufacturing techniques so it's not yet ready to go mainstream. And we don't yet know if the future technology will beat out the future version of today's technology.
In other words, just like every other promising future technology out there... at least until it does become mainstream, or falls by the wayside because of impracticalities.
Security through obscurity is not security.
We have the concept of "third parties". Or, indeed, fourth, fifth and sixth parties. Rather than the practicalities of the political system forcing everyone into the R/D camps, why not splinter out these people/groups who represent a difference of opinion? It's not like the US hasn't had multiple/different parties in the past, so why is it that the "Tea Party" operates within the Republican party? Why not go out and say that they're an entirely separate party that represent a different-yet-still-conservative point of view?
Modern bankers are like that with Java. COBOL is gradually dying as mainframes get replaced, but it's the Java behemoth that replaces it, so six o' one, as the saying goes.